MDP of the RHL
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MDP of the RHL
@MDP03212219
Christ, beauty and capitalism ❤️being Catholic.
United States Katılım Şubat 2020
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@ModernBoethius The death penalty is only moral to the extent it preserves and protects society, if my memory serves me correct
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For Catholics, it is totally false to say that it is the Pope’s mere “opinion” that the death penalty is wrong.
The Catechism says “the Church TEACHES … the death penalty is inadmissible.” CCC 2267
A “teaching” is not an opinion
Liz Wheeler@Liz_Wheeler
A couple things. First, when he says we respect life from conception to natural death, THAT is the doctrine of the Church. It’s then his opinion (not dogma) that capital punishment is wrong. As a Catholic, you’re not required to agree with the Pope’s political or pastoral opinions. Pope Francis also held this opinion so it’s not new. I actually agree with him on that though, because the error rate in death sentence convictions in the U.S. is too high and has resulted in too many innocent people being unjustly put to death. It’s a different concept for evangelicals/Prots, but the Pope can’t unilaterally change church doctrine the way pastors can in Prot churches. It’s certainly frustrating when a Pope is politically liberal, but just like Obama couldn’t unilaterally change the Constitution when he was president and we didn’t reject the Constitution because he was president, likewise with the Pope, thank the Lord the dogmas of the Catholic Church were in the beginning, are now, and ever will be unchangeable by humans.
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@McFaul You have forgotten who their nukes would be targeted at.
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He seems to have forgotten that it was our war of choice against Iran that closed the Strait. Europeans and Asians didnt do that.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Hegseth calls US allies in Europe and Asia “freeriders.” “America and the free world deserves allies who are capable and loyal… Europe needs the Strait of Hormuz much more than we do.”
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@chenweihua @Greensreport1 If you are against her, I am for her
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@Greensreport1 This Finnish woman is a joke and jerk. She had nothing to say when the U.S. threatened to take over Greenland.
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Finland is the worst performing EU state. No gas. No oil. No tourists. Cities shrinking. Highest unemployment. And they want to threaten China? 😂
This is like a man on fire demanding you stop using water.
China doesn't need an EU deal. The EU needs China. Finland is one vote. Germany, France, Italy will overrule them.
Finland is shooting itself in both feet, then demanding China applaud.
This is not diplomacy. This is a tantrum.
Popcorn. 🍿🔥
Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺@Alex_Oloyede2
🇫🇮🇨🇳🇷🇺 China has to leave Russia, or Finland will veto any EU-China free trade agreements. – Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen gives Beijing an ultimatum. Meanwhile, Finland today has fallen to the worst performing EU state, due to self imposed sanctions on Russia. - Shortages of oil and gas - Decline in Tourism (Russians making up the most) - Cities on the border with Russia shrinking away without spending visitors - Highest unemployment in the EU But yeah, let's now pick a fight with China.
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@catholicbob Give your money for the poor, was what Christ said. Capitalism generates that money.
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Something troubling to see is how many Catholics will put adherence to “Free Market Economics” above Christ’s command to care for the poor. Christ doesn’t say “care for the poor, but only through private charity”, He says “care for the poor”.
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@MarioNawfal The Florida National Guard should have been structured to roll in there and end it.
Every Cuban American who came in the last 20 years should have to do a 90 day stint.
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🇺🇸🇨🇺 What a U.S. invasion of Cuba would actually look like...
Cuba's military is 39,000 troops operating Soviet-era tanks, rusted artillery, and anti-aircraft systems that can't track modern stealth aircraft.
The combat fleet is non-operational.
The air defenses are outdated. Reinforced bunkers don't exist.
Long-range missiles don't exist. Offensive drones don't exist.
The country needs 100,000 barrels of oil a day to function.
Russia's recent shipment of 730,000 barrels bought one week of relief against the U.S. oil blockade.
The regime is held together by a structural suicide pact. A military-run conglomerate called GAESA controls 60% of Cuba's economy.
The military guards the revolution. The civilian government shields the military.
The business elite depends on the military running the economy.
No faction can break away without collapsing the others.
U.S. options on the table range from tightening the blockade to surgical decapitation strikes, all-out air and sea campaigns, or a full ground invasion with tens of thousands of troops.
A ground invasion would likely produce dozens to hundreds of American casualties due to asymmetric resistance.
The political succession plan is already being tested.
Raul Castro's grandson, "Raulito," offered economic agreements to the Trump administration in April.
Washington sees him as the potential bridge to a post-Castro Cuba.
The island regime has refused every deal for 65 years.
It may not get the chance to refuse another.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇨🇺 🇺🇸 Cuba just publicly confirmed it's in direct talks with the United States... President Miguel Diaz-Canel broke the silence: Cuban officials have "in fact recently held conversations with representatives of the government of the United States" to seek a solution to bilateral differences. He invoked the Obama-Castro precedent directly, referencing the only other modern moment Cuba opened this door. This follows the secret U.S. delegation that landed in Havana days ago. Starlink on the table. Political prisoner releases demanded. Compensation for seized American property. And a blunt warning that the island's economy is in free fall. Cuba refused this deal for 65 years. Now the regime is publicly acknowledging the conversation. Media: @nextnews
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@chenweihua @GordonGChang Your stock markets return in 20 years is zero .
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@GordonGChang Right. It has “collapsed” as you predicted into by far the largest world economy in PPP according to IMF.
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China’s population is collapsing. Just about everything else in the country will as well.
UnveiledChina@Unveiled_ChinaX
This chart from the Financial Times tells you more about China's future than any GDP forecast. The top chart shows working-age populations (ages 20-69) for China, the US, and India from 1950 to 2100. China's line peaks around 2015 at roughly 1 billion and then drops off a cliff. By 2100 it converges near the US line, around 200 million workers. The US barely moves. India keeps climbing well past where China peaked. The bottom chart is arguably more alarming. It shows the share of population in the key productive age range of 15 to 64. China's line is already falling faster than Japan, Europe, and the US, and by 2100 it is projected to drop to roughly 40%, the lowest of any major economy shown. Here is what those lines actually mean in real numbers. China's total fertility rate has collapsed to approximately 1.0, half the 2.1 needed to sustain a population. UN projections put China's total population at 633 to 782 million by 2100, down from 1.4 billion today. The working-age population specifically is projected to fall to just 210 million by 2100, one fifth of its 2014 peak. By that point, every 100 working-age Chinese will need to support 137 elderly people, up from 21 today. In 2024, people over 60 already exceeded 310 million for the first time in Chinese history. Japan, Europe, and the US are all aging. But none of them are aging at this speed, from this starting point, with this fertility rate, and with this little immigration. The CCP spent decades engineering a one-child policy to slow population growth. It is now spending billions trying to reverse a demographic collapse it created. So far, the money has not moved the needle. China does not just face an economic challenge. It faces a structural contraction of the human capital that every economy runs on. #China #Demographics #Population #Economy #CCP #Geopolitics #GlobalEconomy #India
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🏠 Alongside my Senate colleagues representing Upstate communities, I'm proposing that we tax the growing number of luxury, second homes worth $5 million or more in our communities outside NYC.
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@JohnCleese We’re using our weapons on a separate set of jerks who are also a threat to the World and Europe.
No Putin angle here
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 A retired U.S. Army Colonel, speaking to ABC:
"Iran uses infrared systems instead of traditional radar. American fighters like the F-35 and F-15 are not designed to face these systems."
"Iranian airspace is no longer safe for U.S. fighter jets."
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@FurkanGozukara The second torpedo was for all those “Death to America “ days . Suck it Ayatollah
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Iranian Commander Abuzar confirms a US submarine deliberately fired a second torpedo at the disabled destroyer Dena specifically to maximize casualties. The Pentagon intentionally murdered 104 unarmed sailors, completely ignoring international laws of war law of the seas.
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@RpsAgainstTrump Doesn't even pretend to be a president for all Americans. Unprecedented and undoubtedly the worst president of all time.
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Trump: I only like the states that I win
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@dasanaike @KirkegaardEmil 1) compare to non Nazis with the same background
2) now do commies
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To study the question of how extremist political commitments transmit across generations, I digitized 3.4 million Nazi Party membership cards, identify those that emigrated to the United States using the census, and examine the political attitudes of their descendants today.
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This is pure evil.
Deportation to Congo or sent back to the Taliban...
These people sacrificed more on America's behalf than Donald Trump EVER will.
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@SebastianCaliri @cdrsalamander Put every major illness out to bid in a daily auction, creating a market.
Assign each patient a health care buyer, beholden only to the patient, for that illness
Give the patient the ability to pay the difference to bidders that may be higher.
Costs would collapse.
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Single-payer is not some untested theory. We have plenty of data from Canada. It is a great solution if you want to wait 28.6 weeks (~6.6 months) for an MRI or knee replacement.
Pretending there is no trade off between cost control and timely access to care is unserious. Single payer can bound costs, but we cannot somehow spend less and receive the same thing in return.
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
We need single-payer health care. I've looked at the numbers, and there's no other way to bring costs down.
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Thank you for all of your prayers and encouragement!
April Ponnuru@AprilPonnuru
Ramesh's final chemotherapy treatment is tomorrow. In your charity, please pray for @RameshPonnuru this week--that his health will be completely restored. He is deeply loved, as our friends and family have demonstrated so well over these last eight months. ❤️🙏
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@chenweihua @Brad_Setser Inventing rockets that land and are reusable….
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@Brad_Setser The U.S. Shocks in the Past Three Years: Bombing Iranian School Girls, Enabling Gaza Genocide, Kidnapping Venezuela President and His Wife, Threatening to Take Over Greenland, Waging Tariff Wars against the World, Destabilizing the Gulf and Global Economy…
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The second China shock isn't going to go away on its own, or with half measures --
China's auto exports to Europe, for example, have clearly reaccelerated (even with the narrowly targeted CVDs against battery electric imports)
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@MarioNawfal Don’t go to war with people who will surely beat you.
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90-100% displaced
3.4% killed, 8% injured
77% face acute food insecurity
92% of buildings damaged/destroyed
93% of schools damaged/destroyed
61 million tons of debris
4% of agriculture undamaged
$71 billion needed to rebuild
And some people still don't call this genocide?
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@arnavmehta3 @AACR @RevMedicines The tragedy is how many were and are denied this option while the FDA checks its boxes
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As a pancreatic cancer doc, cannot understate the gravity of this moment. I get chills at the prospect that we will imminently have something else to offer our patients with real clinical impact. @AACR #AACR26 @RevMedicines
Anirban Maitra@Aiims1742
#AACR26 late breaking abstract on early data from 1st line Daraxonrasib monotherapy in #PancreaticCancer >90% disease control rate aacrjournals.org/cancerres/arti… @EileenMOReilly @GarridoLagunaMD @DrShubhamPant @RevMedicines
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@ukraine_map @WarMonitor3 Canada is a free rider on North American defense and so much else.
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@WarMonitor3 Mark Carney is 100% right. Canada can work with Europe on its defense, not with Trump who hates Canada 🇨🇦
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Canadian leader Mark Carney has said in an address to his nations Canada's US ties have become a weakness for the country.
Good luck with future defence...
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