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@sgodofsk I agree but having casually looked at his own X accounts for videos to the contrary, I think he intentionally plays down religion on the political stage except when it's loudly liberal

@NixORiley I assume any ordinary videos of him preaching, like, regular stuff would be boring and not go viral

There's this idea among center-left dems that the "religious white guy" is electable but don't realize that the certain "religious white guy" who's a solid dem is not the same species.

@AndrewYang Saving this to reread 2 years from now.

The Fuckening of white-collar workers has arrived. blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-t…

@KatHighsmith @fakedansavage When was the last time you needed to justify not being sexually interested in someone?

@fakedansavage Uh oh. You're being hoisted on your own petard, Dan. Opening the door to this "trans" nonsense has reached gay men who aren't attracted to women...what do you do when a female on testosterone insists she's a man and that gay men need to consider her as a partner?

I identify as gay because I am exclusively attracted to men. I am not exclusively attracted to men because I identify as gay. news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

@apralky The Iran kerfuffle could literally lead to human extinction but everyone is focusing on the strait of Hormuz. Next flu season the virus could mutate and literally kill us all but no one is talking about that either. Every article should be about how we could all literally die.

It is kind of interesting: the East Coast magazine types are seemingly intelligent people, seemingly selected through very tight funnels -- great universities, great SAT scores, they can often think critically, follow long and established traditions of thought, etc. but here we are moving at breakneck pace through this unprecedented technological revolution which by any reasonable consensus has decent odds of literally ending biological life as we know it in all sorts of horrible ways, and all they can think about is that... prose is getting kinda worse on the way? That some writing sounds a little sloppier now? That they are not fans of the style? This is somehow their elephant in the room? What? Is this just what happens when you compound bad epistemic habits for decades? Functional paralysis in otherwise sane minds?

@growing_daniel I get what you mean, for example I didn't get much done at work that afternoon.

The degree to which Charlie Kirk's assassination affected people and their decisions about life will never be fully comprehended or conveyed but it seems to be surprisingly large

@RevDerrickS @jblairsanders ...Saying that any view other than a complete ban on abortion is heretical is a product of the age. Talarico is expressing this view at the wrong point in history to be accepted by conservatives. Meanwhile, you will probably be called a heretic in 50 years by your successors.

@RevDerrickS @jblairsanders And that happened because of the salience of abortion as a modern political issue and the Protestants deciding to align with the Catholics, not because the historical writings changed. These things are decided by group preference more than principle...

Folks supporting: I'm voting for a president, not a pastor. He's a baby Christian. Same folks: Talarico isn't even a real Christian! How DARE he use scripture in politics!

@RevDerrickS @jblairsanders No, I would not, and I don't know why you think it is "clear." It's interesting that the Holy Spirit only guided the Protestants to a clear and unequivocal understanding of abortion in the last few decades. I guess we'll see what other wisdom is overturned later this century.

@NixORiley @jblairsanders Would you say that those who supported slavery from the pulpit were heretics? At the time they were not thought so by many, yet clearly they are. The same applies to your 1970’s example

@RevDerrickS @jblairsanders There is no "church teaching" as such in protestantism, but I'm sure you know that there was a diversity of views on abortion as recently as the 70s among conservative Christians, and evangelicals who supported legal abortion, like W.A. Criswell, were not considered heretics.

@jblairsanders What scripture affirms sexual sin or affirms abortion as Talarico does? Show me one time in history that Talarico’s views on homosexuality and abortion have been church teachings… you can’t because they don’t exist. But, do go on with “but Trump”

@justalexoki This is the male equivalent of the woman who spends 6 hours a day on the elliptical and looks like she'd shatter if she fell over.

i'm sorry but the right one looks absolutely terrible. don't do this to yourself

@asymmetricinfo @Scholars_Stage I do think non-Christian liberals enjoy using people like Talarico to taunt conservative Christians and suggest they don't understand their religion, but that's a different thing.

@asymmetricinfo @Scholars_Stage Do you really think the average secular voter is so naive that they don't understand that evangelicals don't see very liberal Christians as real Christians?

Educated Dems keep falling in love with candidates--Kerry, Walz, Talarico--whose bios code conservative-friendly *to educated Dems*. They cannot see distinctions that are extremely visible to the folks they're trying to appeal to, or even imagine such distinctions exist.

@SeanTrende He is obviously a non starter for almost all evangelicals, but I think he may appeal to *some* mainline Protestants that sometimes vote Republican, though at the end of the day that's a single digit percentage of the population

Yes, Talarico is a devout Christian attending a seminary, and that genuinely does help, but he's a quite liberal variant of a Christian, and evangelicals will know *exactly* what going to a PCUSA seminary means. Again, can win. But his issues are deeper than just "Texas=red."

I think this is the big asterisk on Talarico. He sort of fulfils a lot of white liberals' West Wing fantasy of someone who can just talk sense into those darned conservatives. But he's *really* liberal, including on cultural issues, and in ways (2018) Beto wasn't.

@jayRouseDc @MeghanMcCain Completely unfair to John McCain! He would be absolutely thrilled at every death and injury that results from this campaign, though likely regretful that he didn't get to order the bombs dropped himself.

@MeghanMcCain Your father would be so ashamed of you

President Trump doesn’t give one single fuck what Tucker Carlson thinks about foreign policy.

@funandprofitco @cremieuxrecueil Do you think ChatGPT is succeeding because it is based?

@cremieuxrecueil >StackOverflow is dead I wonder why?

StackOverflow is dead and ChatGPT killed it. This has obvious upsides, with a less obvious downside: What happens to troubleshooting knowledge? Will people just not have it? Or will we have LLMs generate it with some sort of ClawOverflow?

@chrisbrunet I was very struck by their clear lack of intelligence during conversation in a way I rarely feel.

@chrisbrunet I met a Rothschild a few years back (not this one). Professional grad student at various mediocre universities, clearly not very smart, extremely woke.

Despite hiring a private tutor, Alice de Rothschild, the daughter of billionaire Ariane de Rothschild, struggled to crack a 1070 on the SAT, which places her around the 58th percentile. Bad genetics.

@robkhenderson I notice though that the article is specifically about fiction while your book is a memoir. Is there also a dearth of nonfiction targeted at men? If so, I haven't noticed it.

Young guys regularly tell me my book is the first one they've ever read cover to cover: simonandschuster.com/books/Troubled…

"Talk to anyone in publishing, and they’ll agree...they put out fiction for women, and for gay men, and for teens and tweens (mainly girls), there’s not much point in publishing novels for straight men. That audience has disappeared." wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

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@NixORiley @NelsonPaulNC @RobertAJGagnon1 JESUS SAID TO DO THE SAME - Jesus explicitly says if a brother refuses to listen to the church, "let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." This indicates a cessation of fellowship.

If you claim to be a "Christian" and characterize as "spewing hatred" any opposition to "gay marriage" and the whole array of legislation that promotes coercive acceptance not only of homosexual practice but also of transgenderism with all its dangers to minors and women, you are also charging Jesus with "spewing hatred," whether you realize it or not, since there is zero chance that Jesus would have embraced any of these immoral policies in first-century Palestine. In fact, there never lived anybody who applied a more rigorous moral logic to God's intentional design of two and only two sexual counterparts and God's foundational male-female requirement for sexual relations and marriage. Jesus was all-in on these matters. A word to the wise: Accusing Jesus of "spewing hatred" over such matters is not a good look when it comes time for Jesus to judge the living and the dead.