@Ray437677951852 @DrJordanBCooper AS?
I feel like I should know what you mean here, but I’m drawing a blank.
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@DrJordanBCooper I disagree that we are necessarily closer to EO. It depends on how you look at things. I’m sure EO doesn’t view us as being very close due to a lack of AS.
However, I think there is value for a Lutheran to speak his mind on these things on any Christian podcast.
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Why is Fr. Schooping on a podcast with a guy who thinks Lutherans are heretics to critique EO? We're far closer to the EOC than someone like Ryan from NeedGodnet.
It's one thing to speak to these issues with a Confessional Presbyterian or Anglican, but I don't see the value in discussing these issues with someone who is so far from any sense of sacramental efficacy, historical continuity, or really anything of the Reformation.
Philip Immanuel@1krist1reagerar
This is nice and all, but I honestly think it just makes things worse. No one on the brink of leaving evangelicalism is going to be convinced after watching this. Fr. Schooping — and maybe one other person in this lineup — carries any real weight on the subject. American evangelicals looking into the East do not need to hear “just stick with the Bible, bro” from more evangelicals. They need to hear from people who are actually in a visible church, under a confession, and who have read the Fathers seriously.
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A strong argument against rapidly overwhelming a society with diversity - which the vast majority of the population didn’t want or ask for - is to avoid stupid and unnecessary conversations like whether James Bond or Hamlet should be a black dude.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The impulse to diversify canonical works like The Odyssey is the whole concept of a canon doing what it’s supposed to do — serving as broad cultural patrimony rather than as a curious foreign story. slowboring.com/p/a-diverse-od…
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Trans terrorists shot up a Mosque and then killed themselves?
Penalties offset. Replay the down.
@amuse@amuse
TRANS TERROR: San Diego mosque shooting suspects identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark & 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, identified as a transgender couple by classmates. 3 men dead including a security guard. Drive-by media will bury the shooters' identities & ideology.
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Boomer leftists: “Yeah, we screwed everything up, but if you could just go ahead and fully destroy society while we enjoy retirement, that’d be good.”
Just astonishing hubris.
The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
Harrison Ford urges ASU grads to fight for social justice after his generation left world "a real mess" ow.ly/H0Zj50Z1jYS
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A few thoughts:
First, this is why I love working for DW. I've been at the company from year one. We aren't perfect. We swing big and that inevitably involves some big misses, but also some massive hits. Regardless of the ups & downs, as @BenShapiro lays out here, the core mission of the company has always been the same: promoting "truth & virtue & freedom." Conservatism is less of an ideology than it is simply a commitment to looking reality in the face & being honest about it, and then trying to do some good based on that reality. I know firsthand that’s our goal every day on @MorningWire. Again, we don't always do this perfectly, but we do it better than most of the outlets out there.
Second, the slings & arrows Ben & DW face are a product of DW having become, as Ben puts it, an American institution to be reckoned with. And he’s right: those on the Left & Horseshoe Right obsessed with taking this institution down are actually not fighting against us, but against our conservative core mission. But I'll bet on the conservative side every time because reality -- not what people want to be true, or dreamed to be true, or grievance conspiracism & calculated grifting -- remains undefeated.
As for our critics' claims of our imminent collapse: 6th largest podcast publisher on the planet with a reach of 41 million a month from just 11 shows. Hopefully we’ll keep “failing” like this for another decade.
Ben Shapiro@benshapiro
All the haters can kiss my ass
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Burlington, VT, was a city that was governed by Democrats and they did a reasonably good job. Then the Progressives with a capital "P" took over. Vermont is a state with an actual Bernie-style "Progressive" party that is competitive in Burlington. The "Progressives" ran the city into the ground in about 2 years by firing 30% of the police and making the city a Mecca for dangerous asylum seekers (criminal gangs), DEI teens, and homeless drug addicts.
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I’m case you needed an update, Democrats are going to “protect democracy” by:
1) Removing Supreme Court justices and stacking the court.
2) Eliminating the way we’ve selected presidents since the founding.
3) Adding states, but only states that favor them.
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The America-hating Left is not attacking Tucker, Megyn, Fuentes, or Candace. They’re attacking Ben.
Understand what’s going on here.
New York Magazine@NYMag
There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. That’s all over now, writes political columnist Ross Barkan. Shapiro’s company, ‘The Daily Wire,’ is instituting significant layoffs. Its YouTube channel’s subscriber base is starting to shrink, and its website has emerged as one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. There are ‘Daily Wire’ YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have less than 10,000 views, a catastrophically small number for a channel with more than 3 million subscribers. The top comments all mock the low view counts. “If a variety of poor business decisions can be blamed, in part, for the ‘Daily Wire’’s fall from grace — ill-fated investments in feature films, an epic fantasy series, and peculiar merchandise — the greater story is the collapse of Shapiro’s constituency,” writes Barkan. “There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026: It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party.” Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/KtpIKV
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Again, for the umpteenth time, if you're going to make the argument that we must do stuff to "beat China" like tariffs and infinity data centers, people are going to doubt your sincerity when you turn around and promote selling them farmland, AI chips, and educating their elite.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Trump says it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the U.S. and for China to purchase U.S. farmland; otherwise, colleges and farm prices would collapse: "I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture."
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The Iliad and the Odyssey are foundational literary works that are also about men doing manly things and feeling manly feelings — they’re about pride and duty, they’re about friendship and loyalty, they’re about fear of death and bravery in the face of it, they’re about striving and longing.
These are stories that have taught men to be men for a thousand years, that celebrate the highest versions of masculinity, and that is why so many people who are hostile to these values and ideals try to mess with these works of literature, to claim them for other audiences, to “recontextualize” them, to “queer” them and to subvert them.
Men barely read today. Boys are alienated and underserved by English instruction and are falling starkly behind in reading. The “literary man,” a common type in hipster Brooklyn as recently as the mid 2010s, is basically extinct. Men are now the most underserved, underrepresented audience in books and publishing, and anyone in publishing who claims to be interested in “equity” or serving neglected audiences should be focused on this disparity. English teachers and the publishing industry should be working to get men and boys reading again and to elevate works that speak to men and boys.
And that means preserving and teaching Homer, in translations which preserve the majesty and the masculinity of the original works.
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More White Europeans were taken as slaves by Muslims in North Africa, than Black Africans taken as slaves to the United States…
They don’t teach about that slavery though.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Democrats will raise your taxes to buy porn iPads for death row prisoners, and then demand you re-elect them because democracy or something.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
EXCLUSIVE: California spent nearly $189 million to give every state prisoner a free iPad. We interviewed a dozen death row inmates, who told us that prisoners are using the tablets to watch porn, engage in x-rated chats, and groom minors on the outside. city-journal.org/article/death-…
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China is making some major moves the Silver market.
Acquiring vast physical metal flow.
In advance of something? My hunch would be yes.
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Them: "Yes, I'm a Lutheran, but the Book of Concord is a bit too strict on some doctrines"
Me:
Tim Wildauer 🦬@timrwild
It should be illegal to call someone “Lutheran” if they don’t subscribe to the Book of Concord.
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The Oppenheimer film wasn’t entertaining, historically informative, or memorable.
It felt like one of those films you were supposed to say was brilliant because that’s what everyone else said.
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I will continue to scream: the sacraments are the largest wall in Christianity. There is no subject that is less discussed but causes so much confusion. This is the Evangelical perspective. William Lane Craig is the highest level Evangelical apologist.
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The Odyssey pitch meeting:
The Room: “You’ve got the greatest mythology ever written in its original form. You’re going to use that, right?”
Christopher Nolan: “Nah, I’m gonna use this 2017 version written by a left-wing feminist that changed stuff to fit her politics.”
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