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What kind of government would block entry of celebrities on political grounds? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p…

@senatorbabet Yet men will still be reading Homer thousands of years in the future, long after this film is forgotten

She’s not, and that’s the point. This isn’t about authenticity or storytelling anymore. It’s about tearing down everything people once admired, strength, heroism, masculinity, beauty, tradition. It’s about diminishing men, eroding cultural identity, and weakening the foundations of the nation state itself. This is fifth generation cultural warfare masquerading as entertainment. Resist western man. Resist.

@dualravens @jondelarroz Maybe. I guess these days I am so used to shows only having one good season.

@cben @jondelarroz Whedon would have given us 2 amazing seasons, a mid 3rd, struggling 4 and 5 with mixed bad and occasional good, and a amazing 6.

They made a Firefly continuation comic set 20 years after Serenity where all the white characters were removed and they were replaced by diversity characters. It obviously didn't sell and Boom! Studios lost the license to produce more comics in 2025. Why do they keep doing this over and over to beloved properties?

@InnerDelicious @ThatchEffendi That's modalism, Patrick!

@ThatchEffendi The faith of the seven is monotheistic. Its one God with seven faces, kind of like the trinity

Weirdly persistent trend in Fantasy settings: Set up a Polytheistic religion to talk about Christianity. Most obvious is Faith of the Seven in Game of Thrones, which doesn't make a whole lot of sens and seems incredibly listless partially because GRRM was traumatized by his Catholic upbringing, and not in a fun way like Frank Herbert.

@redeemed_zoomer Yeah he hung out with tax collectors or something

Why is there controversy about Seraphim Rose? I don’t know much about him

After Jordan Peterson's excellent Exodus series it was a pity his sequel on the Gospel ended up focusing on his idea of some secular, psychological version of the "Injil" Gospel rather than just reading the four Gospel accounts or even focusing on one of the books.

@memeticsisyphus Science, democracy, and Protestantism were all melting away people's faith in tradition well before either Carlin, Boomers or Gen X.

George Carlin infected Gen-X with this horrible apathy towards everything. The statue doesn’t just mock nationalism but belief itself. Any ideology, any group, any loyalty. It’s like they think they’re the first person to discover ideologies or positions all have tradeoffs, and because they’re not perfect it’s better to stand against them all. It’s as childish as it is false. A few minute conversation with anyone who puts on this front will quickly reveal which ideologies they feel are above such critiques. When exposed that John Stewart wry smile turns into the most vitriolic anger you’ve ever seen.

@Dr_Tad The purity mob comes for everyone eventually

This seems unfair. She wore a mask.

@Teh_FunkyMonkey @ElonBachman Coin flipping is the worst possible answer. The correct solution is to devote your life to being an Eternal One Boxer.

@ElonBachman Newcombe paradox. Just flip a coin to decide if you take one box or both boxes

Newcomb's Paradox is the Breakfast Question for rationalists

Federal voting intention (men) 🟧 ONP: 29.5% (+2.5) 🟥 ALP: 28% (-1) 🟦 L/NP: 23% (+0.5) 🟩 GRN: 9% (-) ⬛️ OTH: 10.5% (-2) Two-party-preferred 🟦 L/NP: 50% (+4) 🟥 ALP: 50% (-4) Roy Morgan | 6-12 Apr | n=~750 [subsample from nationwide poll] | +/- 30 Mar-5 Apr

@Dr_Tad German state institutions actively campaign against their official opposition party. I guess Germany is "competitive authoritarianism"... abc.net.au/news/2025-05-0…

Desperate attempt to maintain a concept (“competitive authoritarianism”) used for moralistic denunciation despite its inability to helpfully explain anything going on in the real world. All governments try to make life hard electorally harder for oppositions — gerrymandering & state-media coziness are common features of Dem as well as GOP behaviour in the USA, for example — but that doesn’t require a new category of regime to describe it. All this kind of nonsense does is turn healthy criticisms of “unfair” behaviour into a hollow culture war about existential threats to democracy.

Christ is risen! ✝️

@DisputedCDV Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life!

During the conversion of Scandinavia, a God who was tortured and killed was a hard sell to Vikings so they went with: 1. Jesus was so powerful he came back from the dead and literally beat death itself. 2. He is a king who sacrificed his life for his followers.

Federal voting intention (Gen X men) 🟧 ONP: 35% (+9) 🟥 ALP: 32% (-3) 🟦 L/NP: 18% (-6) 🟩 GRN: 6% (-) ⬛️ OTH: 9% (-) Two-party-preferred 🟥 ALP: 50% 🟦 L/NP: 50% ALP vs ONP 🟧 ONP: 52% 🟥 ALP: 48% RedBridge/Accent | 6-19 Mar | n=~700 [subsample from nationwide poll] | +/- 7-26 Nov

@rentalyieldcalc @richardrohlin Next you'll be saying the Julian calendar is 13 days off. ;)

@richardrohlin Is that in a recent Horologion? I don't get why - it's distracting from the rest of the page which is otherwise uniform

When the typesetter understands the assignment.

I've got brand new data about American religion that was collected in October of 2025. And, folks... The share of Americans who are non-religious has dropped for the third year in a row. Atheists and agnostics are down to 5% each. Those are 2014 levels.

@redeemed_zoomer I remember learning from other kids. But I also remember teachers introducing the authorised, censored version of the playground Eeny Meeny song.

How do kids pass on the games they play? (Ring around the Rosie, Lemonade Crunchy Ice, Hi lo piccolo) Is there an apostolic succession of kids, perpetually passing them through the generations but only while they're kids, or do adults keep teaching them?

One Nation coming second and winning zero seats is going to do wonders for people already disillusioned with mainstream institutions. #savotes #saelection