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@KrisztinaMaria I take some solace in the fact that in my local Lidl, the newly added halal ground beef is generally left while the identically priced ethical ground beef is not.

HALAL. Is it too much to ask that my meat in the supermarket is clearly labelled halal - if it is halal? No. It is not too much. It is the bare minimum. I would like to decline eating food over which an Islamic prayer has been said. That goes against everything I believe in. Against my values. Against my faith. And it is my full right as a consumer and as a Christian to know what I put in my mouth - and what has happened to it before it got there. This is not about hatred towards Muslims (so take it easy). It is about respect for myself. And here is what is so absurd…sorry, what is so grotesque: A large proportion of the meat sold in Danish (or EU) supermarkets is halal slaughtered. Without it being clearly stated. Without you as a consumer being actively informed. You buy it. You eat it. And you don’t know. Halal slaughter means the animal must face Mecca. That an Islamic prayer - Bismillah Allahu Akbar - is recited over the animal before it is slaughtered. That the meat is thereby dedicated to Allah. This is not a neutral product. It is a religious ritual. And I - as a Christian - did not ask to participate in that ritual. I was not asked. I was not informed. It just happened. Imagine the reverse. Imagine Muslims being served food that had been blessed in the name of Jesus without knowing it. The uproar it would cause. Rightfully so. So why is it not the same when it happens the other way around? Because it is never the same. It is never symmetrical. The consideration always goes one way. Label the meat. Clearly. Always. Not as a hostile act. But as the most basic respect for consumers’ right to know what they are buying…and what they do not want. This is not racism (so relax, again). It is consumer protection!❤️‍🔥✝️🪽

@LordTuralyon @VaubanBooks When everywhere is like Rhodesia.

@VaubanBooks We have sent trillions in monetary aid; infinite tonnes of medicine, foodstuffs, drinkable water; we have opened schools, hospitals and shelters. We have resettled tens of millions of Africans into our countries, at a great and painful cost. When will it ever be enough?

"Imagining that they see Christ in the migrants, the priests endow them with the power to purify and save the West. It is a messianic, eschatological vision. But in their myopia, they turn their backs on their own flock." - Nathan Pinkoski, The Camp of the Saints

@d_foubert Apropos using the Hagia Sophia as an image. Islam occupies the shell of greater civilisations it cannot hope to match and claims it as evidence of their greatness.

Turkey 🇹🇷 is the future of Europe. Much like the late-stage Byzantine Empire, modern Europe finds itself at a civilizational crossroads, where a rich but aging internal structure is being met by a youthful, demographically 'vibrant' exterior... The transformation of Anatolia into a Turkish heartland was not an overnight conquest but a centuries-long "soft" integration followed by a political finality. This shift was fueled by a demographic vacuum; as Byzantine cities shrank due to plagues, constant warfare, and economic stagnation, the Oghuz Turks moved into the fertile interior not as mere invaders, but as settlers filling a space that the empire could no longer defend or inhabit. This mirrors the modern European paradox: a continent with world-class infrastructure and high-value institutions, yet one grappling with a birth rate far below replacement level and an rapidly aging workforce that effectively mandates large-scale migration to maintain social stability. The "Islamization" of the Byzantine lands followed a pattern of encirclement and institutional osmosis that finds modern parallels in the changing character of Europe’s urban centers. By the time Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453, the city was a Greek island in a Turkish sea; the surrounding Balkans and Anatolian provinces had already transitioned culturally, linguistically, and economically. Today, as the Muslim share of the population in Western European nations is projected to rise toward 10–15% (and higher in specific urban hubs like Berlin, Marseille, or Birmingham) by the mid-21st century, we see a similar "frontier" culture moving into the core. This is not a simple "replacement" of people, but a transformation of the public square. Just as the Turkish beylics adapted Byzantine administrative and legal structures to suit their own Islamic frameworks—creating the unique Ottoman synthesis—modern Europe is beginning to see its legal and social institutions navigate the friction and fusion of secular Western values with the communitarian and religious traditions of its newest citizens. Ultimately, the future of Europe may not look like a sudden collapse, but rather a "Third Rome" rebranding. The Turks did not view themselves as the destroyers of Rome; they considered themselves its rightful successors, with the Sultan taking the title Kayser-i Rûm (Caesar of Rome). They kept the geography, the bureaucracy, and the strategic imperatives of the empire, but they changed its soul. The Europe of the 22nd century will remain a global center of power and culture, but its defining character will have shifted from a post-Christian secularism to a Turco-Islamic synthesis. This new Europe would be a product of demographic momentum—a civilization that, much like the Ottoman transition, maintains the "shell" of its predecessors’ institutions while filling them with the demographic vitality and religious conviction of a younger, more dynamic population.

@keser_ibra5323 @wander_investor Sorry I don’t speak Turk. Enjoy the prioritisation of the foreigner though. It’s a fun club.

@froscaCynn @wander_investor cry about it choacroad

HUGE Forget Dubai Panama Paraguay Singapore Hong Kong. “Persons who have not been tax residents of Türkiye for the past three years and who choose to relocate to the country will pay no Turkish tax on their foreign-source income and capital gains for a period of 20 years.” Territorial taxation in a REAL country

@pureMetatron Understood, will just say anno domini 2026 in full from now on.

I saw a guy in my comments say he refuses to use AD with dates because “Jesus is not his God”, because he is atheist, so he says CE. By that logic then should we tell him that Thor is his god now because he says Thursday? Odin is his god because he surely says Wednesday. BCE/CE is an indefensible clown-show, no matter how you slice it, it’s a useless variant. BC/AD is and always will be the most apt.

@Sargon_of_Akkad @ZoeJardiniere When I was in school in Canada we flew the flag (albeit the less cool red and white one) and had a portrait of the Queen on the wall. Not exactly “yankish”.

Its actually not yankification to display the British flag and a picture of the monarch. This was completely common when I was a kid; the yankification is in not doing these things, specifically, Democrat yankification. Just like your profile, you don't realise how drenched in Yankee ideology you are.

Give me DEYANKIFICATION or give me death.

There is a Catholic congregation comprised almost entirely of Nigerians near where I live. I would choose nine times out of ten to live with them as neighbours over the most tepid muslim regardless of their colour or origin. That said I cannot see them as German, but I cannot see myself as one either so I doubt my opinion matters.

@KarolineGosling The problem is first and foremost RACIAL, not religious, even though Islam is also not desirable. Try to import Christian subsaharians and the results you will see on the streets will be rigorously the same. There is no no such thing as a non-white "German".

As someone who lives in Germany, a country that has had one of the largest migrant crisis in the world I can confirm: Islam is not compatible with Europe, Germany or the West. The people come, and never fully integrate. They see themselves as something different, better. They do not want to become German.. They want to be the Muslim living in Germany. Not a German Muslim. It does not exist. These people hate Germany and hate Germans. I literally hear them say all the time: "Scheiß Deutsche" Which means shit Germans. If Germany so desperately loves immigration, lets please only import Christians.

I invite you to a German mass to see if your opinion holds. If I wanted to be a Protestant I’d go to one of the many evangelisch churches, many of which are beautiful and were appropriated from the Church in their time. There are many good arguments for hewing to tradition even outside this toxic environment, especially in today’s world. It seems to me for most people it’s more along the lines of, “I didn’t distance myself from the Church, I believe the same thing as always and the Church distanced itself from me.”

In one of the comments on this post, an SSPX fellow says: "'Excommunication' from the conciliar sect [meaning the Catholic Church] would be a blessing." In this regard, we see how the SSPX mentality is often very similar to the Eastern Orthodox mentality; the word "uniate" is used as a kind of swearword amongst certain EO's, to heap derision on those who would entertain union with Rome. One could nearly imagine the more hardcore elements within the SSPX using the same word to derisively describe those who seek to enter into full and uncomplicated Communion with Rome. This is the trouble with hewing to a "purer" or somehow more elite, more correct, more perfect version of the "one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church" where you position yourself as being spotlessly right and 99% of Catholics wrong. Adherents become oppositional to any concessions made to the cosmopolitan realities of evangelism or of ecclesial unity -- and a purity spiral begins. When any Bishop makes a move toward full union with Rome, some laity or Priests are ruffled, become rebellious, splinter off, accuse those making peace and unity of being schismatics and compromisers and "uniates." The laity becomes addicted to rebellion, and every punitive act for this endless chain of revolt is viewed as confirmation of the righteousness of their cause. Again, we already see this amongst the Eastern Orthodox, and now we are seeing the beginnings of it with some of those affiliated with the SSPX. There is no obvious "end" to this except for recursive loops of schism. There is no moment when humble submission to valid and unifying Apostolic authority becomes the universally-accepted and correct move. It is for this reason that I stopped attending the SSPX myself and continue to advise others against it as well. All of this is why, in my opinion (and in the opinion of the ecclesial authorities above me), the wisest course for a layman is to humbly submit to the Church now rather than later; to refuse to put asterisks on our submission to holy mother Church, and to assume that even if the authorities above us are somehow wrong or misguided, that we will be rewarded by God for our obedience to His Church. Playing around with quasi-schismatic groups out of a commitment to some kind of "purity" that would tell us that 99% of Catholics are in grave danger (and we are certainly not) is not a wise idea.

@shagbark_hick Alas, not being American I can only pray for your success. Looks like an attractive prospect.

I genuinely would like to know just how many young Americans WOULD want to move to a "ghost town with no infrastructure, opportunity, jobs, culture, or society." I suspect the number is exceedingly low, and that even among those who "would" do it, they'd have many stipulations that would conflict with those of the others, more or less ensuring that no collective project of any kind could happen. Truly, the great prizewinners of rural America in 2100 A.D. will be those who can somehow manage to assemble or join an assembly of a dozen or more families who all move to one of the cheapest, most bombed-out rural towns imaginable -- and really do STAY there and have lots of kids. Thus far, few American whites appear to be capable of doing this. Only Amish, Mennonites, and third-world immigrants presently seem to be able to "take over" decaying rural towns in the USA. And I don't understand why this is. I mean I am sitting in a town where there are a half-dozen homes on the market at any given time for under $100k. Often, they sell for less than $40k -- move-in ready, as was the case with my own house. We have land for under $2k/ac, sometimes even less. Hardwood timber, soil, infinite water, a downtown with storefronts, a Church, a bar, a gas station. You can live here with a family for far less than $1k/mo, and anyone can make $1k/mo doing practically anything. It's all here if you want it. If I could convince even as few as a half-dozen Catholic families to relocate here (right here, in this particular village), we'd establish an enclave that would last for generations, we'd save the Parish Church here, we'd start businesses, attract visitors, and generally transform this town from a dying husk into a node of vibrance in the deep north. But nobody's lining up for this. Yes it's hard. Yes I have wanted to give up at times. But were a critical mass to show up, momentum could begin, the thing could lift off the ground, something could really happen here. It just takes one or two other families to get it moving. And in spite of my own misgivings and difficulties here, I don't really want to throw in the towel. The opportunities are just too good to give up on. DM's are always open. Come and visit if you want.

I once watched a nice boomer couple drive off in their Tesla having just spoken to me about going on a second vacation this year…after dumping their parents’ house furniture so it could be sold. In think they were shuffled off to a nice box to die in somewhere. Very wholesome. 🙃

Be aware that the culture of the bottom also requires you to care for your parents when they grow old and frail, rather than simply placing them in a nursing home and going about your merry way. The love and attention they give you are expected to be returned when the time comes.

@mamboitaliano__ I believe the rule is: if she looks good with short hair, she looks better with long hair. This is universally applicable.

A genuinely debated and controversial question, with opinions widely divided: Do women who look good with short hair actually exist? I’ll go first: apart from Isabella Rossellini and Juliette Binoche, it really feels like a tough test for femininity 💇‍♀️

@timelinetripper @PstafarianPrice Correction: still called gypsies because nobody likes them enough to bother with the progressive terms.

@PstafarianPrice As an American, I've also wondered about this question and looked into it a bit at one point out of curiosity. I saw "likely originated in the Punjab region of northwest India" and subsequently stopped looking into it right there.

Can anyone explain to me why gypsies are so awful? Do they ever integrate and become just normal people? I'm American, they are just some kind of fairytale to me (although, yes, I have interfered with gypsy pickpockets in Italy before)

@RealCyng31 @revenant_MMXX Imagine dealing with German bureaucratic paperwork, but with more politeness and you need to know 2000 ideograms in order to read the forms.

@revenant_MMXX I don't think the japanese like bureaucratic procedural autism and thought policing tho

He's right. Japanese and Germans are much more temperamentally similar. Strange & somewhat repressed senses of humor, strong favoring of efficiency and cleanliness. Brits are downright boisterous by comparison and, dare I say, are much more similar to Americans than continentals.

@askmylab @aya_inaka0416 “Advantages of [you] marrying my sister.” She’s trying to hook her up.

@aya_inaka0416 For dumb Americans like me, that says you married your sister. I'm assuming it means something else.

姉と結婚するメリット ・ずっと彼氏いないから貯金多め ・休日遊ぶお友達いなくて貯金多め ・無加工すっぴんの写真しかなくてモテず貯金多め ・陰キャラ人見知りで貯金多め ・酔ったら開放されて少し減る ・バリキャリ看護師だから貯金多め ・写真はほぼ半目だからモテず貯金多め ・幼少期スカウト何度もされたけど全く目立たなくて1人なので貯金多め ・田舎の一般人なのに謎にいいね来るけどやっぱり友達いなくて貯金多め デメリット↓

@Christojt @shagbark_hick Yeah, well, probably the last diocesan mass I attend here outside of special occasions. And they wonder why everyone is leaving.

@froscaCynn @shagbark_hick Sorry to hear. That’s terrible.

In many, many places, rural Catholicism is simply going to die. There will be more and more places where there is no feasible way to fulfill one's Sunday obligation, no Priests, no Parish life of any kind. Devout people will travel far distances for Holy Week; lukewarm Catholics will give up the Faith entirely. I can draw no other conclusion from what I am seeing here. Just yesterday our Priest announced that over 50% of our Diocesan Parishes are operating at a financial loss. Vocations are still nowhere near sufficient to keep all of our Parishes open. Though conversions are lately booming at historical levels, and many fallen away Catholics are returning to the Church by the tens of thousands -- there will be a "lag" between this newfound vitality and the reality on the ground. Rural areas will be ground zero for the changes ahead. I have no idea how to plan for this. Are we to congregate in cities? Should we move to be near the Cathedral? What if the Diocese merges or closes? Are we to accept a descent into living in "mission territory," where we might see a Priest and go to Mass monthly at best? Are we to prepare ourselves to drive further and further distances to receive the Sacraments? There are no easy answers here. But I think it's time for our Bishops to be realistic about what the situation really is, and to help the faithful prepare for it.

@catholicpat V2 will continue until morale improves.

Last week, the Archdiocese of Dubuque announced it's merging its 160 parishes into 24. The bishop said it is "not a sign of failure." And I agree (to an extent) The Church is going through a period of pruning where dead branches are cut off so living ones can bear fruit.

@Christojt @shagbark_hick Germany. I’d say it’s worse than normal here though. For now.

@froscaCynn @shagbark_hick Where is this? In the US?

@GermanSimply_ Literal translation would be “dragon fodder”, which better illustrates English’s Germanic origins.

German has a word for when you give your partner a gift to cover up something you did wrong. Drachenfutter 🐉 Literal translation: Dragon food. Germans really said — "we need a specific word for this." 😭🇩🇪 What's the German equivalent in your language? 👇🏽