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JacobusMinimus

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JacobusMinimus
JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
I'm a practicing Catholic. I'm not very good at it, which is why I keep practicing. I also believe in other things that most people believed until about 15 minutes ago, which, I am reliably told, makes me "far right."
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@martianwyrdlord It's demoralizing the way that every politician, regardless of his party affiliation, feels the need to pander like this every June.
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
There are days when I comfort myself by thinking, "This can't go one forever" and then there are days when I think, "No, but it can still go on for a very long time."
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@SteveSkojec This is all true. The biggest difference between earlier generations and our own, I think, is that they simply accepted all this as "facts of life" and didn't agonize over it as we often do. Whether that makes them "stronger" I am unqualified to say.
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Steve Skojec
Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec·
I bring this up from time to time and usually get the impression most of us don’t really think about it. People weren’t stronger in the old days. They just had different coping mechanisms. If you’re old enough, you might even know some of the darker family lore. The alcoholism, the abuse, the father who just stopped coming home from work, the lobotomized aunt, the shell shocked brother who never really came home from the war, the mother who went insane after her baby died…modern psychological interventions aren’t perfect, but neither was expecting every human being to just raw dog all the traumatic experiences life threw at them.
Om Prakash, MD@ompsychiatrist

Ancestors did not manage ADHD, depression and anxiety without meds; they suffered all that morbidity, crushing distress and dysfunction just had to tolerate. I see it every day in my patients & families carrying generations of untreated pain through alcohol, asylums and early graves until meds finally gave them some peace. Treatment is not weakness. It is progress.

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僚孙子(SunZi Liao)@scsimodem·
@HariSel57511397 Been watching it for the first time. I think I'm in S3. Some of it is eerily predictive, though I skip any episode dealing with anything Christian.
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Isaac Young
Isaac Young@HariSel57511397·
Overall, it holds up well. The problem is some of the philosophical elements, and it’s frustrating that the show constantly has to contrive ways to keep Scully and Mulder just two steps behind when they should be smarter than that in the later seasons.
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@HariSel57511397 Did you like the X-Files…

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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@VDAREJamesK There's a certain sense in which most of our social ills are downstream of technological innovations, cars included, but I have no idea if that's at all what Hitchens is arguing.
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@SteveSkojec The root of the problem, in my opinion, is that so many of us are genuinely looking for answers and none of the traditional sources can be trusted any longer. There's a real hunger that is, unfortunately, being filled by people some awful people.
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Steve Skojec
Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec·
Saw this over on Substack. She ain't wrong.
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Isaac Young
Isaac Young@HariSel57511397·
One of the other major black marks is that the show thought escorts were fonts of worldly, spiritual wisdom. When in reality, after seeing the podcast and Substack craze, these people are typically the most vapid and uninteresting types around.
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Isaac Young@HariSel57511397

NGL I hate the hype around the Preacher’s character. I came in hearing he was good representation of Christianity, only to be smacked with early 2000s liberal aphorisms. The movie is even worse. “Something something what makes you think I want you to believe in God?”

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Steve Skojec
Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec·
Got an email from art teacher today about my 13 yo son blowing bubbles in India ink with a pipette. "Nowhere in my instructions said to do that," she said. She then went on to say she knows he's "capable of making good, safe choices." He's a 13yo boy. He acted like one. FFS.
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
I saw this headline and, for a brief moment, thought, "Amazing! They're telling the story of principled soldiers who didn't want to spy on their countrymen for political purposes." Nope. The soldiers were just upset the spying wasn't following the rules: cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@HariSel57511397 Almost all of our social problems are downstream of technology. Barring a total collapse, there's no uncorking those bottles.
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@_kruptos I largely agree and it's why I'm mostly a doomer. Barring complete technological collapse, I don't think there are any solutions to most of our worst problems. We can't put the genie back in the bottle.
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κρῠπτός@_kruptos·
All plans to fix society, whether from the so-called left or the so-called right are all plans to fix society and thus bear all the same fundamental characteristics, rendering them essentially variations on the same phenomenon. This is a core feature of the technological society. Only technological and technocratic solutions are allowed to operate and gain ascendancy in the modern world. Thus all solutions bear the same fundamental characteristics.
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@kalezelden According to Spengler, this is a completely predictable and indeed inevitable feature of the winter of a civilization. Expect a compensatory counter-reaction to it that will be every bit as shallow and vacuous.
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Kale Zelden
Kale Zelden@kalezelden·
There was once (upon) a time in which filmmakers sought to illuminate & reveal the greatness of the stories from the tradition. There was an implicit kind of reverence for the received. Now the primary mode is desecration. Hashtag sad. Hashtag decadence.
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@AuronMacintyre This is precisely why I tend toward doomerism. There is no way to uncork this particular bottle, barring complete technological collapse.
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Auron MacIntyre@AuronMacintyre·
"Once birth control and abortion made pregnancy a choice instead of an inevitability, everything shifted. Single women became a larger part of society, and the state expanded its reach to provide them with broader physical and economic protections." theblaze.com/columns/opinio…
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
@_kruptos For a certain type of "conservative," following the Rules is all that matters and they literally can't imagine that anyone might use them — or ignore them — to their advantage.
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κρῠπτός@_kruptos·
The process is completely incorruptible and the rules are always applied faithfully and consistently and there is follow up and enforcement. There are no bad actors in the system and it works just as stated on paper. Please tell me a former premier is not this naive.
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱@jkenney

Anyone who applies for a temporary residence visa (e.g. students, workers, tourists) has to sign an application confirming that they HAD NOT INTENTION TO STAY permanently. They have to submit documentation to persuade a Canadian visa officer, per the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, that on a balance of probabilities, they are likely to leave Canada before the end of their authorized stay. That documentation includes proof of "establishment factors" in their home country, e.g. assets, employment, family ties, etc.. Many are then questioned by a visa officer abroad, and then a visa officer at the port of entry, further to establish their bona fides as a TEMPORARY RESIDENT. The visa they receive in their passport makes it perfectly clear in plain English and French that they are legally required to leave the country within the authorized period. Any official IRCC content they read online would make it absolutely clear that they are applying for temporary, permanent residency, and are not permitted to stay. If anyone can come, overstay, and violate our fair and generous immigration laws, then why not just have an open borders policy? On what grounds could we deny people temporary visas? Because they've been honest about their intentions to stay permanently? Finally, it is not a terrible hardship to ask people to return to the countries they are from. Imaging that Canada must "save" people from their homelands is a profound kind of chauvinism. Of course, there is a moral and legal exception for people facing a well-founded fear of persecution, but that's what the asylum system exists to determine.

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Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
@RoyalEndeavour Because “indigenous” means “primitive, defeated former natives that we patronise and romanticise out of vague feelings of guilt” Acquiring “indigenous” status means you’ve lost
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JacobusMinimus@m76164707·
If you have to keep coming up with new euphemisms to describe something, it's probably not a good thing you're describing.
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