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Me: Hey kid! Back up, you're going to get bit by that crocodile if you're not careful.
Them: Crocodile lover. Big Croc shill. Why do you hate innocent kids?
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
@michaelbd
author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer @NRO.
Katılım Kasım 2007
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Welp, now I know how to get Derek Thompson to read Romano Gaurdini. We’re going to raise this conversation from the political-social stakes of the uni-context, to the true theological-anthropological stakes of our age.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
New newsletter/pod: A PHILOSOPHER'S ONE-WORD THEORY OF WHY THE WORLD FEELS SO WEIRD Agnes Callard is a philosopher at the University of Chicago. Today she explains her theory of "the uni-context"—what it is, where it comes from, how it's transformed our experience of being alive, and how it explains: - the modern obsession with distraction and the management of our attention - why everything in art and design seems the same these days - why the news media is so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time - how every aspect of modern life becoming a global market makes it so hard to stop comparing ourselves to others - how telecommunications tech—from radio, to TV, to smartphones—succeeds by tapping into our "deep aversion to world closure" youtube.com/watch?v=LOdvmB…
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People have a real problem with theory of mind.
This is preposterous. No American president assuming the office after an assassination would respond by rewarding the assassins.
Peter Cordi@PeterCordi
Why is Iran suddenly desperate to kill Donald Trump? For the same reason Dems are hesitant to impeach him: It would bring about a President JD Vance. Trump killed Vance's Iran deal. Now, Tehran is doing the math on who's easier to work with. Thread 🧵 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltwa…
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There’s a huge variety. My son’s travel team is a step above rec leagues. The kids are required to play on local rec as well. No overnight commitment. The real stud players have parents that avoid the super high commitment travel teams and focus on 1-1 skill training outside of the team.
But in the same broader league there are team of kids associated with a local indoor training facility. They travel to showcases.
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I don't have your level of personal experience with travel sports, but have friends who do, and often find myself in a super 8 jammed with families for a local event -- and often at the Applebees you see all the families sitting together -- the bankers eating with plumbers cliche actually happening
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The reason expensive "travel sports" have become a big deal in the U.S. is largely to allow parents to buy friends for their children of the same social class: if you are affluent, you all drive to nearby cities and stay in motels to play. If you are rich, you fly across country.
The New York Times@nytimes
From @TheAthleticFC: Developing into a top soccer player requires some degree of privilege in the U.S., as it is expensive. But the primary reason that the U.S. doesn’t produce world-class men’s soccer players boils down to one word: culture. nyti.ms/4fwfXee
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@Chris_arnade @McGillJB @Steve_Sailer Even if they don’t. A D1 player gets out of college debt free and is a highly desired, well paid coach.
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@McGillJB @Steve_Sailer the best pro players now make generational money, enough to buy the family effectively a peerage, and the lure of that is simply to great for people not to aim for, and try everything they can to get
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Depends on the level. My daughters dance travels between Eastern PA and southern Massachusetts, basically I-84. My son’s travel baseball team just means “beyond the town rec” usually about half an hour. At 12u they fundraise to do a Cooperstown tourney. Relatively cheap. The local high varsity team is elite competition . His soccer is more like Metro NY region. The soccer academies are more elite culture but we often beat them.
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@Steve_Sailer Think this is wrong. Travel Sports are actually pretty democratic -- with everyone staying in same generally low cost hotel, and all hanging together, and the wealthier parents helping pay costs for the talented kid without money -- its' about seeking higher quality play
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For all the horror of cancel culture, it never reached deep into youth dancing. When you see some of the costumes or misused songs, you almost wish it had. Please don’t include vacuums as props in “This Woman’s Work”
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@michaelbd @aaron_renn Did these synodality prelates ever think they were making something so stupid&laughable it wasn't worth showing up for? Because as it stands they did exactly that. Who wants to hear some fat gay atheist in a synthetic chausable tell you the religion of your grandparents sucks
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Ryan Burge: Built for a Church That No Longer Exists - The Archdiocese of Detroit is running out of priests, parishioners, and time graphsaboutreligion.com/p/built-for-a-…
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Once you hit Corinth or Ephesus, the magic of the Upper Room wears off, and the reality of temporizing pastors sets in.
Daniel Strand@DDFStrand
When I encounter the newly converted trad Cath, I find most, not all, have a romantic idea of the Catholic Church. Once you leave DC, NYC, and a few other major metros, you will find a very different church than the pristine one they conjure up online.
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Exactly why so many of us on this side of the debates respect him. He showed respect to others.
Blake Masters@bgmasters
Once when a donor asked, “Senator Graham why are you helping Blake, given how much you two disagree on foreign policy?” he replied with a grin: “So Blake’s wrong about Ukraine... who gives a shit? We aren’t here to talk about how correct I am all the time, we’re here to talk about getting the Senate majority. Because I want to be chairman of my committees!” Lindsey was cheerful and determined and he understood that he played a team sport. May his memory be eternal.
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@GrenatorDole @jimgeraghty LOL. Buchananite aren’t allowed to notice that Ted Cruz wasn’t going to appeal to “Establishment” Republicans.
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I met Lindsay Graham while he was campaigning in New Hampshire for a profile piece I never finished. From my questions, he quickly figured out my foreign policy perspective was Buchananite. He relished debating it out, made honest admissions against interest when we got deep in the weeds on the Houthis, and had far more in-room charisma than I expected. He was a funny, magnanimous and extremely effective advocate for his views, especially where I disagreed with him. RIP
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@DanielS37631297 He was not for genocide. He argued for wars I thought were wrong, even unjust. And unjust wars are nothing besides organized mass murder. But the takedowns are for another day. This is a a do unto others moment.
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@michaelbd The guy incited genocide and war, but he was a little charming once, so we’ll overlook that and shy away from the scathing takedown he deserves.
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@maggiemphillips What’s the youngest age boy it would be appropriate to take to it?
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