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@DanielDiMartino we will take them.

I discovered that a lot of Latin Americans hate the poor menonites in really nasty ways. Sad. They're not harming anyone.

@philliplede It's an affront to the vast body of Catholic scholarship that exists specifically to cover this extensively.

The post-war Catholic fixation with affirming human “dignity” as a brute property of the human person, deprived of any account of what such dignity is for and how it is distinct to man (not just that it is), is a disastrous excess of Christian ‘integral humanism.’ We learn that one cannot give an adequate account of the human without an account of God—that a Christian anthropology is impossible without Christ. An argument for the ‘dignity of man’ must be given, rather than proffered as unmixed relevation. We risk becoming liberals who dogmatically affirm “human rights” as final while denying that common end which would buttress them as universal.

@Noahpinion Yes because we have so many historical examples of this happening and no examples of the complete and utter opppsite happening everywhere white men have built countries

I really do wish the chuds could have their own country, on some island somewhere. They think that country would be like Singapore or Japan or Australia or the old UK. In fact they'd be eating each other in 5 years. All the smart white people love working with immigrants.

@ChristianHeiens You are easily the best follow on this app

There's an interesting story about how Victorian mansions, and particularly the Second Empire style, became synonymous with haunted houses. They were extremely popular in the US from the 1870s through the 1890s, but were hard to maintain because of their large size and opulent style. Many of the families that constructed these homes lost much of their fortunes in the Panic of 1893 and the crash of 1929. Others remained wealthy but didn't have the means or desire to maintain large staffs of maids and servants to keep them running. So, one by one, Second Empire homes across the US were sold off and continued to change hands rapidly until, by the time the 30s rolled around, thousands of them were left vacant because no one could afford to maintain them. And not just maintain, but preserve them. The typical Second Empire house was around 50 or 60 years old by the 1930s. They needed upkeep just as much as a house built in 1970 would need repairs today if no one had lived in it for 10 years. As a result, many of them were bulldozed or burned down to make way for newer homes in the 40s and 50s after World War II. And the entire point of Second Empire style was for them to be grouped together like a bunch of trophies, so tearing down a whole bunch of abandoned and decaying mansions but keeping the ones that were in relatively better condition only made them stand out more. By the time the late 40s and early 50s rolled around, they had almost universally gone from being considered the crowning architectural achievement of the Gilded Age to being synonymous with urban decay. The artists and writers of the 60s were growing up as kids in the 40s and 50s, thinking to themselves, "that old house down the lane that has been sitting empty since I was born." So when they got jobs in Hollywood writing scripts for TV shows, they carried those memories with them, and the Second Empire style entered the collective consciousness of pop culture as the default "haunted house" for the next 60 years. The sad thing is, these homes are priceless. You can see it when you find a rare one that has been well-preserved or restored. But we've degraded ourselves so much that it would be nearly unthinkable to construct a home like this today.

@OldUSenjoyer I agree they don’t belong inside, they belong hung outside or at the top. See Westminster abbey.

What is even happening? I don't know what they did to the al gore rhythm, but it sure likes me today. I don't have super strong feelings about the flags in the sanctuary, but it strikes me as out of place. There's virtually no bare wall in my church, as it's all covered in iconography. Seeing national flags in there is a little out of place, and also, the sanctuary is supposed to draw our mind to heaven. I'm definitely pro-Nation, and flag, though, so I see the point some of y'all made about it. I don't mind them at all outside, or even in a different spot of the church, maybe in the narthex area.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't know that flags belong in the sanctuary. Ours has them, and it is just oddly out of place.

@xwanyex You should really put together some kind of writing that consolidates all these extremely insightful debunking of common pro-open borders talking points. Then hand it to Restore Britain or MAGA

@groypdort @DocInAlaska55 @AtelierMissor_ The limit does not exist

@DocInAlaska55 @AtelierMissor_ Why not 5000 ft tall and cost a bajillion?

At 300 ft tall, we can build them for $50M each.

@mcuban Mark, have you looked into how Japan does healthcare? They have an incredible system that's a combination of government regulations+private competition. It's got elements of single payer. I think we could implement it here, if only at the state level first.

Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want. What do they do ? If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?