@roddreher Why do you think the prideful triumpalism happens mostly with Catholics? What is it about Catholicism that would produce this?
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Useless Tree
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Useless Tree
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“The way that can be spoken is not the real way." ~Laozi, Daodejing
United States شامل ہوئے Temmuz 2023
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Orthodox here, but most faithful Cathos I know are too Christian to be this nasty & prideful. They hold their version of the faith as true, obviously, but don't use it as a triumphalist club with which to beat fellow Christians who lack what they consider the fullness of truth.
NΛTLY DΞNISΞ@NatlyDenise_
Candace: “[Charlie] You’re too smart to be a Protestant.” C for C Audience: Laughter. Woots. Cheers. Imagine clapping at spiritual arrogance at the expense of Charlie’s corpse being ventriloquized. Speech: No Christian testimony detected 🔍
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The new head of a major Mexican drug cartel is a U.S. citizen--courtesy of birthright citizenship. Being a U.S. citizen makes it more complicated for law enforcement to target him. wsj.com/world/americas…
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I urge anyone involved in the California election fraud ring to come forward and help expose it.
This thing is coming down. We want the people at the top. Be on the side of the good guys.
I will not reveal the identity of anyone who comes forward. My email is in bio.
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@CindyHoedel @walterkirn It’s much harder with written speech, frozen in time. Face-to-face, things can get resolved immediately.
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@walterkirn It’s a sign of an illiberal mind to say: I cannot respect anyone who doesn’t share my opinion on this or that issue. The founders had vehemently different positions but respected each other. We need to get back to that.
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I love when strangers tell me here that they've lost respect for me because of this or that thing I've said.
To hear I've lost what I never knew I had and never sought from someone is not a loss at all.
It's a puff of wind.
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Knowing this man was arrested for the most trival and lucidrous reason has made me anxious that something this unreasonable might happen to me
So I would like to see an arrest of the arresting officer for causing me this unbearable anxiety
Skint Eastwood@Skint_Eastwood1
🚨STARMER’S POLICE STATE EXPOSED This is Keir Starmer’s Britain, police handcuff a man at his own home for simply sharing a social media post. Arrested man: “Why am I in cuffs?” Officer: “Because someone has been caused anxiety based upon your social media post. That’s why you’ve been arrested.” This is dystopian nonsense. Starmer’s turning the UK into a thought-policing state where ‘anxiety’ trumps free speech. Absolute disgrace😡
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@ConceptualJames That was me. I was playing it on my phone today.
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I sit in peace and suddenly feel as though I can hear "Thunderstruck" playing somewhere off in the distance.
Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby
BREAKING: Erika Kirk and TPUSA have issued a cease and desist to the X account “Project Constitution” over allegedly false and defamatory claims. Good on TPUSA for fighting back against these scum.
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@ClimateAudit Then there is the risk to JD Vance and Marco Rubio in 2028 and how they’ll have to reconcile with Trump and this war. TBD.
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re-upping this comparison of Trump to Lyndon Johnson. Lots of points of similarity. Both bullies. Neither wanted to appear "weak".
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
fair enough. But don't forget that Lyndon Johnson similarly wanted to be remembered for his "Great Society" domestic programs. It's before your time, but, in that respect, LBJ wasn't that much different from Donald J. But LBJ got eaten up by Vietnam War, making unwise decisions because he wasn't prepared to lose any face domestically. Trump's biggest risk is not that he becomes Bush 3.0, but that he becomes another LBJ, losing control of his domestic agenda because of unwise foreign policy decisions.
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@_Useless_Tree_ @TheEconomist @TuckerCarlson @zannymb I find you went pretty quickly from « you have to prove that », « well yes but it doesn’t matter »… soon you’ll be realizing that it fucking matters if it’s a foreign country who decides when and where you should go to war
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Has Donald Trump betrayed America First? @TuckerCarlson thinks so. In an interview with @zannymb, Mr Carlson argues the war on Iran was launched on Israel's timetable, not America’s. Watch the full interview on The Insider at 6pm London time: econ.st/4rCV3gj
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When everything you do in life is a college application essay that requires a minimum number of words.
MAZE@mazemoore
2023. The "First Partner" of California is asked if she will call herself "First Partner" if her husband Gavin becomes President. Ready for her crazy eyes in the White House? BTW, watch how this self-proclaimed "defender of women" passively disses Melania.
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I tried it last week and in the first two fights in the book, one guy wanted to take the other guy's eye out with a broken bottle, and they weren't the same guy each time.
I don't dislike CM, but he's over-rated. There are better books. If you want a page-turner masterpiece, read Deliverance.
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About to start Blood Meridian for the first time.
Give me all your best advice.
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@laurent_bart @TheEconomist @TuckerCarlson @zannymb Yeah, I heard that clip. Not good enough.
Further, it doesn't matter whether Israel "chose the timing":
1. Because it's too vague a statement.
2. Because such things necessarily happen in non-unilateral war.
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@_Useless_Tree_ @TheEconomist @TuckerCarlson @zannymb Have you not been listening to what Rubio literally said on the first day of the operation ?
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Why the adult rape allegation against Cesar Chavez is VERY clearly not credible…
1) The woman is 96 years old with a “hazy” memory
2) She waited over 60 years to go public
3) She had 2 kids with him but only had sex with him twice (🤔) and neither time was 100% consensual
4) She also had 4 kids with HIS BROTHER! (Which the @nytimes conveniently leaves out)
5) She worked with him until he died and she praised him on X multiple times, decades after he died (see below)
6) She has plenty of incentives to lie, particularly so that her career doesn’t look like it was carried by her having extensive sexual affairs with him AND his brother, and the fact that Cesar accused her of stealing money from the organization
This story is not only not credible, it is completely irrelevant to the uncorroborated allegations of child rape, which the NY Times desperately conflates with it in order to give the appearance of there being significant evidence here.
I have ZERO love for Chavez, but this story is completely unfair, especially since he has been dead for 33 years.
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@Zigmanfreud They were both rotten 2 days ago, and they are both rotten today.
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@77_steeze In the 60s, the lefties were the ones pushing alternative medicine.
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Leftist men are the most misanthropic, “I’m such a piece of shit” characters, so it’s kind of hilarious that one of the things they hate most is “alternative medicine” and the idea of potentially taking some non-vetted bro-sciencey supplement or herb or whatever
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@ThomasEWoods Israel is dragging Trump into war — except when they’re not.
In that case complain about what the ambassador’s opinion might be.
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I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
Kristen Rudd@kristenrudd
About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.
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@Aris_Utensil there needs to be some term to describe the group of people who have decided to go against maga and trump and join the coalition of tucker, massie, kent, fuentes and candace owens. I consider these people to be retarded, so I am going to call them that
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