folks,

I don’t mean to be probing but I think we should probably start asking why the present system of market capitalism has created an endless army of neurotic managers and executives who all talk like this as they engage in the greatest act of state looting seen since the Berlin Wall fell

Buy my buddy's book or I'll kill you

idk I think the McDonalds yellow and red for 'MAPS OF MEANING' really inspires

A Jungian section in a bookstore somewhere in London. Various texts are here, including 'Jung and Spinoza: Passage through the Blessed Self', now available through Routledge. Also Hillman (cool) and Jorps (fuck).

A friend sent this. From a bookstore in London. 1) It's nice to be a shelf above Jorps. 2) I guess they'll put any drivel for sale these days. 3) The only bookstore I can think of that had a Jungian section this big was in Boulder, which is hippie world.

Carling being the cheapest option is definitely the punishment here.

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Forget the AI slop of him healing Bill Simmons. This is the real depraved shit.

That is true, and Barron is a Trump-world starfucker, but this is still a larger step than I thought he'd take. For a lot of American conservatives that have Catholicism as their moral aesthetic, the influencer bishop giving them permission to criticize Trump is not nothing.

Fantastic dispatch KVV, you guys killed it all week.

This is more important than people realize. There are some -very- right-wing voices/influencers in Catholicism who will be sure to tacitly (and maybe explicitly) take Trump's side.

they like him and want to help him. They send out a push alert not for the actual story "the president is losing his fucking mind" but one repeating Trump's false criticism of the Pope as if they are reasonable.

In this Toledo diner, folks point that unlike Trump, Christ died on his cross.

That will be a huge percentage of American Catholics then!

Bill Simmons?

That hasn't been true since Francis came in and dared to be remotely progressive. The Pope has been human since then. The conservative thirst-bucket types like Bishop Barron are where most American Catholics turn to for 'wisdom'. Because it meshes with their politics better. And politics are primary

Yep. This is a lot of American Catholics.

really hard to explain to a certain kind of liberal that there are a lot of catholics out there who don't believe this is sacrilegious at all

None of them will, plenty of American conservative Catholics will side with Trump. Watch

It's absolutely wild that one of the wealthiest man in the world can just repost this kind of garbage and nobody bats an eye.

The current PM of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, complaining that 'too many' of his citizens are voting in an election he might lose, and thus he paradoxically declares that "no patriot can stay at home!"

"too many people are voting"

This is the country--it's the congress and the trappings of the executive that are fake, and the sooner people realize that the better.

True, this is really just a difference in degree, not in kind

Besides being...horrifying?, this is the absolute bullseye of the AI grift. Take something that's free and has always been free -- faith -- and put a price tag on it. If you use any of these tools, you are a sucker, and are being suckered, and the people who make this slop are laughing at you.

one kinda of sanewashing thing the media did repeatedly for Trump over the years is describing him as an "isolationist" or "america first" while knowing trump's actual foreign policy is just a different alliance — not with other nations, but with a network of far-right parties around the world

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell:

Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad.

The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

Trumpist-Maoist.

Americans will be like "don't walk 5 miles it'll ruin your knees"