ah yes, what we refer to as stupid sicario

gen xers being treated as minor children

I’m not sure there’s a way to shoehorn Barron into an article about any kind of intelligence

Almost a Blasphemy For Vatican theologians, the imagined obsolescence of humanity is not a historical prospect to be welcomed or feared, but an intellectual error to be avoided.

"The Holy See’s theologians may be underestimating the eschatological character of these schools of thought."

@kevjg.bsky.social on the religious worldview of AI's boosters:

I wonder how his fans would take it if he said the Spanish bishops acted ultra vires when they picked a side in the civil war

A Searchlight Institute–approved Democratic candidate will appeal to unions by announcing “Great has been your sins: great must be your penance.”

Most of the people who are mad at this are the same people who get upset that “the Left won’t embrace patriotism”

Important to remember that this isn't just the Israelis beefing with the Polish Foreign Minister -- it's the Israelis beefing with Anne Applebaum's husband.

I had already finished an article about this stuff but I think I can work in a little bit more about how Bishop Barron sucks while it’s being edited

MAGA si, magistra no

[rockwell_freespeech.jpg] “I think the IDF and the Taliban are both bad.”

MAGA si, magistra no

It’s the total lack of deniability. They claimed they hit the church by mistake, and plenty of people were happy to accept that. but nobody takes a hammer to a statue in the course of “legitimate” military operations.

Schumer probably doesn’t aspire to a supermajority but he absolutely wants some future Manchins who can stop a Democratic majority from making too much trouble for the donors or the Israelis

“Ok, I get that you primitive meatsacks aren’t totally obsolete yet — but would you mind pretending to be? My boss really wants to see it.”

Vermeule protégée btw (or at least she was at the time of that work — he turns on everyone eventually)

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

There are some passages in Peter Brown that illustrate the downside of this; it’s certainly possible for pastors to have too much of the smell of the sheep, in a way that makes prophetic witness impossible. But we already have that, and with all the downsides of a separate clerical class as well.

another difference there is that the church is just a part of the community, and the clergy a segment of the community’s organic leadership — not a “career path.”

in some places in the early church the presbyters seem to have been drawn from among older married men who had more or less finished raising children, and for whom the expectation of continence was biologically and ethically more plausible.

I’m not really a downer because I think the attempt to liberate capital from labor will fail, at least on any timeframe that matters to us.

Plenty of damage will be done as the sickos attempt to realize that dream, but I think the odds of them succeeding are basically zero.

The economic destruction of the Rust Belt was compatible with “line go up” because white-collar workers became more numerous and richer at the same time, supporting consumer demand.

If the future economy is a tiny coterie of VC guys at Claude terminals, consumer demand plummets and the music stops.

These are the only civilized places in America

I have an even better idea about how one attendee can write their name in the history books for all eternity

AIPAC’s successful campaign against some of the Squad in 2024 was also used to push a narrative that their backing is more important than close alignment with the voters’ priorities

I don’t think Vance is like… a fake convert, mostly because that’s just not a thing (I dare you to define “fake”). But he runs in a circle of people who think Catholicism is fun because it has authority-energy and not because it has actual *authorities* with strong opinions about refugees and war.

These are excerpts from Karp's book The Technological Republic. And let me just add this:

Sure, these guys issue Nazi statements, but they also give a lot of money to Hakeem Jeffries, so it’s impossible to say if they’re bad or not.