one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
[old man post] Wilco's "Summerteeth" still slaps
As an antisocial misanthrope, I did not, Daniel.
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.
As I’ve said before: we’re really eager for people to get excommunicated, but Catholic authorities typically wield that against minority Catholics. (One reason bishops’ reluctance to throw their weight around is a net good: it’s more relational, dialogical, conversion-of-hearts-y [science term].)
Roberts Court jurisprudence is simple: if you’re a Republican holding power, it’s legitimate. If you’re a Democrat, tough shit.
boy it sure would be nice if the most prominent group of left-wing environmentalist parties in the anglo-western-european sphere didn’t suck
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This guy really is an idiot
Take me back to
My personal rule regarding “gentrification” is that if you’re gonna use that word with me, you have to tell me what specifically you are talking about.
We can have a policy conversation about economic displacement. We cannot have that conversation about whether the new restaurants are too fancy.
Them: “Do you get sore from working out?”
Me: “not much anymore”
Me: wonder what would happen if I put Bulgarian split squats in the programming again?
My body: DEAR GOD WHAT DID YOU DO?
Also, and this is me being pedantic and niche to my own interests, but if you’re a schismatic (now) from the Catholic Chruch, you’re not a Protestant. We have our own schismatic tradition that we fall under. You’ve started something new entirely.
And by “low point,” I don’t mean the numbers, I mean a low point in the public consciousness on what or who they think of when you ask them what a Protestant is.
There’s a lot of smart people on this site. How long would it take them to get to “James Talarico” when answering that question?
Mainline Protestantism is at such a low point that when thinking of what a Protestant is, the people of this site define it as:
1) Pete Hegseth and his ilk
2) Catholics who don’t like the Pope
Spotted at the face place
The modern proletariat are some of the most reactionary people in the developed world, and they elected the current US government. Vance and company are essentially a vanguard party of professional revolutionary podcasters.
They’re not sending their best.
This site: “America is so Protestant, its Catholics are Protestant.”
Meanwhile, certain American Protestants on this site: “Vance is in clear violation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law.”
when someone calls the pope soft on crime
ALL experiences that could be classified as economic are mediated by socially conditioned expectations, assumptions, & aspirations. All experiences period, really, but especially something as complex & culturally freighted as the category "economic." There are no "direct," unmediated experiences ...
We’re cooking here
We forgot about them for too long and this is their revenge.
Me, a Midwestern Protestant:
This is a really important piece. Detroit has been coddled for decades through bipartisan protectionism. The US should let China sell affordable EVs, get them to invest by building EV manufacturing here, and let Detroit complete. And if Detroit can't complete, they don't deserve to be in business.
The earliest one listed is "Pius XII and the Holocaust."
Mind you, for a thousand years, Popes were actual political rulers, and for much of that time they were involved in the selection or deposing of some of the most powerful crowned heads of Europe. Then for sixty years...
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
Once again
3 spidermen Spiderman 1:I'm blockading Spiderman 2 : no I'm blockading Spiderman 3: No,it's my blockade go away
“Trump at some level knows he’s failing politically, cognitively and physically and wants to take it all down with him, the way that ancient rulers were buried with their slaughtered horses and servants.”