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This guy really is an idiot

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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?

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

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

“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.”

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

jd vance negotiating with Iran

Killmonger is the foil to the actual debate of the movie which is between T’chaka and Nakia; Nakia’s values win.

Drama: Tar Horror: Beau is Afraid Comedy: Nirvanna: The Band, The Show, The Movie Romance: Challengers Action: Sinners Animated: Soul Sci-fi/fantasy: Nope (the best movie of the decade so far, imo) Best Picture: One Battle After Another

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Happy Friday from the Branch Manager

Quite the indictment of the GOP that they couldn’t stop full-on race communism while in power for much of the 21st century.

The word from the street is simple: we’re so back.

How countries feel about food

Personalist gang (no, not that personalism) rise up!

The biggest form of political correctness in America is that basically every single conservative commentator is a gutter bigot and it's just universally understood that it's beyond the pale to ever acknowledge that.

race communism

TAPPING THE SIGN

Those first two Counting Crows albums, man.

Fact check: true www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/...

What a loser.

We can’t live like this.

This is a post about why Elizabeth Warren seems so strangely ill-equipped for this moment in American politics, but it's really about the limitations of left-populism as an answer to right-populism. publiccomment.blog/p/what-s-goi...

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?

just waitin for WWIII

I know nostalgia is deadly, but we used to elect Republicans like Richard Lugar. Now, the best I can hope for is Todd Young. Man, I don’t know.

It doesn't matter what Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene or Candace Owens has to say as long as Republican members of Congress are fully behind Trump on Iran.

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.

"Bully pulpit aside, America lacks the sort of institutions, above all unions, that could have communicated to workers that rapidly rising wages and a superabundance of jobs were contingent situations created by policy."

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...