As a former Evangelical who converted to Orthodoxy I can sadly confirm this is true. I've been Orthodox for sixteen years now & it is an ongoing struggle to give up my old ways. There are plenty of converts who don't even try.

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case? Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin obviously. Any fictional detective is going to solve the case but few are going to do it with as much aplomb & style as these two.

The right are all twelve years old theory remains undefeated

Lindsey Graham to be buried near service entrance of Trump's Virginia golf course.

Approximately zero percent of generals and admirals support Pete Hegseth's plan to screen military personnel for low testosterone. But in this incel gamer Discord server, that number seems much higher.

It amuses/scares me to no end that the right wing take economy is run by several group chats made up of the world's richest men and the people they pay to pretend to be journalist.

The people who tell me I'm an idolater for having icons will be the same ones buying up these coins to prominently display in their homes

Netflix changed their layout & algorithm and it is now showing me films I had no idea were even on their platform.

Johnson also wants to give the military billions of dollars in funding to fight “communism” so he wants to use the military against our own citizens & elected officials? This is going to get ugly.

I feel bad for traditions that don't fling holy water at people

Was Keith Habersberger not available?

Backed this right away, now to spend a year pressuring six of my friends into spending a weekend playing wizards.

Our Podcaster in Chief has a lot of nerve talking about fake jobs

The year is 2084. A presidential candidate is trying to explain he just got his bin Laden tattoo because it looked cool

Five living authors that you’ve read five books by each Adrian Tchaikovsky Jim Butcher Ken Liu Mike Mignola (I count graphic novels) Silvia Moreno-Garcia Honorable Mention, James C Scott who sadly passed away in 2024

Here's the thing, even by his own admission Platner knew it was a Nazi tattoo when he decided to run. That by itself should be disqualifying. If he was truly repentant about the tattoo then getting it covered up before that is the bare minimum he could do.

I think wanting to be a Senator should immediately disqualify you from the position on moral grounds.

What is your hottest Jane Austen take? Mine is that Elizabeth Bennet in the novel doesn't actually like to read but all the modern adaptations make that part of her personality because it comes across as modern smart. And the modern fandom has that meme about Mr. Darcy's library.

This is why we had the Pod Save Bros and Yglesias on the same side as Ryan Grim and Jacobin. The thing that united them all was the view that the white man is the Real American and the white man is the only one who can legitimately wield power.

"We've traded our humanity for comfort" says man who abandoned his family to fuck around in Europe eating oysters for a living

Ross brings up the fact that Rod wrote the Benedict Option as a critique of Christians who depend too much on the State & politics to support Christianity and then turned around and became a propagandist for Orban. Rod laughs about it and doesn't answer the question.

My favorite part of the interview is when Rod tosses Orban under the bus admitting that the government was corrupt & failed its stated goal of increasing birthrates. Any authoritarians looking to hire a propagandist beware, Rod will turn on you as soon as the money stops.

I would love three examples of ways Rod Dreher has “been right before.”

What this exercise made me realize is I really like fantasy TTRPGs but not science fiction TTRPGs but for books & other media I prefer science fiction but not fantasy. Not sure why.

What are your TTRPG picks to best fit these genres? Fantasy: Daggerheart Romance: Star Crossed Science Fiction: Dialect Mystery/Crime: Blades in the Dark Horror: Dread

This is a quote from Communion by J.D. Vance, a supposed Christian. “There was no obvious triumph in Peter’s life, no temporal victory. The very thing I fear is the thing that Simon Peter—fisherman from Galilee turned evangelist in Rome—experienced: death without triumph.”

So what I'm hearing is that the dirtbag left are just dirtbags

After six years of waiting my Stonetop books have finally arrived. Thank you so much to @plusoneexp.bsky.social for performing the Herculean task of getting these all shipped.

I have my criticisms of the Democratic Party and its hackneyed version of identity politics but ‘HR Dem ladies’ is just the Longhouse for men who want to think they’re too enlightened for it

JD Vance who can’t be bothered to go to church has this man’s blood on his hands and though he acts like he doesn’t believe in it he will be judged for this in the next life

Every defence of the tattoo and everything else he did was “he’s a barely sentient amoeba of a life form with no understanding of anything, therefore he should be a US Senator”

god between Vance's attempt at "Christian" political thought and Platner's record, what a day of shitty men

Rod has already fled back to the States, Birmingham specially, so I am curious how he's making his money now.

People (or maybe this was all one person) said they liked Platner because he wasn't "smoothgroined" and he was fighting back against HR ladies, and now are like aw man, I didn't know he was a rapist. Yes you did. That's what you liked about him.

Yall I hate to sound like a woke smug liberal but good politics dont mean shit if you're not intersectional Once I found out about the tattoo, I hated him. And my ass from back then knew something like this would happen

This is the heart of the reactionary movement. Take things created in the 19th century but insist they are actually ancient and thus have always been there & must be kept the same.

Even if someone has admitted they did wrong things in their past and made amends that doesn't mean they should be put in a position of power. People seem to think that wanting power somehow makes one entitled to that power when in fact we should be wary of people who want power.

[buys shares in red lobster on robinhood and puts on a plaid flannel] i'm a lobsterman

the word "oysterman" is a psyop. what the fuck is an oysterman. he's a veteran/former mercenary who lives on disability checks and sells oysters predominantly to his mom

Platner stans should have gotten a tattoo of Platner like Roger Stone got one of Nixon.

This is going to be the response to everything. Any criticism must be coordinated by (((out-of-state establishment operatives))) that he happened to have dated not too long ago

This is what happens when class becomes vibes & aesthetics instead of material realities & actual commitment to organizing and solidarity.

Also, if he went to an upstanding parlor they would have told him about the Nazi tattoo & offered to cover it up. Which means either he knew or he was going to the type of parlors that don't mind Nazi ink, neither of those is good.

Huh, Nazi tattoo man bad, who'd thought?

fetterman me once,

Look at what they did to our national phallus monument to a white slave owner, how dare they

Lefebvrite's (SSPX) treated the Catholic faith like they're cosplaying at a Renaissance Faire

1) This is probably not true 2) It is the best way to honor his legacy

This is also the house in the neighborhood that parks their cars on the yard and when it snows never shovels their sidewalk (which is along the route to the neighborhood grocery store & pharmacy)