Classics & Virtues

It’s important to note that when someone talks about “Meme warfare”, the right wing “warriors” are mostly astroturfed or foreign accounts duping MAGA and pundits who think America politics boils down to their X feed

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

Trump in his RNC speech said “Inflation is a country buster. You can go back to Germany from a hundred years ago.”

He cast himself as that which comes after Weimar.

Yes, everything cannot be mapped onto 1920/30s Germany but when they choose to frame it that way themselves…

You can really tell these people are serious about crime because the guy to Sortor’s right committed voter fraud in Pennsylvania

Live look of everyone who made free speech their pet issue over the last decade:

You can take the reporter out of the Daily Caller but you can’t take the Daily Caller out of the reporter

Edward Feser reposted Eric Sammons This is what we need in a pope, particularly after Francis: prudence and reserve. More of this, please!

Michael Knowles: Papa-panicans, so quick to freak out over an innocuous blessing of ice, are uncharacteristically silent when the Pope rebuffs a journalist's plea to criticize President Trump.

But at least they had a good 24 hours of copium, thinking the Pope would take it easy on MAGA:

It’s genuinely mind-numbing that people thought they shamed Leo into being quiet about this. He’s the Pope and Tradition is on his side when it comes to the humane treatment of migrants

People have a hard time seeing Trump as a fascist because of his bumbling idiocy (as if you have to be good at it to truly have fascistic ambitions) but I don’t see how you can hear the things this guy says and does and come away thinking he isn’t a fascist

People have a hard time seeing Trump as a fascist because of his bumbling idiocy (as if you have to be good at it to truly have fascistic ambitions) but I don’t see how you can hear the things this guy says and does and come away thinking he isn’t a fascist

If you’re curious how MAGA will react if evidence comes out proving Trump raped minors, here’s a preview:

Having Blake Treinen balances out the good/evil scale though lol

She would be horrified but not surprised at how social media has exacerbated divisions

The public realm, as the common world, gathers us together and yet prevents our falling over each other. ... What makes mass society so difficult to bear is not the number of people involved, or at least not primarily, but the fact that the world between them has lost its power to gather them together, to relate and to separate them. The weirdness of this situation resembles a spiritualistic seance where a number of people gathered around a table might suddenly, by some magic trick, see the table vanish from their midst, so that two persons sitting opposite to each other were no longer separated but would be entirely unrelated by anything concrete.

Hannah Arendt, in ‘The Human Condition’, on the what we lose when we lose the power of the public realm:

If you’re going to confuse the city of man with the city of God, you’re going to need some grace to save you, so going full Pelagian is definitely a choice

Pelagian Nationalism is kinda wild

Good point!

A lot of people who hate Jason Isbell & The Drive By Truckers for their explicit progressive politics love Zach Bryan (Navy Veteran who isn’t explicit about his politics), so I’m sure there will be some backlash. But it may say something about how the ICE stories/images are turning off normies

The same guy who tweeted this is making anti-ICE music. Vibe shift?

I remember first hearing about it… in a church… from a pastor

And if you'd never come for me (Come for me) I might've lingered in purgatory You wrap around me like a chain (A chain), a crown (A crown), a vine (A vine) Pulling me into the fire

Taylor Swift has entered the “Shakespeare’s religion” debate, and she has landed on the side of Shakespeare as crypto-catholic, highlighting the doctrine of purgatory in Hamlet:

Not surprising. Many such cases of this type of childish and petty reasoning. Even voting is an ego trip for these types

“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”-Tony Hinchcliffe, Madison Square Garden Trump Rally October 2024

It was just a joke though, guys… relax…

"I get a call from the liberal governor, 'Sir, please don't come in. We don't need you.' I said, 'well, unless they're playing false tapes. This looked like World War II. Your place is burning down," Trump said.

It’s pretty wild that there’s a non zero chance that Trump’s team is showing him AI videos of cities burning down:

Gave $75 Billion to ICE to physically and emotionally abuse immigrants though

The guy who literally made the StopTheSteal hashtag go viral…

There has never been a more appropriate “If I had a nickel every time…” moment than this

Just a couple days ago, people (including believers) were angry at the Pope for rebuking the US for how it treats immigrants. But we have more to fear than words, if we keep up our Sodom and Gomorrah act

Agree, that was the point of my post