Kevin Young Propagandist

Case in point is Israel, which has a very low threshold to get into the Knesset, meaning that Netanyahu is beholden to tiny hard-right parties to stay in power.

"two party system bad" is a brainworm that, if left untreated, will eventually metastasize into making you think a 37 party system, where 33 of them are some flavor of fascist, is still better because it's More Representation.

I will reserve judgment until both Israel and Hamas actually abide by the deal, which I find manifestly unlikely.

me and the lads (gender neutral) on our way to enforce the will of the Bishop of Rome by any means necessary (we are going to Costco to get water bottles for border crossers and then we're going to find translators & community resources for them)

Frankly, most conservative Catholics are just right-wing evangelicals who like the aesthetic. They might not even formally change religions. They aren't THAT concerned about their spiritual condition.

This shutdown is utterly unique in US political history in that it essentially stems entirely from the House majority's total inability to do anything but run in circles trying to satisfy the whims of an unstable, incompetent, self-obsessed president. It doesn't obey normal political rules.

I can't think of a reason for the entire core of DOGE to be spared life without parole.

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

Hey, look at that, the NBA did something unequivocally right! Miracles do happen!

I genuinely think that most in the chain of command are terrified of another Kent State. That doesn't mean individual soldiers won't cause harm, but I still believe that the percentage of command staff willing to carry out orders to harm American civilians is likely small.

I would also appreciate if media sources covering these events would simply and plainly state the clear and obvious truth that these deployments violate federal law, which is something virtually none of them have done.

Chalk up another point for this administration being incapable of consolidating power. ICE in its current state is utterly unfit to operate a police state.

2025 is NOT the year for this

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

University general counsel, university trustee, university president

Army, Marines, Air Force

As an aside, we'd dang well better hope that either Trump lives out his term or the entire administration is removed from office wholesale, because unlike Trump, who is mostly in this for his own benefit, Vance actively listens to freaks like Yarvin and wants to implement their agenda.

It continues to blow me away that Yarvin, a well-educated citizen of the most powerful nation in human history, is so hateful towards anyone who believes differently from him that he wants to cut off every source of his nation's power and turn it into a Pinochet-style failed state to own the libs.

These people don't even themselves believe that they're capable of consolidating power lol

People want antifascism to be both as broad as literally anyone who is against fascism and also a principally egalitarian movement with progressive goals and you just can’t have both. Many antifascists are despicable bigots whose bigotry is just still not fascism.

The thing about Christianity is that what you get out is in direct proportion to what you put in. And some of these people want life-altering spiritual benefits while doing absolutely nothing to work for them.

These be thy gods, O Israel

I think we should establish an understanding in the United States that if you order the military to carry out a lethal strike against something that is not an imminent threat without congressional authorization, what you did was murder and the entire chain of command is guilty.

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball

54 yard middle screen.

BYU 14 - 0

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I don't know who Jay is, and at this point, I'm afraid to ask.

Also, Eastern Orthodoxy's authority claim is basically just that there was nothing particularly special about the See of Rome (at least relative to Constantinople). It still had a fully fleshed-out hierarchical structure that made additional schisms somewhat less likely.

3. "The leaders of the other group are illegitimate" - which either falls apart on authority grounds (who put you in charge of determining legitimacy?) or because someone else does the same thing to you, or both.

Your choices are as follows:

1. "God told me to do something else" - which falls apart as it becomes clear that the schism does not, in fact, have some kind of mystical divine favor

2. "Authority doesn't actually matter" - which just leaves the door open for anyone in your schism to re-schism

Though it's not as true among evangelicals, who mostly reject the concept of ecclesiastical authority writ large, one of the contributing factors for other groups is that schisming almost always involves rejecting the authority claims of the original body, which leaves the schismatics directionless.