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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.


				
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.



				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 11, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm hopeful, but I can't stop laughing at putting two executives in charge of the new department in charge of reducing redundancy. Given that both are presumably running other actual businesses, there will probably also be an acting leader or chief of staff who runs DOGE on the day to day.


This is going to be an adventure.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 11, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I think there’s some subset of people who at least unconsciously want these bizarre nightmare 1984 and literally Hitler and handmaid fantasies to be real. I say that because most of the people doing this seem to have similar profiles: almost invariably white, upper middle class, professional, college educated, and highly likely to be female as well. Which if you’re keeping track, is the one demographic, that even if the absolute worst nightmare scenario happens is going to be affected the least.




This would be pretty parallel to the (extremely) male fantasy of the zombie apocalypse, Red Dawn, preppers, etc. Disproportionately fantasies held by men who are wealthy and/or secure.


The fantasy in both cases being the suspension of ordinary life and moral responsibilities. I have friends who are panicking about Trump and "how can I bring a child into a world like this?" This neatly solves all the doubts or fears one might have about having or not having children. Similarly, "I have to kill everyone else before they kill me" solves the problem of one's inability to get along with others, and the sudden disappearance of existing hierarchies solves the problem of why one finds oneself at the bottom of them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 4, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Idk to me the whole thing seems like a wash. Dude tried to fuck a 16yo, a hazardous occupation even if it is technically legal.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 4, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-laden-letters-al-qaeda-leader-frustrated/story?id=16268578




They are not to target visits by U.S. Vice President Biden, Secretary of Defense Gates, Joints Chiefs of Staff [Chairman] Mullen, or the Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Holbrooke," wrote bin Laden. "The groups will remain on the lookout for Obama or Petraeus." "The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis." "As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war's path."




Obviously Osama could be wrong in his judgment, but then so can the leadership in Iran. It's an insight into an opponents thinking.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 4, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
First of all, always remember that Osama Bin Laden specifically ordered AQ forces to never assassinate Biden, because he was incompetent and a net negative if left in change.


Second, the US Gov has a strong incentive right now to be seen catching Trump assassination plots. Every announced plot thwarted increases their percentage, given that 1.5 got pretty close to success without government intervention.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for November 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I heard The Band cover of Atlantic City today in the car and it got me thinking, why did people stop doing covers? When did the cover begin to be treated as kind of corny and second tier? Is it just a Rockist thing where everyone has to kinda pretend to write their own stuff? When did the Great American Songbook go out of the mainstream as a concept? Was there any conflict over the way it faded out? Were there any efforts to revive the concept in a new form?


I don't think musicians do enough covers anymore. Fast Car performed by Luke Combs was the last one I can recall being a true hit, and there was significant attempt to delegitimize it as a performance by certain parts of the music media. And I have to wonder how we got there. Because honestly, I'd love to hear talented older performers do cover albums of new standards. I want Jay-Z doing a full album of classic Hip Hop, or Ke$ha doing 90s bubblegum pop.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for November 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I still don't understand how the absolute banger Hot To Go wound up being used in a TARGET ad. HOW DID LITTLE CAESARS NOT COWBOY UP WITH THE CASH TO GET IT?!


I love Chappell Roan, unironically. My Kink is Karma is one of the best joke songs I've heard in a while, Hot to Go and Red Wine Supernova are great workout songs. She's killing it right now. The dislike of her really confuses me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for November 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hang out with girls, or at the gym.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It doesn't help if you never discuss it. Steel Manning her position here: she wouldn't have reached that level of intimacy had she known up front, there was an element of fraud to the proceedings.


Divorcing my wife because she fell into debt is very different from deciding not to marry her because she revealed she revealed to me late in our engagement that she'd been in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt all along, even if both could be described as "Making marriage decisions on the basis of money."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Come on dude, I expect better from you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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White already expanded to take in Italians. It can't get any worse than that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Anything you do is part of you in that "not doing x" isn't part of you.


I did drag for a Halloween costume once.  I wouldn't say that makes me a drag queen or a cross dresser.


But it does mean I'm not the kind of guy who would never do that. Such a person exists, a guy who would never put on a skirt and makeup, and we are different.


In the same way, voting for Trump "that time" doesn't define your whole personality. But it does mean you aren't a person who would never vote for Trump, which is a piece of information about you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Trying to answer Kamala's VORC is just a question of how fucked you thought Democrats were the moment Biden dropped out.


If you think Trump was always going to win and is a generationally talented political leader, you might say she didn't do that bad. If you think Trump is a bad candidate, she must be an ever worse candidate.


By my own metrics, she failed to hold the popular vote. That's a major failure for the Dems from a marketing perspective, and represents a bad candidate underperforming expectations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Me IRL


You absolutely should not lie to her about it. If she cares about politics more than she cares about you, it's not gonna work. When you're in love, politics don't matter. When she's really into you, your disgusting politics will be at worst a charming and amusing idiosyncrasy, never a fatal one. As the saying goes: "if she's still a feminist with you, you're not the guy."


That said, there are more and less attractive presentations of the same politics, and different sets of politics which cash out to the same voting patterns. An intelligent, reasoned, lived-experience-based argument for why you vote the way you do will get you further than just the bare fact that you voted for Trump, or a negative or tribal logic for your vote. If she is attracted to you, she wants to make excuses for you, give her one and she'll spin the rest out herself.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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The powers that be, or the producers of The Bachelor. Depending on context.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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The election has caused me to update against the election theft theories more or less completely. It requires an extremely specific and absurdly narrow theory of the case for TPTB to have the ability and will to steal 2020 but not 2024 (or 2016), particularly when 2024 is clearly more important. No one really did anything to change the voting environment, no one was jailed or prosecuted for voter fraud, so they just decided not to do it this year? Unserious theory at this point.


While such a theory exists, I've never seen anyone propose it, so even if they started to I'd call it Texas Sharpshooter energy and move on.


Trump winning is proof that democracy works.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Harbaugh said it best "Like Moses, I'm going to die leaning on my staff"


Trump is not physically capable of actually forcing most of those policies through, he will rely on others to do the work for him, from the Cabinet on down. So the question is, who can he bring in who can and will implement these policies, while avoiding the Trumpian tendency to fire or marginalize or mock his own people? I don't actually know.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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It really doesn't in this case. Inflation was very heavily tied to a handful of goods, particularly housing and briefly transportation along with services, while barely touching other goods like consumer electronics or clothing. And wage increases were very concentrated in a handful of jobs, rather than being spread evenly, with union jobs seeing 50% pay increases and non-union government jobs going unfilled or poorly filled because the salaries became uncompetitive.


Someone who worked in a field where pay scaled with inflation quickly, and who owned a house and car which they still own, did pretty well, even if groceries or McDonald's got more expensive. Someone in a similar social class who happened to work as an admin in a government department and needed to buy a house and a car in the last four years, got fucked.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I generally believe that the most important aspect of biblical end times prophecy is the specific statement in Matthew 24:36 that no one knows when it will happen. So I'm generally of the opinion that we won't be able to interpret these prophecies except in retrospect.


Obviously there's meta concerns but I'll just ignore those.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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My buddy's weird pastor was telling me the other day over beers that based on his reading of biblical text Trump is the prophesied antichrist ushering in the end times.


On the one hand the end times are god's will, so both pointless and bad to oppose. But on the other, the antichrist is bad and should be opposed, right?


So assuming Trump is the antichrist, should a prophetically inclined Christian prefer to have voted for or against him?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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The split by age wasn't as large, and Florida has gotten older over time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Less sinister explanation: retirees move to Florida, vote red there and not in their home states, making Florida redder and NY/NJ bluer.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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No but others tinge the likely political outcomes and I wanted to keep it clean.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Procedural question: what happens in the case of the death of both a President-Elect and VP-Elect before inauguration?


Harris wins, but both Harris and Walz die after taking fentanyl tainted drugs at the after-party. Who becomes president?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I voted against Kenyatta due to personal antipathy towards him.


I voted for Sunday, just seems like the right type for AG.


McCormick is, to me, like a frustrating pitching prospect with a huge fastball who just never finds his command. He should be so much better than he is, but he never gets there. Maybe he was right about how to campaign and will win, then govern as the fantasy McCormick I imagine him to be in real life. Or maybe he is this finger-in-the-wind empty suit when he gets there. Hard to say.