hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
In American small towns, large plots outside of town, or planned exurban communities, are the prestige options for housing. Living inside the town is generally less desirable.
If he's Catholic why can't his kids be homeschooled and make friends at church?
Because he doesn't get along with normie tradcaths, they think he's a deadbeat for making his wife and baby live in a shack with no central heating and eat roadkill while he doesn't have a normal job. And in upstate New York, those are the only Catholic children around- there are of course novus ordo parishes to go to, but their congregations, like everyone else up there, are dying of old age. The other tribes of observant Catholics are, like most other people under seventy, not present in upstate New York.
There's also a few of the screwier sedevacantist groups in the general vicinity but they come with their own weird lifestyles that are unlikely to overlap with Hickman's.
Or St. Mary's the tradcath Mecca.
St Mary's is not a tradcath Mecca. It is a funny farm where the SSPX stables its more embarrassing lay affiliates.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Most 80/20 issues are wins for Republicans.
Most, but right now one of the most salient is datacenters, which democrats win on by being reliably anti-growth.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The pamphlet I got had a return address on it of a private house in a suburb of Houston republicans win by double digits- hardly where a real left wing advocacy group would be headquartered(which might be Houston proper, but certainly would not be this cookie cutter suburb).
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
This is in Texas. Trans ideology is illegal in government schools.
Now that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but it does mean that at a government policy level, the sort of thing that might be changed by a single election(and if democrats win a trifecta in Texas then they've probably also won the power to override vetos in the federal government and will simply pass whatever they want) is a thing that the reds have decisively won.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
If those issues are so unimportant, then why don’t you just… give them up?
Because Dem primary voters aren't just out of step with the country as a whole. They're out of step with democrats as a whole.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Hmm. I got a pamphlet from them mixed into a bunch of political mail that 100% knows I'm a republican(one a flyer for my republican house member, one a Greg Abbot flyer, one a handwritten-by-machine letter from Ken Paxton's daughter, and one a Talarico add by a 'lifelong republican' crossover voter. Being a high propensity voter in Tarrant county right now is a great way to be deluged with political spam through all media). Let me dig it out of the trash and open it...
Return address is a private house in Houston. It signs off with 'You don't need to have everything figured out. You don't have to know whether you're definitely trans. You don't have to decide about hormones or surgery right now. You don't have to convince your parents. Your job right now is to stay safe, find people who will listen to you, and give yourself time to figure out who you are. There are other kids in Texas going through this too- and there are adults whose actual job is to help you. Even if your family doesn't accept you as you are, groups like these are ready to become your found family.' The entire pamphlet is clearly addressed to minors becoming trans against their parent's knowledge or consent. It was addressed to 'students of the (my family name)household' and very clearly labeled as 'Texas trans and LGBTQ+ student resource guide'.
Uh, guys, I think this is a false flag sent out to rile up republican voters. And I say that as a Ken Paxton donor.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In 2018-2019 there started being large contingents of extremely online young male converts. They didn't fit in very well. Pre-Pope Francis traditional Catholicism, as a movement, had no answer at all; the expectation was that men were in religious life, or else heads of families, with some minor allowance for twenty year olds that were still in college/working on being ready to marry providing that they were connected to an existing large traditionalist family. This was cliquish and unhealthy, but traditional Catholics are not immune to psychotic brainworms. The newcomers often rubbed the locals the wrong way, of course- several got yelled at for hitting on teenagers(in fairness, the teenaged girl/young woman distinction is, uh, not one rad trads are particularly insistent on in other contexts, and is probably not quite as obvious), they were often vulgar by local standards, many were motivated more by political conservatism than the classic motives for traditional Catholics- which are either completely sincere religious motivations, a genuine belief in large families(the average age in IRL rad trad communities is generally middle school, not middle aged... very high fertility rates are part of the program), or moral puritanism- and some didn't seem to realize that they are attempting to join a religion which prides itself on inventing the term 'dogma'. In 2020 this existing tension just kind of blew up into irrelevancy with the sudden influx of... everyone who didn't like their diocese's covid policy(and subsequent growth for the surviving latin masses after TC). The stereotypical tweed and pipesmoke image just generally took a while to integrate newcomers, and while the fourchan types were disproportionately blamed there was lots of frustrations with everyone else too.
The online trad-cath-o-sphere? What do you mean by that? Like Dr Taylor Marshall and lifesitenews have plenty of detractors on the basis of spreading ridiculous conspiracy theories and platforming churchbashing. Taylor Marshall is a nice enough guy in real life, of course, but lots of people who like him as a person and don't even particularly disagree with him would criticize his podcast as Not Helping. Tradcath twitter has the distinction between Nazis who don't believe any Catholic doctrine or go to mass but like the aesthetics and IRL rad trad twitter, both have their critics but the typical IRL rad trad literally doesn't know about the former- they think the complaint about awful rad trads on twitter is, like, the Dimond brothers, and complaints about 'traditional Catholicism as cover for racism' is just libs using their favorite R-word.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes there are.
You will, however, not be impressed by those women.
There's always Louise Perry's theory that it's caused by the degeneration of gender roles in ways that specifically make the experience of being a young woman high stress(in the mind of an adolescent girl). I think her data did show some correlations with family attitude towards gender roles.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The boys and girls boy scout troops are totally segregated by boy scout policy... for exactly that reason.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Latin Mass growth post 2005 was not primarily driven by online spaces, it was driven by changes in canon law and existing IRL networks which later had a large online component mostly by tapping into the backlash to pope Francis and later to demand for covid-unconcerned Catholic networks. I was there for much of this and the incorporation of the online component was hugely controversial.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Hickman doesn't get along well with other tradcaths because his philosophical positions, uh, don't come off well, and tradcaths are used to frighteningly extreme entryists no one wants to be around. He could move to St Mary's(the SSPX's quarantine village for their in house crazies). Hickman wants his particular going your own way thing, but he's not going to find a community built around it except maybe the Amish.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
FtM or MtF transgenderism? These are meaningfully different things.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s called north woods or north haven or something. It was a client of a company I worked for a while back and one of the reasons I was assigned to their campus was because customers could see white people if they needed service while they were open. I was told by my supervisor that they didn’t allow nonwhites to join or women to join on their own.
The longshoreman’s Union may not technically have a ‘whites only’ policy, but it definitely engages in some discrimination to maintain an all-white workforce.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
College football is crowding out NFL fandom in every social circle I participate in. MMA and boxing are still reasonably popular among coworkers(with a very sharp income gradient; thé more money you make, thé more you like boxing- and like most trades workplaces, there’s a large pay difference between entry level guys and experienced ones). Hardcore sports fans around me are getting into MLS, keeping college ball, and dropping basketball entirely(this may vary by region). Texas A&M is the new cowboys as the default fandom.
Don’t get me wrong; I see evidence of cowboys fandom everywhere I go, as a generic corporate thing. But more ‘fandom’ tends to be for college sports.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
They literally exist. Many fraternities and unions are this in practice, a few country clubs maintain it as explicit policy, and of course there’s the hells angels.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
NFL players have a decent-ish IQ proxy on file and their intelligence varies by position quite a bit; QB’s mostly would be honor roll students if they’d studied(QB’s, of course, are expected to study football, not academic subjects), D-linemen would… not.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Really? Fraternities have been in the news again.
Social outcry is not the same thing as a legal barrier. In my metroplex one of the more prominent country clubs still requires that every member family be headed by a white male. Unions often have similar policies.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Technically, aren't most of these groups private clubs, who can be as discriminatory as they like? You can have your white men’s club just as much as you want(although dues are likely well beyond your price range).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because no one wants to join the Girl Scouts.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I’m certainly of thé impression that was true for the IRA- but Ian paisley was one of the more important unionist figures, wasn’t he?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah, we… don’t have those.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Something about French redditors being upset about videogame stores being terribly affected.
The created story is 'the trans believe X,Y,Z thing that horrifies the normies', which is indeed real.
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