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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. It doesn’t have to be that one either. I really like this one: Or for the Catholics and Catholic-adjacent: Watts on Chesterton
  2. Make your time
  3. You should listen to that lecture on Hinduism I posted. And for that matter read the pope’s essays. Being happy can be your religion. Looking at the stars and being a good person can be your religion. Tat tvam asi, my brother.
  4. How about this: “Republicans are destroying your country and making you poor. vote for us if you want more and safe streets”
  5. Yup. I hate that branding, “moderate”. As if what we needed was compromise between competing elite factions instead of smashing them. It stinks like fear and pee. And while I like a lot about that book and what him and Derek Thompson are doing, San Francisco is just a terrible example, because it’s so sui generis. Every other big city with the same problems looks like it has shit together when you compare it to San Francisco- hell Ezra Klein praises Austin on housing, which is utter nonsense until the last 2 years. He’s just looking at MSA data, and what that is really telling him is not that Austin is doing a great job, but that it has sprawling suburbs in places where San Francisco has seawater.
  6. Close but that’s not moderate. The moderate position is to placate progressive maxis with carveouts and set asides and limitations and covenants until they buy in, which makes the housing less abundant and solves less of the problem, which is a shortage of housing. What you described as moderate is closer to the liberal position, which is: “we should allow the market to respond to the demand for housing. Fuck tankies and their bullshit. Their daddies pay their rent.”
  7. I celebrate a grab bag of good ideas and abhor a grab bag of bad ones. The problem with ideologues is that their ideas are systematic, and they are very concerned with why you have them and what other views you are allowed to have, and what boxes have to be checked along the way and so on. And Ideological maximalists generally don’t like the idea of getting anything they want unless they get everything they want. You see this with housing in big cities all the time- everyone agrees we have a shortage but progressive left maxis will actively oppose allowing any because developers will make money and they don’t want the housing without fixing the systemic inequities of capitalism.
  8. No offense meant, but have you considered that you might be an ideologue? Maybe that’s why it doesn’t make sense. No. Progressivism is absolutely a very real and coherent belief system. And there’s nothing inherently wrong or offensive about it, it’s just not useful for winning popularity quadrennial or biennial national popularity contests.
  9. I hope- smoke inhalation can cause ARDS, which can call for an induced coma to facilitate healing. A complete recovery from ARDS is often difficult to achieve. I hope the kid recovers enough to live a fulfilling life. Anything beyond that is a huge bonus.
  10. Dan Bongino chooses his security detail
  11. Ideas are ideas. Ideologies are cargo cults.
  12. “Moderates” are also ideologues and are therefore stupid likewise, just less so. People got mad a few years ago when I put this on Hornfans, but essentially, people vote Republican because they believe stuff and vote Democrat because they want stuff. Donald Trump was effective carving off Democrat voters by speaking to that impulse at the same time Democrats forgot who their customers are. Democrats consistently win when they choose ideas and objectives over ideology. There’s nothing moderate or centrist about it.
  13. Wait hold up- Macho Man Don Banglobo isn’t qualified to carry? What a pussy.
  14. Democrats should listen closely to what progressive maximalists want, and then do the opposite of that.
  15. I regret to inform you that the algorithm thinks you are a moron.
  16. Maybe this is a Hindu perspective, but I’m not sure what the distinction is between “religion” and “other aspects of life” is supposed to be. The Church is not The Faith. Like what? Well, that’s the thing about Christianity. JC comes along and gives people something very difficult to do, but so simple and straightforward you could fit the directions on a postcard, and his admirers spend the next 2000 years fucking it up.
  17. Btw- again, I realize that a fifty year old lecture about Hinduism and a book of short essays by the pope on happiness may seem like a weird combination but trust me on this one.
  18. YES. @Clintonaldo, I’d like to recommend a couple of things. They are wildly different, but may point you towards a place to start 1) Listen to some Alan Watts. Here’s one example. 2) Read Pope Francis’s book, Happiness in this Life https://a.co/d/epDR2kY
  19. And now, from what only an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissue, I give you a cultured, sophisticated man-about-town.
  20. I heard all the talking heads reacting to this, and I’m confused about why it’s news. The White House has been begging China for a meeting for weeks to no avail. They walked Trump into this situation. They aren’t going to walk him out.
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