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  1. You bring up a good point because it’s widely assumed you get more intolerant and conservative the older you get. Have you guys ever heard of irony poisoning? Sociologists think that is what happened online and what corrupted the youth over time.
  2. Id never heard of it. Quick google search shows the first video of a woman pastor. Your assessment checks out for a lot of the complementarisnism purists.
  3. I’d think the typical Baptist church or COC church would be more like that. From what I’ve seen, the non-denoms are drawing youth because it’s a compelling message (the Gospel of Jesus Christ) as unburdened by the baggage of Gen X and Boomer parents crap. it seems a more honest and organic growth than if these kids would have had the drug problem our generation had…. you know the drug problem— we were drug to church on Sundays as often as they could make us.
  4. I get you have a preconceived notion and that you seem to be emotionally invested in your point of view here, but I don’t think this checks out either. Unless it’s your claim all non-denominational Bible churches that play Modern Christian Music are “douche factories”
  5. Christianity is starting to make a comeback in the U.S. and other western countries, led by young people. Why it matters: A decades-long decline has stalled, shaping the future of Gen Z, the drivers of the religion revival. “We’ve seen the plateau of non-religion in America,” says Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University. “Gen Z is not that much less religious than their parents, and that’s a big deal.” By the numbers: Data from Pew shows that, for decades, each age group has been less Christian than the one before it. Americans born in the 1970s are 63% Christian. 1980s babies are 53% Christian, and 1990s babies are 46% Christian. But there was no decline from the 1990s to the 2000s. Americans born in the 2000s are also 46% Christian. Stunning stat: Gen Z-ers — especially Gen Z men — are actually more likely to attend weekly religious services than millennials and even some younger Gen X-ers, Burge’s analysis shows. Between the lines: Young men are leading American’s religion resurgence. Within older generations, there’s a consistent gender gap among Christians, with women more likely to be religious than men. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/10/religious-young-people-christianity-rise
  6. This is an interesting read. At one point we did rally together as a globe. The article seems to suggest Climate as happy coming together of countries was actually the result of being bored and in-between a generational, purposeful war: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/magazine/climate-politics-us-world-paris-agreement.html
  7. This climate thing is just too hard
  8. I actually thought I heard just yesterday that it's the opposite, young people are rebounding the numbers (Gen Z, etc.)
  9. Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, and Biden. Know something these US presidents all have in common? eta, I'll spoil the answer:
  10. Understood. Sucks immamac/BurntEnds had to be collateral damage to the general UT machine having to, as you said, go with the flow on a lot of things as a state institution.
  11. What does this mean? UT or Texas Football has run afoul and is licking a boot on this issue or is there a specific thing I'm missing or are you talking about just generally UT is going along to get along and go with the flow and trying to not upset the applecart which is morally wrong?
  12. eytomologically speaking, where do we think that the youths and genz/a got the word 'Fit when describing what they wear and when prompting a "'fit check"?
  13. The OP's name is Thicc OwO or whatever that weird subculture language that the shooter was into I think.
  14. Will the tattoo-induced measels eventually ill or is that just like that guys lot in life to have that skin.
  15. That's a courtyard by marriott if I've ever seen one and I'm Lifetime Titanium. Nobody has those snakey reading lights in their homes.
  16. Same. I have a colleague in the Miami suburbs who partakes quite casually and he said for years the testing kits were just part of the standard process, even out in clubs. But beyond that, I think there has been a general lack of....call it, top of the funnel pipeline...of net new addicts on fentanyl which is why the numbers are down. The addicts that want it will get it, but it's lost the vibe among young and new addicts for other things, it seems. The article makes the point that the crackdowns from years ago (as well as the Purdue/McK/lawsuits) are also finally showing their delayed effect in outcomes. All to say, it's actually great news for Americans and deaths, but again it's the Drug King who wins. In the article that is El Senor Mencho (new nickname for a drug pin unlocked for me).
  17. Read this today and thought it was interesting on a couple of levels. It does seem that there has been a shift in the zeigeist away from a drug that will literally kill you the first time you take it (Fent) and more to the party drugs you can do for decades and not die, from unofficial vibey "feel" of social circles. I had a 60+ year old healthcare executive tell me he did some bumps the other day in Manhattan. Yes, my mind was blown. Anyways, and further, it's interesting that 60-75 a gram is cheap. Back in my day that was the price of a ball. Life passes by fast. LINK
  18. 100% this. And I think, much to the benefit of everyone involved, people are starting to wake up to the reality of "what is" and meeting the situation where it actually is, versus living in the ivory tower of the "ought" and hand-wringing on how bad everyone is in theory and if they'd just wake up and see things our way, then we'd live in harmony. It's about growing a backbone and a stomach for a fight. Which is why Newsom is going to be the man in 28. (I'll take it to the Newsom thread now lol)
  19. This is exactly right. That is why to my previous post, when Covid-19 happened and ruined their lives initially, there was a change. I think an AI bubble pop to the economy will be another similiar change agent to usher in D's for 2028.
  20. I think that, much like Covid-19 was a huge event that threw MAGA's best laid plans off course, the thing that likely ushers in Newsom in 2028 is the AI bubble pop and the big recession/depression that follows. That's the likely trajectory and hope. Right now AI-powered stock market is the only thing keeping most non-liberal (center-left/center all the way to the far reaches of the alt-right) from caring too much about the near daily erosions of the republic.
  21. you mean doesn't like?
  22. Another post of stolen valor from Charlie Strong.
  23. The Cartoon Villain's Guide to Killing Climate Action Why the DOE Climate Working Group report process is so opaque Andrew Dessler spoilered becasue it's long, but worth a read: --
  24. The difference between Marcello and Bad Bunny picture meme. They are the same picture.
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