hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I maintain a fan theory that Vance will take the throne by assassination after the midterms, diadochos-style. Does that make you feel better?
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
You really think Minnesota is more of a hotspot of illegal immigrants than, say, Texas?
Texas has deported more people than Minnesota, it just sends in the state troopers to beat up annoying lefty protestors instead of letting ICE handle it themselves.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
but it doesn't have that much on the Republican side in the age of the Trump Cult.
Or the democrat side. Biden sat pretty far outside the post-watergate norm for domestic policy pressures, and the unwillingness to acknowledge that is a major reason that stasis is unfixable. Cultural republicans have rights, and if we have to choose us or you to be oppressed, guess what we pick.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
The Mexican military is an ill-disciplined conscript army that loses half its members every year to desertion- the largest part of which is literally just cartels promising better food to soldiers that join already trained.
Mexican marines do the actual cartel fighting- masked and deployed away from their hometowns. They face reprisals but also are literally operating outside of civilian control; the reason they fight the cartels rather than the army is because the cartels have too much influence over the government for forces under full civilian control to be used against them(also, the whole 'half the army leaves to join the cartels for better food every year' thing).
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
It seems to me that the reasonable compromise is for ICE agents to have clearly identifiable and displayed badges.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Pro-life direct action(entering abortion clinics to be enough of a nuisance to stop operations without actually hurting anyone) prefers the term 'activist'. Perhaps a polite euphemism, but more accurate than 'terrorist', which should be reserved for people who actually get violent.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Or the government shuts down and Trump just shifts funding around, illegally, to keep his priorities going. You know, like he has a propensity to do.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
SSPX consecrating new bishops
I'm posting in transnational Thursday because Vatican inside baseball.
On Monday, the SSPX superior general announced in a homily given at their French seminary the intention to consecrate new bishops on July 1st(https://sspx.org/en/publications/sspx-announces-future-episcopal-consecrations-57012). Rumours had been swirling for years of new bishops in the near future, with some evidence(often leaked documents discussing the possibility) usually provided, and their public communications arm running stronger-than-normal defenses of the first ordinations, at Econe in 1988. Those rumours had sprung into overdrive following the deaths of two SSPX bishops over the past few years.
As a 'why now', it must be mentioned that although the two SSPX bishops are old by tradcath standards, they are quite young by RCC cleric standards; at 68 and 67 they are several years away from the normal retirement age and over a decade from the mandatory retirement age. This decision had no doubt been a while in the making, but from a personnel replacement standpoint it would not be viewed as necessary, at least not right now. What probably does drive an accelerated timetable is the current head of the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith(DDF, formerly known as the inquisition- and responsible for addressing crises of this nature), Victor 'Tucho' Cardinal Fernandez, referred to by his many enemies as 'Cardinal Kissyface' after one of his more ridiculous scandals. He is an isolated and... controversial pope Francis appointee who is widely viewed as incompetent and the prospect of having him botch the handling of the situation could either create sympathy or simply allow them to outline granting permissions in exchange for token concessions as the easiest way for pope Leo to handle it. And this poor opinion of Cardinal Fernandez is not due to my trad bubble; prior to his appointment his predecessors- both conservative and moderate liberal- had maintained a dossier on the reasons not to let him climb any higher in the church hierarchy. Cardinal Fernandez cannot make a unilateral decision, but he is the bureaucrat to whom everything else will be delegated. It should also be noted that pope Francis left a lot of people in senior positions in the RCC feeling very alienated and scandalized, and that moving before the wounds heal is one way to avoid the universal condemnation of 1988.
The SSPX, in a press release later this week, claims that the 2019 declaration on religious liberty signed by pope Francis at Abu Dhabi represents a grave enough situation to justify the ordination of bishops without canonical permission; it's worth noting that this happened seven years ago, and that some level of discussion on new ordinations had been going on, with seemingly very little having been actually said, for years at this point. Setting a date for the thing is a typical society negotiating tactic and stalling is a typical Vatican one, as well.
Functionally no progress on a permanent deal for regularization had been ongoing since the Abu Dhabi declaration but this is mostly due to Vatican-side church politics. The permanent deals outlined during the 2010's had always taken for granted that the SSPX would be permitted to ordain new bishops and generate their own turnus(a short list of (usually three)names submitted to the Vatican, one member of whom is recommended to the pope by the relevant department), so this is not a dealbreaker- if anything, it's probably an accelerant for talks. There is a confirmed meeting between the SSPX superior general and Cardinal Fernandez next Thursday, but the SSPX is pressing to deal with the pope directly. A rumour which I can't source, but trust the veracity of, says that the SSPX has four turnuses already drawn up. No doubt the implied threat is that, absent permissions for four specific men, all twelve will be consecrated a bishop; this is genuinely much worse from the Vatican's perspective than simply allowing the four most moderate names permission, and pope Leo knows that even if Cardinal Fernandez doesn't.
The only additional factor known at this time is China. In the PRC, like in most countries where Catholicism is illegal, there had long been tolerance for the underground church ordaining bishops without permissions. This changed with a Rome-China deal, in which the PRC government was allowed to pick bishops with agreement given from Rome before ordination, in exchange for lifting persecutions. The PRC has not upheld its end of the bargain, and the Vatican has accepted this. This... complicates condemnation of new SSPX bishops as schismatic, and their biggest enemies within the RCC are themselves an even bigger headache, particularly in Germany. For those two reasons, I believe the most likely scenario to be that Rome gives no permissions, but also does not condemn the ordinations after the fact, and declines to excommunicate the clergy involved(yes, the excommunications are automatic, but 'automatic excommunication' does not mean what you think it does- it means that the excommunication takes effect at the canon law equivalent of an indictment, not a conviction), with the consecrations not affecting much at all.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes. Waffle house is rowdy and... odd, but fights turning into all out brawls is genuinely rare.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's likely even worse than the normal premium, because a big chunk of their workforce has a curfew, either due to parole/probation or being teenagers. If you're not making a profit being open, you're not making a profit being open- especially when you add increased electrical and gas(restaurant kitchens are electricity hogs when they're in operation), and staff getting more lightfingered(all cooks use the kitchen as their personal pantry when on the clock, all the time. Good restaurant management can minimize this or limit it to cheaper items, but not get rid of it- and that's leaving out waitstaff and cashiers pocketing money directly, and the hourly workers[again, mostly kitchen] stealing time when not being watched, etc) when less senior managers are watching them(more senior ones won't take night shift).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Probably, yeah, but isn’t it an older term than Cops?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are 100% people who, obviously, are not women and wish to be treated as such. They're called non-passing transgenders.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Fair, but the dem leadership is straight up saying they're going to defect again next time they're in power. They should stop having the house minority leader announce his intention to prosecute everyone who works for ICE as table stakes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The Biden admin really did step way outside the post-watergate norm for domestic policy in an escalatory manner. His war on domestic terror was mostly just political harassment of dissidents, the decision to open the borders was unprecedented, and the tech censorship coercion was way out of bounds.
Yes, Trump is somewhat unique. But he's not unique in being unique.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It would have been in 2005, I'm quite sure. I remember strong disapprovals of it in the early 2010s, at least, as well.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean it's worth noting that a 'wife beater' tank top undershirt in the US has, by repute, the same etymology- it's the garment of people who beat their wives(in this case explicitly class based- it has always been associated with people who can't afford air conditioning, for perhaps understandable reasons).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Your independent diners are being pinched by inflation(egg prices, in particular, and large wage increases for lower blue collar workers like cooks etc) and changing tastes, with the younger crowd often preferring fast casual food or less greasy meals. The logical business move is to reduce hours, and overnight is the fastest axe to fall. Remember, this is, except for waffle house, a full kitchen with a full kitchen staff, so it's expensive to pay $15+ per hour 24/7. You can find a normal diner pretty easily if you go at normal breakfast or lunch hours, but independent diners are mostly not open for dinner or overnight anymore.
Waffle house is special, because they serve a restricted(and much cheaper) menu, have a business model that relies on hiring the cheapest labour possible, and specialize in selling to drunks after the bars close. It has a reputation that... reflects that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Uh, we don't think this, though. The left is not united. In the Texas democrat senate primary they're in some hilariously petty beef over.... I don't even know, they're fighting on tiktok, I've only seen excerpts to make fun of it. Democrats fight each other over Israel, exactly how much rope to let the trans put around their neck, the progressive stack, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I make a mean venison boudin. Not kosher slaughtered, but it surely counts in spirit.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
'It' is the gender neutral singular third person pronoun in English. If xe was anything other than in fringe use I would use xe, but that is not the case- and 'it' is acceptable to use as reference towards small children, who are animate and agreed on as being people. The choice to take it as intentionally offensive rather than the default when sex-correct pronouns are renounced is a choice; one made by the trans community, but a choice nonetheless.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I do not like or accept the claim of 'gender identity' but if you are not a bastard then I suppose you very well know your father's gender identity.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Accepting the metaphysical claims of transgenderism is one of the few hard lines the RCC actually maintains in practice, on par with its stance on abortion. Even Fr James Martin SJ is very very careful not to use their language in describing transgenders, despite his powerful protectors and abundant scapegoats. You cannot construct a belief system that contains Catholicism and transgenderism at the same time any more than you could construct a belief system that contains Catholicism and disbelief in the real presence at the same time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But having long hair, as a man, would have been a Serious Statement until quite recently, and not one that you could have in a professional white collar job.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean the obvious answer is that the granny rule is nice, but if you can't do the paperwork(it seems very explicitly opt-in, or at least it is for the other Euro countries which have it) then you just have to go without nice things. There's lots and lots of people who miss out on nice things by not wanting to do paperwork; someone believing fan-fiction about gender doesn't make it a special case.
Well yes, that's what I meant. 'After the new congress is seated'.
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