NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I find no cognitive dissonance in my enjoying the fruits of the American Revolution while also condemning modern-day leftist revolutionaries that have so far only managed to hold a few blocks in Seattle for part of a summer.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
This makes me wonder where Israel/Palestine sympathies lie among YIMBY activists.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Just prior to the pandemic I was toying with the idea of investing in multi family rental properties.
Thank God I didn’t. Even with the pandemic moratoriums lifted, our county deliberately underfunds eviction courts so that they hear only six cases per day. Last week I read a story of a guy who owns a house but has to live in his van because he can’t expeditiously evict the non-paying assholes he was unfortunate enough to have as tenants.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Marxists have never been “in power” but somehow their violence is both forgiven and largely forgotten.
We can see this happening now. The press will be talking about Jan 6 for decades to come, but won’t mention the violence of the preceding summer save for the terrible injustice of the Rittenhouse acquittal.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
You’re going to have a much harder time achieving fire superiority with a fixed magazine bolt action rifle than with a detachable magazine semiautomatic.
With inferior firepower, you’ll need far more men to keep the enemy ducking instead of returning fire.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
This is a weird metric to focus on. Gun control measures tend to cause gun sales to spike, even as they restrict the citizen's ability to wage war.
Prior to our magazine ban going into effect I bought a bunch of magazines for guns I didn't even own, but might want to in the future.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
To some extent, "best-selling" is more about a pretty specific type of sales, rather than who's doing gangbusters, though I expect this isn't the biggest difference here. I don't even pretend to understand what drives mainstream (or conservative) purchasing. Separately, modern distribution policies have made book purchases less directly necessary to understand claims.
This is true of things like the NYT best-selling list. Perhaps Hanania or his publisher didn't want to pay the specialists who game the list.
Amazon's bestseller lists are based on aggregate sales though, and it's not doing well there either. In the narrow category of "cultural policy" it's currently ranked at #7. In the broad category of politics and social sciences it's not even in the top 100, ranking behind oldies like The King James Version of the Bible (#13), The Gift of Fear (#58), and Frankenstein (#80),
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
In Washington we had a judge rule that magazines aren’t firearms and so aren’t subject to Bruen.
Every time I see this kind of behavior I wonder if the judges reflect on the intended purpose of the second amendment and proceed to ignore the constitution anyway. A refreshing of the tree of liberty would surely swamp any possible deaths averted from magazine restrictions and assault weapons bans.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
It's not true that in the Jewish and Christian traditions the consequences of sin only take the form of massive spectacles, even if we look only to the Bible.
Cain killed his brother and was cursed to wander the earth and have bad crops.
King David raped the wife of one his most loyal men and then had that man killed to keep it covered up. His punishment was that the child produced by that rape would die.
Abraham violated his marriage by laying with Hagar, and the consequence was strife between Hagar and Sarah that eventually led to Abraham being separated from his and Hagar's son.
Jonah was reticent to convey God's prophecy and was punished by a storm at sea and a short stay in a whale.
Judas Iscariot betrayed God and committed suicide.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Only if they engage in sexual acts with one another, as all sex outside of marriage is sinful. Living together as, essentially, best friends, is not sinful. Living together and lusting after one another, even while not acting on that lust, would still be sinful, though. I think some would say that this living arrangement would qualify as Near Occasion of Sin and therefore ought to be avoided.
St. Paul wrote that celibacy was preferential to marriage, but that those who lack the temperament to remain celibate should marry.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I think you misunderstand the Christian faith, as if people stumbled upon the complete Bible and decided to form a religion around it. I guess that's forgivable since sola scriptura is so dominant in America, but it's at best an incomplete understanding.
The religion precedes the book, as do the first-hand accounts of the martyred apostles, many of which spread their accounts with the foreknowledge that it would be the cause of their own gruesome deaths.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
The ambiguity is the message. He could have just reiterated the clear "no" instead of speaking about pastoral discretion and avoiding "suggestions" that a not-marriage is a marriage.
He's been unambiguous when speaking against traditionalists.
How can I avoid drawing conclusions that he's being strategically ambiguous so as to allow priests to practice his real preference where those preferences happen to align?
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
The residency stuff seems almost designed to distract. It's very salient, easy to argue about, but ultimately not as substantial as other criticisms.
If I had two candidates before me, equal in all ways except one has this controversy attached, I'd probably pick the one with the extra controversy. Better that the public debate is about state lines than about my commitment to choose a person of specific race and gender, or about the candidate's meager qualifications.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I was amused by this follow-up article that refuses to call the guy a Nazi, or even a former Nazi. Many paragraphs deep they print that he was in the Waffen SS, but even then hedges by saying the unit was "under Nazi command" instead of itself Nazi, and they throw in a pseudo-exonerating line about his unit not being found guilty of war crimes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66919862
Trudeau calls praise for Nazi-linked veteran 'deeply embarrassing'
An invitation to parliament for a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit in World War Two is "deeply embarrassing" to Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
Yaroslav Hunka, 98, got a standing ovation after House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota called him a "hero" during a Friday visit by Ukraine's president.
Mr Rota has said he did not know of Mr Hunka's Nazi ties and made a mistake in inviting him to attend the event.
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During World War Two, Mr Hunka served in the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, a voluntary unit made up mostly of ethnic Ukrainians under Nazi command. Division members are accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians, although the unit has not been found guilty of any war crimes by a tribunal.
The unit was renamed the First Ukrainian Division before surrendering to the Western Allies in 1945.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
For those search terms the Revolver article is #3 on Kagi, which isn’t plausibly boosting conspiracy theory adjacent content.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I've been conditioned to be very suspicious of such accusations and entertain contexts in which the raw allegations could be benign.
Sharing a bed: booking a two bed hotel room might raise suspicion.
Sent a undies / fake tattoos photo: having some racy photos of one another could be used as evidence of a real relationship.
Showering together: maybe this happened in a context where a trafficker offered his shower for them to use together.
"How far are you willing to go": that's a benign question on its own.
The point I'm most curious about is the advantage in presenting as a couple. Is that typical of child trafficking customers? Is it the only way to plausibly have a second person around for backup?
There's also no indication that any sex or even unwanted touching took place.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I should remember to be humbled by my opinion in February 2022 that the Biden administration was blustering for some political advantage rather than responding to a real threat. Though I still maintain a small chance that this was itself statecraft aimed at kicking off hostilities: to very publicly tell Putin not to invade, when Putin had yet to broadcast a desire to invade, you change the scenario such that not invading is submission to the Americans. Moving forces to the border could have plausibly been bluster. I don't know if we've seen insider accounts that show invasion was the plan all along for weeks or months prior.
My great hope is that the incentives for Chinese leadership are such that they know playing a long peaceful game is in their best interest, and kicking the can on military conflict will be to their advantage for decades to come. My worry is that the United States knows this too, and will try its best to have a military conflict while it perceives the odds are in its favor. I wouldn't rule out a false flag operation.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
My read is that not ruling out military options differs little from US policy on maintaining the option of a nuclear first strike. As a matter of strategy you don't want to broadcast exactly how much you'll allow or what your response will be. To do otherwise means adversaries toeing right up to your red line, or even worse, mildly crossing it and either forcing a response or proving you toothless.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
What's your read on Chinese leadership even desiring a kinetic war? As husband to a very patriotic Chinese wife, I don't see it. The party line hasn't at all budged from "Taiwan is a part of a China" but also hasn't gained any addendum of "and will be reunified by any means necessary." They always make a lot of noise when America is playing at modifying or abandoning the One China policy, but of course they will, they won't let those perceived insults go completely unanswered. There's also close to zero animosity towards Taiwan or Taiwanese people, less so than there are for certain mainlanders, like how others perceive Shanghainese as haughty.
The trade restrictions likely increase the probability of war, for. at least two reasons. First, they encourages autarky, which lowers the costs of engaging in a war with states that used to provide you with the things you can now provide for yourself. Second, they makes military occupation one possible path to acquiring the denied goods, or else denying them to the one that denied them to you.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
At my work study job in college I once spilled some food on the ground. I went to clean it up and was stopped by my boss. Cleaning up messes was reserved for the union janitorial staff.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Contrary to popular belief, Catholics don't believe the Pope to be generally infallible, only when speaking Ex Cathedra, which hasn't happened since 1950. The hierarchy of the ordained also isn't quite military-like, there's quite a bit of independence even at the level of priests. Our archdiocese is going through a restructuring process over the next year and one administrative detail is that the archbishop has requested the resignation of every priest in advance to make moving them around easier. They could refuse to resign, at which point some kind of due process kicks in, the archbishop doesn't force their resignation unilaterally.
There's also the matter of quiet disobedience in a leftist direction going unaddressed, while the people who noisily point it out like Strickland wind up having their basic competence questioned. One of the most appalling cases of this happened just recently when an archibishop gave a prominent Muslim the Eucharist.
There is serious schism potential at the moment.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I think your abortion stance would have to be informed by sincerely religious belief though, wouldn't it? It couldn't just be secular pro-natalism.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I'm guessing assisted suicide skews white as well. A Google search for racial bias in assisted suicide turns up nothing for the actual recipients, just speculation that inferior medical care might lead to disproportionate impact for minorities. If that evidence existed, it would be easily found. I have to infer that the bias goes the other direction.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Doubtful on Job. He endured his first few trials without much complaint, but then had a lot of understandable anguish and despair.
I’d say stoicism is more compatible with the gospels and epistles of the New Testament. There’s just a wealth of verses about enduring suffering, exercising self control, and reasoning.
Christ himself set a stoic example in voluntarily submitting to the cross. Even as he asked God the Father to spare him that trial, he accepted his role and did not engage in self pity.
Romans 5:3-5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 - Test everything; hold on to what is good.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 - “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”
Titus 2:11-12 - “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.”
2 Peter 1:5-7 - “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.”
James 1:2-4 - “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 - “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” 2 Timothy 2:3 - “Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.”
Hebrews 12:1-3 - “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Don't merely flood the tunnels, flood the area. Then you don't need to locate the tunnels. You also create a tactical asymmetry for fighters unable to equip themselves with the proper footwear.
High capacity seawater pumps exist: https://www.tobeepump.com/sea-water-pumps/tsh-large-seawater-pump.html
At 14,400 cubic meters per hour, you could flood a football pitch a meter deep in about half an hour.
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