durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
11mo ago
Professed Catholics in America have many different ethical beliefs, but a common theme is that almost all of them aren't keen on violently attacking those who mock them. I think that's less "silent stoicism" and more "ethical passivity".
Maybe they all should just go back and watch The Boondock Saints
durdenhobbes
20d ago
I disagree. I think people would respond negatively to overly-repetitive topics to the degree warranted, regardless of the username posted in the corner above it.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
This makes much more sense than any other explanation I've ever heard.
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
Europe is much more white than the US and is also much more ethno-nationalist than the US
I'd like to see some backing data to support this.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's an uncharitable re-phrasing of the op comment. He simply calls it "an understandable reaction" to what some would consider involuntary capture, but then qualifies it with the observation that many school shooters appear to kill not only their "captors" but random fellow "inmates" (implying that op believes there's a good chance these shooters are simply unhinged people).
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Um, America is not the only country that contains white Christian men.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
Any suggestions? I joined a climbing gym for a bit, but never got real into it. Seems like pickleball is all the rage these days... but it's kinda taken on that "Crossfit is all I talk about" vibe in my circles.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
So Reagan was a Democrat? And where does this leave Biden/Feinstein/any other longtime politician?
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
And not just support. In a tight-knit community, if you beat up your wife (who is also someone's daughter/sister), you can expect a dad/brother/their buddies bringing hell to your front door the next morning.
durdenhobbes
23d ago
Sagrada Familia, hands down. Maybe my favorite manmade work, period.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
I'm more persuaded to believe it was Len Sassaman. The background, experience, personal values, evident time zone... it's all there.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
"Your food choices could not be tied to any one social class."
My graph was pretty even among all five groups, with the highest scores in the Upper and Lower classes
durdenhobbes
22d ago
Agreed. I'm not sure I have the writing skills to make a top-level post, but if I did, I'd be lucky to have even a single issue on which I was both articulate and interesting enough to make multiple posts on the topic. I guess that would make me a single issue poster (which there is no discernible rule against).
I'm also highly antipathetic toward governance/justice/moderation being levied based on identity. Judgment, in this and in every case, should be on the merits of the argument, not because of who posted it. Either the ball was in bounds or out of bounds; making that call shouldn't depend on whether Tom Brady or Todd Marinovich threw it. If it does, then we're playing a rigged sport here.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, I can say without hesitation that having kids had a severely negative impact on my life. Most of that was due to my poor selection of partner/her post-partum/outside elements that don’t have anything directly to do with the kids themselves. On the other hand, the moments of joy I experience when my children are happy and loving… it’s a higher high than any other sensation I’ve been able to find in this life. And then, egotistically, I get the satisfaction of fulfilling my belief that a reasonably-good-looking National Merit Scholar is the type of person who should be reproducing.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I don't have much to say to your response, other than to say that it strikes me as shockingly condescending and naive. Hopefully life experience will help you grow out of the arrogant perspective you seem to have adopted.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's a rather cynical way of viewing things, but you do you. So long as you can be sure not to consider any other perspectives, and most importantly to "steer clear of them in 'in real life' interactions". Something, something, "ATM machine".
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
One would expect that successfully navigating business relationships/social interactions would track closely with navigating successful romantic relationships, not to mention simply being exposed to more opportunities to meet and pursue potential love interests.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I think that's a rather dated heuristic. In many urban centers, women outearn men.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Ultra-premium wine, like any luxury good, is driven by the fact that people with more dollars than sense will naturally derive more enjoyment from having spent a stupid amount of money on it. So it literally tastes better to them at 200 bucks a bottle than it would at $20, or even $50. Consumer psychology be crazy like that.
Give me Winking Owl any day.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
I would think that's a fairly rare scenario. At least in my experience growing up, every one of my many friends with a step-parent referred to them by first name.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Mea culpa, missed that caveat.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I may have missed a valid explanation somewhere along the line, but how are we defining "witches", exactly?
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
As an aside, I've often felt it was a blatant smear that Republicans got tagged as the "racist" party (with increasing fervor) in recent years, when the supposed "most racist" states in the South were reliably Democratic during the eras of exponentially-greater blatant racism. I've often heard the defense of "oh well the parties flipped", but I've never been able to square that argument with obvious examples like Robert Byrd being a Democratic senator a mere 13 years ago, or things like Biden's comments in the 70's about a "racial jungle".
I'm like "okay, if the parties flipped, then when did they flip?". Because when it comes to Biden (and countless others, I'm certain), they clearly haven't flipped yet.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
There are also very few enslaved black people in the past few decades.
You don't consider the economy a plausible reason to motivate someone's political leanings? That defies belief.
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