hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11d ago
That makes no sense, because prolife activists are notably opposed for fornication.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
People centering their personality around religion is an old, old phenomenon, and while often seen as annoying, it is very much something that society knows how to deal with.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
The median outcome of beginning the exorcism process is ‘you’re imagining it, go see a mental health specialist. We can provide a list of catholic psychologists and psychiatrists sorted by gender if you’d like’.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
Perhaps the attention paid to the male loneliness crisis is due to the fact that it manifests as societal wide problems, whereas female loneliness just results in shut-ins posting on private tumblrs to a circle of cheerleaders waiting their turn at the podium.
For a real life example, spend time browsing 4chan vs crystal cafe.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
I mean, far-right brain rot seems very big on self-improvement stuff even if some of their specific prescriptions are a bit dumb. I wonder how much of it is, specifically, that the hit the gym and cut out seed oils and start a business stuff protects men(there is a negligible number of actual women into this stuff) with rightward leanings from spiraling the way progressives do.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
Women are going to connect with something. And, well, social media influencers are like that.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
Itinérant laborers exist. The roustabout class is declining, but it’s still there. There’s men, trucked up from not Mexico but the countries south of there, who will come do whatever for cash- no particular skills, but they’ll work until it’s time to start drinking. There’s people a bit like your friend. There’s homeless guys who alternate between working some minor, low-skill job(painting or the like) and doing drugs under a bridge.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
This reminds me of one of my grandpa’s top pieces of advice- life’s too short to make enemies.
Then again, he also recommends eating an unhealthy diet to avoid having to deal with senility.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
I have my perspective on this, but nobody is worried about my ingroup’s fertility rate except my ingroup. So what I’ll say is this- you clearly are going to keep working yourself up with worry until you just go ahead and have another baby.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Sûre, but every dataset available gives the same answer- blues have worse mental health.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
It should be noted that there are way more cases of mental illness than exorcisms. And at least Catholic exorcists won’t even see you unless a shrink checks you out to make sure you’re not just crazy(indeed, Scott has done this). Not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Maybe they’re Catholic jokes.
My larger point is simply to illustrate that this friend is... kind of a player, someone who seems very sociosexual, to the point where excessive sexuality seems to surround him
We also tell the joke ‘baptists only fornicate lying down so peeping toms don’t mistake them for dancing’. Applied holiness standards have been selective for a while.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Baptists have always drank alcohol, even if they said they don’t. Remember the jokes- ‘Baptists? So rude, they won’t even say hi to you in the liquor store’ and ‘How do you keep a Baptist from drinking all your beer? Bring a second Baptist.’ Or even ‘Baptist church? Check the deacon’s office for beer.’
Sexual misconduct allegations of that sort aren't terribly unusual among baptists(or low church Protestantism generally), so it doesn’t surprise me, but even fairly liberal ones near me at least theoretically ban cohabitation. On the other hand it does seem like preacher’s wives have gone from Mrs pastor to copastor. Definitely have the impression that, liberalizing(slowly) though they might be, baptists are holding out dramatically better than nondenominationals.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Texas seeking annexation was done on the basis of being a state, not being ruled over, and the selling points were military defense and paying down the ridiculous debt.
Likewise Napoleon III invaded Mexico because it defaulted on its debt. There were individual Mexican politicians supporting him, but that’s because they wanted to be the puppet rulers. Santa Ana might be an example from Mexican history though; he just kept talking the Mexican government into making him president and having to be removed from power involuntarily.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
somehow convincing politicians to make their crimes legal or at least unpunishable.
98% of people with a record believe that the law as written is fair, but they and their friends are being railroaded by the man. Prisoners would not vote to legalize theft/shorten sentences. They would vote like normal poor people, except they might support more of an anti-cop platform.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Nondenominationals are theologically Baptist, but in practice strongly tend to be a bit more liberal than baptists are, not necessarily politically. Nondenominational churches near me run ministries for trial marriages, which baptists at the least would frown upon.
You’re right that virtually none of them are going to be OK with gay marriages. But this is probably more ‘how she chose to frame her disagreement with the church’ than the disagreement itself.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
There are lots of women with very similar original views to Lana, who are moderately religious and married to Trump supporting men, and who do not personally like Trump. Few of them get divorced- probably fewer than average.
Rather than radicalization leading to divorce, I’d think divorce leads to radicalization. Their marriage doesn’t seem to have been going to well to begin with.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Thé kids would’ve been too old for that, wouldn’t they? Trans kids weren’t a thing until very recently, and it sounds like the kids weren’t exactly babies at their divorce.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Mentally ill parents are incredibly unpleasant. Teenagers will choose ‘rules’ over ‘just fucking awful’. The addition of constant fighting between lesbian parents wouldn’t have helped, either. Young adults usually want their parents to be stable and functional, too, which a train wreck like the mom turned out to be won’t do that(this having been 10 years ago means those kids are almost certainly old enough to make their own decisions).
hydroacetylene
12d ago
The history of left wing revolutions vs right wing takeovers is instructive- left wingers tend to carry out brutal purges and go on witch hunts. Right wingers execute their known enemies, send everyone else prominent a set of shibboleths, and then tilt things their way ideologically.
One of these is much worse for professors themselves.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
this last semester I had five students in one of my classes show up with ashes on their forehead for Ash Wednesday
This doesn’t really mean anything; Catholic Churches are notorious for having Christmas-level attendance on Ash Wednesday(to think that attempting to get rid of Ash Wednesday was what made pope Paul VI end the liturgical reforms), and ashes have become trendy in imitation.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Fucking with hormones does a number on sex drives.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Trump's budget is broadly awful, exploding the deficit to pay for regressive tax cuts, so I hope it dies.
We will never have a not-awful budget again(we’ll have awful budgets that explode the deficit for ‘insert stupid bs here’ which get extended by continuing resolutions), so focus on the positives- silencers getting deregulated and codifying some immigration enforcement.
hydroacetylene
12d ago
The acronym is actually OBBB- one big beautiful bill. Presumably this is just the way Trump talks.
He believes doing this will cause him to die before it manifests.
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