hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
16hr ago
the SSPX
Are politically active, hold normal careers in secular employment, use the regular suite of technology, consume normal popular culture(albeit less of it), have social media, and explicitly oppose withdrawing from broader society.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Maybe-ish.
First off, we don't know how many people go to the SSPX. They probably don't either. I would guess that their average Sunday attendance is 350-400K, based on their claim of a priest/people ratio of 1:500(this number sanity checks off of priest assignments to individual chapels very well). 600,000 is almost certainly an overestimate; even the SSPX admits this.
Growing isn't clear. We know that when the tradcath community in a given area is growing, the SSPX is usually part of that growth... but usually slower than regular union chapels. Nobody really disputes that pre-July '26 they were growing, but the sources of that growth are in strong dispute(high fertility vs adults joining). It's not clear whether the growth trend has continued- there's plenty of evidence that it has at least curbed.
One thing that is worth saying is that the SSPX leadership is not the same group as the bishops. Yes, this is weird, but they're led by a priest, not a bishop, elected by the general chapter(also of priests, not bishops). This is probably an intentional move to make their canonical status less clearly schismatic. The SSPX is also poor by tradcath standards; SSPX bishops and senior priests would make significantly more money if they joined a regular diocese. Typically in areas with multiple TLM options, the SSPX one has the lowest average income among the attendees. The SSPX as an institution also faces real financial constraints and regularly has to shelve projects due to funding(the FSSP almost never does this- they will raise the money for things they genuinely need to do. The ICRSS raises the money a bit faster. The diocese would just take on debt).
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Columbus day is political today, obviously, but when it was first introduced, it was political in a different direction- it was pro-italian.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
If AI safety becomes a partisan issue(as it probably will), then conservative media will start releasing Aella lore. Probably NYpost, then OneAmerica news takes it and runs with a 'TDS AI safetyists are controlled by a pedophile-sympathizing hooker' angle.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Was this in a heavily Jewish area, perchance?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
American Grandmas are eager adopters of iphones- you can set them to large print without needing to break out your glasses, and they let you see pictures of your grandkids easily(there's even shared album features), and you can have arbitrarily large family groupchats...
It is true that American boomers(much more likely to actually be grandparents than Chinese ones) tend to use AI for gifs of dancing kittens, rather than generating grandkids.
Greenland wants to be independent. But it's unclear it can actually make it on its own- the Marine Mammal Protection act makes actual incorporation into the US unacceptable, but a micronesia like arrangement where it gets to use the US dollar, enjoy US military protection, and get US companies as major employers(probably for mining, shipping, etc) in exchange for trade concessions seems agreeable to both parties. That's probably the eventual goal.
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