Senju Kannon posted:

aw man now the archbishop of paris has to couch surf for five years? bum deal, dude

Tulip posted:

I think there's a 50% chance that Macron puts a shopping mall in there. The other 50% is that the project stalls until Le Pen gets in and turns it into a torture chamber.

YaketySass posted:

He'll take a hike around the country and sleeps on the cold hard floor of every place of worship on his path, it's the rule.

uber_stoat posted:

surely there's a spare room in the Vatican.

Pirate Radar posted:

https://twitter.com/zenjournalist/status/1118141785937731585?s=21

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1117308086362890241

YaketySass posted:

Macron is thoroughly bourgeois, if there's something he's not gonna be "disrespectful" about it's Catholic chic.

OTOH, he just announced he wants it rebuilt in five years. Better hope the repairs need less than that or the pressure to do it quick and cheap will be insane.

Spergin Morlock posted:

I'm guessing this hasn't been true for years.

Ramesh Ponnuru posted:

What Would Jesus Do? Pete Buttigieg Has No Idea
The Democratic candidate's heartfelt argument on faith is also partisan nonsense.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is one of the many candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. But that’s not his only long-shot bid. He also wants to claim Christianity for contemporary progressive politics.

“Christian faith is going to point you in a progressive direction,” he told USA Today.

Even in our largely secular press, the coverage of the Buttigieg campaign has been rapturous. A few conservatives have contested the mayor’s version of religious politics by denying that he is truly Christian, citing his support for same-sex marriage (he is in one) and legal third-trimester abortion. Some of those critics have gone so far as to dismiss the Episcopal church, of which the mayor is a member, as no longer Christian.

Buttigieg’s fans have, naturally, responded to that line of argument with outrage, having apparently missed that the mayor is fine with questioning other people’s faith. “It is hard to look at this president's actions and believe that they're the actions of somebody who believes in God,” he said in that USA Today interview.

Obviously people who describe themselves as “Christians” disagree with one another, generally sincerely, about what being a Christian entails. There are Protestants who don’t think that Catholics make the cut.

This type of disagreement is not distinctive to religion. The boundaries of such groupings as “conservatives” and “liberals” are also contested. The debates among Christians will probably be more fruitful if they proceed as inquiries into what followers of Jesus should do than as attempts at expulsion and counter-expulsion.

For Buttigieg, the basic mistake of conservative Christians is “saying so much about what Christ said so little about, and so little about what he said so much about.” His interviewer, journalist Kirsten Powers, calls it an “insightful formulation” and specifies that abortion is one of those topics Jesus ignored.

What He did talk about, Buttigieg says, includes “defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.” Hence his claim about how Christianity dovetails with progressivism.

It is a heartfelt argument. It is also partisan nonsense, a politicized distortion of both the Bible’s words and its silences.

To see what’s wrong with it, consider that the argument could just as easily be, and was, deployed against William Wilberforce and other Christian abolitionists. Notoriously, the Bible nowhere explicitly condemns slavery.

It does, however, teach that God has made human beings in His image. Christian thinkers, using the power of reason they believed God gave them, reflected on that teaching over the centuries and concluded that the Christian conscience could have no truck with the institution.

Liberal Christians must necessarily engage in similar thinking to believe that higher immigration levels or looser eligibility criteria for food stamps are godly causes: Jesus doesn’t say anything direct about the federal budget or naturalization policies either.

There is of course room for argument among people of good will, whether or not they are Christian, about the judgments that liberals have reached, as there is room for argument over conservative Christians’ beliefs about abortion. But the idea that unborn children deserve legal protection seems a better fit with the Christian emphasis on mercy than Buttigieg’s cavalier dismissal of it.

Christians should in general be wary of claims that the faith points in a progressive direction, or in the direction of conservatism, libertarianism or any other political philosophy or ideology. No political party has ever fully captured the implications of Christianity, and we are not promised that one ever will. As such no earthly political party or ideology should ever command a Christian’s ultimate allegiance.

But Christians are prone to forgetting this truth and reading their politics into the faith. Buttigieg, the millennial progressive, is a political opponent of Jerry Falwell Jr. Yet in this regard, the two are brothers.

LGD posted:

https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1118293660188258307


mmm that's a good one

Dreddout posted:

He's not even a millennial lmao

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Buttigieg's religious appeals to Christians are still dumb, and weirdly enough his heartfelt Christian progressivism doesn't apply to Palestinians.

Dreddout posted:

He's not even a millennial lmao

gradenko_2000 posted:

R. Guyovich posted:

the weirdo fop with the fake british accent is right

quote:

As I have worked with my own gang of eccentrics to build a print magazine, UHF has been an enduring inspiration. It is one of the great parables of egalitarianism, a story of why collectivism will triumph over self-interest. Set aside the humor, which some people will love and some people will hate. The central lesson of UHF, whether Weird Al intended it or not, is that socialism is good.

R. Guyovich posted:

lmao i checked the latest in current affairs and

The Radical Egalitarian Politics of Weird Al's "UHF"


you don't have to write an article about everything nathan

quote:

Channel 8 is full of boring rich white men. U-62 is staffed by a full cross-section of the community: women, people of color, little people, neuroatypical people, even an alien. It is a colorful place where everybody belongs and differences are celebrated rather than looked down upon. (R.J. Fletcher requires strict conformity and will not even permit employees to wear moustaches.)

Pirate Radar posted:

I can’t hate this because it’s pretty much what I’d do if I had some kind of punditry position. once I could trick people into paying attention to me I’d make them read all about how Zardoz is actually a great movie.

SpaceGoku posted:

UHF does whip rear end though

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

So does Zardoz.

Goon Danton posted:

My favorite was when the NSA was monitoring all emails anyone sent or received, so one group was just using a shared Gmail account and saving all their communications as drafts

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/RzJse/status/1118326143340490757

Senju Kannon posted:

so this dude’s a pedophile, right? he didn’t say “twenty something actors doing sex scenes” but teenage sex scenes, that’s pretty explicitly pedophilia, right?

if anyone says ephebophilia i will jump out of your computer screen and stomp you to death with my hooves