Augerite

Just a Catholic guy | Law Student | History Enjoyer

[Guard Bro @GuardTm]

Actually one particular group of people are invaders, who then won several wars and claimed the Americas as their own. This is of course after hundreds of wars fought before them, and after.

So, no.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Along with many others, I was appalled by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s giggling dismissal of “Woke 1” as “crazy.”

In case you’ve forgotten, she herself was one of the most passionate advocates of de-funding the police, tearing down statues of American heroes, establishing racial quotas, dividing the country between oppressors and oppressed, etc.

I quite agree that these policy recommendations and policies were “crazy,” but she has to own up to endorsing them.

More to the point, Woke 1 was not only misguided; it was cruel.

One of the bitterest fruits of Wokeism was the cancel culture that resulted in armies of people losing jobs, reputations, and careers because they didn’t correspond to the reigning orthodoxy.

I happen to know several people whose lives were devastated by Woke crusaders.

But now it’s just “ha-ha, wasn’t that crazy.” No, it was brutal and inhumane.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Socialists have mastered the art of regurgitating <10 word long simplistic catchphrases that make them feel like morally superior geniuses.

"system that prioritizes profit over people"
"trans women are women"
"every billionaire is a policy failure"

I wish I could just check my mind out like this and outsource it to the eternal Progressive omnicause. Life would be so much easier if I never bothered to try to understand why seemingly simplistic things don't happen and instead chalked it all up to "evil Capitalism".

Bagged up food that's past its expiration date gets thrown away by stores because they're afraid of the legal liability of what might happen if they donate it. What happens if one person gets sick eating a bagel that expired the day before they received it? They could sue the grocery store that donated the food, or government regulators could go after them for making people sick.

It's a legal landmine that no one wants to risk taking, but when has a Socialist ever passed up the opportunity to blame "profit over people" for a perverse incentive structure the government itself has created for the marketplace?

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

Many such cases.

[John Rose 🇺🇸 Mambo Mania @RealJohnRose]

Democrats have taken everything from you via two methods: Voting and Courts

And Voting changes who comprises the Courts.

The primary collective action you can take against them is voting and anyone convincing you it is “passive” “useless” has come to that conclusion as a result of democrats spending money to make you reach that conclusion.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

Liberals will recreate the story of Esau selling his birthright for slop bowls every day and some people still don’t believe in God.

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

"Are you grass? A scrumptious carrot, per chance? A delectable sugar cube even?"

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Mike Rogers could have been appointed Viceroy of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip by Netanyahu himself and it would have precisely zero bearing on my desire to see him defeat a literal Communist like Abdul El-Sayed who hates White Americans, campaigned with a guy who thinks America deserved 9/11, and wants to abolish ICE and re-open my nation’s borders to more Islamic Third Worlders like him.

[Gabe Guidarini @GabeGuidarini]

These think-tank-types like Marc scold young people and pressure the GOP to adopt a “market knows better than you” response to young people struggling with affordability.

Then they’re somehow surprised when actual socialists like Mamdani and El-Sayed take advantage of it.

[Nathanael Greene Society @ObedtStNGreene]

Strike North or Strike South?

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

“America bad, but I’m Right-wing and edgy” is such a fucking pathetic cope.

Every single person like this has developed learned helplessness. Stop acting like a whipped puppy with zero agency and take some damn responsibility for Europe’s self-imposed civilizational suicide.

The United States did not impose a Communist government upon Spain.

“But America sided with Communists in World War II!”

So did the French and British, but I don’t see you blaming the British and French Empires for destroying the West.

“But World War II would have never happened had Wilson not joined!”

You mean join the war that France and Britain had been a part of since the first week of the conflict? That the British Empire voluntarily entered on August 4 against Germany?

“But World War I wouldn’t have happened without the French Revolution which was inspired by the American Revolution!”

Which was inspired by the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the English Bill of Rights, and Magna Carta.

Whether you want to admit it or not, America is a product of Europe. Every condemnation you make of us is a damning indictment of Britain, of the Anglo-Saxon people, and of the West itself.

So rather than creating an infinite regress where we eventually exhume the remains of King Henry I and posthumously execute him for issuing the Charter of Liberties of 1100 AD, how about you take some damn responsibility for once about the current state of Europe instead of acting like you’re some helpless victim?

[Grǣġhama @grahamscheper]

The name "America," from Amerigo, comes ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Amalarīks. So, the Old English word for America could be *Amelrīċ.

Ironically, an early OE speaker would probably reinterpret a country name of 'Amelrīċ' as 'Amelarīċ,' which would mean 'home of the brave.'

[NicoMartelle @NicoMartelle]

It's not only gay innuendo. It’s Thanatos coveting Eros's source of power (his sword/penis). Basically Death longing for Life.
This is as mythological as a dick joke can go.

[Michael 🇺🇸 @_JeanLannes]

Red State Conservative: "wow life's just so good!"
Blue State Conservative: "Man these taxes are getting out of hand."
Blue City Conservative:

[Dolf @TheOneDolf]

In defence of Attack of the Clones, I think George Lucas was just too ahead of his time. Anakin behaves exactly as you'd expect from a sensitive young man that grew up as a celebate monk, that's never spoken to women and had to look up how to get a girlfriend on Wikihow.

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

No idea if this is true or false, but a couple quick thoughts:

1. Nixon is anathema to polite liberals of their parents' generation; endorsing him is very rebellious

2. Nixon was a uniquely weird guy, very meme-able

3. After the chaos of the last ten years, Watergate doesn't seem so crazy anymore

4. In light of the last ten years (and specifically all the Trump-directed lawfare), some people are now wondering if Nixon was framed in Watergate. Those people are not necessarily overly political crazies. Sometimes the passage of time clarifies history, sometimes it makes more opaque. I don't know which one it is in this case.

5. Say what you will about Nixon, but he really embodied "you can just do things". He picked things that other people couldn't or wouldn't do -- and did them, all the time. Very aggressively, sometimes successfully. Highly agentic and always with a ton of conviction. I get how that's appealing in our modern time, when lots of people will try to tell you that everything's very complicated and you can't really do anything.

[Pub @PubWanghaf]

“Deportationmaxxing”

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

“transphobia includes invalidating a trans person’s identity”

This is the most ironically succinct endorsement of transphobia I’ve ever seen.

What exactly is wrong with “transphobia” when this is the message transgenders publicly put out on a routine basis?

It’s a mental illness that steadily detaches the victim from all friends and family until they either do something terrible to themselves or others around them, or both.

Never before in the history of humanity have we ever seen such a widespread campaign to affirm such unimaginably self-destructive behaviors.

Nature prescribes limits. You are born into a sex. It’s something you can never change, no matter how much you try to indoctrinate society or physically threaten people into thinking otherwise.

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

This is why Nolan’s Odyssey sucks

Every story has parts that can be changed and parts that cannot.

Romeo and Juliet can be set in Rio de Janeiro, but it must remain the tragedy of two young lovers. Macbeth can unfold beneath a modern dictatorship, but it must still tell the story of ambition, treachery, and ruin. Antigone can take place under a twentieth-century regime, but it must remain the story of a woman who defies the state to honor a higher law.

The costumes can change. The setting can change. The weapons can change. The language can change. The ideas cannot.

Cross that line and you are no longer adapting the story. You are replacing it. You take an old name, strip out its meaning, bolt on your own, and present the result as though nothing happened. That is not adaptation. It is vandalism. It is a fraud. You are not preserving a myth. You are butchering one.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.