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[Maureen Shannon @BridgetMaureenS]

@Savsays @treadaway_117 50? That’s nothing. You need to talk to boomers. Not even Gen X understands. Boomers.

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@californiapost Who the fuck cares.

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@NateSilver538 Long article. Nate Silver is saying that progressive Abdul El-Sayed’s apparent narrow win over moderate Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary—far closer than the double-digit polls predicted—is solid progressive victory in a purple state but underwhelming

[Maureen Shannon @BridgetMaureenS]

@Weather_West Very smoky in Santa Rosa hills. Far from the fire

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@lady_valor_07 73

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@mirandadevine @KatieMiller 💯

[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.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Say it again for the retards in the back.

[Maureen Shannon @BridgetMaureenS]

@spencerpratt Whatever AF is doing you need to copy

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@ForgiatoBlow47 Yes

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@ThrillaRilla369 I could entertain myself all day with a penny’s catalog

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@lady_valor_07 I was right. 72. • Fashion trends (hot pants popularized ~1970-1972) and the Beetle’s body style (consistent with late 1960s to early 1970s models) indicate the photo was likely taken around 1970-1972.

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@lady_valor_07 All these people saying the 60s. Hot pants and boots like that is early 70s

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@lady_valor_07 72

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@ksorbs Omg a commercial that has actual white people. Haven’t seen one of those in 20 years

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@storm1news Good!

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@RealJamesWoods Ewww