Watching the World Cup has me asking questions. Do Europeans get issued 8 weeks of vacation, unlimited airline miles, and a trust fund at birth? Because every match I turn on there are 40,000 fans following their team to a different state or country on a Tuesday afternoon while Americans are hiding in a work bathroom checking scores.
Church purity culture interrupts what should be a naive and curious sexual awakening, causing adults to reach the marriage bed with adolescent insecurity and fear. Restrictive fundamentalism does the same thing to the imagination.
Just kind of left speechless at an invading army whining to the United Nations that the people they are invading — and killing their civilians by the thousands — are fighting back. This is a mystifying level of lack of self awareness
In 2021, MAGA trashed @BenSasse for voting to impeach Trump.
Trump called him a "loser" and a "sleazebag." He was elbowed out of the Senate and replaced with a Trump endorsee.
Now, facing terminal illness, Sasse has become one of the most compelling voices in American public life – thoughtful, challenging, and wise about what actually matters. He speaks with ease and precision on the toughest of subjects.
So which is it? Is Ben a sleazebag or not?
"Oh, come on. It's just politics. Trump was being hyperbolic."
Is that what Bob Mueller's family said when Trump danced on his grave? "Good. I'm glad he's dead." Mueller was a Purple Heart Vietnam vet. When Trump celebrates Sasse's death, will that still be "hyperbole?"
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I take people as full-package deals. I think the vision we all admire in Ben now is the same one that motivated him in 2021. He hasn't changed. If you hated him then but love what he's saying now, take a long minute to think about that.
I really don't think a grown man who spent his career kissing Trump's ass would have got to spend his last days telling us how to live, and die, with dignity. Not because he wouldn't still try, but because it wouldn't land – we wouldn't care. But Ben kept his integrity, and we're all better for it.
Truly bizarre how certain American leftists take for granted their entitlement to gate keep who gets to care about Palestinians and who doesn’t. Like, do people in Gaza get to have a say on whether Tucker Carlson is pure of heart enough to speak in their defense?
Your view on whether AI is conscious says more about your own inner life (or lack thereof) than about your knowledge of AI.
You use Codex to help you code faster and now you think your computer is sentient? I feel bad for you, genuinely.
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
"when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace"
We already knew Tolkien would have despised — to his very core — these techno-fascist losers who idolize him. Having the literal Pope rub that fact in their faces? Perfection.