@Fair_and_Biased I worked for years in a residence for developmentally disabled women, including one of my favorite ppl in the world; I was fortunate to see her recently and get her signature warm greeting. It’s painful for parents, but awful to think ppl w/ her condition shouldn’t exist
@GregoryAShirk@megbasham@McJuggerNuggets I worked for years with people with Down Syndrome who held jobs and were quite independent. Your argument is that people who will need additional support in some ways just should never exist?
Georgian model @imelizabethlane - who insists she’s not a Putin puppet - tells @buckleycarlson that she can’t understand why we (meaning America) can’t ally with “the GREAT Russian army,” while salivating over Putin for building it up “in one man’s lifetime.”
But dw Lane insists she's an American and not doing the bidding of the Kremlin.
@conservmillen I used to work with developmentally disabled ppl, including at a residence for women. On a recent visit home, I saw several of the women at synagogue and it was a wonderful, warm reunion. I would be so much poorer for not having met them. And of course they deserve life.
A week after Ken Paxton won the Republican runoff, the first poll of the Texas Senate race has James Talarico leading him 47 to 44, and 64 to 21 with independents. Talarico — a Democrat and a Presbyterian seminarian — told Joe Rogan that the Annunciation is a biblical case for abortion. On the floor of the Texas House, he said God is nonbinary as justification for transing kids.
At the same time on the dissident right, “Christ is King” — a confession every Christian shares — is being wielded as a cynical political slogan in the name of Christianity, and “Christian Zionist” is being lobbed as a slur against Evangelicals.
And a Pew poll from last month found that 37 percent of US adults now say religion is gaining influence — the highest share since 2002.
So what does all of this mean for the state of American Evangelicalism?
Tonight I’m joined by Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen), David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh), and Frank Turek (@DrFrankTurek) — three people who have done more to defend the actual content of the Christian faith than almost anyone in public life — to break down all of this and more.
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Candace, Buckley Carlson and their crew are acting like the U.S. is at war with Russia or that it propagandizes against all Russian culture. Bizarre tilting at windmills.
@SarahSm07642683@MeghanEMurphy@White_Crayon_00 She doesn't say anything to indicate that he's changed and become off putting. But it sounds like they'd both benefit from discussing this.
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Aleksandr Dugin, the Woke Right ideological leader in most respects, and avowed enemy of Western Civilization, on the country of England, from The Foundations of Geopolitics. See if it seems familiar.
"England is geopolitically the least European state, whose strategic interests are traditionally opposed to the Central European powers and, more broadly, continental trends in Europe. However, in parallel with the strengthening of the role of the United States and their seizure of almost complete control over the British colonies, the strategic role of England has significantly diminished, and today in Europe this country acts more as an extraterritorial floating base of the United States than as an independent force. Be that as it may, within Europe, England is the most hostile country to continental interests, the antipode of Central Europe, and therefore, the New Eurasian Empire has a political, ideological and economic enemy in its person. It is unlikely that it will be possible to change the civilizational path of this specific country by will which at one time created a gigantic trade-colonial empire of a purely "sea" type and so contributed to the emergence of the entire modern Western civilization based on trade, quantity, capitalism, speculation and the stock market game. This is completely unrealistic, and therefore, in the Eurasian project, England will inevitably become a "scapegoat", since the European processes of continental integration will necessarily take place not just without taking into account British interests, but even in direct opposition to these interests. In this context, a significant role should be played by European and, more broadly, Eurasian support for Irish, Scottish and Welsh nationalism, up to encouraging separatist tendencies and political destabilization of Great Britain. type and so contributed to the emergence of all modern Western civilization based on trade, quantity, capitalism, speculation and the stock market game."
@RealNorthEndGuy@allie__voss I used to live in DC and didn't enjoy it, so I'm biased, but I'd put LA, Miami, and other cities before DC as a top US location
@RealNorthEndGuy@allie__voss Of course DC is the seat of government, but that doesn't mean it's a top U.S. city. Albany is the seat of NY government, but Manhattan, Brooklyn, and lesser NY places are still more compelling cities/towns. I know people who moved to Chicago for its own sake and prefer it to NYC
@IonaItalia@rosejara1@Romy_Holland Agreed. I don’t know your age, but I’m single at a much older age than I ever imagined. It basically came down to wanting to marry someone I’d actually like to be married to, who also wants to marry me. Mutuality is hard. It’s fantastic when it comes about.