Gun Owner For Gun Control

grumpy at everyone, hateful towards no one.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

DOUTHAT: Let's be honest -- the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity

JD VANCE: Tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication, and covering them in elite preferences

[Gun Owner For Gun Control @ignorantprophet]

@lukeburgis Becaus Macintyre said so, but he’s hardly from the right I suppose.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

What those who are unhappy with the pope’s comments on war need to get into their heads is that his concern – and the concern of other churchmen and theologians who have argued for a more restrictive approach to war in modern times – is the protection of innocent lives. That’s it. It isn’t pacifism, or cowardice, or Neville Chamberlain style naiveté, or misplaced sympathy for evildoers, or any of the other straw men people keep attacking. It’s the enormous number of civilians who have done nothing deserving of harm and yet are killed, or have their homes destroyed, or whose society’s infrastructure is so devastated that anything like normal life becomes impossible for them. That some war aim is good in the abstract, or that some government has done evil, does not magically make it acceptable to inflict this sort of damage on huge populations of innocent people who simply get caught up in the middle of conflict between warring armies. That A has a legitimate reason to attack B does not somehow entail that he is at liberty to do things that inflict enormous harm on some third party C in the process. Everyone knows this in other contexts, but for some reason some people wrongly suppose that it doesn’t apply in war. And when they try to rationalize this attitude by appeal to the good consequences they claim war will bring about, their reasoning is no different from (and no less morally corrupt than) the similarly utilitarian arguments others use to justify abortion, euthanasia, and the like.

[Maria @mlstrat]

never forget when rand paul sat on the senate floor and railed against federal funding to study the screwworm’s reproductive cycle as wasteful 😌

[Fr. Herman ❤️‍🔥 @hmkherman]

«People are not only going to use Catholic AI to ask who wrote the Gospel of Mark or what the Council of Trent said about justification. They are going to use it at night, alone, anxious, ashamed, scrupulous, and afraid. They are going to ask if they committed a mortal sin, if they can receive Communion, if an intrusive thought was blasphemy, if God is angry with them, if their confession was valid, if their prayer counted, if their consent was full, if their doubt was damnable, if their wound means they are broken beyond repair.

And if the machine keeps answering, it may feel helpful. It may feel pastoral. It may feel like someone is finally listening. But a chatbot that answers every scruple may be feeding the very compulsion it appears to soothe. That is why “it gives good answers” is not enough. Sometimes the spiritually dangerous thing is not a false answer, but a true-enough answer delivered in a way that keeps the person trapped inside the loop.»
—W. Tyler Allen, “The Problem with Catholic AI”

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

Ctrl-F-ing your way through this encyclical is a guaranteed way to miss out on its real value, which is transformative (pedagogical) rather than merely informational

[GL @gldivittorio]

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[David Frum @davidfrum]

I said on @MSNOW just now:

What *is* the Trump slush fund?

It's not an appropriation: Congress did not vote.

It's not a settlement: There was no valid litigation because (as the judge said) Trump was suing himself.

On what basis is this money leaving the Treasury?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cassidy on ballroom: There's no architectural plans. There is no environmentals. There's no engineering. There's no sense of when we ask, how did it happen to cost exactly a billion. I just don't get it.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

I wish he hadn’t said this.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Dear Microsoft, when I hit the Windows Start menu key and start typing a word to autocomplete a search, I never, ever, EVER want it to return results of something not on my computer. Ever. Like, ever, ever, never.

[n but gayer this month @thintechgodhead]

assisted suicide is one of those things where i very strongly agree in theory but in practice seeing people be told “well no we won’t cover this treatment for your disease but you CAN kill yourself” is absolutely fucking heinous

[Tom Hauser @thauserkstp]

BREAKING: For the first time in history the MN Senate voted to ban sale of assault-type weapons and high capacity magazines. The vote was 34-33 along party lines with all Democrats in favor, GOP against. The bill also includes funding for school safety and mental health programs.

[Gun Owner For Gun Control @ignorantprophet]

ok I love the idea of this but we have ~2100sf and the bedrooms don’t feel enough?? Only one shower? Maybe our space is just misallocated

[Erin Callaghan @drerincallaghan]

We live in a 1400-sq-ft house and we could comfortably pack at least 5 kids in this place, be so for real

[Mom of 10 @castlehillmom]

All the advice to sacrifice especially for early childhood is very small family coded. I have had early childhood age kids for almost 24 years. Instead set up your life with little kids in a way that’s sustainable for the long haul.

[Gun Owner For Gun Control @ignorantprophet]

ah so what you need is a coxswain

[Samantha Watkins @_samantha_joy]

I need a doula who's bringing the "there's no crying in baseball" vibe, the Whiplash drum-until-you-bleed vibe.

none of that: "you're so powerful, you got this mama! xoxo"

I want a doula to mock me, "you're weak, aren't you? you don't have what it takes, do you?"

[meta thomist 🇻🇦 @metathomist]

Ed Feser with 6 kids, as full time professor, averaging 1 book a year and several papers/journals, to e-thomists trying to write one Substack article.

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

“Those who admit that the case for the Iran war is problematic are wrong to conclude that Catholics can legitimately disagree over the matter, or that we should suspend judgment. If the war does not meet the standard of moral certainty, then we can be certain that we must oppose it.” @FeserEdward

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Cardinal Ratzinger on the Iraq war: “The concept of a ‘preventive war’ does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church… It was right to resist the war and its threats of destruction. It should never be the responsibility of just one nation to make decisions for the world… Given the new weapons that make possible destructions that go beyond the combatant groups, today we should be asking ourselves if it is still licit to admit the very existence of a ‘just war.’” https://t.co/4vd5a7whhW

[Fr. Paul @BackwardsFeet]

"It is not the role of the Church to evaluate whether a particular war is just or unjust."

Your Excellency, is not the Magisterium the authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture and Tradition? Is that not the entire point of having a teaching office?