Ryan

☧ • don’t wish your opponent harm • strive for intellectual consistency • don't argue with caricatures • justice, never vengeance • avoid team-based politics

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

Again, it is entirely reasonable to be emotional and concerned following this week’s horror. Grief is okay, even good!

But after you pick up the pieces, you have to recognize that entire “other side” doesn’t want you dead. There are many with mental illness and we can have the discussion about practical steps to combat this. Prosecute those who have committed crimes. Institutionalize those who are actually a threat.

But no, you cannot say that the entire group (the left) wants you dead. That is an irrational conclusion understandably driven by emotions, which will only drive us further apart.

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

Man this rhetorical change is so refreshing from a politician.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talarico: The American people cannot wait two years for change, so we must work with President Trump. If President Trump wants the same plaques and portraits as LBJ, we can help make that a reality. We should make the final two years of his presidency the most productive of any American presidency

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@endofanerajc Used to feel this way strongly. Softened a bit because politicians feed off that cynicism. Corrupt and career politicians want us angry and at each other’s throats. It’s easier to get 51% than 60%

There are some good people that work in politics, but they never get a free pass

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@baseballcrank A misdemeanor for a curfew violation when he was 18 is a CRAZY thing to call someone a “known crook” over, especially considering all of the crooks currently in congress.

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@roddreher There is absolutely no evidence that Walmart or Kroger intends to introduce dynamic pricing. Don’t amplify this fearmongering garbage.

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@bitemeoff @Socdem_Michael How deep do you think this conspiracy goes? Are the news orgs in on it too then? Why wouldn’t they have called it?

But yeah actually let’s just jump into baseless conspiracism and freak people out on twitter.

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@thescottbarber Yeahhhhh unfortunately

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@stwrawrbewry I’ve regularly called Romney 2012 the pressure-release valve in our era of American politics. All (most of?) the built up right-wing resentment in the Tea Party would’ve been released, and Trump never would’ve been seen as the needed “axe to the establishment”

[Philagape 🇺🇲🇨🇦 @keithrobphil]

From James Bell:
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I worry that American Christians have become so concerned about losing political influence that we’ve stopped asking what gaining that influence is doing to us.

We’ve become comfortable defending dishonesty when it advances our political priorities.

We’ve learned to excuse cruelty when it’s directed toward people we dislike.

We’ve become suspicious of compassion because it sounds progressive.

We’ve started treating criticism of powerful politicians as betrayal, even when that criticism is justified.

And then we wonder why the church is losing its moral credibility.

The early Christians lived under an empire that could imprison them, confiscate their property, and even execute them for refusing to compromise their faith.

They lived in a world where confessing Jesus as Lord could come at an enormous personal cost.

Yet they refused to give Caesar the allegiance that belonged to Christ.

They understood that faithfulness to Jesus was more important than acceptance by the empire.

I wonder what they would think of American Christianity today.

We’ve become so concerned about whether political leaders will defend Christianity that we sometimes seem unwilling to ask whether our defense of those leaders contradicts the teachings of Jesus.

We should care about religious liberty. We should care about laws that protect human life, uphold justice, and promote the common good. Political decisions have consequences for our neighbors.

But none of those concerns gives us permission to abandon the moral standards we claim to believe.

The early church was willing to lose its standing in society rather than compromise its allegiance to Jesus.

We should be concerned when Christians become more afraid of losing political power than losing their moral credibility.

Because what good is it to gain influence in a nation if, we lose the very character that makes our witness to that nation credible?

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@MDusty663079 @BMcGrewvy Well, we’ve hit an impasse then, because I absolutely believe it fits Monophysitism, but disagreement is okay!

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@MDusty663079 @BMcGrewvy This is extremely similar to an ancient christological heresy, repackaged as a cultural war topic to divide Christians. https://t.co/dK6USMdd0M

[Drew McIntyre @DrewBMcIntyre]

The debate here is proof that many American Xians are catechized more by the culture wars than by the church & its historic teaching.

God the Father has no physical body in all classic Christian orthodoxy. We call the First Person of the Trinity Father, but not due to gender.

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@eigenrobot ahaha everything is gonna get so much worse

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

Correct. This was a golden opportunity to kneecap Iran’s influence in the Middle East and finally prevent the fundamentalists from pursuing a nuclear weapon. It still would not have been a popular war, and it still would have caused short-term pain. But it could have been done with enough will.

Instead, we opted for shock-and-awe for a week, killed Khamenei with no apparent further plan beyond hoping that the IRGC wouldn’t try to do anything.

[Mickey Morant @mickeymorant]

The fact that Talarico outperformed El Sayed by such an ungodly massive margin in a state that should be much harder to flip tells you everything you need to know about what direction the Democrats need to head in.

[Ian Leslie @mrianleslie]

This is impressive because a) It’s not a ‘typical Dem’ answer b) The praise makes the criticisms more devastating

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@MattWalshBlog Ahhh a generational beatdown and you still won’t learn the lesson staring you in the face. Moderate or die, GOP.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

At some point, we’ll realize that Americans don’t want a far-left or far-right country.

We’re a nation filled with people who are desperately looking for sensible leaders in a broken political system.

And the GOP did the opposite of what nearly every voter wanted. Thus, this.

[Ryan @jryanmanes]

@EWErickson It’s Iran/gas, tariffs, Trump’s overall disapproval, and candidate quality. Pretty much it. Trump backed/GOP ran some genuinely awful people in a terrible environment. This result is an earthquake but it isn’t a surprise at all.

It’s been baked in since ‘LIBERATION DAY’.