There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”
@AdrianneCurry This is needed more than ever now...
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
@SergeDotcom Bro I feel this deep in my soul. I pray every day and the anger is still there. I think it’s hard not to be mad if you care and pay attention to politics in this country or even the world right now
When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite; they'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didn't just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without even breaking a single law.
This was a comment I saw under my content. I must say… Perfectly articulated.
The plant in the image, likely an agave or yucca, blooms once every several years (often 5-20 years) in a spectacular, short-lived display, a phenomenon supported by a 2019 study in the Journal of Arid Environments on desert plant reproductive strategies.
This flowering event, triggered by environmental cues like temperature or stress, marks the plant’s lifecycle end, as it dies after expending energy, a fact noted in botanical research from the Royal Horticultural Society.
The timing of the post, just before July 8, 2025, aligns with late spring to early summer blooming for many agave species in the Northern Hemisphere, per USDA plant hardiness zone data.