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[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

@RorateCaeli Maybe, but every Mass I have attended for well over a decade has included a homily that has extended to the 20+ mark, occasionally as much as 30. It is totally out of control, and it is worst at conservative parishes with lots of children in the pews, which adds to the absurdity

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

The UK benefits far, far more from that relationship than does Israel. Cut off intelligence sharing and threaten to end all sensitive technology transfers, and Whitehall will be begging for a de-escalation by lunchtime.

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨UK–ISRAEL DIPLOMATIC CRISIS DEEPENS
Reports circulating today claim Britain is considering the expulsion of 27 Israeli diplomats if Israel follows through with the closure of the British Consulate in East Jerusalem.

Israel has ordered the consulate closed by October 8, part of a series of countermeasures announced by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar following new British sanctions targeting Israeli settlements.

The reported threat to expel 27 diplomats has not yet been independently confirmed.

My take: If Britain goes ahead with such a drastic diplomatic escalation, Israel should seriously reconsider the extent of its intelligence and security cooperation with the UK. Intelligence cooperation is a two-way relationship, and Israel should assess whether the current level of cooperation still serves its interests.

[Hank Venture @HankVenture5]

I have worked in the tech sector for over thirty years and have encountered literally hundreds of people from the third world who are in the US working in tech on the H1B visa program.

Many of them want to become citizens and many succeed, and then pull in their entire extended family through chain migration.

I always try to remember to ask what they like about the United States.

Without skipping a beat they all talk about the economic opportunities in the US. NONE talk about the freedom in the US.

I have literally had zero third worlders who now live here talk about our freedoms.

Meanwhile I have talked to Germans, Swedes, Austrians, Brits, Aussies ALL of whom mention that the freedoms that Americans have are unique. NONE of them have immediately brought up economics as the reason for being here.

That's the problem with 3rd world migration.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

@EGrimalkin1967 @Updated_Jennie Maybe not the best, but certainly does represent Kubrick at his most ham-fistedly anti-American.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

I sat my 7-year-old down and explained to him that dying industries (legacy media, academia, DNC politics) ride algorithmically driven cultural hysterias both because it’s the only way they can stay relevant and because their business models demand it.

He looked up at me and with a tear in his eyes asked, ‘so, for the sake of the journos, the assistant professors, and Dem Politics Inc, we’re obligated to attest to the moral urgency of the hysteria and act completely emotionally dysregulated?’

‘Yes,’ I answered him. ‘Yes, that’s right.’

And then we both sat quietly.

[Abe Greenwald @AbeGreenwald]

Pre Oct 7: “I’d like to think that I would have resisted Nazi propaganda. How could so many have been so shamelessly brainwashed.”

Post Oct 7: “From the river to the sea, globalize the intifada!”

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

Yeah, I think this wins the championship in a very crowded field.

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

This is the best Christopher Walken impression you’ll ever see in your life.

It’s not just the voice. It’s the utter absurdity.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

People are reduced to defending the ineffectual and embarrassing reality of the modern Mass by insisting that you're not supposed to FEEL anything at Mass, oh no, that is not its purpose. You are just supposed to *believe*, against all evidence, that something profound is afoot.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

People in the replies ginning up the same wearisome, inhuman, Spock-like arguments: "Sir, there is no logical connection between the playing of The Price is Right theme music during Communion, and the doctrine of Transubstantiation. Therefore, your youthful intuition was wrong."

[Peter @peterswindal]

Went to Breaking Bread hymnal Mass today. I’m a cradle Catholic but lost my faith at a young age. One of the most important factors was that I hated Mass. Nothing was more excruciating than the music. Not only was there so much of it, it was unserious, lame, and unintelligible.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

In spite of what people seem to think, the reforms of V-II did not make the Mass more vibrant, it did not elevate living faith over rationalism.

Rather, the animating doctrines of the Mass became ever more abstracted from its praxis, and the dissonance destroyed people's faith.

[ShrimpDaddy @Beautifulswamp]

@CA_Worman @Pontifex “I removed every obstacle on the obstacle course and I can now complete the obstacle course, does that make it bad? Does that mean I didn’t run an obstacle course? Because if obstacles were there I wouldn’t be able to run it

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

JK Rowling could have used her platform to encourage millions of children to sterilise themselves but instead she just helped them to fall in love with reading. What a nasty Bigot.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

Great content.

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

My favorite part of this article is one of the visiting scholars pointing out that by Olah’s logic he is by far the worst slaver in history and he must immediately give up this abhorrent and immensely lucrative project, which anthropic people ignored.

[Bill @CageFooName]

It's VERY IMPORTANT we hide away the disabled man from the awards ceremony regarding the film that goes into excruciating detail about how miserable his life has been due to his disability and how if we were all a bit more accepting and tolerant the world would be a better place.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

@johnhawkinsrwn So weird, right?

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Notice how the Islamists now represent the vanguard of the marxist cause?

That's why everything on the left suddenly has to be about Gaza

The red-green alliance is just the latest example of Democrats using a Trojan horse, no matter how dangerous, for their marxist agenda

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

I'm a card-carrying Kubrick hater, and my friends will testify that I am an annoying contrarian about The Shining in particular.

But the back-stage stuff with him is always fascinating because, as I have always said, he was a cinematographer who wanted to be a director.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

If you like The Shining, watch this. Just trust me.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

Conservatives used to boast that they understood the "tragic" aspect of life, the knowledge that there are dark paradoxes at the heart of social life.

Increasingly, they talk like teetotaling pacifists because they're as affected by the decline in real education as the left are.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

Pro-life means protecting the innocent. Protecting the innocent means punishing the guilty.

The death penalty is pro-life.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

@realtimsharp This operates at roughly the same intellectual level as "You cannot be pro-freedom and pro-incarceration."

It's an idiotic slogan in service of a totalizing ideology that abjures any and all relevant moral distinctions, because all such moral distinctions are fatal to the cause.

[Sage McLaughlin @SagaciousMick]

This is an expression of the unsufferable Boomer-era mentality that a soft head is merely the consequence of a soft heart, and ought therefore be allowed and maybe even a little bit appreciated--even in the most important people in the most important offices. This is Decline 101.

[Damian Thompson @holysmoke]

From my UnHerd piece on Pope Leo:

Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. The former Fr Prevost was, to put it politely, politically naive. His “global south” rhetoric was supported by clumsy swipes at neoliberalism, the favoured bogeyman of most Catholic clerics ordained in the Eighties. But, since his political views didn’t matter at the time, and still don’t count for much even now he’s pope, we can let that pass. More disturbing is the lack of interest in the numinous aspects of worship that Benedict XVI understood so well. I have no doubt that Leo always celebrated Mass with reverence, and once he was in Latin America there would have been no demand for the liturgical aesthetics that have nurtured the faith of young Westerners. It’s also true that now that he is pope we see fewer of the ceremonial atrocities encouraged by Francis. But decades of attachment to the mind-numbing post-Vatican II liturgical consensus are still a problem.

Leo thinks of the ancient Latin rite as a personal preference rather than as a source of regeneration. And so he permits fanatical liberal bishops to persecute traditionalists, while also allowing trad-friendly bishops freedom to liberate the old Mass. It’s a mess.

On the other hand, the good news found in the formulaic prose of Freedom Under Grace is more significant than those disputes over the liturgy. Robert Prevost’s faith in Jesus is as potent as that of any successor of St Peter. The book blows apart claims by conservative fundamentalists that he is a syncretist or, worse, an indifferentist who believes that all religions lead to salvation. The latter charge could be levelled at Francis, though like a true Peronist he adjusted his orthodoxy to suit his audience or his mood. This pope is unquestionably a Catholic.