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True, you could understand Taxi Driver as an exploration of total depravity, and respond to it in a Christian way by marvelling "there, but for God's grace, go I". Catholic director and Reformed writer reflecting on their shared Augustinian worldview
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
True, you could understand Taxi Driver as an exploration of total depravity, and respond to it in a Christian way by marvelling "there, but for God's grace, go I". Catholic director and Reformed writer reflecting on their shared Augustinian worldview
Potentially hot take?: Mean Streets is a Christian film, and Charlie's character portrays what it means to live as a "monk in this world" as Dostoevsky would say
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Potentially hot take?: Mean Streets is a Christian film, and Charlie's character portrays what it means to live as a "monk in this world" as Dostoevsky would say
Wow, I can't believe Scorsese and Schrader are much better at making movies than the entertainment industry of a megachurch are!
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Wow, I can't believe Scorsese and Schrader are much better at making movies than the entertainment industry of a megachurch are!
This is how Biden won the 2020 primary lol
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is how Biden won the 2020 primary lol
But then the problem backs up one step, because I fail to say what immigration has to do with, say, drug use on the streets
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
But then the problem backs up one step, because I fail to say what immigration has to do with, say, drug use on the streets
It's possible to square this circle if we understand "public safety" to mean "a lack of antisocial, though not violent criminal, behaviour, in public spaces" rather than "a lack of violent crime".
October 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's possible to square this circle if we understand "public safety" to mean "a lack of antisocial, though not violent criminal, behaviour, in public spaces" rather than "a lack of violent crime".
So the antichrist is to Thiel as Napoléon is to Hegel?
October 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
So the antichrist is to Thiel as Napoléon is to Hegel?
I mean that's literally what Contra's original quote about resentment politics was making an analogy to - she was calling leftists political blackpillers!
September 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I mean that's literally what Contra's original quote about resentment politics was making an analogy to - she was calling leftists political blackpillers!
The way I interpret the polls is that Dems are unpopular because a lot of them aren't adequately resisting the Republicans ... A lot of those people are still going to be highly motivated to vote for a Democrat to beat a Republican!
August 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The way I interpret the polls is that Dems are unpopular because a lot of them aren't adequately resisting the Republicans ... A lot of those people are still going to be highly motivated to vote for a Democrat to beat a Republican!
Obama in 08 was pretty much the only "surprise", and even then, he was in 2nd place behind Hillary in the polls as soon as he launched his campaign officially in Feb 2007
August 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Obama in 08 was pretty much the only "surprise", and even then, he was in 2nd place behind Hillary in the polls as soon as he launched his campaign officially in Feb 2007
Harris led almost every 2021-23 poll which didn't have Biden as an option. Biden led the vast majority of polls 2017-19, usually with Sanders in 2nd. Clinton led almost every poll 2013-15, usually with Warren 2nd (and Sanders jumped to 2nd the minute Warren announced she wasn't running)
August 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Harris led almost every 2021-23 poll which didn't have Biden as an option. Biden led the vast majority of polls 2017-19, usually with Sanders in 2nd. Clinton led almost every poll 2013-15, usually with Warren 2nd (and Sanders jumped to 2nd the minute Warren announced she wasn't running)
I guess this plagiarist has called all the curses she regurgitated upon herself. She will never attain the wisdom that comes with genuinely developing original ideas. Demonstrating the dangers of the compression economy by example lol
July 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I guess this plagiarist has called all the curses she regurgitated upon herself. She will never attain the wisdom that comes with genuinely developing original ideas. Demonstrating the dangers of the compression economy by example lol
So when Americans said they're pivoting to Asia, they meant southwest Asia?
June 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
So when Americans said they're pivoting to Asia, they meant southwest Asia?
Also I'm presuming that lots of Chinese people who don't actually think their leaders are well-meaning would answer "yes" to the poll anyways, making it junk data
March 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Also I'm presuming that lots of Chinese people who don't actually think their leaders are well-meaning would answer "yes" to the poll anyways, making it junk data
The neocons are going back to their Trotskyist roots??!?
March 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The neocons are going back to their Trotskyist roots??!?
D. Blaikie would have appealed to both the labour and urban/educated groups the party wants to reach (he was a grad student who wrote his thesis on Charles Taylor! then trained as a union electrician!) but he gave up his seat to be an advisor to Premier Kinew.
March 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
D. Blaikie would have appealed to both the labour and urban/educated groups the party wants to reach (he was a grad student who wrote his thesis on Charles Taylor! then trained as a union electrician!) but he gave up his seat to be an advisor to Premier Kinew.
Part of the problem is competent people gravitated to provincial NDPs that can win
March 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Part of the problem is competent people gravitated to provincial NDPs that can win
I don't think anyone would want to go from their first term as mayor of a city of nearly 3 million people, to leader of the 4th-largest federal party and languishing on the opposition benches.
March 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I don't think anyone would want to go from their first term as mayor of a city of nearly 3 million people, to leader of the 4th-largest federal party and languishing on the opposition benches.
Taught about Homer and a basic summary of what happens in the Iliad and Odyssey? Yes. Actually read his works? No.
March 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Taught about Homer and a basic summary of what happens in the Iliad and Odyssey? Yes. Actually read his works? No.
There's a special place in hell for anyone like Peter K. Navarro who engages in bad faith negotiations with the sovereign realm of Canada
March 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There's a special place in hell for anyone like Peter K. Navarro who engages in bad faith negotiations with the sovereign realm of Canada
Or better yet, hold a G6 meeting ... there's already a precedent that trying to destroy the sovereignty of Ukraine gets you kicked out lol
February 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Or better yet, hold a G6 meeting ... there's already a precedent that trying to destroy the sovereignty of Ukraine gets you kicked out lol
As recently as the late 2010s you used to be able to buy the morning's Globe and Mail on Canadian domestic flights, or borrow a copy while sitting in most cafes in Vancouver. I haven't seen either since Covid. We are in a post-print world.
February 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As recently as the late 2010s you used to be able to buy the morning's Globe and Mail on Canadian domestic flights, or borrow a copy while sitting in most cafes in Vancouver. I haven't seen either since Covid. We are in a post-print world.
What a difference a decade makes! In elementary school mid-2000s, we did "newspaper quizzes": everyone gets a newspaper and 10 questions that are answered by today's news. Which forced us to familiarize ourselves with the sections and where news about (say) stock prices would likely be found.
February 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What a difference a decade makes! In elementary school mid-2000s, we did "newspaper quizzes": everyone gets a newspaper and 10 questions that are answered by today's news. Which forced us to familiarize ourselves with the sections and where news about (say) stock prices would likely be found.
Guess that's just where the incentives lie for a young conservative who wants to work in politics. Whereas someone like Boessenkool who'd be fine never being a CPC staffer again is free to speak his mind
February 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Guess that's just where the incentives lie for a young conservative who wants to work in politics. Whereas someone like Boessenkool who'd be fine never being a CPC staffer again is free to speak his mind
Pivot to Asia! And by "Asia", I mean "southwest Asia"
February 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Pivot to Asia! And by "Asia", I mean "southwest Asia"