krispykola
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Civ-player, saint-documenter
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Without claiming Hillsdale meant this, I have a right as an American to claim all Americans as my ancestors, because I am a rightful inheritor of them as an American whatever the specifics of my direct ancestry.
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Without claiming Hillsdale meant this, I have a right as an American to claim all Americans as my ancestors, because I am a rightful inheritor of them as an American whatever the specifics of my direct ancestry.
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A jaguar, strolling jauntily along. Drawn in Brazil by Dutch artist Frans Post, who was born on this day in 1612.
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A jaguar, strolling jauntily along. Drawn in Brazil by Dutch artist Frans Post, who was born on this day in 1612.
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Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.
The night my grandmother was born, the country doctor who had just delivered her turned to my great-grandparents as he was headed out of the farmhouse and said, "By the way, President Harding is dead."
Trump getting declared as the pedophile president before dying would be some Harding shit
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The night my grandmother was born, the country doctor who had just delivered her turned to my great-grandparents as he was headed out of the farmhouse and said, "By the way, President Harding is dead."
Not exactly the same thing, but preaching professor warned us about the sources we consulted before writing a sermon. If not careful, it's really easy to regurgitate what you read and hear "undigested" in your preaching, especially when you're working week-to-week.
A friend of mine once wrote that there are certain writers whose prose, when not fully assimilated, ends up affecting their epigones in a way that undigested blocks of pastiche resurface throughout the epigone's career like one of those recurrent tropical fevers. (Kipling and Tolkien do this too.)
8) Do not try to be Robert E. Howard.
Pastiche has a strong, terribly magnetic appeal to a lot of fans, but more often than not trying to write like another author or continue the adventures of their character just ends in disappointment. Find your own voice. Write your own characters.
Pastiche has a strong, terribly magnetic appeal to a lot of fans, but more often than not trying to write like another author or continue the adventures of their character just ends in disappointment. Find your own voice. Write your own characters.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Not exactly the same thing, but preaching professor warned us about the sources we consulted before writing a sermon. If not careful, it's really easy to regurgitate what you read and hear "undigested" in your preaching, especially when you're working week-to-week.
My anthropology prof in college had studied a tribe in the Amazon that, when they were "found", they had already acquired materials from the outside world, like t-shirts. For this reason, he said he found the idea of the prime directive to be hard to enforce in practice.
Taking a statistical approach to examining the records of the Five Year Mission of the Federation Starship USS Enterprise, in the hopes that it may help future officers who find themselves in similar situations.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My anthropology prof in college had studied a tribe in the Amazon that, when they were "found", they had already acquired materials from the outside world, like t-shirts. For this reason, he said he found the idea of the prime directive to be hard to enforce in practice.
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Anyway, maybe this comes off as performative, but I think we need to perform solidarity and love for our neighbors loudly again.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Anyway, maybe this comes off as performative, but I think we need to perform solidarity and love for our neighbors loudly again.
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I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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The American project must be nothing less than the quest to achieve universal brotherhood of the entire human race
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The American project must be nothing less than the quest to achieve universal brotherhood of the entire human race
I grew up around some pretty conservative kids, many of whom were close friends. They never said stuff like this no matter how private or "jokey" the conversation. They showed more character than the 30 yr-olds in this group chat.
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
October 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I grew up around some pretty conservative kids, many of whom were close friends. They never said stuff like this no matter how private or "jokey" the conversation. They showed more character than the 30 yr-olds in this group chat.
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And the men who predictably said nothing in her defence are cowards.
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
And the men who predictably said nothing in her defence are cowards.
I appreciate the sentiment, but dang if us Lutherans haven't been catching strays lately
Look, this is what Catholicism does so well. Yes girl, BRING OUT THE MONSTRANCE. MAKE THEM SAY IT IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. Martin Luther could *never*. He failed to predict the Trump Presidency and also is directly implecated. I am so serious.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I appreciate the sentiment, but dang if us Lutherans haven't been catching strays lately
I want a movie about old and gnarly military veterans of the Triarii, the final battle line of the ancient Roman Republican army. Guys who are over war, but they will use their skills and their spears to defend the rear of their force, no matter what.
My version of “Robert Bly poetry for my fellas” would have a lot of “resist the lure of youthful appearance, my dudes, embrace how gnarled and weird and cool our bodies get when well used and well cared for”.
October 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I want a movie about old and gnarly military veterans of the Triarii, the final battle line of the ancient Roman Republican army. Guys who are over war, but they will use their skills and their spears to defend the rear of their force, no matter what.
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Like yeah, homeless encampments are unsightly! I don’t love seeing them, either! But they are a SYMPTOM of the real problem and none of that means it’s ethical to trash people’s stuff or ban unhoused people from existing in public.
October 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Like yeah, homeless encampments are unsightly! I don’t love seeing them, either! But they are a SYMPTOM of the real problem and none of that means it’s ethical to trash people’s stuff or ban unhoused people from existing in public.
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your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤
September 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
Snowden is always great, but I really like the format of "here are 3 increasingly intense solutions to this problem" for posting
The small policy move is "ban advertising for sportsbooks on public airwaves", the medium move is "antitrust and financial regulation for ESPN" and the ultimate move is "create a regulatory body to oversee professional sports leagues".
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Snowden is always great, but I really like the format of "here are 3 increasingly intense solutions to this problem" for posting
When I was in high school, I wrote a paper comparing the short story to the original movie from the '30's. Had to track down a video store(!) that still carried it. Guy running the store was like, "oh yeah, that's a classic." Memorable short story and memorable exercise for teenage me.
The Most Dangerous Game is a fantastic short story by a journalist who served in WWI. It’s in the public domain, you can read it for free
September 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When I was in high school, I wrote a paper comparing the short story to the original movie from the '30's. Had to track down a video store(!) that still carried it. Guy running the store was like, "oh yeah, that's a classic." Memorable short story and memorable exercise for teenage me.
This is also why I feel like the Confessions need to be taught in context the same way we like to teach scripture.
When we were studying the Lutheran Confessions in seminary, I was like, "Would these guys have written all this stuff exactly this way if they knew about the massively devastating religious war that was coming a few decades later?" Maybe! But also, maybe not.
September 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is also why I feel like the Confessions need to be taught in context the same way we like to teach scripture.
Starfish gets it
we realized that if the warhammer store went out of business, there would be nowhere to play warhammer and also no warhammer
I faintly remember that 3D printers were supposed to transform society. what happened to that?
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Starfish gets it
Thinking about how many times during the Roman Republic certain men illegally ran for the consulship (because they were too young, had held the office recently, etc.) and won anyway.
Yep, I see a lot of this. People still talking about the 2028 primary like the conclusion is not foregone. Trump will run, Trump will win the nomination, and SCOTUS will figure out some tortured reason why he is actually allowed to run.
Among the many delusions a lot of people have is the one that Trump won't run in 2028
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thinking about how many times during the Roman Republic certain men illegally ran for the consulship (because they were too young, had held the office recently, etc.) and won anyway.
Like the old preacher adage about how everyone comes through the line after service saying, "I know someone who needed to hear that sermon." Yes! You! You needed to hear it!
it genuinely drives me insane! it's like none of them have understood the hadotian point about philosophy being how to change *your* life
It's kinda sad when you realise there's all these points about the necessity of civic virtue and personal integrity one can get from tradition and a lot of people seem to take away "no gays" as pretty much it.
August 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Like the old preacher adage about how everyone comes through the line after service saying, "I know someone who needed to hear that sermon." Yes! You! You needed to hear it!
Gave a sermon today on Luke 12:49-56. Decided to risk getting a little political and talked about the military authoritarianism we're witnessing as a "sign of the times" that Jesus talks about. Congregation was nodding along in agreement regardless of their party affiliation.
The problem with this thinking is not that voters are all savvy politicos, it's that VOTERS HOLD POLITICAL VALUES AND BELIEFS. Those beliefs are incredibly susceptible to perceived media and social consensus, which makes them incredibly malleable. But voters have ideology, not just self-interest.
I think a lot of it comes out of elite Democrats' fundamental contempt for American voters - they don't believe voters can be trusted to recognize that authoritarianism and lawlessness is bad. They think voters are stomachs with mouths who can only be convinced by appealing to their self-interest
August 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Gave a sermon today on Luke 12:49-56. Decided to risk getting a little political and talked about the military authoritarianism we're witnessing as a "sign of the times" that Jesus talks about. Congregation was nodding along in agreement regardless of their party affiliation.
I'd go with "adiaphora" rather than "trivial", but yeah
to me, the opposite of “religious” isn’t “secular”, but “trivial”.
August 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I'd go with "adiaphora" rather than "trivial", but yeah