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I frequently see natalists, trads, etc. promote detached SFH at all costs, because they have negligibly higher fertility than terraced homes, as though low-density sprawl is the solution to demographic problems (and, apparently, sexual immorality). It's naive and will backfire.
According to natural law and Catholic moral theology, large families are the norm. But it is difficult to have such families without single-family housing. The obstacles that developers and state and city officials put in the way of building a sufficient amount of such housing is
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This is more generally a failure of all modern ideology, which stems from political rationalism. It's an attempt to obscure the personal nature of politics (someone must issue the judgment) behind abstraction and idealization, expressed in universal rules or procedures.
The fundamental problem of Boomercon Conservatism is its naive belief that politics can be boiled down to a bunch of sacred pre-existing rules and procedures that are objectively neutral. That is not what politics is. It isn’t even what how politics is adjudicated. Politics is
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Most "conservationist" efforts are just ways to shift burden of responsibility from major systemic causes to trivial individual choices. It reconciles your conscience to the defects in the social order, which pacifies the former and sanctifies the latter. It's political quietism.
The one psyop I believe in is that I find basically all water conservation measures insane. We shouldn’t have to save water! We’re not the ones using it!! Fuck you I’ll take long showers
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@PhilWMagness @MrMaitra You don't know what you're talking about. You read the intro to his wikipedia page Schmitt was a member of the NSDAP, as were most German academics, who were required to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler. He was not a committed Nazi and he was eventually viewed as a dissident
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Carl Schmitt literally argued for the opposite of most of what is attributed to him. Schmitt the democrat, the opponent of total war, the foe of legal arbitrariness, the critic of National Socialism, the modernist, the defender of domestic peace and global pluralism, etc.
The discourse around Schmitt in the anglosphere is totally nuts. I was taught him quite normally and naturally in law school as one of the greatest legal theorists of the 20th century. This level of hand-wringing is so bizarre.
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Young Republicans are not "embracing Nazism" any more than rock bands in the 80s "embraced Nazism" or "the Confederacy." These are countercultural symbols used to communicate protest against reigning values. Hysterical denunciations only encourage them to double down.
There is clearly something to this analogy, but saying it's "exactly the same thing" is preposterous. It's true that young Republicans embrace of Nazism is, in part, just a way to thumb their nose at annoying scolds. But also ... it's Nazism.
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most critics of Schmitt have never bothered to read him the sad truth is that these people are so stupid that, even when they do read Schmitt, they can't understand him
I've been prompted by all the post-Kirk RW screeching about "the friend/enemy distinction" to read Schmitt's "Concept of the Political" again. This time round I'm really struck by what an overrated charlatan the man was. It's no coincidence, I think, that the channel through
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Pope Leo XIV has condemned usury as a “grave sin” that exploits and enslaves the vulnerable, calling it a sign of the “corruption of the human heart.” “How far from God,” Pope Leo declared, “is the attitude of those who crush people until they become slaves! Usury is not merely
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Obviously what it means for conscience to be well-formed is to conform itself to the rule of truth, which rule is expressed in God's Church. But while that involves submission to ecclesiastical authorities, it does not mean surrendering one's faculty to an institutionalized proxy
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These people begin with the modern assumption that moral judgments are basically subjective and capricious and cannot be relied upon to approximate the same truth, so public institutions (the papacy, as analogue to Hobbes' Leviathan) need to step in to ensure final agreement.
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Elaborated more in linked post below. Papal positivists insist on an incoherent private-public judgment dichotomy that leaves private judgment arbitrary and makes public judgment into a privileged species of private judgment. The result is voluntarism. https://t.co/Sk9H2UYyMj
One of the main stumbling blocks for Catholics and our critics is a misconception of the papacy as the last device in a mechanical procedure that fabricates doctrine with a note of content-independent epistemic certainty. 'Papal positivism' is an apt description for this error.
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Most condemnations of "trad dissenters" on grounds of "private judgment" simply fail both to understand the primacy of conscience and to distinguish between well-formed conscience and mere opinion. Per Benedict XVI (then Fr. Ratzinger):
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genealogies of modernity tradcaths blaming nominalism: "Ideas Have Consequences" by Richard Weaver Orthodox blaming the filioque: "The RAPE in the ASS" by Philip Sherrard
The thesis of this book is unironically: the filioque led to the horrors of modern science (scientism, materialism, etc)
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Brave Patrick Casey "doesn't entirely disagree" with Ben Shapiro, but just wants to make sure that he ("paleocon stuff") is left untouched. Thankfully he also mentions his support for Yoram Hazony, which is relevant for reasons
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Brave Patrick Casey "doesn't entirely disagree" with Ben Shapiro, but just wants to make sure that he ("paleocon stuff") is left untouched. Thankfully he also mentions his support for Yoram Hazony, which is relevant for reasons
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This isn’t even the opinion of actual Roman+Christian authors of late antiquity. From Tacitus to Salvian, they praised Germans for their moral virtue, especially courage. Modern scholarship indicates a sophisticated agricultural society before Christianization.
Pagan white nationalists are really funny to me The whole concept of a pan-European identity stems from Christianity Germanics peoples in particular did absolutely nothing of value pre-Christianity, they were uga booga tribe people
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Many trads I know actually want 'austere' and 'simple' masses. I generally prefer low mass. But what NO apologists call "simplicity" really means "banality" - a liturgy that feels continuous with the mundane and profane ordinary life. Loss of the sacred and transcendent.
We have to face the fact that the "noble simplicity" promoted for the last six decades often simply meant "ugly."
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A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil All over some useless YR beef And then the GOP condemned them Fuck
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
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How do these people even distinguish between their idealized 'native Americans' and white Americans? How can anyone be 'native' on their hyper-individualistic, deracinated worldview? Everyone would just be 'native' to wherever he personally happens to be born.
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White Europeans are "natives" not because they've lived on this soil forever, but because they are the original inhabitants of "the land." The soil becomes a "land" when it's brought under the rule of a political community. And American Indians are not that community.
This has to be an Ellis Island insecurity thing most founding stock Americans have this reverential thing for the Native Americans
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