Scott the Cave Dweller
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The purpose of a system is what it does, or how Plato is right for the wrong reasons. Catholic, father of 8. Ball sports are good.
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Joined September 2008
Excellent thread below that elevates the immigration discussion over 99.9% of the takes out there (and I’d include the pope as one of those guilty of distorting where the tensions in the issue lie). The burdens are felt by millions and millions predominantly among working class citizens, legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants and include stress on the marketplace and social services, as well as victimhood of crime especially related to drug and sex trafficking. The very avatar of the righteously desperate border hopper looking for a better life has a high likelihood of life on the margin and being a victim to a culture of crime. This is what 40 years of the same approach to border security has brought. Those pushing back on new policy, particularly in the Church, are NOT offering alternate solutions. Make no mistake, they are arguing for a status quo that maintains a permanent underclass and millions of victims of trafficking and trafficking-related crime. It’s time to move beyond their unserious platitudes.
Many people are avoid the real issues with Vance's position on immigration, because addressing it seriously raises hard and uncomfortable questions, especially for those who take Catholic social teaching seriously, and don't reduce it to slogans or weaponize it for their politics
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👀 so the $TSLA correction is done in with this news and price action dipping below the 50 fib then…
BREAKING: LEGENDARY INVESTOR, RAY DALIO, BOUGHT $62 MILLION WORTH OF $TSLA 👀 He’s the founder of Bridgewater Associates !
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I noticed 2 things after Covid as a manager and from knowing other managers, one that Jamie Dimon swerves by completely: 1. Everything he says is pretty much true about employees; less accountability, less collaboration, less productivity, less respect. 2. For all the lip service, performance to aligned goals didn’t mean sh!t for the employee; less opportunity, less compensation (or more workload), less development, less respect, less transparency, and far less honesty. I have no idea about JP Morgan specifically but I’d be surprised if they were all that different from the situations I’d heard about in tech, service, consumer, and finance.
👀 In leaked audio, Jamie Dimon takes his employees, especially the younger ones, to the woodshed over their desire to keep “working” remotely. 🔥
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@FrTotleben92742 Eh, sometimes it’s just how for annoying they can be even when you do answer their arguments. But that’s not what’s going on here with such superficial engagement of the core ideas on this issue.
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@naomirwolf I honestly question the motives of those who object to transparency in government. Countless agencies have been scraping for decades the data @DOGE are using to expose waste, grift, corruption, and unaccountable statecraft but this is a coup?
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I honestly question the motives of those who object to transparency in government. Countless agencies have been scraping for decades the data @DOGE are using to expose waste, grift, corruption, and unaccountable statecraft but this is a coup?
"Elon Musk and his engineers may have just crossed the Rubicon—capturing data and power beyond any president. What really happened in those critical days? And why is no one talking about it?"
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Spare me the BS of who is holding the disadvantaged hostage as the grift, waste, and corruption are exposed. It’s not @elonmusk & @DOGE. And these are not just disagreements about how to spend the money.
The NGO that let the old lady in Thailand die because they couldn't afford oxygen is: International Rescue Committee (IRC) IRC's CEO, David Milliband, has a salary of $1.2 MILLION. Big score for former member of British Parliament! Other officers pulling $300k-400k. Also...🧵
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RT @TylerWilson119: Remember when everyone said BRICS would replace the dollar LUL I went to college for you
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Another banger.
Some people claim that conservative Catholics treat Francis differently than JP2/Benedict, allegedly because Francis disagrees with them, while JP2/Benedict agreed with them. I don't think this is true. I think they show the same attitude, but under changed circumstances.
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Very good thread that captures the issues with the reception of the pope’s letter to the USCCB. The teaching is understood and accepted in a broad sense. But it is one-dimensional and as such provides little, if any, prudential guidance for redress of the current situation.
Once you strip away the rhetoric, Francis' position in his immigration letter is, "Governments have the right to regulate immigration and enforce immigration laws, but the only morally legitimate enforcement action is to deport serious criminals who are in the country illegally."
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Prudentially that has been the approach off and on for 40 years that got us where we are today with a permanent immigrant underclass and millions of crime victims among citizens, legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants, including the horrors with and adjacent to human and drug trafficking.
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RT @BackwardsFeet: "We need to get rid of the bells to be a Vatican II parish/diocese/Church" Things Vatican II didn't say: get rid of the…
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@bantg @ZssBecker Why do people have to over complicate things? The real Ethereum is the friends we made along the way.
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One of many inconsistencies on this issue.
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@djro41 @GrageDustin States rights unless the state advocates against natural law, and then I’m unhappy it came to that because I live next to 🤡s.
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That’s gold, Jerry! Gold! -8°F this morning. Spring can’t get here soon enough.
Phil Mickelson talking about the process that goes into selecting a club never gets old to listen to. Great lesson for amateur and junior golfers on how much the small details truly matter.
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