I'll say this about the Venezuela boat strikes, I appreciate how many prominent members of the administration are basically stating on the record that they are involved in a criminal conspiracy and should be imprisoned immediately following the collapse of the regime.
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Queer Episcopalian thirty something. History, theology, trees, heavy metal.
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jesus christ
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Look, the next Democratic president needs to put everybody involved, from Trump all the way down, on trial for murder. They blew up 11 civilians in broad daylight without statutory authorization.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
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Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man, 1992.
Americans want to solve all our problems by just killing people but we don't have any actual problems right now so we're just killing people anyways.
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Yeah.
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I Do wonder if the collapse of even a moral or theological pretense is a result of this consumerist, individualist religious attitude.
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But now even they are weaker, Dobson could endorse Ted Cruz or whoever but evangelicals still went for Trump. Instead Christian conservatives are now an atomistic collection of individuals all sanctifying their prejudices and basest impulses.
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The institutions aren’t, though. The Power of churches themselves was waning even in the 1980s onward as people continued to congregation hop and church shop, instead it was para church groups (who by necessity kept the theology vague but the politics ultra specific) that gathered power.
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Chat do we need woke Straussianism?
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The thing about ‘national conservatism’ is that it accurately diagnoses a lot of pathologies and then proposes: let’s make all of them worse.
