https://twitter.com/PopChassid/status/1151497622617776129?s=17
Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) Tweeted:
We have ceded religious authority to the “strict” instead of to the pious. We have, even when we disagreed, implicitly believed that being “more religious” means being more inwardly focused.
What an utter abuse of God’s code.
It’s time to flip the script.
https://apnews.com/cfc3e4f0029e49a4b0107bfb59e32ae7
We’re not a nation of racists yet, but we’ve taken a step in that direction.
«The share of Americans who say the country’s openness to people from around the world is “essential to who we are as a nation” is shrinking, according to a new Pew poll.
The poll found that 62% of Americans see openness to others around the world as essential, a number that is down 6 percentage points over the last 10 months. Nearly 6 in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said that if the United States is too open to people from around the world, “we risk losing our identity as a nation.” Pollsters in both parties said that white working-class voters in particular feel left behind by the Democratic Party’s focus on racial and gender equality.»
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/gop-needs-millennial-voters/594034/
Conservatives not giving up on Millenials.
«In my experience, conservative foundational beliefs appeal to our successors. We can win over young Americans to our principles, but first we have to live by those principles.
….
we already have conservative policies that speak to young Americans’ worries, in particular the affordability of the middle-class lifestyle. Reducing regulation to bring down the cost of housing and health care, boosting competition to cut the cost of higher education, encouraging market-friendly solutions for climate change, rebalancing entitlement programs’ intergenerational transfers of wealth—these are all conservative means to deliver what young Americans want.»
“Protect our way of life!” It’s interesting that the only thing the writer is talking about is money. Is that all that matters here?
«There is simply no substitute for retail politics if we are to reclaim Republicanism for principled conservatism. And if we are to save conservatism as a political force in American life, we must all partake of it, finding ways to model the behavior and advocate the policies consistent with our conservatism.»
https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova/status/1151231427385671681?s=17
Natalia Antonova 🐱🔔 (@NataliaAntonova) Tweeted:
There are no easy answers or solutions to abuse, but in my experience what can really work is, “I’ll be there to help if you decide you want out”
And,
“You are really cool and awesome and I care about you very much.”
Not pity. Not anger. But solidarity & affirmation.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/07/willow-creek-church-evangelical-teens-grow-up.html
«I finally understand that we never had a shared faith structure. We went to the same church, some of us for years. We heard the same sermons, slept in the same cabins at camp, read the same books of the Bible, listened to the same music. But we went home to different families. We heard different stories about what it meant to be gay, to be a Christian, to experience the death of someone we loved.»
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/sunday/it-was-never-about-busing.html
No surprises here and no fun to read, but that doesn’t it any less true or important.
https://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/southern-artisan-spirits/cardinal-gin-barrel-rested-gin/
The first sipping gin I ever discovered. Maybe goes in a Negroni, but really: just sip it neat.
The intersection of acting, improv and role-playing.
«Twenty years after its release, The Blair Witch Project writer-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez reveal how they worked with Heather Donahue to make movie history… in extreme close-up.»
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1149943366848843777.html
Facebook and social media in general is off the rails. Fiction and hearsay at the speed of light. Not to mention the coordination of genocide: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/facebook_myanmar_report/.
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