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A good proxy for the divide in modern "conservative" Lutheranism is whether you actually like Luther. Not "he had good ideas despite his personal flaws" but "I like that guy, wish we had more like him"

Recognizing the retard problem as a problem— especially given everyone has digital megaphone in pocket— is a prerequisite for emergence of discipline on the right. At some point, a faction, through luck, necessity, or genius, may actually create some semblance of organization /…

How would this even be possible? There is no centralized RW movement or organization capable of censoring someone who doesn't present well (even if there was, what would stop that person from going out and forming their own alternative movement and gaining followers?)

The attendees of the Jubilee video are incapable of making a useful contribution to any movement (at the discursive level, at least), and trying to police the behavior of such people (through discourse) is a dead-end that will only lead the more capable to muzzle themselves.

The idea that we have to emphasize message control because some goons looked stupid on camera is asinine. The people on the show were idiots who should recognize that fact and shut up. No amount of jabbering about "how we present our views" would have presented this outcome

Update: "Surya" did not put the smile on my face

"But what if they called a football team the Whites"

"I wish there were someone to engage in a productive dialogue"

"Stripe has de-banked us."

consultant. . . placeless intelligence . . . spirit hovering over chaos. . . desire to participate in becoming without dissolving into being. McKinsey as positive philosophy

People discuss physiological & physiognomic decline of Americans/Westerners often, but few talk about even hereditary monarchs, like Qatari, decline. Founder (L) is chiseled, looks like a biblical prophet. Compare to current heir (R)—current Chairman of QatarEnergy, though.

If elites must constantly reassert their worth (through testing), the benefits of aristocracy (leisure, patronage, good taste) are lost. Yet, they must be equal to wielding power. Therefore, we should establish, by fiat, a hereditary aristocracy based on a genetic survey.

God help me

Better that one hundred innocents suffer than a single guilty man go free

What follows in the replies is a discussion of theology -- "I believe in X thing in the Book of Concord, QED." But it is facile to conflate our denominations -- names -- with a menu of theological options. The theological litmus test applied by a denomination to new members is…

Qui's exaggerations always amuse, but more seriously, many Baptist friends have been warning me that we haven't been persecuted hard enough recently for any truly purified Christian to emerge. They recommend we set up something like Xi's regime, but 100x intensity. The goal—…

The truth is, according to Baptist theology we are still waiting for the first real Christian (not just cultural) to exist ever

I foresee a great increase in the importance of private security

Sallust, Con. Cat., 1

Whenever a man no longer needs to be elected the energy around him cools; he has power, but less influence, because no longer does he need loyal subordinates whom he can reward after he comes into power, and never again does the movement need to rally around him or die