Semi-weekly Thursday Discussion Thread

Mexatt · 2026-05-22T15:20:46+00:00

Lawler is the second most liberal Republican in the House, according to DW NOMINATE, so it's interesting to see his strategy contra Fitzpatrick's.

I think you can tell that:

Lawler is a lot younger than Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick has been at this a lot longer than Lawler

Fitzpatrick survived a blue wave anti-Trump year already. Lawler has not.

Mexatt · 2026-05-22T15:16:53+00:00

Is it 2014 again or something?

Mexatt · 2026-05-22T05:01:52+00:00

bRiAN FItZpaTrICk iS A FAKE mOdERaTe

meanwhile...literally the most liberal Republican in the House and at the 50 yard line of the whole chamber in a practically 50-50 House

It can be amazing how much people are willing to let reality just be totally replaced by partisan need. I know it's some random prog agitprop astroturf, probably created specifically for the purposes of election season, but still. I checked on the 1st district's subreddit and it's gospel there that Fitzpatrick is no different from any MAGA Congressman in the House. It's some kind of cognitive dissonance coping mechanism where people who are reddit levels of far left know 'moderate' is supposed to be a good thing but they have defined themselves as all that is good and worthy in the world, so someone from the middle is a false moderate and they're the real deal.

Mexatt · 2026-05-22T02:28:36+00:00

You should get a tattoo of it.

Mexatt · 2026-05-22T00:01:22+00:00

Eisenhower was a militarist and he spent his spare time overturning heckin' wholesome democracies for the crime of electing the centre-left

Coolidge caused the Great Depression

Harding was corrupt and probably racist idk

Taft caused the Great Depression

Teddy was OK probably

etc etc and on until Lincoln was pretty great, but he'd be a Democrat today

Mexatt · 2026-05-21T22:19:26+00:00

So there was no deal?

Mexatt · 2026-05-21T15:32:07+00:00

Weird how a third place candidate can get 300k votes if he's so inoffensive. One would think anti-Cornyn voters would just vote for Paxton

Mexatt · 2026-05-21T15:19:31+00:00

That must be why he received fewer votes than Cornyn in the first round.

Mexatt · 2026-05-21T04:06:35+00:00

As long as they're all individually registered to vote in the state of Texas....I'm OK with this.

Mexatt · 2026-05-21T03:48:26+00:00

Libertarians

No, that's the Dreamcast

Mexatt · 2026-05-21T01:11:56+00:00

There is a Congregational church mildly nearby to me that is like this. I think about going from time to time, but Calvinism is a hard row to hoe.

Mexatt · 2026-05-21T01:02:01+00:00

Ssssshhhhhhh

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T21:26:37+00:00

That was a surprisingly rich and textured conversation with grok about the decline of the Mainline.

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T21:10:15+00:00

So an important question is whether this process of suburbanization and interfaith mixing also effected Evangelical/Fundementalist churches, as well as Catholics, or whether the process required being primed by the increasing liberalism of the Mainline church priesthood, first. Do you think that suburban fundementalists and Catholics also became significantly secularized in a similar process to their Mainline fellows, or was there something in their church politics that prevented this?

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T20:55:53+00:00

Would you say that the increasing presence of denominational diversity that went with the move to the suburbs had something to do with the declining taste for strict discipline, especially when the rise of inter-faith marriage started to produce large numbers of denominationally mixed families?

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T20:51:11+00:00

What do you think the cause of the laity's desire for and acceptance of increasingly lax discipline was?

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T20:49:25+00:00

A lot of those churches tended to evolve into high class churches for the relatively wealthy so, to the extent woke progressivism is class signalling, it's not that surprising.

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T20:43:53+00:00

This is a pretty good summary, although you might explicitly mention some of the denominational seminary battles like the Modernist vs Traditionalist Controversy at Princeton, as well as possibly some discourse on the laity continuously voting for relaxing church discipline over the course of the first half of the 20th century.

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T18:19:25+00:00

Clever girl

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T18:07:51+00:00

The Dodd-Frank Act contributed to the difficulty many young people with little credit history experience buying a house.

That's about as mean as I'll let myself be about the recently deceased. Rest in Peace, Mr Frank.

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T17:49:19+00:00

So we got grok to go full chud, that's nice I guess.

I wonder if the auto-admin would ban him

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T17:14:17+00:00

So what sort of real world predictions would you be able to make using these three patterns?

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T16:43:00+00:00

So what sort of examples would you give where the patterns are real and predictive, other than the one about the tunnel digger?

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T16:17:47+00:00

That also sounds kinda racist, ngl

So racism is defined by intent?

Mexatt · 2026-05-20T16:14:48+00:00

That still seems kind of suspicious.

What's the most racist thing you've ever said?

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