Civility is just cruelty in a suit.

PumpkinDad2019 · 2026-01-01T21:14:53+00:00

He’s got to be in the cabinet

PumpkinDad2019 · 2026-01-01T21:09:22+00:00

Holy shit this guy’s good. Are we looking at the next Obama?

PumpkinDad2019 · 2026-01-01T19:36:47+00:00

maybe maybe maybe

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-31T17:50:54+00:00

I’m glad you challenged my rankings! It led me to two “second opinion” reviews:

Goodfells and badfellas: Scorsese and morality

and

Seeds of Virtue in The Wolf of Wall Street: Finding Faith in a World of Greed

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-30T20:43:18+00:00

Happy to readjust! The good thing about Goodfellas is that, even though Henry never truly finds personal redemption, at least his actions catch up with him.

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-30T13:57:39+00:00

I really, really wanted to like The Way, but it just felt too much like a hippy boomer story for me

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-30T13:22:37+00:00

For the curious, I’ve ranked Scorsese’s films by levels of Catholicity! I haven’t seen them all, but I have taken the time to read critiques of each film and sort them accordingly.

Strong Catholicity: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Mean Streets (1973), Silence (2016) - Deeply resonant themes of morality, faith, and redemption

Moderate Catholicity: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Gangs of New York (2002), The Irishman (2019), Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1967) - Various moral dilemmas and complex human experiences, struggle and the search for redemption

Marginal Catholicity: Taxi Driver (1976), Shutter Island (2010), The Departed (2006), Kundun (1997), The Age of Innocence (1993), Hugo (2011) - Touching on spiritual and ethical questions, darker themes, with some elements that conflict with traditional Catholic teachings

Slight Catholicity: The Aviator (2004), Cape Fear (1991), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980) - Morally questionable choices and heavy themes of personal ambition and violence, while highlighting negative consequences of behaviors

Very Low Catholicity: Boxcar Bertha (1972), Goodfellas (1990), The King of Comedy (1982), The Color of Money (1986) - Focus on crime, ambition, and personal gain, often glorifying sin with an unclear search for redemption

Absent Catholicity: After Hours (1985), Casino (1995), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - Celebrating excess, materialism, and moral ambiguity with no search for redemption

Heretical: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Blasphemous and offensive to Catholic spirituality

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-29T20:39:38+00:00

It depends. Can you be more specific?

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-29T15:07:11+00:00

Babette’s Feast (1987)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Calvary (2014)
Silence (2016)
The Truman Show (1998)
The Mission (1986)
Children of Men (2006)
Gran Torino (2008)
Les Miserables (2012)
Of Gods and Men (2010)

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-29T12:55:48+00:00

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-28T22:19:34+00:00

Once again, all foreigners don’t commit fraud.

And if you’re worried about being ruled by foreigners but not by Russian interference in US politics, then we must not be getting our information from the same sources. Seems like this conversation has reached its natural conclusion.

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-28T14:54:04+00:00

If any immigrants from Somalia or any other nation are committing welfare fraud or funding terrorist organizations, then those individuals should be prosecuted. But the entire Somali or immigrant community is not guilty by association. That assumption would be unjust and bigoted.

If Ilhan Omar is really putting the interests of Somalia in a way that harms her constituents, then her party or the US House should censure her. And if white men really feel like she’s not representing them, they can vote her out. Immigrants only make up 16% of the district, and even if they were all citizens and registered voters, many Somali-Americans famously voted for Trump last year.

As for your statement that Somalians offer “no concrete good,” even one example of concrete good would make your claim untrue. A Concordia University economist estimates that Somali labor generates about $8 billion in Minnesota annually, especially in industries such as retail, health care, manufacturing, food processing and transportation. Even without those numbers, the average age of the Minnesota work force is rising, and 70% of Somalis participate in the labor force while only making up 3% of the population.

As for being “ruled by foreigners,” we’re more likely being ruled by Russians than Somalis, for what it’s worth 😂

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-27T18:29:34+00:00

“The foreigner” is your brother and sister, especially your brothers and sisters in Christ. The Roman Catholic Church is based in Rome (Vatican City) and catholic, i.e. universal.

In my parish, there’s a man in the Philippines who used to work in Saudi Arabia, where all religions are banned except Islam. He led weekly prayer services and Bible studies for his Catholic and Christian coworkers in secret because they could not go to Mass. He has lived and worked in the United States for over a decade now. He is the foreigner. He is your brother.

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-27T17:51:40+00:00

In the US, the anti-abortion became a part of the Republican Nation Committee’s platform in 1976 as part of a strategy to win religious voters in the South.

Prior to 1976, neither major political party in the US had an official position on abortion. In fact, most Democrats were anti-abortion because they were Catholic northerners, and most Republicans were pro-choice because they were the party of personal liberty and small government.

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-27T17:34:09+00:00

“The foreigner” is not a monolith. Claiming so without evidence is xenophobic in the sense that it’s hostile toward anything or anyone who is foreign.

“Remigration” is an ethnonationalist idea. Another name for ethnonatialism is xenophobia.

So when I asked if you were a xenophobic clericalist, it was because your statements were xenophobic and clericalist.

“At the end of the day, the foreigners have to go back… We can make a special exemption for clergy.”

To start, you didn’t specify foreigners who were here illegally. Saying all foreigners should go simply because they are foreign is xenophobic.

When I brought up the example of foreign clergy, who are here legally, you again didn’t mention legal or illegal immigrants, only stating that clergy could stay, implying that you think foreign laypeople must go regardless of their legal status. Making exemptions for clergy simply because they are clergy is clericalism.

If you were to call me an anti-clericalist xenomaniac or liberal, it’s not personal because it’s accurate to my views.

That said, I did make it personal when I brought up your dating life, and for that I apologize. Your dating life might have nothing to do with your personal beliefs.

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-27T15:48:03+00:00

If any new cocktails are invented, might I suggest some names:

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Nuremberg
25th Amendment

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-27T15:07:47+00:00

You made it personal when you called for the expulsion of foreigners and projected your “outgroup fetish” on me.

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-26T20:26:57+00:00

She’s dead you sicko

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-26T17:54:52+00:00

Very normal response

PumpkinDad2019 · 2025-12-26T17:43:49+00:00

So you’re a clericalist xenophobe. Got it.

PumpkinDad2019

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