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gzt · 2025-11-06T19:48:53-0600

I think we're kind of wandering far from Orthodox Christianity at this point. If we really wanted to discuss the man further, which I doubt the utility of, the relevant quotes showing he still holds white nationalist, racist, and misogynist opinions aren't exactly the sort of things the rules allow us to quote. I'm sure there are plenty of other young guys who can speak eloquently to the evils of pornographs.

probinson · 2025-11-06T19:48:40-0600

GoldenBoy89 said:
Some might but there's also no shortage of very wealthy and up and coming wealthy people wanting to move to an attractive, world class city like NYC.

Those people could still reap all the benefits of the attractive, world-class city of NYC by living just a few miles outside of the city limits.

GoldenBoy89 said:
Your question got me thinking... just how many millionaires are there in the US? Google AI says it's about 21 million of them. Way, WAY more than any other country on earth. Care to guess where most of these millionaires live? The big, expensive, high taxing cities. Know why? Because they can afford to.

Perhaps. But set aside for the moment "millionaires" and just think logically. If you could choose to live in two places that were in very close proximity to each other, would the amount you pay in taxes not be a factor in your decision?

GoldenBoy89 said:
I'm going to take a guess you weren't a multi millionaire at the time.

No, I wasn't. But the bottom line is high taxes are preventing growth in my hometown. People have fled the town limits to nearby townships with much lower tax rates. In many cases, you only have to move a mile.

GoldenBoy89 said:
Maybe. I don't really care though. Do you?

I don't really care, but people are making it sound like it's not going to happen. Now that Mamdani has been elected, we'll all find out soon enough. But the activity leading up to his election with surges in inquiries about real estate in surrounding suburbs and Florida may well prove to be harbingers of increased and sustained migration activity outside the city. Only time will tell.

GoldenBoy89 said:
Good question. Why do rich people live in expensive cities as it is now? I mean, if it's as plain and simple as you say it is, how is that not already the case for all these high earners?

Some already do. Will increasing taxes cause more to do it? We'll find out soon enough.

GoldenBoy89 said:
A 2% increase is not likely to be the breaking point.

Maybe. Maybe not. Again, time will tell.

GoldenBoy89 said:
You're right, it doesn't account for that. His campaign and now his administration isn't focused on the wealthy. That's precisely why he won. His administration is promising to focus on helping the working class of the city.

By taxing the rich in the city more. You can't ignore that part of the equation.

Let's look at an oversimplified example to see why the migration of rich people out of the city is extremely important to increased taxes on the rich to help the working class.

Let's say there are ten millionaires living in the city limits now. Let's pretend they are taxed at 5%. That's $500,000 in tax revenue.

Now let's say Mamdani increases that tax rate by 2% to 7%. This increase causes 2 of those 10 people to leave the city limits. Now the tax revenue from the remaining 8 people is $560,000. That is only a 12% increase in tax revenue vs. a 40% increase if the size of the tax base had stayed constant.

Again, I realize these are oversimplified and completely fabricated numbers, but it illustrates the impact that people leaving will have on tax revenues, which are needed to implement Mamdani's policies. And again, only time will tell how much of an impact this will have.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-06T19:45:04-0600

GoldenBoy89 said:
Anything from the biggest, most influential Republican in the country?

No, he's been dead for years

Multifavs · 2025-11-06T19:43:59-0600

Today I found a typo in the written version of Kirby and the Rod of Darkness! At one point in chapter 40, I spelled "deactivate" like "deactive". I wrote that over a year ago, my whole family read it, and no one noticed the mistake. It's so funny when that happens!

There are actually two typos in the written version of Mystery of the Mirror Rift as well. In chapter 2, there was one part where I forgot to start a new paragraph when a different character spoke. In chapter 5, there's a paragraph that just starts talking about "her" without mentioning Susie by name first. I just noticed that is actually the case in the digital version also, so I should go and fix that!

GoldenBoy89 · 2025-11-06T19:42:30-0600

LizaMarie said:
Fortunately many Republicans on X are slamming and calling out Tucker for platforming this weasel. They include Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, Dinesh D'Souza, and many more. And the President of Heritage Foundation who defended Tucker for giving him a soft ball interview has resigned. So there's hope there.

Anything from the biggest, most influential Republican in the country?

JosephZ · 2025-11-06T19:40:40-0600

High Fidelity said:
Britain for the British is a very nice thought.

France for the French, too.

Yet another terror attack today as a Muslim rimmed 10 people leaving some critically injured before yelling Allah Akbar upon arrest.

Maybe he's reading the writing on the wall, consider Islam is a plague on Europe and Europeans are paying the price.

If you're talking about the knife attack on a train at Huntingdon station, that wasn't related to Islam or Islamist terrorism.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-11-06T19:39:45-0600

All I can say is that I hope Mandami's policies are successful and lead to a thriving New York City.

NxNW · 2025-11-06T19:39:34-0600

GoldenBoy89 said:
I love the juxtaposition of a literal army of dudes dressed to the teeth in all this insane tacticool gear that would make a Russian invader in Ukraine feel jealous... being brought down by a hoagie. We are truly living in the dumbest of timelines.

Glad the jury saw it that way too.

If it'd had mayo, that would have been a different kettle of fish altogether.

Chesterton · 2025-11-06T19:36:45-0600

is "don't talk about the game".

Rule number two is...

Chesterton · 2025-11-06T19:35:17-0600

FenderTL5 said:
Maybe Fr Josiah can invite Hasan Piker or Destiny to deliver the homily next Sunday.. you know just for the free speech of it all.

No need. In our messed up world, their free speech is acceptable and secure.

fhansen · 2025-11-06T19:32:18-0600

Brightfame52 said:
Do you realize that you are in opposition to the saving death of Christ?

I know that I'm consistent with his gosepl as received, understood, and taught by His church for the last 2+ millenia.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-11-06T19:32:15-0600

JosephZ said:
That's pretty much how a SNAP card already works, so there would be no need to change the current system.

That is good.

Chesterton · 2025-11-06T19:31:43-0600

ThatRobGuy said:
When some Christians take the "Ted Cruz approach" and suggest that it's a "moral duty to support Israel and we need to take the side of the settlers, they're God's chosen people and our closest friends in the middle east"... I want to tell them "You realize if you went over on a family vacation, they'd spit at your wife & kids, and there wouldn't be a darn thing you could do about it, you'd have to stand there in shame and take it because an IDF soldier would pounce if you tried, right?"

About 30% of Israeli Jews are more or less strictly religiously observant. I imagine only a small number of those would spit on us. But some would do worse.

They'd spit on us because we shouldn't be there because they have the silly idea that the Abrahamic covenant was a real estate transaction.

probinson · 2025-11-06T19:29:51-0600

Fantine said:
Free federal expensive state. Only cash app covers both for free. Most people would benefit from the IRS filing program. States should do the same.

IRS Direct File was only for federal filing.

In PA, they have "myPATH", which is how I do my state taxes. I use TurboTax for my federal filing, but I don't pay the extra for the state filing. The IRS Direct File never included state filing. Pretty sure most states have a free tax filing website.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-06T19:28:42-0600

rambot said:
Well no it didn't.
You posted the newsweek article AND you posted what looks to be an AI summary that disproves his ability to do such an action. The information in the article is NOT related to your AI summary.

I openned the article and read the article, thanks.

The format of the article was NOT what you posted. Additionally, it did not have the information you provided that you now seem to be indicating was in the newsweek article. That is false. I have to ask...did YOU read the article you posted?

You have recently begun creating posts in this format (numbered with bolded). You have not done this in that past.
It's actually not a big deal if you do use AI...just credit it. This would INCLUDE summaries of articles.

But yeah, let's not pretend your post Actually provides information located in the article after "Here's the problem"

GoldenBoy89 · 2025-11-06T19:26:38-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
WASHINGTON — Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case against "sandwich guy," the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty Thursday after several hours of deliberations.

The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches — deliberated the charges for several hours Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict.

In closing arguments, defense attorney Sabrina Shroff argued that a sandwich could not and did not cause harm.

I love the juxtaposition of a literal army of dudes dressed to the teeth in all this insane tacticool gear that would make a Russian invader in Ukraine feel jealous... being brought down by a hoagie. We are truly living in the dumbest of timelines.

Glad the jury saw it that way too.

prodromos · 2025-11-06T19:23:46-0600

FenderTL5 said:
Maybe Fr Josiah can invite Hasan Piker or Destiny to deliver the homily next Sunday.. you know just for the free speech of it all.

You obviously need prayer.

A Devil's Advocate · 2025-11-06T19:23:09-0600

Abraham1st said:
God did not reprimand the serpent until the woman had told to God what she had done, and she acknowledges that the serpent beguiled her.

Abraham1st said:
Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Abraham1st said:
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. ( NO SUCH THING AS SPIRITUL DEATH, that would be another Jesus, another gospel.)

Abraham1st said:
So by what was committed, sin entered into the world, that is Adams transgression, an act of disobedience that the law also enforces, by death on all who were disobedient against it., the same way. (death reigns by the law, by being put to death for offences committed, and by dying in their sins, as the sacrifices of the law were never able to fully take away the conscience of sins.)

Abraham1st said:
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

You say that sin was not in the world until Adam's transgression, and the serpent deceiving Eve was not a sin until God reprimanded the serpent for it. Are you not defining the act (the serpent sinning) by the consequence (God reprimanding the serpent)? An act is not defined by it's consequence because an act could have many different consequences. The consequence is evidence of the act. God reprimanding the serpent is evidence of the serpent's sin. A sin that took place before Adam's disobedience.

It seems you are saying that the law is what causes death, not the sin. I would agree in that if you break the law, there is a consequence, but that consequence isn't an automatic effect of the law, but God's enforcement of the law. 'For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed where there is no law' This is stating that there are no legal repercussions where there is no law, not that there is no death where there is no law. This is evident by the next verse that tells us death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had no law to break.

Death reigned because a command was broken with Adam. Adam breaking the command didn't bring about an automatic effect of death, but the punishment (wages) of death (spiritual death). This is a death that all man has inherited. How else would death reign without any law? This death that all man has inherited is what leads us all into sin.

You say there is not such thing as spiritual death. Then what was the death that God said would take place in the day they at from the tree? If there is no such thing as spiritual death, then how did Eve know she had been deceived?

It is clear in scripture that we consist of three facets, body, soul, and spirit. The body (flesh) is fairly self explanatory. The soul is what animates the body. It is through the soul that we are aware of our own existence. Then there is the spirit. This is our connection to the divine (God). God is spirit and to carry out a relationship with God would require that we too have a spirit through which this relationship can exist.

At the end of Gen 3:22 God makes it clear that should Adam and Eve eat also from the tree of life, they would live forever. This would not be possible if sin eventually leads to physical death. That is a contradiction. God's statement only makes sense if physical death is a normal part of human existence. That rules out physical death being what God warned Adam of. The death of the soul would be indistinguishable from the death of the body since the soul is what animates the body. So that rules out the soul. Leaving the spirit to be the only place death could have taken place.

Also, when the serpent deceived Eve, he assured her of two things: that she wouldn't die, and that she would become like God in knowing good and evil. Knowing good and evil is confirmed by God in Gen 3:22. When the serpent said she wouldn't die, she would have understood this to be physical death since physical death was a normal part of existence. Spiritual death would have been unknowable until they had experienced it. So her not dying, as the serpent said, by her perspective was also true. So how did she come to realize she had been deceived? The only possible answer would be that she experienced spiritual death. Something deep within her had died. Where did these new emotions of guilt, shame, and fear arise from if nothing within her had changed?

Just as the trinity is never specifically mentioned in scripture, we are able to ascertain this through the evidence found in scripture. The same holds true for spiritual death.

PTW · 2025-11-06T19:19:30-0600

Woody Woodpecker

FenderTL5 · 2025-11-06T19:19:24-0600

Chesterton said:
And another thing, speaking of NYC...

If it looks like I agree with or am defending Fuentes, no, I'm in it for free speech. I agree with some things he says, I strongly disagree with others. But if they can cancel people now, they may cancel Christians for being Christian in the future. They've already been legislating bits of Christianity in the U.K. and Canada.

If you don't know, there are two social media guys opposed to Nick. Both have very large followings on Twitch. They are Hasan Piker and a guy who goes by Destiny. Hasan is a Muslim Communist. He was invited and attended Mamdani's victory party two nights ago. To get in required an invitation and a ticket. Hasan has said that the 9/11 attacks were wonderful and deserved. He has blatantly called for his followers to murder middle class Americans in the streets.

Destiny has described the time he himself was going to murder a person who lives near him, because the person disagrees with him online. He described purchasing a gun, plotting it out, but then changed his mind because, in his words, he makes too much money online.

So it's the double-standard and hypocrisy that grinds my gears. Nick makes cookie joke thing, gets his life turned upside down. Hasan and Destiny outright call for and approve of violence against innocent people, and nobody lays a finger on them. They just sit back and keep using their hate to keep raking in the dough.

Maybe Fr Josiah can invite Hasan Piker or Destiny to deliver the homily next Sunday.. you know just for the free speech of it all.

Chesterton · 2025-11-06T19:17:38-0600

I can smell the anti-Semitism through my monitor.

Belk · 2025-11-06T19:15:29-0600

Sportsballfan said:
Not quite.

It can describe it better.

Cosmic Charlie · 2025-11-06T19:15:08-0600

RileyG said:
Bodily burial is ALWAYS preferred, but cremation is allowed.

Can't do it.

Too claustrophobic. Too Northern.

I'm a Northern Tier residence with a lifetime of experience with the cold. And I live it, but I know how brutal it is and I'm not spending years in a tight coffin with my butt frozen to the silk lining.

"Burn my body in the broad daylight and scatter my ashes in the dead of night".

Let me blow in the wind.

GoldenBoy89 · 2025-11-06T19:14:36-0600

dogs4thewin said:
it is not the government's job

It absolutely is. It's right in the preamble to the Constitution what our government's primary jobs are.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

What do you think the "promote the general welfare" part is supposed to mean if it's not helping people slipping through the cracks?

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