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  1. Left Coast

    Joe Biden Is Facing Questions About His Age And Mental Acuity. What About Donald Trump?

    The purpose of the thread, so far as I can tell, is to discuss Trump's mental acuity. Not to pivot to "but what about this thing the Biden admin did???" That's called derailing.
  2. Left Coast

    Joe Biden Is Facing Questions About His Age And Mental Acuity. What About Donald Trump?

    Still not the topic.
  3. Left Coast

    Joe Biden Is Facing Questions About His Age And Mental Acuity. What About Donald Trump?

    Lots of people of all political stripes recognize human trafficking is a problem. But that's not the topic. Take your whataboutism to some other thread.
  4. Left Coast

    Joe Biden Is Facing Questions About His Age And Mental Acuity. What About Donald Trump?

    What does this have to do with Trump's mental acuity or lack thereof?
  5. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    This perception that non-religious people are all totally open-minded and would be just fine with their kids becoming, say, very religious, or adopting very different political or moral beliefs from them, I think is an inaccurate generalization. All you have to do is look at the way some...
  6. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    Nah. People can be 'conservative' regardless of which liturgy they prefer. TLM doesn't have a monopoly on that. And Francis has been 'liberal' in some ways and yet 'conservative' in others. These labels are clunky and inaccurate when applied here. Then I'm sorry, you haven't paid attention...
  7. Left Coast

    We gotta talk about Biden's press conference today

    That's standard stuff. The journos in the room at a Presidential press conference are pre-screened and selected.
  8. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    Of course. It's a multivariate situation. But there's a general trend where people inherit worldviews from their caregivers. This is just as true for non-religious folks as religious folks, I would submit.
  9. Left Coast

    Implicit bias among gay men as a community.

    It's a well-known trend among gays. Also applies to dating behaviors. Interesting to see it quantified in formal research.
  10. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    Perhaps Benedict is reading your thoughts on the matter from heaven? ;)
  11. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    No, I don't. The world is mostly religious, though. We were talking specifically about non-religious people and countries. I don't generally dispute this. Though I will note most immigrants to the West are religious. I think that's wonderful. :) I'm as gay as you are, EH. Please don't...
  12. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    I would bet the trend is generally similar to the kids of religious parents. Most people inherit the worldview of their parents. America is kind of an outlier there - we have an abnormally large rate of conversion and deconversion.
  13. Left Coast

    "Love" - The Ultimate Love Song Collection

    I am familiar with the OG True Colors, I just hadn't heard the JT cover. :) I like it!
  14. Left Coast

    "Love" - The Ultimate Love Song Collection

    Aww thank you! Happy Friday to you as well. I love The Cure's classic there, although the other two were new to me. I appreciate the tunes. :D
  15. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    Norway, another country on the list, has also been having increasingly low birth rates. I believe the UK is in a similar boat.
  16. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    That is a remarkable thing to say! China is on the verge of major problems right now because of their past policies restricting how many kids their citizens are allowed to have. Their population is shrinking.
  17. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    Not really. The Church values a certain degree of liturgical uniformity and norms. This isn't new. It's the same principle, applied in different generations.
  18. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    You understand that the TLM was also an imposition in the 16th century, yes? The Church banned other Western liturgies. This isn't new.
  19. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    He's not wrong in the sense that non-religious people do have fewer kids than religious folks (as a population average, obviously).
  20. Left Coast

    The Next Pope

    My read is different. The obsession of some uber-traddies with TLM and believing they're more Catholic than the Pope (literally) is a mostly American thing. They are loud, obnoxious minority clinging to a bygone era of Church history. I suspect they will increasingly fade into irrelevance and...
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