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Wikipedia claims that in his capacity as head of the Augustinian order he refused to remove an SA priest from his position. I have no idea if that is true but I can confirm at least that said SA allegations against that priest are true:

https://patch.com/illinois/newlenox/providence-ex-president-dismissed-order-whereabouts-unknown

At the risk of doxxing myself - the accusations against father McGrath are at least accurate. I have no idea whether this guy actually refused to remove McGrath from his position so take that what you will

this movie is such a guilty pleasure for me lol

I know I shouldn't be surprised but these numbers are staggering. Even the group of buddies I grew up with, half of which have shitty opinions, wouldn't agree with this shit. I think there's something to be said on men challenging men on their dogshit beliefs or at least not sitting by silently that impacts this. To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.

Glad to see your back posting

I love how our foreign policy is never mentioned when talking about immigration. 7.7m Venezuelans have left Venezuela since the sanctions under the trump admin. Want to reduce the number of asylum seekers? Lift the sanctions

As someone who lives a very comfortable life in the imperial core I was thinking about this - what would my life look if forced to reduce consumption/increase production by 50%?

I think you could drastically reduce consumption by merely re-ordering american life in certain ways - i.e replacing car dependent city planning with public transit centered alternatives (this alone removes the necessity of car ownership for most people, or reduces the 2-3 cars/family thing you see in the suburbs). fostering/creating "community", so that our "free time" isn't colonized by increasing commercialization where we must consume in every waking moment (think watching netflix, scrolling tiktok, online shopping, etc, Very much Critique of everyday life a la Lefebre). Reordering production such that "unproductive" sectors like marketing or finance (my own career lol) are filtered into productive ones, etc.

I think a combination of these things could easily result in a reduction of 25-30%. What's crazy about these statistics is that equality would require an additional reduction of 20-25%. I imagine accomplishing the first part would put US consumption at the level of a less-consuming EU state, but even those states consume at rates higher than the global south. It's wild to think about

Thank you comrade @[email protected] for the Venezuelan election posting on the prior thread

Absolutely heartbreaking. Couldn't get through a single section without tearing up. Death to Israel

while losses like these are large and indicative of poor lending practices for mortgages, there was more at play for the 2008 market implosion. It wasnt just defaults on mortgage-backed securities, but the widespread failure (fraud imo) of rating agencies giving these MBS good ratings, the trillions of dollars of derivatives betting on those false ratings, and the failure (fraud imo) of regulatory bodies to identify and mitigate any of this. A mortgage crisis is surely happening but i doubt the fallout will be anywhere near 2008. but i stopped paying attention to financial regulatory policy in the early trump years after he undid the measly measures obama put in place post-crisis so your guess is as good as mine