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  • That pavement represents a lot of government subsidies. Big highway doesn't exist without big government.

  • Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    One officer dead, three seminarians kidnapped after attack on Nigerian seminary

  • We should entertain the idea that this is the effect, not the cause, of the problem. That we have cause and effect in reverse.

  • Just use RSS to follow specific channels.

  • As a Catholic and as a moderator of https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/Catholic, I think this is a good move by the bishops. The Catholic Church is not defined by modern political divisions. We have priests walking with immigrants to court to discourage ICE from kidnapping immigrants, we have prayer groups outside most abortion clinics, we have protestors at every execution (capital punishment), we are told by our bishops to care for the poor, both personally and through the government we elect, and we are told that the right to life is a fundamental issue. We oppose the legal recognition of same-gender marriage and the acceptance of gender as a self-imposed construct. My bishop has helped promote legislation targeting payday lenders and other usurers while also doing the same in opposition to assisted suicide. We are a mixed bag. We are on both sides of the aisle. And both parties really want to gain our vote. If we self-declare an allegiance to either party, that harms our position. We risk becoming like the partisans on both sides who, as we often see, change their views to fit what's convenient for the political party.

  • Pete Hegseth probably blocked aid on his own authority without asking President Trump first. This is a correction of that decision. Unfortunately, Trump prizes loyalty even above being in sync on policy issues.

  • World News @lemmy.world

    Trump says US will resume weapon shipments to Ukraine days after pause

  • If they wanted to cut pollution, they'd ban all cars from the bridge and make it public transit + bike only. Cars aren't idling when there's no cars.

  • We will know late August, when the CCP meets and the shakeup is supposedly going to take place. IMO, the time between now and then is dangerous as Xi might make an extreme act to hold on to power.

  • Newsmax is a biased source. They are only unreliable when that bias gets in their way or when they report on a topic they know nothing about. For example, they are actually good about reporting the uninteresting parts of military operations and conduct because they have a lot of reporters who are former military. Once their military reporting approaches a popular topic, then the bias kicks-in. Newsmax also has a lot more people familiar with liturgical issues within the Catholic Church. When reporting on religion, they are a good source, until it hits on one of those issues that tries to force religion to fit in a left-right framework. Here, where they talk about internal politics concerning the Latin Mass, Newsmax is actually a good source for information.

  • am looking for missed interest payments in the immediate future

    US debt is in US dollars and the US can print as many as they like. Not making an interest payment would be a political decision, not an economic decision, and has nothing to do with the level of debt or rate of interest. All historic cases of hyperinflation involved countries whose debt was denominated in a foreign currency. The US will have inflation but it will not have hyperinflation.

    Also, there will be no "BRICs currency" as they have nothing in common aside from a vague sense of alienation from the US-built world economic system. Infighting will break apart anything they try before it gets off the ground. These countries are more suspicious of each other than they are of the United States. As such, they have brief periods of limited cooperation followed by nothing or something worse than nothing.

  • If you go to college, the degree you get also matters. Professions requiring a degree "just because" is gone. Now the only degrees worthwhile are those where that's the only way into a specific profession, like medicine.

  • How's public transit in your area? If you had a plan b for bad weather days, that'll make it a lot easier.

  • We just need walkable cities and to gradually increase to acreage of car-free zones.

  • Will a .onion site work for you instead? No registration, no cost, and easy to self-host.

  • World News @lemmy.world

    For the first time, Xi is missing a China-backed BRICS summit. Why?

    World News @lemmygrad.ml

    For the first time, Xi is missing a China-backed BRICS summit. Why?

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    Will Pope Leo End Restrictions on the Latin Mass?

  • You are more than welcome to cite the actual Geneva convention to show where I'm wrong.

  • The areas of Missouri are just low income. I'm from Kansas and I noticed a couple of our yellow counties are college towns.

  • Iran @lemmy.ml

    Airstrikes, Oil, and Terror: Iran’s Next Move After the B-2s

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    “I did it from the bottom of my heart”: Catholic Bishop in Nigeria on Building Mosque for Displaced Muslims

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    Why Are Catholic Communities Failing? | Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    Fulani Jihadists Massacre Over 200 Christians In Nigeria

    News @lemmy.world

    Pizza at the Pentagon: How a food delivery tracker may have predicted Israel's attack on Iran

    Ukraine @sopuli.xyz

    Kyiv's historic cathedral damaged in Russian air strikes

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    Rare Babe Ruth image a reminder of Baltimore Catholic school's huge role in his life, career

    News @lemmy.world

    Man handcuffed for allegedly giving out face shields to ‘suspected rioters’ at LA protest

    Economics @lemmy.ml

    A CB Centered Analysis of the Price Level, Inflation, and the Neutral Rate of Interest​

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.world

    Why speed limits don't matter

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    What would be the political effect of St Petersburg declaring independence from Russia?

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    What would be the political effect of St Petersburg declaring independence from Russia?

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    The Apologia as a Spiritual Aeneid

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    Latin Mass Catholics Need Pope Leo XIV's generosity and they need it quickly! This letter is an example of why time is urgent!

    Catholic - Catholicism on Lemmy @lemmy.sdf.org

    The Prophesy of Pope Leo XIV