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Midwest Mulcahy

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A jerk from the Ozarks with resting Christian face

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi, I’m Joshua. I’m a born and raised rural Missouri hillbilly with a PhD in Religion from the University of Denver. I spent 6 years trying to become an Episcopal priest, but washed out of the discernment process in 2022. Now I write online courses about OSHA’s workplace safety requirements.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

For Trump's secret police, the claim that US citizens have no right to monitor them or record what they are doing is a tenacious and firmly held conviction... which lacks any plausible basis in actual law. It's invoke to justify the use of violence against citizens where other pretexts fail.

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 13h

Generative AI is a grift. More of a technological parlor trick than a significant scientific advancement.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username

I grew up in the Ozarks, and when I was a teen my family used to watch M*A*S*H on dvd together almost every night. Father Mulcahy was my favorite character on the show, and was a role model for me when I was hoping to become an ordained priest.

Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username

It's an allusion to a poem I didn't finish writing in college.

I've been told it brings to mind elements of the CCM world (I imagine Hillsong in particular) but I can't overstate how NOT in that world I was when I started using it. honestly it's still very much not my thing.

Marguerite @margueritek.bsky.social · 1d

explain your user name

It's my name.

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, if there’s one thing we should all know by now, it’s that fact-checking and pointing out hypocrisy will never work against people who care nothing about facts nor their own hypocrisy.

Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

Hypocrisy gotchas don't work at any level because either 1) The person has already justified/rationalized/neutralized the dissonance for themselves in some way or 2) No one cares and nothing results from such a "revelation"

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

Basically, I don’t think Dems will ever release the information because it would be just as damaging to them as it would be to Trump.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

In all seriousness, I don’t have a lot of hope that there will ever be justice for Epstein’s victims, if only because highly placed members of both major parties are already implicated in his crimes.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

Online news sources claim that the man thrown to the ground was simply “briefly detained”

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Video shows federal authorities briefly detain man following East Garfield car accident

Federal authorities were captured on video Wednesday apparently putting a man in a chokehold on the city’s West Side, according to footage of the incident reviewed by the Tribune. Per Chicago police, ...

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

This is unbelievable.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

So…Do you think we’ll ever know what’s really in the Epstein files? or is this more of an Ark of the Covenant stowed away in a warehouse sort of thing?

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, you’re right! Sorry, I always get those two words confused.

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Absolutely

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic!

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

But any new progressive/leftist movement that wants be affective in the Trump era must first understand the importance of discipline, practice, and habituation in achieving the good.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s liberals tend to think that, given the right conditions, human beings will always opt into their vision of what is good for human flourishing. By contrast, conservatives tend to impose their values by force.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Goodness is always culturally negotiated and socially conditioned — it’s not something that’s just “out there in the world” naturally. Human beings will not just magically choose what is good without first being taught to recognize it.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Believing that “people are inherently good” is not only naive, it’s also extremely dangerous. And it’s exactly why liberal Dems have been so poorly equipped to fight back against MAGA these past 10 years.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Liberalism’s fatal flaw is that too many modern liberals don’t have a low enough anthropology.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

What, pray tell, is a “populist billionaire”?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

BREAKING: Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babis has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback.

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election, official results show

Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Azathoth gnaws hungrily in the dark

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 2d

Good god, yes

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 3d

Short-sighted fools? Maybe.

Nihilists? Absolutely.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

Presumably Justice Kavanaugh worked with Judge Immergut on the Starr Report, but I also don't think this SCOTUS has any qualms about nuking their reputation with the lower courts. Short-sighted fools.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure what the Ninth Circuit is going to do. Pretty sure what SCOTUS is going to do.

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 3d

Without the resurrection, Jesus was just another one of the thousands of sorry SOBs who got crucified by the Romans.

For folks who claim to care so much about the scriptures, low-church evangelical prots sure are terrible at knowing what’s in them.

Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 3d

That’s another thing I’ll never understand. Like, the vast majority of the New Testament writings understands the resurrection to be God’s definitive confirmation that Jesus was who he said he was.

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Midwest Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. The pain of loss is the price we pay for having known the joy of love. And I was fortunate to have had him by my side for a very long time.

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