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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I get that many evangelical elites dislike Pentecostalism, but it’s interesting to see them so focused on their faults here on this one issue, after rarely attacking them.
Even less congruent is the way many of these same evangelical elites (though I don’t know about Erick) have celebrated the church of the Global South—where Pentecostalism is particularly prevalent—even describing it as the future of Christianity.
I also wonder if the mockery of Pentecostal practices is as much about class as it is theology. Will some—eg @DavidAFrench—who mock them when they involve Trump be as eager to mock black Pentecostal churches where similar practices prevail?
.@PerfInjust nails it. This isn’t so much hypocrisy as it is revelation of a value system very different from what these Christian influencers claim.

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Our bureaucracies are too often woefully inept.
Given this record, shouldn't we reconsider the assumption that political "interference" is necessarily bad?

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Radical thought: I’d always reflexively dismissed objections to usury, like any good Econ 101 student. But Plato’s objection to lending “without sharing risk” with the borrower—rather than to passive investment itself—recently stood out to me.

Maybe there are lessons for us. 1/4
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If @FedSoc wants to remain relevant to the right, it should reject Lat’s vision.

It’s unclear why a Fed Soc like that Lat proposes would maintain any political influence (or appeal to donors) in a world of growing politicization.

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Some thoughts on the Capitol protest:

First off, LOL at talk of a "coup." Media narrative-pushing has become absurd.

There were some terrible events, including the death of the policeman. Any serious violent crimes should be prosecuted. 1/12
The vast majority of people there were simply peacefully protesting. Some broke the law. As with any protest, any vandalism or trespass was bad and should be treated in line with similar acts at other protests. 2/12
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Prediction: Demands will escalate that amateurs abstain from independent analysis and defer to credentialed experts.

The better the analysis, the more strident the denunciations will be.

The reason is that credentials are increasingly a filter for ideology, not competence. 1/7
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The real threat is not error (which can be refuted) but accurate analysis that transgresses ideological norms. This will rarely come from inside experts; they have already been filtered for conformity and would face professional repercussions.

The risk is from amateurs. 3/7
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