#ProtestantPoliticalTheory a compilation thread for the compilation threads touching on the political theory found in early official Protestant documents from a range of traditions 🧵
"Hi IG fam, make sure to like and subscribe. Today you are in for a treat. I am going to show you some very cool head coverings that look absolutely amazing and are like totally biblical. Let's check them out."
Then the women will be like "she is so cool and pretty. I bet we'd be friends. Yeah, we'd be really good friends. I need a head covering. She said it was biblical."
Then they'll learn the verse and take some photos before church rocking their head coverings. This is how it works."
If you are like me and you want Christians to start reasserting themselves in the public sphere, then the struggle with the proverbial liberal Jewish lady (in the most meta sense) is inevitable whether you want it or not. I am sorry, but this is true.
You can call me all the buzzwords in the world, but I have no hate. I look at the board and I don't see a path forward that doesn't involve this conflict. I am trying to prepare you for the inevitability if you proceed on this path.
Do you want to limit immigration? Are you prepared to be called names by people who reject "the impulse to seal our borders"?
I was casually reading some Stalin a year ago or so (as one does) when I came across this passage from the National Question. I think it is wild that most literal commies would be considered more socially conservative than many conservatives today.
American Trotskyists would say "that guy in the all corduroy suit is too weird. We can't let him join our movement. People will think we are a joke." (True story.) We roll out this guy
Stalin told a h0mo that he wouldn't let him join the movement because he was a h0mo. Conservatives cheer this.
I've been building a Baby SkyNet. This will be the thread where I'll show its progress:
Here's the theory behind the work: there may be some correlation between how someone looks and their political opinions. This should be self evident since most people make these inferences all the time. The question is whether a machine can learn to do this.
Methodology: train a machine on group photos and events where the political ideology of the people presented is pretty evident so it isn't my opinions of how someone looks impacting the machine. Here are some examples:
𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 is the idea that Cretes are uniquely predisposed to being liars. As defined elsewhere, ethnic sin is either malicious, vainglorious, or separatist, but the anti-Cretism forms of it usually tend toward the malicious.
Streamline productivity by saying NO to anti-Cretism