English Catholic: anti usury/capitalism: commodification/pornification

London
Joined December 2024
Seemed to me that Roger Scruton’s analysis of Rene Girard had a major flaw AI agreed:
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Pope Leo XIII: "The equal toleration of all religions ... is the same as atheism." lifesitenews.com/analysis/le…
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“Being, in the traditional sense, absolute being, is something I don't have in me. I don't feel it. I feel my emptiness. But the Other always seems to have more of it than I have—unless, of course, the other surrenders to my desire, in which case being flees him very fast and I contaminate him with my nothingness.” — René Girard, CBC
“The object [of desire] is only a means of reaching the mediator. The desire is aimed at the mediator's being.” “All desire is a desire for being.” — René Girard
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Liberalism is a sin and those who ascribe to its philosophy are part of a cult of "reason" and "logic".
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Hi @grok. What is the most common name of the people arrested for rioting in France?
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Straight out of George Orwell’s 1984 playbook. The spectre of perpetual war. A population kept permanently frightened. An endless state of emergency in which fear becomes the instrument of political control. How convenient for those who govern us.
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An honest ‘student protester’ in France explains why he’s protesting. The question: “Why are you protesting?” He replies: “I don’t know. I’m just here to smash and destroy things.” But they just want a better education, you guys.
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Si vous êtes blanc, deux choses sont vraies : - vous êtes victime d’un génocide à grande échelle - vous subissez la plus grande guerre psychologique de l’histoire de l’humanité
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EMJ looks forward with hope and confidence to Europe's eventual return to its true form: the Catholic Church. "Remember the prodigal son, this is the prodigal daughter, the eldest daughter of the Church giving up on its revolutionary illusions and coming back to the form." "The form in Europe is the Catholic Church." "The form in Ireland, in Spain, in France is the Catholic Church. There would be no Europe without the Catholic Church!"
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A Single Somali immigrant is estimated to cost Finland €951,000 over their lifetime. A native Finn contributes a net €3,400 per year. It takes 280 working Finnish people to offset a single Somali migrants arrival. #Finland #Somalimigrants #Benefitscammers #CloseTheBorders
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“[Individuals] borrow their desires from the Other in a movement which is so fundamental and primitive that they completely confuse it with the will to be Oneself.” — René Girard, ‘Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,’ ch. 1
“Mimetic desire is when our choice is not determined by the object itself, as we normally believe, but by another person. We imitate the other person, and this is what ‘mimetic’ means.” — René Girard, Conversations with René Girard (ed. Cynthia L. Haven @chaven), ch. 9
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G.K. Chesterton demolishes radical skepticism in a single paragraph
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“This Act constituted the first overt attack by the Henrician regime itself on the traditional pattern of religious observance in the parishes, and it was bound to have a very large impact. At one stroke the Crown decimated the ritual year, not only wiping out a multitude of local festivals but removing many major landmarks from the Sarum calendar at large. In July the principal abrogated feasts included those of St Martin, St Swithin, St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene, St Anne, and the main feast of Becket, the translation of his relics. Those abolished in August included the immensely popular “new feasts” of the Transfiguration and the Holy Name of Jesus, as well as the feasts of St Laurence and St Augustine. From September the Act swept away the feasts of St Giles, St Cuthbert, and Holy Cross Day. The abrogated days commonly falling within the law terms included those of St John of Beverley, St Dunstan, St Augustine of Canterbury, St Edmund, St Edward the Confessor, St Alban, St Etheldreda, Sts Crispin and Crispinian, St Winifred, St Cecilia, St Clement, St Katherine, and St Agatha.” - The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
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South Belfast Shocking footage has emerged of older African teens violently assaulting very young local children: filming it, laughing, then posting the footage online. I believe this is a playground near Windsor Park. Locals have been saying for a while that, contrary to what many might think, there are “black areas” now in Belfast. I warned about this for years. Now it has come here. Our children are literally being beaten violently by them, but too many still have their heads in the sand. These Africans will not be protected by their age, just as their victims were not protected by theirs.
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Climate alarmists are getting smarter. 10 years used to be the magical time limit for Arctic melting, CO2 limitation, crossing a randomly chosen temperature threshold, etc. Now they are setting time targets far enough out that no one can hold them accountable when they fail.
The world’s coral reef ecosystems almost all face a high risk of collapse in the next 50 years mostly due to warming oceans and heat waves, according to a global assessment. Sometimes dubbed “rainforests of the sea,” they have some of the world’s richest biodiversity. apnews.com/article/coral-ree…
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In 1996 the Irish Times visited Ian Smith in Harare and were surprised that he had no bodyguards or guards and the front door to his house was open to everyone. he went into town without any protection, and was said that Black Zimbabweans would stop him to say they were better off under his government. Mugabe on the other hand never moved without lorries of armed men and armoured cars around him, and his protection kept growing even as the country fell apart. by 2006 inflation was over 1,000% and people were queuing for bread and fuel, yet his government spent US$60k on new sirens for his motorcade. when the zimbabwean media asked what all his security was costing, the president’s office said it was “not for public consumption.” I’ve always thought this says more about the two regimes than anything.
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The top ten countries are heading towards extinction of their indigenous population.
Normalised ranking of the absolute migrant stock increases (2000–2024) by approximate 2026 population share.⁠ 1. Ireland 15.7% (+0.84M @ 5.36M) 2. Austria 15.4% (+1.4M @ 9.11M) 3. Switzerland 14.4% (+1.3M @ 9.01M) 4. Spain 14.2% (+6.8M @ 47.85M) 5. Norway 12.7% (+0.72M @ 5.65M) 6. Sweden 12.1% (+1.3M @ 10.70M) 7. Belgium 11.0% (+1.3M @ 11.77M) 8. UK 10.2% (+7.1M @ 69.93M) 9. Denmark 7.9% (+0.475M @ 6.02M) 10. Germany 7.7% (+6.4M @ 83.64M) 11. Netherlands 7.6% (+1.4M @ 18.45M) 12. Italy 7.5% (+4.4M @ 58.93M) 13. Finland 6.7% (+0.378M @ 5.62M) 14. Türkiye 6.6% (+5.8M @ 87.93M) 15. Portugal 4.6% (+0.476M @ 10.40M) 16. France 4.5% (+3.0M @ 66.75M) 17. Hungary 4.1% (+0.393M @ 9.59M) 18. Czechia 3.7% (+0.386M @ 10.53M) 19. Romania 2.8% (+0.521M @ 18.80M) 20. Poland 2.4% (+0.917M @ 37.84M) The original absolute ranking (from the @stats_feed post / matching UN DESA-derived figures) is re-ranked here by the size of each country’s increase as a percentage of its ~2026 total population. Populations are approximate mid/early-2026 figures drawn from consistent UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) elaborations (e.g., Worldometer and related sources). Increases are the rounded figures from the source post. Notes and caveats This is the 2000–2024 change in resident international migrant stock (UN DESA definition, which can include refugees, asylum seekers, and naturalised persons depending on national data) expressed as a share of recent total population. It is not the current migrant share of the population, nor the percentage growth of the migrant stock itself (the latter ranking, from the same data, is led by much smaller countries such as Malta).⁠Visualcapitalist Populations are approximate; different sources (national statistical offices vs. UN projections) differ by small margins. Using 2024 or 2025 figures would shift the percentages only modestly. Absolute totals are the rounded values published in the source post (exact UN DESA figures are available in the underlying dataset and closely match). The top of the absolute ranking (UK, Spain, Germany) falls to mid-table once size is controlled for; several smaller countries rise because the same absolute numbers represent a larger relative change. Sources for the absolute increases: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024 (via the original post and contemporaneous analyses). Population denominators: UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium-variant elaborations for ~2026.
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Extinction is inevitable
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