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Fighting Errors in the Modern World / Re: Why are people against the death penalty?
« Last post by Yeti on Today at 06:08:35 PM »
Quote from: Nadir on April 26, 2024, 09:39:19 PM
Although many of people in the west disagree with the death penalty, it is my observation that it is not the majority.

It seems to me that rejection of capital punishment comes predominantly from “churchy” people, while down-to-earth Joe or Jane on the street agrees with it, either that or “locking them up for life and throwing away the key.

In either opinion, for or against, I believe there is little to no difference between the sexes.

Doing a search, this came up

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Interesting. So people actually are generally in favor of it. Then where did it go? Why don't we have it anymore?
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Politics and World Leaders / Re: Homes are being abandoned.
« Last post by josefamenendez on Today at 06:05:42 PM »
Blackrock via private home purchasing subcontractors are buying up single family homes, even before the postings show on Zillow or Realtor.com. In many cities large realtors like Keller Williams are already working with these companies up front. Many times these Blackrock companies will pay upwards of $30,000 over asking price so the deal is sealed within a day of the house going on the market.
I had been trying to help a friend buy a house in a city in Georgia ( cash deal) and it took her 4 YEARS! She was constantly being outbid even if she offered full price or 10,000 more than asking. Most times the house was gone after the first day on Zillow. 
 She  finally purchased a suitable house  via for Sale by Owner. ( No realtor) She was looking at upper middle class homes in the 500,000 range so it's not like they were lower priced homes flying off the market.
Now I hear that Blackrock purchased these homes to place the illegal immigrants in. I guess it's better than a $600 a night hotel in Manhattan.
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Health and Nutrition / Re: Easy to eat nutritious recipes
« Last post by Nadir on Today at 05:32:59 PM »
Eat an avocado. Jus cut it in half and remove the seed. Easy peasy!
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Health and Nutrition / Easy to eat nutritious recipes
« Last post by Cryptinox on Today at 04:34:10 PM »
Does anyone here have any recipes that have a solid amount of nutrients per serving and are easy enough to eat? I struggle to get good nutrition so I am leaning towards stuff like dips or soups if that would help me get more nutrition. I think my diet has affected my mind a bit so I'd like to remedy that.
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Politics and World Leaders / solid observations by Orbán
« Last post by Mark 79 on Today at 10:46:11 AM »
PM Orbán at CPAC: The 5 methods of oppression liberals are using to silence conservatives
https://rmx.news/article/hungarys-pm-orban-at-cpac-the-5-methods-of-oppression-liberals-are-using-against-conservatives/

In the run-up to major elections across the West, including the U.S. presidential election and the EU parliament elections in June, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned that conservatives face unprecedented pressure from liberals, who are lashing out over fears they may lose power.

During his speech at the third annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, Hungary, Orbán described five methods of oppression being deployed by liberals to silence the opposition, with the Hungarian prime minister noting that some of the most advanced forms of oppression, including court action and intelligence service spying, are already being deployed against conservatives across the West.
Change the meaning of words
The first step Orbán describes is liberal actions designed to change the meaning of words and phrases in order to mislead the people, with the issue of migration being the most substantial example of this trend.
“The first step of progressive liberals, their oppression, is to make normal mean the exact opposite. War is peace. That is what progressives still say today. The Peace Facility. That’s the name of the Brussels financial fund from which the most destructive weapons are sent to the front. Migration is a resource, they say, while crime is rising, the threat of terror is increasing and trust is being drained from our societies,” said Orbán.
Orban noted that Hungary has been able to withstand this sea change, making it a “unique location in all of Europe.”
“It is the fact that, while the whole of Europe is being swamped by an ocean of progressive liberalism, a conservative island has survived (in Hungary), an Island of Deference, defying the liberal tide, the Brussels blast, and the Washington hurricane. Not only defying but surviving, even thriving, even succeeding, even triumphing and triumphing again and again.”
Invert everything that is normal
The second step on the path to liberals maintaining power is to invert everything that is normal, including sɛҳuąƖity, education, family life, love of country, and ethnic homogeneity.
“The second step is to start spreading this inverted normality by state means. Anyone who thinks otherwise is problematic. There is something wrong with that. Anyone who disagrees is either ignorant or insane. The perception must be that listening to them would lead to some fatal disaster,” said Orbán.
This method helps tear families apart, mock cultural and national traditions, and normalize behavior that up until just a few decades ago was considered beyond the pale, Orbán told the conference, adding that liberal subversion had led to “crashing birthrates, soaring divorces, broken families, and a failing education system that focuses more on ideology than academic greatness.”
“All of this is fertile breeding ground for left-wing parties to thrive and paint conservatives and the right as “backward” and deserving of political suppression and even outright violence,” he said.
Make the right into a “security threat”
The next step is to create an aura of “danger” around right-wing and conservative views, which will help the state justify any action taken against conservatives. In the United States, this includes, for example, portraying supporters of Donald Trump as terrorists, or equating any right-wing view as “nαzι.”
“You are made to believe that you hold dangerous views and that you are also a security risk. They send some kind of democracy watchdog at you, which then finds out that you do not share the views of normality they preach, and are therefore a radical whose freedom of speech can be safely restricted,” Orban said.

This particular step has played out across social media, where conservatives and the right face enormous censorship. However, NGOs and organizations, many of whom are lavishly funded by governments, corporations, and billionaire oligarchs such as George Soros, are actively working to silence and persecute conservatives. As Remix News has reported, [color=var(--hyperlink-color, inherit)]they are deeply embedded in the major social media networks[/iurl], and work to police conservative thought and views.[/color][/font][/size]
Demonizing conservatives was also evident just last week in Brussels after another conservative conference in which Orbán and many other high-profile politicians from Europe were speaking, was shut down by the local mayor citing public safety concerns.
It took the lawyers of the National Conservatism conference to file last-minute motions in Belgium’s top administrative court to ensure the conference could continue for its second day.
The press goes on the attack
In the fourth step, the liberal press targets you, often personally, while the state turns civilians into a mob of informers, Orbán warned.
“They deploy activists who use legal means to silence you. Then, the often anonymous profiles on the internet come to denounce you on social media, while a plethora of civilians bombard the courts and state bodies with complaints and denunciations,” he added.
Send the authorities in
“And if you still have the stomach for it, and if you’re still standing, the fifth step is for the public authorities to spring into action. They receive so many complaints and denunciations that they are obliged to investigate you, unfortunately, so they become the private institutions of the progressives,” the Hungarian prime minister explained.
“They will find that the accusations of the press, the concerns of the watchdogs, are well founded, they will prosecute yo,u and you will eventually be silenced by state means. That is what they do to Hungary in Brussels, and that is what they do to conservatives in progressive, liberal European capitals.”
Orbán noted that the same thing was happening in the United States where the judiciary was being utilized in an attempt to get President Trump off the ballot for the upcoming presidential election.
He also pointed to the German government’s actions against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Due unique laws in Germany, the authorities have been able to lable the AfD a “definite case of right-wing extremism” in key eastern states. In turn, this gives intelligence services authority to monitor communications, including phone calls, messages, and emails, between AfD politicians and members — all without a warrant.
“This is what happened in the European Union when they tried to ban Tucker Carlson by administrative means. It is happening in Germany, where political parties are being monitored by the secret services. And it happened in Finland when they wanted to [color=var(--hyperlink-color, inherit)]condemn a politician[/iurl] and a bishop for quoting Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, that is where we are.”…[/color][/font][/size]

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Politics and World Leaders / Re: Homes are being abandoned.
« Last post by SimpleMan on Today at 09:28:48 AM »
Quote from: richard on Today at 05:40:28 AM
My home is paid for but it still isn't mine, if I don't pay the property taxes then the government takes the house. Home ownership is a fantasy.

Yes, that's just the fact of the matter, but if you own the home free and clear, nobody except the government can take it from you.

Keeping insurance on the home is another thing.  No, if you don't have a loan on the home, you don't have to have insurance, but it's pretty foolish not to, because if the house burns to the ground, all you have is a plot of land (not to mention the cost of having someone to come and haul away what used to be your home).

Here's a story of what happened, when someone who clearly could afford insurance, didn't bother with it:

https://wchstv.com/news/local/powerball-winner-jack-whittakers-home-in-virginia-destroyed-by-fire
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Politics and World Leaders / Re: Homes are being abandoned.
« Last post by SimpleMan on Today at 09:24:53 AM »
Quote from: Mark 79 on Today at 03:52:51 AM
Then why are (((BlackRock))), (((State Street))), and (((Vanguard))) buying blocks of houses?
Some financial institutions (so far as I'm aware, BlackRock isn't a mortgage lender) might do that as an investment strategy, for resale or managed rentals, but it would not be typical of banks or mortgage firms.  It's just not what they do.

It's a variation on the theme of "if you owe the bank $2000 and can't pay it back, you have a problem, but if you owe the bank $200 million and can't pay it back, the bank has a problem".  Nobody makes any money off of a foreclosure or bankruptcy, the only one who comes out a winner is whoever buys the house on the cheap.  The home serves as security because something has to.  (Mortgage lenders don't take into consideration other types of collateral, nor is it part of the mortgage, only the property itself.)
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Funny Stuff for Catholics / Re: Funny Stuff
« Last post by cassini on Today at 08:49:06 AM »

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Catholic Living in the Modern World / Re: https://www.latinmass.live/
« Last post by jersey60 on Today at 06:26:55 AM »
Thank you for sharing this site!
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Catholic Living in the Modern World / Re: Saint Raphael Meet-Up 2024
« Last post by AMDGJMJ on Today at 06:21:40 AM »
Registration ends in less than 10 days, on May 7th.
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