Most Catholic communities post-Vatican II are not hardline Catholic; even nominally Catholic countries (Ireland, Italy) are “Catholic” in the sense that they are communally following similar observances, but the belief in those observances varies drastically.

Its more a Catholic culture than a religion at this point.

The shame of fast wagons is that they were meant to be a one stop shop because you might not be able afford a family car AND a fast car or your garage isn’t big enough. For 120k+ you can buy a full size SUV and a Corvette and be no worse off.

As we all know, people are actively coming out as trans and subjecting themselves to familial and social ostracization to {checks notes} compete sports?

Occam’s razor and all that.

“Being un****able is not intentional!” - Thomas, probably

Or they could say nothing for a few months and let it blow over. Or they could have gone full throated with their support. Middle of the road beer, middle of the road response, middle of the road expectations.

Gaetz and his giant maw.

I thought Wyatt had stopped presenting a while back? Good to see him back on, I really enjoy his videos and breakdowns.

The USSR really is the scrappy startup of the 20th century right through to beta testing on customers directly and thumbing their noses at conventional industry wisdom.

Move fast and break proliferation protocols.

Had it been drinking and being flirty? Just asking.

Too white is my guess.

“I don’t understand why armies of people are crazy for her.”

That’s fair - but there is a middle ground of reasonable appreciation between apathy and parasocial fanaticism that a lot of people inhabit. Also, for young people that grew up with her, she’s the one that speaks to them. Its why my favorite bands (Rancid,…

I can’t really think of any popular music artists that are virtuosos. How many vocalists are dynamically more capable than an opera singer? Lead guitarists are better than a classical guitarist? Pop star a better dancer than the average ballet dancer? The people Swift is competing against are people like Bob Dylan or…

Its a troll account; not sure why they always target the good Doctor unfortunately.

Its actually pretty important. Anyone can judge anything, but whether your judgement has merit is usually based on your knowledge. An opinion is “I don’t like her music”; saying that Swift is technically skilled or not is not an opinion, its something that people with songwriting experience and musical ability are the…

Sure, you can go grab any song you want there will be a turn of phrase that is unique or new from a musical perspective so if you are interested feel free. Or you can just peruse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift#Songwriting since most of the things I would bring up some critic or article has already called…

I’m going to throw a flag on the play. Most people and businesses didn’t even have a working understanding about generative AI or what they could use it for until like a month ago (example: I work with 9 Fortune 100s and 2 Fortune 500s and they are just starting seminars on what ChatGPT even is). Chatbots and other…

“I know guys, maybe we can just breed more voters?”

“She’s not a master song writer”

lol, ok

For a certain age range of Millennials and Gen Z she speaks to their experiences - they are naturally going to gravitate to it and there are a lot of them.

FWIW, it might be worth hitting up All Too Well (Taylors Version) or Evermore/Folklore; she was always good at turning a phrase when she was younger but its much…

Yes, people who write songs about being in love with men in fact, hate men.