Daniel Rober

Daniel Rober

@profdanrober.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University. Theology, Film, Music, Urbanism, Culture.

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imagine explaining Malfoid, and why you posted it on an official government channel, to a displeased 62-year-old House Democrat. we can make them suffer that humiliation

Daniel Rober
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Barron is hosting a big conference on the theology of Ratzinger in a couple of weeks, which goes to show that Ratzinger (both through his own fault and not) in death as in life is as poorly served by his friends as his enemies.

Daniel Rober@profdanrober.bsky.social

This is taking a J.D. Vance stump speech and turning it into a “neutral” podcast.

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Daniel Rober
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Ratzinger obviously had a conservative turn in his thought and was complicit with all kinds of authoritarianism *inside* the church, particularly during his time as Prefect of the CDF, but was politically someone who accepted and affirmed the postwar European settlement and democracy.

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But it is to one of the points that my book is about, namely, these things are not separable and favoring authoritarian approaches in one sphere is going to make you attractive, willingly or not, to people who like them in the other.

Daniel Rober
@profdanrober.bsky.social

Barron is hosting a big conference on the theology of Ratzinger in a couple of weeks, which goes to show that Ratzinger (both through his own fault and not) in death as in life is as poorly served by his friends as his enemies.

Daniel Rober@profdanrober.bsky.social

This is taking a J.D. Vance stump speech and turning it into a “neutral” podcast.

Daniel Rober
@profdanrober.bsky.social

Better not change the name of the movie like Lucas did to the first Star Wars.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We will be officially BANNING the term, 'AI/Artificial Intelligence,' in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Daniel Rober
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Not beating the "very online" charges:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "The price of gas goes up every time a foreign leader in the Middle East throws a tantrum" (This is different from what Vance said yesterday, which was "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum")

Daniel Rober
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I recommend seasonal comedy "Love at First Bite" for one of her relatively few notable movie roles.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Susan Saint James, who co-starred with Rock Hudson in the 1970s TV crime series “McMillan & Wife” and the sitcom “Kate & Allie” in the 1980s, has died. She was 80.

nbcnews.toSusan Saint James, Emmy-winning actor of 'McMillan & Wife' and 'Kate & Allie,' dies at 80Saint James earned her biggest fame as Sally McMillan, the plucky wife of Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan, in the hit series.
Daniel Rober
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Quite related to the way Trump admin figures talk about foreign countries. They were offended that overcrowded tenements etc. were present *in the United States* when the people in them belonged elsewhere. Era culminated in 1924 immigration law and 1928 election (vs. a Tammany politician).

Daniel Rober@profdanrober.bsky.social

I meant it how I wrote it. Go back to the original Progressives and while they often decried the bad *conditions* of immigrants living in poverty they viewed eugenics and immigration restriction as paths out of it, and resented Tammany-style politicians who materially helped those people.

Daniel Rober
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Behold, the great hope of the right-wing Catholic intelligentsia.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

Daniel Rober
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As is typical for him, he's doing what liberals are usually accused in bad faith of doing, namely, assuming his Middle American audience members are a bunch of rubes.

Daniel Rober
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Yeah, the thing about good government rhetoric and action is that in the best of times they're anti-immigrant and anti-poor, and to quote one of Billy Joel's best songs, these are not the best of times.

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly@mollieoreilly.bsky.social

Your excellency, the president is urging Minnesotans to "fight back" against Somali immigrants and spreading salacious lies about Ilhan Omar, whose passport he directed the DOJ to confiscate. He's doing that out of concern for the poor and love of good government, right? I'll hang up and listen

Daniel Rober
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"Hey Mike, now that Teixeira's in Congress, do you think Jason Giambi will run for president?" "School must be out today, folks, with some of these calls"

Ben K.@benjaminkabak.com

Jason Giambi was far better and more fun.

Daniel Rober
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This is the kind of of phenomenon where as an East Coast big-city dweller I feel like an anthropologist looking at my own country. Also that said cities are ironically where despite their outlier status in certain respects life most resembles what it was like when I was growing up.

KidzBoptotenlieder@theodramatist.com

I really kind of hate Trunk or Treat

Daniel Rober
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Was arguing to some skeptical lib family members yesterday that she has the juice. This and Trump's "don't mind" comments emphasize that.

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On Twitter this post drew a bunch of replies thinking I was serious.

Daniel Rober@profdanrober.bsky.social

THIS is the message the increasingly woke Catholic Church is putting in front of the faithful right before the midterms. I left out the part about un*living. The Democrats need to condemn this.

Daniel Rober
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THIS is the message the increasingly woke Catholic Church is putting in front of the faithful right before the midterms. I left out the part about un*living. The Democrats need to condemn this.

Daniel Rober
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This statement is notably more contrite than Golka’s:

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social

Milwaukee’s Archbishop Grob: “I feel a heavy sadness, not only over the pain I caused, but also for the fact that something so sacred to a group of religious leaders, prayer to our Heavenly Father, would be manipulated in that way.”

Daniel Rober
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The position that he bemoans being put in by the White House is what has happened to every conservative institution and figure who have not specifically renounced them.

Daniel Rober
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This statement is notably more contrite than Golka’s:

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social

Milwaukee’s Archbishop Grob: “I feel a heavy sadness, not only over the pain I caused, but also for the fact that something so sacred to a group of religious leaders, prayer to our Heavenly Father, would be manipulated in that way.”

Daniel Rober
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To be fair, that time was preceded by a period much like this one.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Once upon a time, Americans took pride that people would leave other countries and come to the USA because it was so much better

Daniel Rober
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One of the problems with almost the whole Catholic right being at best anti-anti-Trump is these bishops would view anyone who thinks of this as obscene as having TDS.

Daniel Rober@profdanrober.bsky.social

We're getting real mask-off stuff in the decrepit stages of this. Even a lot of relatively pastoral guys are very conservative when it comes down to it and occasionally get careless about the appropriateness of doing so, and/or get lured in by getting to visit a cool venue.

Daniel Rober
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The Catholic right have been telling us who they are and what they care about throughout this era. I have taken some degree of flak and been estranged from some friends for never accepting or playing ball with it. But it's corrupting to a severe degree.

Daniel Rober
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Imagine telling someone in 2004 that the right got Dawkins and Rowling in the culture wars.

Your Friend Temporary Southerner@trt311.bsky.social

Ironic that Richard Dawkins has spent most of the last thirty years denouncing Christians as backwards and barbaric and then comes out as a vicious transphobe; way way way to the right of most Church of England clergy

Daniel Rober
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Yes and using their financial resources to self-segregate and avoid having to talk to libs at all.

karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social

The “parent estrangement” panic should be understood as part of the same complex as anger at social media “censorship,” and demands for affirmative action for conservatives in academia. Conservatives simply think you should be forced to listen to their dogshit ideas, no matter how cruel.

Daniel Rober
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In theology you get the further issue where ideological diversity becomes shorthand for "we're orthodox and you're not." The fragility of this position during the Francis era led to flight en masse once the relevant conservative org got large enough.