nsacpi
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Some Red State/Blue State Indicia
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nsacpi
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NEW YORK—For years, churches have worried about empty pews. At St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village, the problem is flipped: There isn’t enough room.
A recent 6 p.m. Sunday Mass felt like a sold-out event. Every inch of pew space was filled, mostly with young adults. Latecomers squeezed into makeshift rows of plastic folding chairs or stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the foyer, peering through glass doors. Others squatted on balcony steps or leaned against walls for the roughly 90-minute service. When Eucharistic ministers moved through aisles to distribute Communion, they had to tiptoe around knees and handbags.
An hour earlier, many of these same worshipers had been eating pizza.
For the past months, two 20-somethings, Anthony Gross and Kate DePetro, have hosted “Pizza to Pews,” a pre-Mass meetup at The Pizza Box nearby. More than 100 young adults showed up the first week; by the third, it was 200. Some drive in from Long Island; others take the train from Boston. Then, like a field trip, the group walks to church together.
“Nobody wants to go to Mass alone,” said Gross, 22, who moved to New York from Wisconsin last summer and found St. Joe’s, as it is known, after asking ChatGPT where to find a young Catholic community. “Better than going to a bar and spending $400.”
A phenomenon I've been observing from my perch at a catholic university.
A recent 6 p.m. Sunday Mass felt like a sold-out event. Every inch of pew space was filled, mostly with young adults. Latecomers squeezed into makeshift rows of plastic folding chairs or stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the foyer, peering through glass doors. Others squatted on balcony steps or leaned against walls for the roughly 90-minute service. When Eucharistic ministers moved through aisles to distribute Communion, they had to tiptoe around knees and handbags.
An hour earlier, many of these same worshipers had been eating pizza.
For the past months, two 20-somethings, Anthony Gross and Kate DePetro, have hosted “Pizza to Pews,” a pre-Mass meetup at The Pizza Box nearby. More than 100 young adults showed up the first week; by the third, it was 200. Some drive in from Long Island; others take the train from Boston. Then, like a field trip, the group walks to church together.
“Nobody wants to go to Mass alone,” said Gross, 22, who moved to New York from Wisconsin last summer and found St. Joe’s, as it is known, after asking ChatGPT where to find a young Catholic community. “Better than going to a bar and spending $400.”
A phenomenon I've been observing from my perch at a catholic university.
sturg33
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How much debt do your students take on to get this level of thinking
nsacpi
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I hope not too much. It is as basic an observation as there is.
sturg33
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What makes this specific tax policy good to the point you felt sharing
nsacpi
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I think veterans generally have sacrificed for the country and it is good policy to provide them with preferential treatment such as tax breaks. I also like that in California such tax breaks are financed by a progressive income tax.
sturg33
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Got it. So you see a tax break as a general good thing for the person receiving it
nsacpi
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Sure. But that's a juvenile way of framing it. Government provides many essential public goods and other services. Those have to be paid for. And a progressive tax system is a better way of paying for those than a regressive one. ymmv
nsacpi
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I guess you don't drive over bridges and roads. So you wouldn't know that other drivers are tested so that they don't kill each each other. And I'm guessing you must not fly either, so you are probably unfamiliar with airports and air traffic control and all that jazz.
Tapate50
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California literally was issuing cdls to anyone with a pulse regardless of being able to drive or read street signs.
So when do those people get their money back for those failures ?
The guys that had their houses burns the mayor couldn’t keep reservoirs full and won’t allow rebuilds?
What did those people pay for
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nsacpi
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faster growth, longer lives, higher educational attainment than just about any red state
50 years ago people in California and Oklahoma had the same life expectancy
what happened
sturg33
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California aggressively policed smoking in the 90s whereas other states did not. Obesity rates in california are susbtantially lower due to many factors like better weather, active lifestyles, etc. Those deaths are coming through now, which is why youre seeing the widening. These have very little to do with todays monstrosity policies the government has enacted
I also am skeptical that California is effectively tracking and including all the homeless detahs that are happening daily among some of its younger populations
nsacpi
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Habits like not smoking and exercising are influenced by public health messaging and policies.
Vaccines too. South Carolina was recently able to bring its measles outbreak under control through an effective public messaging program.
sturg33
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Then go tout the government policies of the 90s that have resulted in less lung cancer.
As for obesity... nonsense. Its 100 degrees in texas summers vs 80 in southern cal. Plus theres the whole image obsession of californians. Last time i was in LA there was two gyms on every block and not a single woman having not done some cosmetic surgery on themselves.
california affords a much more active lifestyle than southern humid states. Youre not dumb to not understand this