Post by Sharon / Redsky

That was a beatdown of the likes I’ve never seen and his final statement about nihilism being concealed behind traditional values and how dangerous that is, not just for conservatives but for society writ large? I hate how right he was honestly.

aug 26, 2025, 4:09 am • 34 1 • view

“On the one hand she’s a sociopath. On the other hand she’s pretty much the average female MUN/debate/student government kid from the early 2000s,” I think as I hear the matchmaking story

aug 26, 2025, 4:45 am • 9 0 • view

The last time I saw her (pre-2020), she turned a kid’s birthday party to the inquisition when a nice lawyer I know mentioned he’d won a big indigenous land rights case. 0-60 accusing him of manipulating the tribe on behalf of some nefarious woke environmental group and never backed down.

aug 26, 2025, 2:17 am • 71 0 • view

She is genuinely one of the most frightening people I have met and it’s hidden under this affected anachronistic propriety. Her husband is also evil. Adult convert to ROCOR I believe.

aug 26, 2025, 2:19 am • 59 1 • view

As someone who grew up Eastern Orthodox…ALL the converts are insane people

aug 26, 2025, 3:21 am • 14 0 • view

Yeah what is with that? I find the theology incredibly beautiful, but I really don’t think that’s what draws these people in. In Helen’s case I think she converted for her husband, who has a White Russian heritage. Hence, ROCOR.

aug 26, 2025, 3:59 am • 14 0 • view

Notably one of the parish priests there was a Black convert. Fortunately never talked to her about this…

aug 26, 2025, 4:04 am • 6 0 • view

Ethiopian perhaps? Orthodox is the dominant Christian religion there

aug 26, 2025, 4:05 am • 3 0 • view

Bet she doesn’t like that…

aug 26, 2025, 4:07 am • 1 0 • view

No he was like a snake handling Pentecostal from Texas. Great guy as far as I could tell.

aug 26, 2025, 4:10 am • 2 0 • view

lol wtf

aug 27, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view

Pretty sure that snake handling Pentecostals and adult converts to rocor are both categorically exempt from being great guys.

aug 26, 2025, 4:18 am • 4 0 • view

I still want to meet this individual because wild transition

aug 27, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view

I also hear that Catholic converts are the same way (Jd Vance, famous example)

aug 26, 2025, 4:07 am • 4 0 • view

Oh yeah for sure. A few of those in Helen’s circle.

aug 26, 2025, 4:13 am • 3 0 • view

I avoided them like the plague as a kid lol

aug 26, 2025, 4:01 am • 2 0 • view

By marriage, generally not though. The ones with no association by family I mean.

aug 26, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view

Doesn’t change much. It’s a wonder Helen didn’t catch on fire when they chrismated her.

aug 26, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view

lol this still makes me chuckle

aug 27, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view

I would fight her, lfg

aug 26, 2025, 3:15 am • 5 0 • view

Oof

aug 26, 2025, 2:45 am • 3 0 • view

what the

aug 26, 2025, 2:49 am • 37 0 • view

📌

sep 2, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view

Good lord. Sort of can't believe I'd never seen the whole clip before now

aug 26, 2025, 2:18 am • 38 0 • view

I could've used an audience cut to Brett Kavanaugh pulling sweatily at his shirt collar somewhere in there, but otherwise 10/10.

aug 26, 2025, 3:53 am • 10 0 • view

Omg that’s amazing

aug 26, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view

All that was missing from that clip was Jerry Springer.

aug 26, 2025, 2:32 am • 10 0 • view

Welp this is a new and fascinahorrifying rabbit hole! I'm intrigued that she refers to the creation and perpetuation of avoidable suffering as somehow a "Catholic" value (if I caught that correctly) and would like to toss her into the pool of retire Franciscan nuns I visited earlier this year.

aug 26, 2025, 3:15 am • 11 0 • view

it's enough of a Catholic thing that famously Mother Theresa was big into it, not that I have any other related examples to really show it as a broader thing. Lots of "suffering is holy for as The Lord suffered on the cross" and such iirc. I think Opus Dei are also known for it.

aug 26, 2025, 4:58 am • 6 0 • view

Dedicating one's own suffering is holy. Living a life of poverty and humility is holy. Inflicting it on others without their consent by obstructing their healthcare? Is very, very much not.

aug 26, 2025, 5:01 am • 9 0 • view

(She shouldn't worry; they were very elderly and don't have rulers. They do have walkers and canes, though, so maybe don't push it.)

aug 26, 2025, 3:15 am • 2 0 • view

This never gets old

aug 26, 2025, 2:04 am • 17 0 • view

My IRL story: she dresses like a cupcake.

aug 26, 2025, 2:05 am • 18 0 • view

📌

aug 26, 2025, 9:41 am • 0 0 • view

When this went down everyone in my corner of online sympathized with her but these sympathies may have been misplaced?

aug 26, 2025, 2:28 am • 16 0 • view

Oh to have been seated at a table next their post-panel dinner.

aug 26, 2025, 2:51 am • 8 0 • view

oh my god he intellectually slaughtered her in broad daylight and never stopped smiling the whole time.

aug 26, 2025, 2:52 am • 44 0 • view

This premise of "we shouldn't reduce suffering because it builds character and fosters [insert societal benefit]" never, ever applies to THEM, for whom the threshold of acceptable suffering is "got suspended from social media platform we use for free and whose terms we agreed to beforehand."

aug 26, 2025, 11:54 am • 7 0 • view

holy shit wtf did i just watch. i think the laughter in the room is what does me in, i can't imagine any reaction other than silent horrified rubbernecking

aug 26, 2025, 5:08 am • 4 0 • view

oh my god she dumped him *3 days* before this panel? they couldn't have sat them with a buffer in between? jfc what a moment to put on cspan

aug 26, 2025, 5:12 am • 9 0 • view