Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Inspired by @sodrock.bsky.social's bookcases, I acquired some history and theory. 020
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Maybe Mr Beast thinks he can monetize the criticism. 010
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026McNamara's preference for statistical models over institutional instincts makes me think of Billy Beane clashing with his scouts in Moneyball. 000
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Bluesky and TradCaths be like:youtube.comExcommunication Scene from BecketYouTube video by Bernard Fischer 000
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026"How dare the Pope quote woke moralists unfamiliar with Just War Theory like... *checks notes* St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas!" J.D. Vance 000
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Pope Leo vs Trump and the Iran War got me thinking of dialogue between Catholic, just war theory Bluesky and defense-milspec Bluesky. So when someone asks "Is the Iran War justified?" you can go "Well, I just read THEORY" and pull out De Civitate Dei, the Summa and On War by Clausewitz. 04410
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Brendan's a cool dude. We went to In-N-Out in Anaheim in 2017 when he visited LA to see his mom. We both have Mexican ancestry, so naturally we hit it off. I talked about dropping the conservative label, as Trump had injected the conservative movement with a lethal dose of poison. 010
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026In another life, I had a brief stint in the Catholic blogosphere. That's how I met the Hodges from Darwin Catholic. I was the RPG Catholic, but the RPG stood for Elder Scrolls RPGs, not so much DnD, although Morrowind is my favorite of the series and had dice roll mechanics. 110
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026-> mistaked River Tam for Drew, accidentally sent Drew a Cyndaquil plushie. Sorry, you two! -> Met the Liberal Currents crew (Adam, Alex) - followed Sharon on Twitter before Elon ruined it -> went to BlueSky -> Still Catholic but not MAGA. Weird liberal conservative incoherent mess? I’m not sure. 110
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I’m not even sure how to describe my intellectual journey. Lapsed Catholic - Brony after reading a blog post on the Siris blog about the Care Bears-> Ed Feser Thomist-pilled -> join Thomist Discussion on Facebook -> Met Drew Summit, who told me about white nationalism in the brony fandom -> 210
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Scanning the “volumes” on the Josias webpage, I recognize a few names. HHG is definitely Timothy, that’s his Steam handle. Jeffrey Bond is also a Facebook Friend. Admittedly, I don’t know Bond too well, but his devotion to integralism does come off strong, in retrospect. 110
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I really need to convince Tim the real enemy is not the Radical Left or Woke Prog Catholics, but Amazon for turning our old Kindles into bricks if we accidentally reset them. 010
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026On the Book of Faces, he goes by “Timothy Gerard Aloysius Wilson.” 110
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Did you know Timothy? Not that I want to badmouth him, because he seemed cool to me. I still have him as a Steam friend. We both really like Skyrim, it seems. He really likes collecting old Scholastic-Thomist manuals. 120
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I knew the Josiasites before the 2016 election and before Vermeule joined the moment. I thought it was typical tradcath, TLM-only stuff. Adding MAGA to the mix turned it from fringe pipe dream to “okay, now we have to worry someone in the admin will try making integralism a thing.” *cough* Vance 040
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I got to know some folks from Liberal Currents like Adam Gurri and Alex D. Cole. Through River Tam on Twitter I noticed Sharon tweeting up a storm and shared nerdy interests. I don’t know where I’m going with this, but I went from the integralism -> anti-integralism pipeline without even knowing it. 0142
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Back in the early 2010s, I knew a few conservative Catholic friends on Facebook who were into integralism and even wrote for the Josias. Of course, I was young and naive and had no clue what integralism really entailed until recently. 2161
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The Angels had the Trout-Ohtani combo for six years, so you'd assume they'd make at least one playoff appearance. I guess the rest of the team must have really held them back. 000
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Alasdair MacIntyre (channeling Amy Tan on the Simpsons), to Dreher: "No, that's not what I meant at all. You couldn't have gotten it more wrong. Please just sit down, I'm embarrassed for the both of us."youtube.comAlasdair MacIntyre - Against Rod Dreher's so called "Benedict Option"YouTube video by seraphist 030
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Hearing some of my conservative Christian friends backing Trump in 2016, I had my suspicions the "Trump is repellent, but he's gonna pack the Supreme Court with conservative judges, so we can live with it" idea was a powerful motivator. 020
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026youtube.comGeorge Lucas gets mad about Mara JadeYouTube video by julian rougeron 010
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Dereliction of Duty 2: Donald Trump, Dumb McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Iran 000
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026As far as French Thomism: Simon, Maritain, Gilson, yes; Garrigou-Lagrange, not so much. 000
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Grant and Sherman's memoirs, but for the average Union soldier, James A. McPherson drew from thousands of letters and diaries: 2767
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Aside from fanboyism that doesn’t take kindly to criticism, those commenters dismiss Digital Foundry work as either pointless (because subjective, anecdotal experience trumps objective analysis) or malicious (Digital Foundry is biased against Nintendo or stirring up console warriors for clicks). 040
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Is that R/NintendoSwitch? Almost every time a Digital Foundry video gets posted there, you get lots of “it works fine for me” responses. There’s also the implicit, and sometimes explicit, sense that many commenters don’t see any value in objective console performance and image quality analysis. 130
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Known New York City hater/racist, John Rocker. youtu.be/Y0lQNtcDv6I?...youtu.beJohn Rocker NY comment made in 1999YouTube video by Arthur M 030
Eric Mendoza @ericmryan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025"Try speaking New Yorker; it's the only language I understand." 030
