• @[email protected]
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    872 months ago

    Pope meets with JD Vance.

    Says the Trump admin’s immigration policy is a grave sin.

    Refuses to elaborate.

    Dies.

    Based Holiness.

    • @[email protected]
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      222 months ago

      The “refuses to elaborate” is simple, Mathew 25 31-46.

      It quite clearly says that you are to welcome the immigrant, feed the poor, care for the sick, and visit the prisoners.

      Failure to do any of that is a straight shot to hell, no matter how much you claim to love god, you actually have to do the work, or it’s off to hell.

      Fun fact, Mathew 25 is the only place in the bible that references sending ordinary people to hell. All that fire and brimstone, it’s actually in that one passage. Nowhere else does hell show up for normal people, just fallen angles and shit.

    • barnaclebutt
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      162 months ago

      I’d rather die than talk to JD Vance too. That dude seems like a pdf file.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    42 months ago

    I’m just over here annoyed at people calling the Pope’s continuing ability to live a ‘miracle’ when he’s spent the last month in a hospital keeping his ass animated with advanced medical science that his church probably condemns every Sunday.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      12 months ago

      You’d be surprised

      The Catholic Church actually accepts the reality of evolution and has its own telescope called Lucifer.

      They also recently updated their stance on “gender ideology” to no longer be critical of transpeople, citing genuine medical need for transition.

      • Count Regal Inkwell
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        Yeah there is plenty to hate about Catholics too (hey, pedophilia) –

        – But when it comes to like. Accepting reality and modernity? They are head, shoulders, and pectorals above the average Evangelical Church.

  • @[email protected]
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    1732 months ago

    The rest of the world should take this approach. If everyone just plain ignored and ghosts the US’s emissaries it would be pretty funny.

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      Not just their emissaries. Ghost everyone up to FatBoy Tangerine, and beyond.

      If there is ever another voted in president and this new ‘leader’ is a decent person, not just a tRUMP puppet. Then ghost them as well for allowing that orange turd to walk free after all the treasonous shit he pulled in his first term.

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    Dude all but endorsed Trump, called Harris a baby killer. Fuck him and his nonsense organization.

    Of course popes have a wonderful history of supporting authoritarian monsters.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 months ago

      Don’t be fooled, he’s still a huckster shithead. Always happy to see them turning on each other though.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Don’t get me wrong, my opinion is still negative just slightly less negative than yesterday.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        82 months ago

        A huckster shithead who runs cover for child rapists every single day.

  • @[email protected]
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    652 months ago

    Guy only has hours left alive, he shouldn’t be cursed to speak to an American fascist cunt.

    • @[email protected]
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      132 months ago

      Well this comment was the last thing I read before seeing he died about 7 hours ago, guess you were right

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      I’ll never understand why people shit on him for fictional things when there’s plenty of real things to shit on him for.

      I honestly think it helps him/MAGA, because it teaches them, their supporters, and impressionable others that people make stuff up about him to criticize, so they can safely ignore criticism of him.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        Your standards for MAGA cultists is way too high. They won’t ever know the difference between fact and lie, and they won’t care if they eventually learnt about it. Words and facts means nothing to them, it is all about “winning”.

      • AbsentBird
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        102 months ago

        I think part of it is about making him into a joke to prevent him from gaining the cult following necessary to be another trump. I don’t think trump supporters would care about the valid criticisms, but the idea he has sex with couches is provocative and humorous, and seems to have become one of the only things a lot of people know about him.

        • @[email protected]
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          02 months ago

          There’s plenty factual stuff to use that far right people hate though:

          • Being in the military with zero people skills means he was an ineffectual leader and a desk driving paper pusher

          • He wears eyeliner

          • He grew a beard to hide his weak chin

          • He’s a white nationalist with a minority wife who looks like she’s at gunpoint every time she’s on camera

          Again, inventing a lie to attack him with will just galvanize his supporters. Use what’s already true and very conflicting with far right ideology.

          • AbsentBird
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            42 months ago

            The attack point has to be something that both sides of the political spectrum finds repulsive. If only right wingers have a problem it makes the lefties look like hypocrites, and if it’s something only people on the left care about it’s ineffective.

            Eyeliner and weak chins/beards aren’t things people on the left tend to take issue with, while white nationalism and misogyny aren’t things people on the right take issue with.

            The military thing could work, but it’s not punchy enough, it’s too specific and not very funny. The couch fucker jokes are easy laughs.

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        Because the only things that actual bother him are being called a fucking loser and weirdo. The actually shitty things he does, he would do a million times and feel nothing.

        And what you say can’t be true, or the millions of lies he told would matter more.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 months ago

            He doesn’t want to look weird. That’s all. He wants people to think he’s normal, and by proxy, that all of his insane fascist beliefs are normal.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 months ago

                I rather think that would answer the question for most people. Were you confused on how he doesn’t want to look like a weirdo so that his fascist beliefs are normalized?

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 months ago

                  You’re confused if you concluded without evidence that he gives a shit if the left pretends he fucks couches while he’s shuffling minorities off to concentration camps.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        To a fascist, image is everything. Ruin their image for the sad, fucking weirdos that they are makes fascists weak.

  • @[email protected]
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    462 months ago

    Could it be claimed that JD killed the pope? Pretty sus that he had a brief meeting and the man was dead hours later.

  • @[email protected]
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    452 months ago

    The Catholic Church has never lived down its association with the last Nazis that rose to power, they aren’t making that mistake again.

    “Fuck those guys.” - current Pope.

    • lost_screwdriver
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      332 months ago

      The catholic church strongly opposed the Nazis. A lot of christians were killed by the Nazis because of this. The pope is more like: like: “Fuck, not those guys again”

      • @[email protected]
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        122 months ago

        The catholic church strongly opposed the Nazis

        🤣 What??? Holy shit, lack of historical knowledge batman!

        • @[email protected]
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          122 months ago

          Would you like to refute the statement instead of just saying they don’t know what they’re talking about?

          I’ll start - Catholics were amongst (there were many) the first groups that the Nazis started targeting. It’s not a coincidence that the intellectuals, the Jews, the Catholics, etc. were also the ones that had some reaallly nice silverware that would look great in the Fuhrer’s country home. If nothing else, Catholics would be acting in their self-interest to oppose the Nazis.

          • AFK BRB Chocolate
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            112 months ago

            It’s less black and white than either of you guys are implying. You’re taking about Pope Pius XII, who was Pope from 1939 to 1958. He’s credited with saving hundreds of thousands of Jews through various means, including support to the resistance, but also by showing some had been converted/baptized, which in itself was controversial. But he also feared the Nazis were going to win the war and that the church would have to exist in a Nazi world. He never clearly spoke out against the holocaust, and though a lot of the things he said, including his sermons, can be taken as condemnation of Jewish persecution, the language was pretty subtle. Also, Hitler had an envoy secretly meeting with Pius from pretty early on, which many say was bad in itself. Still, he also helped the allies with intelligence, to the point where Hitler accused him of espionage and had plans to kidnap him.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              That’s really interesting, thanks! I have no problem with being told I’m wrong, I do have a problem with someone just saying “lol you’re wrong” with no evidence.

              • AFK BRB Chocolate
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                12 months ago

                Oh, for sure. It’s not an area that I’m an expert in, but your conversation got me curious because I had heard both things, so I read a few articles. One of the interesting things is that the bit about Hitler’s envoy wasn’t broadly known until 2020 when the Vatican released a whole mess of documents that had been kept hidden previously. So there’s maybe more reason for some people to have one impression based on what they grew up hearing, and others to have a different one based on more recent info, but even with the new info it seems nuanced.

                It’s easy to fault anyone who didn’t take a clear stand against Hitler from this vantage point, but it must have been hard to be a world leader facing the possibility that Hitler would be successful and you’d have to deal with his empire. Pius XII supported the allies and it’s obvious he was against Hitler, but he was reluctant to be overtly vocal about it, and he even entertained the envoy, which maybe he saw as hedging his bets (we can’t know exactly what he was thinking). It’s for sure stained his legacy.

      • @[email protected]
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        262 months ago

        I was gonna say, IIRC the Nazis kept trying to hide in ancient cathedrals, because they thought the allies wouldn’t bomb them. The Pope at the time told the allies to burn and bomb the Nazis out.

  • @[email protected]
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    312 months ago

    I cant imagine hearing the the Pope died

    And knowing that one of the last things he did alive was tell me Im being an asshole

    But not even directly. Instead I didnt even get to meet him and he just sent someone to tell me.