This made me laugh incredibly hard, so had to post it.

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    5 days ago

    God has been killing popes for 2000 years, and this was nr 266. And there’ll be a nr 267.

    It’s almost like it’s an institution.

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    He finally defeated this evil man… after he rose to being the fucking pope, led the church for 12 years, and died at a ripe 88 years old…

    Idk, I feel like God didn’t do much at all. But if he’s striking down evil, I’d get to painting your door in sheep’s blood real quick, Marge.

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    He was still conservative AF, but the MAGAs think he’s “evil” because he was advocating for helping those who have less than you, helping refugees, and treating people with compassion, even if the look or love differently that you.

    Being a selfish asshole is MTGs entire brand.

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    There has to be others, Luigi can’t have been the only one. We. Are. Waiting….

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      Waiting for a day with pleasant weather so you can maximise the amount of time spent holding your signs in a public place.

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    If only it wasn’t so trivial for her to trick people into giving her attention and publicity.

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      Ignoring people with power does not negate their power. Don’t confuse powerless online trolls with powerful societal figures. Please, please don’t.

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        Really? “Oh pleeeease, you dunce, I know it’s difficult for people like you to understand, but powerful people are powerful”.

        You are defending engagement with what equates to a soap opera for politics. You are actively defending people memeing about what some politician said - in this case even about something that is completely irrelevant to anyone but deluded religionists - which is just a lot of lies in every instance anyway.

        Why don’t you promote engagement with shit they DO instead?

        Are you deliberately fueling this pointless meme bullshit about political theater to make people feel better about themselves, in order to prevent them from doing something about the actually bad things that are going on outside of their doors right fucking now?

        Or was that just some masturbatory eruption to satisfy your condescending impulse to snortleingly correct the defective thinking of some mentally inferior fool on the internet?

        Why is my reply so heated? I see two possibilities:

        • you do not know what you are doing
        • you are doing it exactly because you know, and possibly because you are paid to do it.

        And I give you the intellectual benefit of the doubt and say you are doing it deliberately.

        People like you have been distracting the public discussion like this for as long as I live, and you try to make people criticizing the distraction look stupid, while elevating yourself.

        “Pleeeeeeeease don’t be a dummy, my dearest friend and buddy, pleeeeeease!”. FUCK that.

        We see preparations for concentration camps, actual genocides, the implementation of total surveillance states, the enactment of police state enablement laws, dismantling of human rights of every level, a burning planet, techno-oligarchs, so called “centrists” buddying up with fascists, territorial-/resource wars… and you defend people talking about SOME CUNT TALKING ABOUT SOME DEAD ASSHOLE WITH A TALL HAT? IN A POLITICS SECTION!

        What the fuck!

        If you say “Hey buddy, don’t harsh on our stupid time, let us only talk about dumb stuff this year”, I might just think “sigh Ok…” and dejectedly walk away, having my lack of faith in humanity validated once again, but your way of defending it is actually revolting to me.

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    When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong–faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.

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      The Catholic Church has been a political institution for almost its entire existence. It is probably the *oldest * political institution in Europe, having existed since AD 30 according to its own history (though as you get further back in time, history starts turning into legend and mythology; it’s really not clear where that line is).

      During the Middle Ages, you could very well be burnt at the stake for heresy or be sent to die in the Crusades, upon the orders of the pope. And for over a millennium, the Church directly ruled over a pretty sizeable piece of territory in central Italy.

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        A political institution in Europe in AD 30? The year Jesus began his public ministry?

        That’s a pretty bold claim, lol. I assume they’re just saying “the Catholic church” has been around since then, since that’s when christianity started?