• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    54 minutes ago

    Kudos to the Pope Francis and fuck Just Dumb. I would have sent the Swiss Guard and tossed his Russian supporting ass out of the Vatican.

    • Elroy_Berdahl@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Not bullshit, he was refused an audience the day before, which is what this article is referring to

    • finder@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-boulder-bias/

      • Reasoning: Propaganda, Poor Sourcing, Lack of Transparency, Failed Fact Checks

      • Bias Rating: FAR LEFT (-8.5)

      • Factual Reporting: MIXED (6.3)

      • Country: USA

      • MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE

      • Media Type: Website

      • Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic

      • MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

    • vxx@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, I came here after seing them doing a photo OP and exchanging presents.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      6 hours 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.

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

      • webadict@lemmy.world
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        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.

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        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.

        • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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          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.

      • uienia@lemmy.world
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        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”.

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    6 hours ago

    “they didnt tell me how wonderful the vaticans taste in furniture was…mmm…mmm…mmmm…”

  • WorkshopBubby@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    we all know the pope is a radical left lunatic activist pope. he should be impeached, and joe rogan should be the new pope. /s

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    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.

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      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”

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        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.

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        7 hours ago

        The catholic church strongly opposed the Nazis

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

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          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@lemmy.world
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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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      Get fucked JD you complete and utter douchebag

      Love,
      -The Pope

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    Oh no, Vance got Vance’d… Lucky it wasn’t televised for the whole world to see.

    Anyways, can’t wait for the snarky tantrum and projection condemning the Pope once he’s far away.

    Bet the poor Pope couldn’t even attend because in addition to his health issues he must have felt the evil pressure oozing from Vance.

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      Oh no, Vance got Vance’d… Lucky it wasn’t televise’d

      Fix’d it for you oh no, now I’m gonna get downvote’d

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    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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    Lol. You’re only allowed to be that bad of a catholic if you were born one or at least have been one for a decade or two. Recent converts realizing catholicism isn’t the aesthetic is funny