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[–] rosco385@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope he had the chance to tell JD Vance exactly how much of a fuckwit he is before passing.

[–] Schorsch@feddit.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well he definitely did have the chance. Let's hope he used it!

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

He did snub Vance, so it's at least implied.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna miss him. One of the best popes of our generation.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Low bar but he did blow it away.

[–] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

Bar so low we're limbo-dancing in Hell

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

That's like saying I just had one of my best shits since my IBS diagnosis.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely the 'least bad' pope of my lifetime. Let's hope the next one continues the progressive stance he adopted on many aspects of life.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of it was real, it was all PR talk. Go to South America as an openly gay person into a church ABS see how progressive they really are.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Change takes time and they've been anti-gay for a very, very long time. No sane person thinks a single pope solved all the centuries of repression in 10 years.

What I do know is that the conservative Catholics I personally know thought Pope Francis was "too liberal" and "just saying woke things because that's what young people like nowadays" and those are both endorsements to my ears.

Especially his attitude on climate change and income inequality and tax avoidance by the wealthy - there is a lot of that in conservative church groups and if their God's PR representative is telling them to cut that shit out and look after the environment better then great.

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[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sad that a piece of shit like j.d. vance was with him before.

[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't he send another cardinal to lecture Vance?

[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know, but of course it could be. I had only heard that vance had visited him, which was just as shitty an action as the unwanted visit to Greenland.

[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It does have a similar vibe to when Liz Truzz killed the Queen

[–] BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

Let's hope he lasts as long as Truss did after that too.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I imagine if you're already on your deathbed and you have to listen to some shitty little windbag, it could remove your motivation to hang on.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A 5 minute meeting with JD Vance and he was gone.

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Taken right after the handshake

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[–] libra00@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That title, it has one too many, commas.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] libra00@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL, nice.

"I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell!"

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Makes sense -- punctuation is ultimately about signalling pauses and inflection in speech; you can get rather creative if, and only if! so desired.

[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

I liked that guy.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What are the chances that the Cardinals protest vote two elections in a row and they accidentally elect a decent man again? Can you imagine back to back decent Popes? Not sure if it's happened in my lifetime.

[–] O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Not a chance in hell

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wonder if they still tap the dead pope three times with a silver hammer to check if they're really dead?

I offered to do it, they weren't willing to supply ponchos for the audience though so plans fell through.

[–] molten@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've seen this one. Resurrected tomorrow.

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[–] AJ1@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That needless comma in the title, is annoying.

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[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

why the weird commas

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gonna be some nice crazy shit about the Prophecy of the Popes flying around, this will be interesting to observe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

*aaaaaaaaaand, there it is:

https://youtu.be/pm8uIYceGvg

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

New pope gets elected, and then the believers will say it was misinterpreted the whole time. This is the standard way.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

There does appear to be a built in buffer zone according to some interpretations lol

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sucks that he died, but got me thinking. How is the Pope any different from a Dictator? He’s literally one person at the top who has the authority to decide how an entire group of people should think and act and believes he has divine authority to do so?

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Except that he has no executive power over those people.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And he is also elected (not by the people, but elected nontheless)

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He has some. He has direct control over church matters, and a lot of people willingly follow the church. So if the church says "no red meat on Fridays", the people will do that.

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[–] cheeseandrice@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[–] originaltnavn@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

He is elected though? It is not as easy to depose a pope as a president, but there is no military coup, secret police or other things associated with dictatorships.

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[–] gressen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did he finally learn who invaded Ukraine, or was he blissfully unaware until his last moments?

Edit: adding /s just in case

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