not even a single reaction to any of those posts 
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tanteregenbogen meanhileongrad post about this
the g*rman 'eurocommunist' says that it's glorifying the GDR to point out that de-nazified germany had better laws for trans people than west germany
you mistake your own pride for grace, that is prelest
Not until they lost their armies, but until they realized “Hey, unchecked power is intoxicating and war only leads to more war” and spit it out
this is intense historical revisionism, they did not graciously hand over power, the risorgimento forcibly stripped it.
pius ix called himself a prisoner of the vatican when italian troops took rome in 1870 and the papacy refused to recognize the italian state for sixty years.
the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini was their reconciliation with losing
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so you concede that it was a temporal kingdom, for over a thousand years. the pope still holds all the kingly titles, he just lost the armies to enforce them
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this completely confirms my argument- this is exactly the kind of conflation of spiritual authority and temporal authority which the catholic church has used to exterminate its enemies. it just lacks the power to do it these days.
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'not currently an empire': you are arguing against a point i didn't make
i accept your concession
the pope holds the title pontifex maximus, inherited directly from roman imperial religion.
the vatican was a temporal kingdom for a thousand years.
unam sanctam declared total papal supremacy over all earthly rulers, and it wasn't abandoned on theological grounds, it was abandoned because they no longer had the armies to enforce it
yes, arian emperors persecuted christians that's the point, conflation of imperial power and spiritual authority results in tremendous abuses
what re you trying to convey?
in support of the point i made here
the conflation of imperial and spiritual authority that became catholic doctrine was already killing christians who resisted it prior to being established
they then continued that practice once they secured imperial power, as well as exterminating plenty of other people who got in their way
hence why i said calling other people genocidal is an interesting accusation from a worshiper of the king of rome
this is your religions history, you really need links??
pre-schism imperial church violence:
donatists: north african christians who refused communion with bishops who had collaborated with roman persecution. augustine developed the theological justification for using imperial force against them. precursor to the inquisition
arians: christians who held that christ was subordinate to the father. it was a position enforced by some emperors and violently suppressed by others depending on who was in power. the nicene settlement was imposed by imperial authority, not theological consensus
paul of constantinople: patriarch of constantinople, exiled multiple times for refusing to accept the arian settlement imposed by emperor constantius. eventually strangled on imperial orders
eusebius of samosata: bishop who refused the imperial arian settlement, stoned to death by an arian woman while in exile
martin of tours: refused communion with bishops who supported the imperial execution of priscillian, arguing the state had no business executing heretics
bogomils: balkan christian movement rejecting church hierarchy, sacraments and material wealth. persecuted by both byzantine and later catholic authorities, their suppression in bosnia was a direct precursor to the albigensian crusade
violence against christian heretics and orthodox:
violence against muslims and jews:
colonial and indigenous violence:
inter caetera/colonial americas
violence against women and the poor:
nazi collaboration:
plenty of christians did not have interest in swearing fealty to the king of rome, and were killed for it, long before there was the protestant schism. you ask for proof, i point to your own 'church''s history
yes, the 'church' that was burning heretics opposed to worshiping the king of rome then produced a schism that also burned heretics
I was doing a wellness check on MoG and there were the usual hyperbolic thread titles with no basis in reality, however the brand new account that posted them is called 'Rodolfo Graziani'
at least some of the people there are actually going 'wtf there's nothing in these screenshots'
The main charge against the late marshal’s name and character rests on the infamous massacre on Yekatit 12, the date on the Ethiopian calendar equivalent to February 19, 1937, in Addis Ababa of an estimated 19,200 black Ethiopians over a three-day period. The massacre began immediately following Graziani’s near miraculous survival of an assassination attempt.
It is alleged that the Italians executed an additional 1,469 captives the following month. Graziani was forever branded afterward as the Butcher of Ethiopia.
By 1955 Graziani had emerged as the patron saint of the postwar neo-Fascism movement that eventually elected to the Italian Parliament Alessandra Mussolini, Il Duce’s granddaughter. At the time of his death, the unrepentant Fascist marshal was the most prominent and most reviled Italian officer of World War II.
they even check /c/slop and get along with the 'history major', who doesn't seem to mind 'the butcher of ethiopia' fan accounts. clearly we're the ones with 'low literacy':
bonus post about 'cultural marxism' and pissreal's 'right' to self determination:
i'm a big fan of this one 
featuring everyones favorite synthv cannibal 
in which PugJesus makes a post about 'solidarity' and immediately bans any anarchist he disagrees with.
I get that tankiejerk is a circlejerk comm, but the hypocracy in this post was so rank I couldn't resist commenting. Obviously I was perm banned within minutes
PJ says:
but when someone says to you “I’m an anarchist, I organize to alleviate suffering at the grassroots level”, the correct response is “Right on, comrade”, even if you think state institutions are the optimal solution.
Me:
I’m an anarchist, I organize locally. It’s a big part of my daily life. based on my experiences I have found way more common cause with so-called ‘tankies’ than liberals when it comes to actually working to oppose the shit that’s crushing us.
[banned]
it turns out that he doesn't practice what he preaches at all. Obligatory:
they didn't even bother with a pretence of a primary the second time.
Love my comrades 
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you laugh now, but wait until one of these guys busts out their gun kata