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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

DAE remember how the last pope died like right after meeting JD Vance?

DAE remember how Epstein and Bannon wanted to undermine Francis, shortly before Epstein, himself, died?

🤔

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

vance reaped his soul. remember what happened to the queen after LIZ met with her. death has sent his reapers out on a job.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Liz Truss is one of those abominable vampires which attach like a limpet to their victim's arsehole and drain their life force rectally.

[–] Stormy@thelemmy.club 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Like within a day or so right? Just dead. And then they replaced the guy with a new guy from the US for the first time ever too I think.

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

If Leo the Pope meets Vance & doesn’t die immediately afterwards, it is an indication that in six months to the day, JD will meet his fate. They can make it happen! Otherwise they’d be known as the Vatican’t.🥸

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Good, maybe the Vatican can pick up the US tab for outstanding payments to the UN. They sure as fuck can afford it.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

UN should probably be exploded a bit, but obviously not with anything trumpian.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, there should be more UN.

People: Why is the UN so useless?

The UN does something

Also people: ThE Un iS iNtErFerInG wItH oUr SoVeReIgN tea!¡!¡

As a world government advocate, people are ridiculous.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Hard to say what it has done. Would Russia have done something even worse in Ukraine if UN didn't exist? Seems like the several resolutions against their war did absolutely nothing.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

The UN is impotent because it is run by the Security Council, whose members have their own ego and power tripping veto power to forward their own agenda. French president Macron and other world leaders are correct to advocate granting more seats in the security council to allow more members in, and giving more power to the general assembly.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The ONLY countries participating in the Board of ~~Peace~~ Fascists are either other fascists or Trump's cock suckers.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has any country bought in?

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

El Salvador,
Israel,
Argentina,
Hungary,
Azerbaijan

And similar countries, you get the pattern.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Those countries, and the board of peace itself, have a shelf life of 3 years, which is when Trump will start expecting 1 billion in annual payments per member state to remain in the fascist club.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip -1 points 14 hours ago

UN is useless

end veto

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

... so he tried to have the pope bribe him. Classy.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 115 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Did.. Did he just try to shake the pope down?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Well, they killed the last one. Seems like a credible threat.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 54 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Dude is trying to speedrun his way to super hell.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

As Shepherd Book would say: "The special hell: reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theater."

...I bet this SoB talks in the theater a lot, too.

[–] redsand 2 points 18 hours ago

He's trying to roll the sin odometer over. Super hell was a lock a long time ago with all the rapes and murders

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump will go to only "the best hell".

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

I think the "hell for rich people" is actually the worst hell.

You know, if any hell was real besides the living hell of late-stage capitalism...

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He shook every country leader down. The pope is one of those.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A lot of people forget that the Vatican is a sovereign nation.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

I actually respect this pope quite a bit. He’s been doing a good job.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Francis was good as well. These are the first good popes in, well maybe forever I am no expert but not familiar with any popes that were good before. They aren't seemingly able to do anything big with it yet sadly. The catholic church in the US is mostly owned by the religious right still. Betraying Christ's mission on earth.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Opposition to the genocide in Palestinian and the treatment of immigrants in the United States that has the potential to turn into a genocide is massively influential considering the churches reach and the powerful corrupt forces at play here

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is massively influential, it does not seem to be taking precedence over the massively influential right wing forces controlling most of American Catholicism leadership anyway. I say right wing, that is really kind of labeling it. This right and left is meaningless when we aren't measuring from a real place in reality. They are in service to malign interests, some of the most wealthy interests in the country.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately , Christian evangelicals believe in Zionism because they believe that it will bring the end times and they want that.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Evangelicals are like 30% of the Republican base as well. And I guess that is not even counting like Baptists and other related ones. I'm not sure if Calvinists count as Evangelical. But yes, their worldview is so fucked, they want bad shit to happen, especially in the Middle East in israel, to bring on the rapture which will end the world in lakes of blood and Fire.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m not really religious but come from a southern Methodist and Catholic background on the two sides and from what I understand these evangelicals have 0 chance of ascending to heaven because not only do they fully and completely reject the teachings of Jesus they rabidly support a man who very closely resembles the Antichrist in their own book. Unfortunately even in a minority they have big money backing them

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

But I think that what we’re really dealing with here is religious extremism and fundamentalism is bad in any form and destructive as hell when mixed with settler colonialist ideology

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

The bar is pretty low for wold leaders right now so not supporting genocide and not supporting the kidnapping of immigrants is above and beyond these days unfortunately

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[–] doug@lemmy.today 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or “POPE SAYS NOPE” as it would say on a tabloid.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I bet I would read a lot more articles if they stopped trying to cram the whole article into the headline and instead indulged in some alliterative whimsy every once in a while.

[–] DavorS@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

The opposite would be a clickbait. maybe something like: "You wont believe what the Pope said to Trump". Which is trash.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Does he know about Trumps Taco Bell Peace prize?

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 28 points 1 day ago

Probably hurts his ego a little extra since this is the first US-born pope, too

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 18 points 1 day ago

Honestly it feels like everything these chucklefucks do is a troll. The "~~Bored~~Board of Peace" for a group established with the pretty obvious intention of using the largest military on the planet to shake down non-members.

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