TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't put any words in your mouth... I really don't understand how you're not getting that. I said you understand that it's not true. Literally just read the part you quoted.

Actually none of what you said just now was untrue. The leap that is unexplained is that bringing back a Catholic monarch would turn the UK into a papal theocracy where no other Catholic kingdom was (except the Papal States!).

And that specifically is the part that I'm arguing has no basis in fact - you're asking me to provide evidence that something wasn't going to happen. Usually we ask for evidence of speculation, not against speculation. It doesn't help that the people that could have said so were hung drawn and quartered, and the history written by people who immediately brought in further anti-Catholic legislation.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I genuinely don't know how you interpret "I'm sure you understand the difference" as "you actually believe this". But sure, I'm manipulating your mind.

The evidence - well, an argument, because this isn't a paper - is exactly what you so helpfully brought up the Papal States for. Apart from literally his own domain, the pope did not turn any other nations into a Catholic theocracy because their monarch was Catholic.

It should be the other way around really - this idea of Catholic blind obedience to the pope is advanced as an assumption hy British historians despite having no example or evidence that it would be the case other than "that's what Catholics are like" despite the Anglican church literally arising from a Catholic English monarch disobeying the pope.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I'm not accusing you of that (in fact I literally said that you understand its not that), but I'm guess you're ignorant of how that is how it is taught in the British curriculum. The motif you're talking about Alan Moore using - the Gunpowder plot and therefore Guy Fawkes wanting to replace the noble British monarchy with a foreign theocracy - relies entirely on that context. British history is carefully curated with "that was a foreign plot and the British nation bravely survived it" vs "a foreign ally saved and restored our glorious nation". For many, the presence of Catholicism is one of the primary deciding factors in that.

Are you usually this unable to take criticism without insulting people? (Yes, daily)

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Because Ireland is an independent nation and representing a former colony that you committed genocide against on your flag, coat of arms, and list of noble titles in 2025 is ghoulish.

(It's definitely not that but wouldn't that be nice)

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Donation by definition doesn't exchange value?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A terrible joke made racist by insisting it be made Irish (you left an extra space afer Dublin while copy-pasting on your phone) while completely fucking up any semblance of setting it in Ireland ("John Bradford", "Dublin University", hitchhiking in general)

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sonic is a Hedgehog in sneakers

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

I have long ones too that run my old Oculus Rift sensors. Those can ocassionally be flaky but I think it's the controller rather than the device. I'm not saying they don't work, I'm saying they are less reliable and/or more expensive to make reliable. Hence companies not bundling them.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They're rare because 10 feet is too long for a reliable USB data transmission. But yes good for charging.

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