I wish this was good news, and not a prelude to military crackdowns in US cities

The famous clown Dirt_Owl is posting. Perhaps you could read some of their posts to cheer up?

Change.org petition to bring back the cocaine pope wine

Der New York Sturmer

Remember the air drops?

Remember the floating pier that couldn’t withstand the Mediterranean, and was used as cover for a war crime?

Merz will build it so that AfD has a nice apparatus when they eventually rise to power

The only really dumb take I’ve seen is him saying that owning a credit card would make him bourgeois

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He was bangin Mary Magdalene

Jack Ma is the most oppressed man in the world

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Duh. Francis also believed this. They also believe sex outside of marriage is a sin. They also think marital sex with a condom or birth control are a sin. They also think sexual thoughts are a sin (unless it’s a thought about the spouse, and for the purpose of procreation)

I’m from a catholic family, and saw the influence of John Paul II on older family members. Doctrine hasn’t changed much, but Francis toned down the obsession with abortion and anti-communism, and emphasized the more accepting parts of church doctrine.

Also, liberation theology is good. Having a pope that’s not extreme anticommunist probably has some positive effects for latin america’s more radical catholics

Also, the vatican is a sovereign state. I don’t think it should be, but it is. So its leader has some amount of legal influence on world politics

It’s facing the port and downtown of a midsize city

The headline is bullshit. They’re talking about 12 hours without a ship departing China. There are dozens of ships in transit.

But you did all of that as satire. Comedy is legal

that’s why I call covid The yankee doodle flu

Yeah, I had some extended family that got a nasty “flu” around then, too. The only time I’ve heard of a “flu” taking away someone’s ability to taste for a weekI

Don’t forget:

gut the safety net programs that were already barely functional