Screaming twenties

According to the article, the context for the flashy headline is that all Catholics are children of God and that all must be treated with compassion, while still acknowledging that pedophiles are monsters.

I will not pretend that Francis’s hands are totally clean. He has mistreated abuse cases in the past. Around 2019 he actually started implementing some reforms that have to some extent helped. While I don’t think he did enough, he did much more than his predecessors. I highly suspect the next pope will be another Benedict and not another Francis. Consequently, I suspect that the mishandling will get worse.

He was an alright Pope in the end. Not a soulless bastard like Benedict.

You sent this message by manually sending radio messages, I presume?

Would, say, an actor playing a Nazi officer in a movie be protected from this?

Rot in piss

Good on the media for using the active voice for once

Protectionism only really makes sense if you’re a country without native industrial capacities and trying to industrialise. Even that is debatable.

Russia used to be a major world power with highly developed heavy industry and okay-ish light industry. A lot of that has been poorly maintained since the fall of the USSR but the factories are still there. Protectionism makes little sense here.

Ireland too :(

Article says the rebels going in are Islamists. Sadly, I don’t think life will get much better in Syria and will definitely worsen in Kurdistan.

Damn, TIL. Thank you.

And for the first time in my life, thank you Erdogan.

NATO has not changed its position, that’s the thing.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_218165.htm

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-backs-israel-and-warns-iran-to-stay-away-gaza-hamas-netanyah/

There is a very good reason the Irish care about Neutrality. The Montrealites are not so different.

Edit: Thank you Chairman Meow for telling me about this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

Sibling of Bobby Drop Tables

Twitter is not a free platform. It actively suppresses the voices of the left and protects the far right.

I do sincerely support free speech. I think it looks a lot more like the Fediverse than Twitter.

I interact with enough tankies to tell you in advance.

In the view of tankies, Russia isn’t imperialist due to some weaseling with how they define imperialism in economic terms.

The US, on the other hand, is as imperialist in tankies’ minds as it is in reality.

Thus, to to them, Russia is waging an anti-imperialist war with the long-term goal of establishing a “multi-polar” world.

Thus, the tankie conclusion is that NK is heroically sending in the soldiers to help fight imperialism.

I see no need to try and explain why this is wrong. That’s left as an exercise for the reader.

Thanks, comrade

Thanks bro

Also I think that’s Note wearing a TempleOS shirt in the background of this other post by the artist.

What is the original source material for the image and the name of the woman within?

I’d like to add that economic pressure is useful too. Try to boycott companies that support genocide. Individually it isn’t much but if you follow Andrew’s guidelines then you will hopefully influence others to do the same.