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  • I'm just going to ramble so sorry if it's a little incoherent.

    One of the most progressive popes in recent memory. He continuously stayed in touch with the parishioners in Gaza and continously spoke out against the genocide, even on his deathbed he kept in touch with them, he encouraged Marxists and Catholics by becoming the first pope to outright acknowledge the similarities in Marxism and Christianity (doing so many times over the years), he replaced about 80% of the current cardinals with ones more progressive like he, hopefully solidifying his message and became the first ever pope to apologize and start to reconcile the relationships with the indengeious Canadians and what the church did to them with residential schools.

    He encouraged unity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, by working out and having both churches celebrate easter for the first time since the schism over 1000 years ago, helping to mend the churches possibly even more so than Ecumenism. He was one of the only public figures actually talking about the genocide in Darfur.

    He was a proponent of LGBT peoples in the church. Definitely not on the same level as some progressive but he was the first pope to allow a LGBT+ advocacy group (Jonathan’s Tent) and give them spotlight, even giving them their own events in the calendar, also changing the direction of the church's opinion on the LGBT community.

    He was quite often criticized by conservatives as a socialist and Marxist but really he was just following the doctrine. He also had views on refugees and migrants that I can't recall exactly right now. With regards to the sexual abuse scandals that rocked the church in the 90s (rip Sinead o' Connor), he toughened the canon law to further go after the priests responsible. I recall he either fired or excommunicated some priests involved in the scandal but I can't recall atm. Imo, he should have gone farther on it but it was as a start.

    I think he should have railed a little harder against the American televangelists and the American tradcath movement but there are Christian groups doing that on their own (like the Trinity Foundation). He wasn't perfect by all means. There were homes demolished during his visit in Timor-Leste and people displaced and he excommunicated Carlo Maria Viganò but when comparing him against the previous popes he left behind a tremendous legacy.

    He is also the only pope to release a prog rock album.

  • Sure, if you ignore the centuries of medical, mathematical and scientific research religion directly caused. From Islamic scholars to Catholic scientists who discovered genetics and concepts like the big bang. Don't worry, you'll grow up one day and realize the purpose of religion isn't so black and white.

  • I'm gonna miss him. One of the best popes of our generation.

  • Let's hope he lasts as long as Truss did after that too.

  • Man I'm gonna miss him. Dude was a damn legend and the stuff he accomplished was nothing short if amazing.

  • Fully expecting this to be like Truth Social, based off fediverse software with no attribution and no federation.

  • Gonna be tough to beat mixer. I think she can pull it off.

  • Its possible. There's nobody I can see who could lead the party at this point? Gavin Newsom? He's a DINO.

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  • Vinfast investors are eating good. They don't don't even have to do anything.

  • Lotta people about to suddenly call in sick.

  • I just stopped paying any attention to points afterwards. It was all worthless past then anyways.

  • Looks like the Russian version of Camping with Steve.

  • This is quite literally one of the reasons I started making music. Too many instrumentals without vocals.

  • From the article:

    “And we are shutting down — not building — coal and nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest.”

    This isn't even true. In fact they're taking taking down wind farms to get more coal. This is just someone trying to get a dunk on Trump, like there aren't a million other actually true things they could say. Not to mention them resurrecting other coal plants when they're supposed to be phasing it out.

  • She would have to make her own server. She would overwhelm and destroy those sites.

  • Pftt. Germany shout stfu about being green when they're closing nuclear plants, still taking Russian oil and bringing back retired coal plants.

  • Some just do it to make some extra money and save for convenience. Krita is free to download and install yourself. It's 10 bucks if you want to get it on Steam. It's perfectly within their right. Especially in KDE's instance.

  • He's been sabre-rattling with Israel for months now.