A 5 minute meeting with JD Vance and he was gone.
Taken right after the handshake
Sometimes old people who are declining, die.
Sometimes, after being exposed to the MAGA mind virus, people give up all hope for humanity and die.
And sometimes, small outside factors can relieve or worsen that decline.
I too, die a little every time I see him.
What are the chances that the Cardinals protest vote two elections in a row and they accidentally elect a decent man again? Can you imagine back to back decent Popes? Not sure if it’s happened in my lifetime.
Not a chance in hell
I missed which the first decent one was…
Definitely the ‘least bad’ pope of my lifetime. Let’s hope the next one continues the progressive stance he adopted on many aspects of life.
None of it was real, it was all PR talk. Go to South America as an openly gay person into a church ABS see how progressive they really are.
Change takes time and they’ve been anti-gay for a very, very long time. No sane person thinks a single pope solved all the centuries of repression in 10 years.
What I do know is that the conservative Catholics I personally know thought Pope Francis was “too liberal” and “just saying woke things because that’s what young people like nowadays” and those are both endorsements to my ears.
Especially his attitude on climate change and income inequality and tax avoidance by the wealthy - there is a lot of that in conservative church groups and if their God’s PR representative is telling them to cut that shit out and look after the environment better then great.
That needless comma in the title, is annoying.
I was taughy any sentence fragment between commas is added, yet not vital, information to a sentence, capable of being removed without taking away any crucial information conveied.
It fits the rules.
And, commas also act as a way to convey the rithym you intend your sentences to be read.
I have a really hard time reading english and not feel rushed to do it.
It actually doesn’t fit the rules. That comma before “announces” is completely unnecessary and accomplishes nothing. The headline should read,
Pope Francis has died, the Vatican camerlengo announces
Pope Francis has died announces
Does this work?
It’s passive language. It should read: So and so announces, Pope Francis has died.
If it were an ordinary sentence used in casual conversation, sure. But for a news headline, it makes sense to put the most important information at the beginning.
I hope he had the chance to tell JD Vance exactly how much of a fuckwit he is before passing.
Well he definitely did have the chance. Let’s hope he used it!
He did snub Vance, so it’s at least implied.
I’m gonna miss him. One of the best popes of our generation.
That’s like saying I just had one of my best shits since my IBS diagnosis.
Low bar but he did blow it away.
Bar so low we’re limbo-dancing in Hell
That title, it has one too many, commas.
It’s a Walken comma:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/2da9a8ae-1aaf-4e63-a074-b83a46dcc73c.webp
Makes sense – punctuation is ultimately about signalling pauses and inflection in speech; you can get rather creative if, and only if! so desired.
LOL, nice.
“I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell!”
“I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more
cowbell, commas!
I liked that guy.
Sad that a piece of shit like j.d. vance was with him before.
Didn’t he send another cardinal to lecture Vance?
I don’t know, but of course it could be. I had only heard that vance had visited him, which was just as shitty an action as the unwanted visit to Greenland.
It does have a similar vibe to when Liz Truzz killed the Queen
I imagine if you’re already on your deathbed and you have to listen to some shitty little windbag, it could remove your motivation to hang on.
Let’s hope he lasts as long as Truss did after that too.
Yes, it was.
why the weird commas
I wonder if they still tap the dead pope three times with a silver hammer to check if they’re really dead?
I offered to do it, they weren’t willing to supply ponchos for the audience though so plans fell through.
Maxwell’s a Catholic?
I think it is mandatory. There is a very precise rite to declare a pope as deceased.
I’ve seen this one. Resurrected tomorrow.
Gonna be some nice crazy shit about the Prophecy of the Popes flying around, this will be interesting to observe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes
*aaaaaaaaaand, there it is:
New pope gets elected, and then the believers will say it was misinterpreted the whole time. This is the standard way.
There does appear to be a built in buffer zone according to some interpretations lol
Indigenous person here. GOOD
Sucks that he died, but got me thinking. How is the Pope any different from a Dictator? He’s literally one person at the top who has the authority to decide how an entire group of people should think and act and believes he has divine authority to do so?
Except that he has no executive power over those people.
And he is also elected (not by the people, but elected nontheless)
He has some. He has direct control over church matters, and a lot of people willingly follow the church. So if the church says “no red meat on Fridays”, the people will do that.
Yeah, but not in an enforced way.
This is not how it works.
*anymore.
He is elected though? It is not as easy to depose a pope as a president, but there is no military coup, secret police or other things associated with dictatorships.
In his position as pope he has no state power, only spiritual, and in his position as monarch of the Vatican, well there’s only church employees living there and Italy has an eye on things. Generally speaking unless otherwise stated Italian law applies within the Vatican.
Also he’s elected. Not that that means much it means that he’s a mouthpiece of the oligarchs (cardinals) electing him. But while we’re at elected monarchs, there’s one rather curious case: The French president is co-prince of Andorra, that is, their head of state, he shares that position with the local Bishop. Nearly 800 years ago the Andorrans said “yeah let’s not get invaded” and gave the title to the French head of state, then revolution happened, now the French are electing the Andorran head of state.
