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Francis is also the only Pope I've ever heard admit that he almost didn't take the vows of ordination because there was this one girl he really wanted to fuck
Pope Francis only got elected because the next-in-line guy got caught up in a sex-trafficking scandal, and Francis had one lung, so they thought he'd last a cool 6 months & then they'd get their sex criminal. Living 12 years was a pretty good bit. Hope the other guy's dead
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This is not the case.
The OP maybe referring to Cardinal Angelo Scola, who several days before the 2013 conclave occured was connected to financial corruption with the Mafia–not sex trafficking, as the post claims.
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If I could choose one thing for the average American to understand about the year-long genocide in Gaza, it might be this: most of Israel's "offensives" and "raids" and "operations" and "precision strikes" have been carried out against starving, homeless, sick people in tents
Katt Williams, in one of the only good bits about the Iraq War: "What does the Iraqi army uniform look like? Think about it. I'll wait. We ain't fighting their army, we fighting THEM."
Used to be the common refrain was "We're not at war with you, we're at war with your government." That in of itself was always hokum, you bomb cities, you're at war with the people. Now it's "we're at war with a part of your government, but not the government." Also nonsense.
What we're watching isn't just the real-time documentation of genocidal crimes; we are also witnessing the end of the idea that real-time documentation of a genocide would suffice to stop it. Get rid of that idea. It's gone. Power cannot be shamed into any concession anymore
There's a story about Dilla wanting to sample a drum break on a Roy Ayers record, I think, but the whole thing had a spoken monologue over it. He broke that thing down to 64th-note microseconds, found 64 tiny shards with no talking, & rebuilt the drums without the monologue
Happy 50th, Dilla. "The way he used technology to change hip hop makes it feel like the miracle of the pyramids. It sounds simple until you hear the original samples. Then you really appreciate Dilla’s craft." @pbwolf
More: sthrow.com/dilla
Vinyl: sthrow.com/donuts
I don't actually have anything to say about John Fetterman, but it feels like getting to the Senate and realizing "Wow, this fucking blows, everyone here is a backstabbing liar, I can't do anything, I'm so depressed I need to go to a hospital" should make him incredibly popular
Turns out a guy from the CIA has total editorial control over everything related to Israel or Palestine at the BBC, which could help explain why that position exists and why it would be given to a 34-year-old, but it's cool. He stopped being in the CIA. Presumably at some point
Remember when we insanely chose to murder Qasem Soleimani, & an anonymous Iranian official said, "We can't strike back, because America doesn't have any heroes. Who are we going to kill, Spongebob?"
When Palestinian corpses in plastic bags are getting loaded onto garbage trucks, and the woman filming it sings about "taking out the trash," this is no longer "like" or "tantamount to" or "eerily akin to" anything. This IS that thing. You are watching the actual concrete thing