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Looking at these liberals just confidently parrot whatever 10th grade "political science" education they got in school in response to any global event makes me appreciate the actual bourgeois intellectuals who have to hard carry these idiots.
Can someone give me a non western chauvinist reason for why the pope isn't a dictator but the supreme leader of Iran is.
The UK's dictator is the head of the state religion, has never been democratically endorsed, and has unlimited powers that by convention are rarely exercised (otherwise the parliament will have to kill a king again), plus religious clerics of the state church have permanent seats in the upper house
The use of the term dictator has a carve out specifically for hereditary monarchy specifically to avoid calling out European monarchs.
The pope sorta used to be like a king of the papal states and had significant political, legal, commercial and economic influence for 100s of years. However, this was all based on the existence of a world where the Italian states and Spanish and other Catholic states had dominance in europe.
With the rise of British power, the basis of the pope's power largely vanished beyond the soft power and legal loophole abilities he provided.
At least that's what I know from my very limited knowledge of Christian history.
Iran is a country, the church isn't
The Vatican is a state.
Well the Vatican doesn't count because... Uh... Uhm... It isn't a country, not a real country.
Honestly ill take that. The Vatican shouldn't be afforded the respect of statehood.