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Some smol news regarding the passing of His Holiness.

The newly minted president of Iceland, Halla Tómasdóttir, expressed her condolences on Facebook, as people do these days.

But instead of using the Icelandic style of his name, Frans páfi, she used his English name, Pope Francis, which made language scholars and conservationists furrow their brows and scold the president when the press asked them for their opinions.

The office of the President has declared that the president simply wished to tag His Holiness in the post but in her haste, forgot to put the @ sign. Which might work as an explanation except that His Holiness does not have an official Facebook page.

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ain't that some shit linky to thread

Did JD drop the Pope?

Maybe its a bit western-centric, but a local random good person I follow on xitter pointed out that the late pope was the most influential leftist of the last decade. Flawed, like any human, but yeah, that hit.

Former Nestle CEO appointed Chairman of the World Economic Forum

Former Nestle CEO, Vice Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe; was, during an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Trustees, appointed WEF Chairman ad interim. This comes after the 87 year old Klaus Schwab resigned from the position.

In 2017, the businessman infamously stated that, and I quote:

Humans have no right to access free water.

Nestle has been embroiled in numerous controversies in recent years; namely, their usage of child slavery.

I'm not crying, you're crying

(original was in Portuguese, translated to English), not a lib

JD Vance is the antichrist and sucked the soul out of the Pope, the end times are here

For anyone who is interested in left wing/historical materialist inroads to discuss Christianity, i have been reading a physical copy of Parables as Subversive Speech : Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed William R Herzog that i found in a used bookstore.

I cannot recommend it enough, it goes into various aspects of ancient Palestinian history from the worth of a talent to the treatment of day laborers by landowners' hired help, to the proportion of people within various classes in the time period discussed.

https://archive.org/details/parablesassubver0000herz

context- I am an ex Catholic turned transsexual communist, and while I may not follow the tenets of the Church anymore and have resentment for the harm it did to me and countless others, I recognize that it has provided comfort and can be a difficult framework to negotiate with. I'm sharing this less as "see, the Church is cool after all!!" and more "if you have the patience to actually sit down and talk to people, this may be a useful reference."

I am kinda sad to hear Pope Francis passed away, even though it was coming eventually. And I say this despite being somewhat atheist myself. In Argentina, Francis is know to some as "The Pope of the Atheists" because he was well liked among important groups of people for his militancy, not only at the head of the Catholic Church, but also during his days in the Argentinian Church. I have grown a great deal of respect for the man, of course I had a lot of disagreements with him but I don't think he was your regular super conservative Pope, far from it. It's kinda good to see he was deeply moved by the Genocide in Gaza, and he was personally invested in denouncing it until the very end of his life. That I can respect, despite our "spiritual" and political differences.

He really got under the skin of milei as well, he absolutely despised the Pope. Years ago he even called him, publicly, a "fucking Communist SOB" that is a "representative of the Devil in the Holy See". A while back he was shown a fragment of a interview an argentinian journalist did to the Pope, where he said that we should all be aware of "men without history that pretend to become saviors", he specifically mentioned that "this was the case with Adolf [Hitler]" and milei took great offense lmao and became very angry because he thought the Pope was talking about him. He is, indeed, a dangerous man without history, someone who has a messiah complex.

Francis also mantained some relationships with local Communist leaders and Socialists, especially those linked with the Church and/or doing charity work among the needy. His persona ideology however could be something along the lines of Social Justice. Truth is, he wasn't a rabid anti-Communist like pretty much all the other Popes, quite refreshing.