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Hilarious to call the pope Marxist. Wasn’t it Marx who called religion the opiate of the masses? Few communist countries tolerate religion much at all.
Yeah, there’s a BUNCH of Latin American Catholics that would read “Marxism = anti-religion” as news to them. (See: Liberation Theology)
He didn’t say that as a bad thing.
The Communist Manifesto spends time talking about how compatible early Christian teachings are with Marx’s goals.
As with the “abolition of private property” people quotes what’s convenient. The whole quote goes:
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Ugh us Americans from the USA don’t seem to understand how arrogant it is to say he’s the first American pope. Argentina is in South America. This guy is the first North American pope, or better yet the first pope from the United States. This is going to bug the shit out of me.
Edit: Because I’m genuinely loving the downvotes (you really felt it when I called you arrogant, huh), if the next US president was from North Dakota, we wouldn’t say they were the first president from Dakota, would we?
I fully get the criticism, but US Americans are the only ones that identify, and are broadly known as “Americans,” so it just feels pedantic to me.
It’s definitely pedantic, but I’ve had more than one friend from countries in Central and South America comment on it, so it’s not just me noticing.
Interesting that you chose to identify your friends as “from countries in central in South America “instead of just calling them, Americans.
Not really since their continent of origin is directly relevant to the discussion of the scope of the term ‘American’.
Pedants have pedant friends? Not trying to be an ass, but it just seems like such a meaningless distinction to make… Why is it worth it?
Because American cultural imperialism sucks for lots of reasons, and it’s worth pushing back against it
It’s literally part of the name and the most sensible shorthand, by which virtually no one is confused.
But fight your fight, I guess.
And he’s the first US-ian Pope because of his birth.
But his career was in Peru.
Yeah, he’s the first Pope from the States, is closer to the phrase that should be used.
What states? There are lots of states in the world.
‘The States’ is a common nickname for the USA, but you’re right, it isn’t ideal for the same reasons as American.
CHICAGOAN POPE! FUCK YEAH!
And I was going to add that caveat that even what I was saying could be wrong. But usually “the states” can only mean one place.
I mean… I don’t disagree, but no other nation put “America” in their name. “United” and “States” are even more generic. Heck, “United States” isn’t even distinctive.
- “Uni” is already “university”,
- “Statist” is already something else
- Statian / station
- Stater / stator
- Unitian / munition
- “Unitarian” is already something
- Unit 👎
- Unish 👎
- Ustan / Houston
- UnStan, UnStian, UniStan, UniStAm👎
- “Yank(ee)” is almost exclusively derogatory, and a fair chunk of the nation uses it to denigrate a different chunk.
- “Yu-ess-ee-an” is just unbelievably awful
- “Usonian” didn’t take off, but we could give it another go 🤷♂️
Why seem Americans to call everybody Marxist they don’t like?
I don’t want to troll, I am really interested in an answer.
A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism. Historically, red scares have led to mass political persecution, scapegoating, and the ousting of those in government positions who have had connections with left-wing movements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
It’s just a boogeyman word to make them sound scary. Laura Loomer literally does not know what marxist means beyond “communism”. In fact, she doesn’t even know what communism is, she has just been told it’s bad.
I mean… It’s Laura Loomer. She’s like bottom of the barrel QAnon nazi.
To be honest, it’s the first time I read about her. I didn’t know her before.
She was briefly on Trump’s plane. Around the debate with Harris. It’s likely he took the “eating the pets” line from her, since that was a rumor spread in nazi circles, particularly on Gab.
It’s also possible they had an affair during that time. MTG got really angry with Loomer and they started trashing each other on Twitter for all to see. It was glorious.
ah! I did not know it was her.
Thanks for the pointer!
Only the fascist Americans do that.
They’re trying to scare the moronic hillbillies into thinking Marxism is bad.
so just plain old propaganda?
Ok, thanks.
If Loomer hates the new pope, that’s the only endorsement I need to hear!
Oh cool, glad to know these people hate him. That’s a good sign to me.
Fucking high praise and a strong endorsement right there.
Heh, instead of the college of Cardinals, they should have just sent a list to trump and picked the one he ranted on the longest.
Loomer can go eat a bag of small Trump dicks.
Slightly NSFW
Jesus is NOT alright with Republicans.
Not the Jesus of the New Testament going by his teachings, and not the Jesus that literally labors for the very food the raging hypocrites eat.
Atheists like myself at least don’t care about Jesus Christ. But as someone raised Roman Catholic, with a grandmother that recognized the benevolent teachings of the New Testament, I can verify one of the Republican’s apparently ridiculous claims is absolutely true:
There is absolutely a war inside America against Christianity.
Republicans are the ones waging it though, as they worship a gold plated nepo slumlord gameshow host idol no less.
Marxist puppet? Are these “Marxists” in the room with you right now?
Who would be pulling the strings for Marxists in 2025? Uh… Cuba? Lemmy.ml? Lenin reanimated as a Communist Lich King?
My heart wants the second coming of Karl Marx himself, but my gut says zombie Stalin
My gut also says zombie Stalin.
tHe dEeP sTatE RaDiCaL LeFt
MAGA are demonic. They are literally driven by hatred and evil, and those that lead them pray only to money.
Ha, hardly. He’s also anti-LGBTetc and standard issue cover for kiddie diddlers.
While that certainly doesn’t speak well for him, wouldn’t it be more of a surprise at this point if they chose a pope that couldn’t be described that way? This is the catholic church we’re talking about.
That is precisely why I chose the phrase “standard issue.” Anyone who thinks the Catholic Church is going to change in any dramatic way is being foolish.
But they said they’d baptize the extraterrestrials when they show up!
So just a very good christian then.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
I understand now!
As a cardinal, he was fine.
But when a cardinal becomes Pope, he dies and also goes woke.
Now, we can remember his name.
His name… Is Robert Prevost.
His name is Robert Prevost!
His name is Robert Prevost!
His name is Robert Prevost!
Can we bring back excommunication?
The problem is that many of the Christians in the US aren’t Catholic. Thus, it probably won’t help if the pope excommunicated them.
I wonder what kind of pizza he prefers. It would be funny if chicago pizza caused a schism in the church.
Just imagining the ruckus that will break out when he calls that “pizza” in Rome 🤣
