There’s just something very funny about an anti-DPP protest accusing the government of being Communist when the CPC openly hates the DPP for being a US lap dog, while simultaneously many KMT officials and supporters in the military keep taking bribes from the CPC, and in some cases, go on trips to mainland China to have friendly exchanges with CPC officials.

The world’s leading democracy that banned the Communist Party of Germany; the only party that actually cared about stopping Nazis pre-WW2, coincidentally is now seeing a return of Nazis to the Bundestag in their absence.

CPC called Trump fake news lmao

I gave you the choice of declining willingly Jack

But you have elected the way of PAIN!

Cause Dune’s actually dope as hell and has a lot of good anti-colonial messages and analogies to the petrodollar, while Harry Potter is young adult lib shit you’re meant to grow out of.

Basically Harkonnens vs Fremen.

And like the Israelis, the Harkonnens had to eventually rely on bombing runs to force the Fremen out of their homes which were unseizable.

Superstructure: website culture

Base: website format

China shouldn’t lift it unless the US lifts sanctions on semiconductors and tariffs on EVs. The trade war started well before this month’s Trump shenanigans. No reason to back down now.

I mean, if we’re basing “most influential” purely by number of people under their governance, Xi Jinping takes the cake here. And Xi is actually a socialist, the Pope is just a theocrat who said some cool things.

You talk of mentioning Mohammad’s child marriage being counter-productive in many contexts, but that is exactly what you are doing. No one brought this comparison up except you, a comparison that makes no sense as it occurred two millennium ago in a vastly different society with vastly different social norms to what is accepted by the vast majority of modern society today. Is Mohammad alive today actively running cover for pedophilia while being the head of a massive theocratic institution with the power to sway hundreds of millions? No. But the Pope is (or was, until yesterday).

Re: Netanyahu, I’m not sure if that statistic would even be true, but he is not a religious figure at the top of the chain.

He is, however, a world leader with massive sway in Western politics, and you’d have to be living under a rock to not see how he constantly equivalates his actions and the actions of the Zionist entity with Judaism.
Just as I’m sure you agree that Netanyahu’s actions should not be associated with Judaism, the Pope’s actions on institutional cover-up of pedophilia should not be associated with Christianity. So why do you think it is anti-Christian to call this out?

But what I’m trying to draw attention to is basic cultural sensitivity and treating each other like comrades, which is not how parent is - or now I am - being treated.

So, your idea of treating each other like comrades is ignoring the reactionary ideas and institutional corruption of a present-day theocratic leader and acting like he’s a man of the people? How incredibly un-Marxist of you.

How about showing some sensitivity for the Catholic children who were abused by the Church that the Pope was running cover for?

How about showing some sensitivity for all the LGBT+ people (some of which are on this forum) who were discriminated against by the Church?

It is absolutely childish to say that the material harm that the Church does to people is the same as your feelings being hurt because people are criticizing your geriatric pedo religious leader after he just passed away. It’s the same bullshit conservative Britbong Protestants pulled when Queen Elizabeth II died because it was too “culturally insensitive” to call her out for being a racist imperialist that impoverishes her people.

When is the best time to say this then? I already know the answer of course, but I hope you get the point I’m trying to make.

How is calling the Pope a pedophile anti-Christian? He willingly helped cover up known child sex abusers in the Church so he should be rightfully called out for it.

This is like saying calling Netanyahu a genocidal fascist is anti-Semitic and wouldn’t go down well with the majority of Jews. And you can be sure as hell that we will call him that when he kicks the bucket. Pure tone policing that achieves nothing.

I do think that attacking the entire Catholic Church instead of attacking just Catholic theocrats is analogous to attacking Christianity instead of just Christian theocrats.

This is what I was objecting to. I fail to see how attacking the Catholic Church is an affront to every Christian, especially when some comrades on this forum are Christian and share these critiques too.

When I said “the Catholic Church is not Christianity as a whole” I mean that bashing the Church for the reactionary stuff it does or says is not analogous to bashing Christianity in general. When the Pope gets called out by us for saying something like “gender ideology is the most dangerous thing in society”, that doesn’t mean EVERY Christian holds that view or should be associated with what the Pope says (unless they are in the Church themselves, then they should be held accountable).

Also, can you define “Christian theocrat” for me? I’m having a hard time seeing how that isn’t any different to the Catholic Church (which is LITERALLY a theocratic institution).

But I still believe it can continue to exist as the Catholic Church but be prevented from messing with secular politics. I am not sure that was your point, but you seem to think that the Catholic Church is inherently a “political” (secular politics) arm of Christianity.

No, I do not see the Catholic Church as “secular”, it is by its nature a theocratic organization. The “political” part comes from the fact that it wields power in the state (through the Vatican, but also historically through governments that pledge allegiance to the Church) to enact its theocratic ideas and policies on the masses. To give modern comparisons, it is comparable to the clerics who hold power in the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the British Monarch being the figurehead of the Church of England.

Do I believe that religious organizations can be prevented from interfering in secular politics? Yes, as long as they don’t gain power. China is a good example of a ML state that has prevented this while still allowing people to congregate in religious orgs by making sure they are all approved and regulated by the Communist Party.

Give me an example then (and no, I won’t accept trans people sharing their traumatic experiences with Christians denying their human rights).

While I appreciate your critique, I have to object to one thing: the Catholic Church is not Christianity as a whole. It is a political organization that represents the religion, but it is not omnipotent of the religion.

And as political organization, it has done a LOT of bad shit in its very, very long history.

Just as people point out that ISIS, Al-Qaeda, or even Saudi Arabia is not representative of all of Islam, neither is the Catholic Church, the Church of England, or any Christian organization at that.

It has also historically been used by the bourgeoisie, and the aristocracy before them, to legitimize and maintain their class dictatorship (as you already pointed out, Tsarist Russia is a very example of that but for the Orthodox Church), so it is not out of line to include religious organizations in critiques of Capitalism.

I believe most folks here are (rightfully) trashing the Church, not every single person who holds Christian beliefs.

I’m conflicted, should I get the crabs out cause it’s the leader of the biggest pdf organization on the planet, or should I mourn cause he’s the most progressive pope we’ll probably ever get in our lifetimes?

One of the best things about the Trump Presidency is that less and less people are starting to take America’s authority on “Human rights” not seriously anymore.

To the chuds who constantly say why doesn’t the DPRK spend its money helping their people whenever they see Western media only covering their military parades and nuclear missile tests, just show them this.

If (and that’s a big if) I ever go to the USA I’d go for the beautiful scenic landmarks they have. Always wanted to see Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon as a kid.

Would probably skip all the stuff in the cities cause that’s all commercial crap I can find anywhere else or Anglo colonial history which I don’t care about.

Increasingly relevant video about how it feels to live in Birmingham

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