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Bulletins and News Discussion from April 21st to April 27th, 2025 - JD Vance vs Pope Francis, No Items, Final Destination
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Image is sourced from this Guardian article.
The Pope's fucking dead.
He gave JD Vance three chocolate easter eggs, exchanged pleasantries for 17 minutes, and then keeled over and died.
What a way to go.
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I understood it and was going with influential as inspirational and motivational to the largest and most diverse group of people, not the most radical. Maybe chinese and neighbors alone beat the numbers for Xi, which whom I don't think vibes much populism or direct impact. It's not "some cool antiwar stuff", which is kind of the official line of the church, it's the words about capitalism, inequality, climate change, billionaires, financial sector, calling Gaza every single day, and the limited but huge shifts about communism, feminism, and LGB (missed something there, I know), all while at the top of the reactionary central of the west for centuries.
Actual existing communism is great, but, I don't know, doesn't feel it moved the techtonic plates as much.
Again, the fuck?
Members of the Catholic church: 1.4b
Population of China: 1.4b (then add Cuba, Laos, Venezuela, Bolivia, Vietnam, etc., etc. shit even Mexico and Brazil are AES compared to the Catholic church).
Lip service is worth more than eradicating extreme poverty, something the Church hasn't done despite that being its doctrinal mission for two millenia and being the largest single landowner on the planet. Francis's words as Pope barely offset his transphobia, much less making up for his role covering up abuse and ratting out actual liberation theologians.
Also he doesn't get LG credit lol. No changes to the priesthood, no marriage (that's one of their seven sacraments, so effectively continuing to treat queer Catholics as unworthy).
What no materialism does to a mfer. I never want to be called a 'leftist' again if this is all it takes to be the most influential one in a decade.
Influential at an intangible spiritual feeling of not giving up. You're right, it's not material, it's not measurable, and maybe even not that relevant. It could be me overcorrecting on western despair that isn't going to change or become easier.
Someone like Xi led the country, along with their government and their party, but unless I'm ignorant on that as well, others inspired the people to change with it and make it work. In the same way that its not reasonable to measure it in members or population numbers when insiders dislike and outsiders appreciate, especially with the former pope.
But, again, I'm probably miss-evaluating a few things, including personal despair.
Eradicating poverty is the work of millions of people in China over the last half century, not just Xi.
I think it's fair to say Xi has far more power in the material real world, and his decisions carry quite a bit more weight, but the pope exists pretty much to spew doctrine, and I wouldn't be very surprised if his actual words reach a much wider audience than Xi's.
The pope may be more "influential", but only in the sense that he's basically an influencer and Xi is an actual governor.
why I said Xi and the CPC in the first reply.
but if we're gonna split hairs on influential, this discussion is meaningless liberalism.