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Pope Francis, who was born in South America: "Am I a joke to you?"
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But “American” is what people from the USA are usually called.
Yeah, I sometimes say USAian or United Statesian, but that obviously doesn't flow. It exists in other languages, but not English.
Also, personal nitpick, I don't love when the continent of America refers to both N and S America.
"But it's one landmass!!1!" Yeah, so is AfroEurasia. Continents don't actually have an agreed upon meaning, so… it's just, like, my opinion man.
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I remember calling a business in Canada and they asked me where I was from and I replied "America." They replied with "We're in America, too." Then I was speaking with a guy from Poland who said he was vacationing in "America" so I asked which state and he said "Roatan."
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first Yankee* Pope.
The United States is the only country in the world that does not have a gentile for itself. They call themselves citizens of the continent that they share with other countries, seeming to appropriate the entire continent.
It’s one of those things that made sense at the time, but looks a little weird if you don’t account for the history.
Folks living in the British colonies wanted to differentiate themselves from the English, so they called themselves “Americans” because they were in the “American colonies.”
The name stuck after the colonies became the United States.
But the same did not happen in the Spanish or French colonies, or even in other English colonies such as Canada or Belize. It is still weird and pretentious
The hostility with England has a big role in “American” sticking. It used to be a general term for any European colonist coming over to the Americas, but when British colonists started getting more and more pissed at the homeland, they started embracing that general term more and more.
This stuff always looks a little weird in a vacuum, but if you playback the tape and get familiar with the history, it makes a lot more sense.
I like the spanish demonym for those of us from the United States: estadounidense. If you were to translate it literally it'd be like unitedstatesian, like brazilian (braziliense)
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Damn, Vatican, read the room, mate
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-cardinal-robert-prevost/
Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota, was appointed less than a week ago by President Trump to the new White House Commission on Religious Liberty. This week, however, he was at the Vatican with hundreds of other prelates as the cardinal electors gather for the conclave to choose a new pontiff.
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"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."
so.. the u.s. circling the drain of democracy is what finally got them a turn.
We needed an American religious figure on the world stage to take on the anti-christ for the final boss battles
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Bro, we can send Vance to meet this guy.
He has been protecting pedophiles in the past: https://willcountygazette.com/stories/671124585-if-he-saw-and-stayed-silent-he-s-not-a
That’s a job requirement with the Catholic Church.
In March, SNAP sent a letter to Vatican leadership detailing the conduct of Prevost in two separate incidents of priest sexual abuse, demanding an investigation ahead of the looming Conclave. The letter details accusations of "inaction" during his time both as an Augustinian provincial in the U.S. and as Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru, where Prevost served from 2014 to 2023. The letter alleged that Prevost allowed known sex abusers to remain in ministry, and failed to investigate serious claims brought by victims, including three Peruvian minor girls who said their reports were ignored and mishandled. It also details the case of Fr. James Ray, a priest accused of sexual abuse in Waukegan and Wauconda who Prevost allowed to live at St. John Stone Friary in Hyde Park, a half block from St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School.
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American? Aw, hell. Trump is going to boast about this being a win for him and the Catholic Church groveling to him.
Eh, he'd find a way of boasting and taking credit for it whoever the new pope was.
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Do we know on which side he's on? Like more progressive or more conservative?
In line with Francis on migrants and the poor. He thinks social elements like position on LGBT issues should be set at the regional level and align with local cultural acceptance.
In other words, slightly progressive from a Catholic leadership standpoint, but conservative when compared against Western Europe.
Do we think he'll help hide Americans in Africa whem this is over?
More progressive overall but he has a history of making anti-gay statements.
Do we know on which side he’s on?
Yes he's part of a homophobic, misogynist and authoritarian cult
But apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
First USA pope. Someone made a lot of money on betting apps.
Fuck this pope, fuck the last pope, and fuck all popes. This piece of shit wants to takeover another religious scam? Then fuck him and the people that support this hate religion.
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Dissapointed they didn't fire off the day time fireworks and have f-35's do a fly by to born in the USA
I was really rooting for Pizzaballa lol
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