The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy

Post by etiam » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

lostlogin wrote: post #211

drumhead wrote: post #93

Threatening the holy father is not something I entirely expected, but when you couple that with statements like "We have the military power to do what we want" it becomes rather terrifying.

> “We have the military power to do what we want" it becomes rather terrifying And it turns out they don’t have the power to do what they like. The US is terrifying, but it’s military looks weaker.

Post by fhdkweig » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #117

giraffe_lady wrote: post #12

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It is literally this tweet from a few years ago: > Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

My disillusionment with religion is mostly due to people not practicing what they preach and/or what their holy book says. Want to make a religious leader/adult mad as a kid? Ask them why we aren't doing more for the poor like Jesus would do. Source: Me as a kid. I didn't ask in a snotty way, genuinely asked and got rebuked for it. I often feel as if I follow the Bible closer than a number of, ostensibly, "religious"…

Post by rebolek » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:05 PM UTC

lostlogin wrote: post #218

Aurornis wrote: post #192

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That's how ceasefires work. One of the conditions of a ceasefire is that they cease firing. There was no firing prior to the war.

Where does the tax on shipping fit into this? The US administration and military look like fools.

Post by rebolek » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:07 PM UTC

queenkjuul wrote: post #242

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #151

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> Also...I don't think a fast-follow conflict in Cuba right after this Iran affair is going to do much good, but that seems like where their appetite is going next. I was watching a video by Man carrying thing about Iran war, (he makes skit about things which are still good) and he mentioned the Cuba thing. I am being 100% serious right now, I thought that it was just a joke of the skit. Are we actually being serious…

America has been in an ongoing conflict with Cuba since 1959. Trust me, American insanity know absolutely no bounds, the rest of the world needs to wake up and do something about it

Post by ben_w » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:25 PM UTC

rebolek wrote: post #255

lostlogin wrote: post #218

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Where does the tax on shipping fit into this? The US administration and military look like fools.

Of course they look like fools, war has changed very quickly in last few years since their friend Putin fully attacked Ukraine but they’re arrogant enough to not notice. Super-sophisticated ultra-expensive weapons are really nice to have but not that useful against swarms of cheap drones.