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'Evil is being defeated by God': Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates after Pope's death
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Really? "Oh pleeeease, you dunce, I know it's difficult for people like you to understand, but powerful people are powerful".
You are defending engagement with what equates to a soap opera for politics. You are actively defending people memeing about what some politician said - in this case even about something that is completely irrelevant to anyone but deluded religionists - which is just a lot of lies in every instance anyway.
Why don't you promote engagement with shit they DO instead?
Are you deliberately fueling this pointless meme bullshit about political theater to make people feel better about themselves, in order to prevent them from doing something about the actually bad things that are going on outside of their doors right fucking now?
Or was that just some masturbatory eruption to satisfy your condescending impulse to snortleingly correct the defective thinking of some mentally inferior fool on the internet?
Why is my reply so heated? I see two possibilities:
And I give you the intellectual benefit of the doubt and say you are doing it deliberately.
People like you have been distracting the public discussion like this for as long as I live, and you try to make people criticizing the distraction look stupid, while elevating yourself.
"Pleeeeeeeease don't be a dummy, my dearest friend and buddy, pleeeeeease!". FUCK that.
We see preparations for concentration camps, actual genocides, the implementation of total surveillance states, the enactment of police state enablement laws, dismantling of human rights of every level, a burning planet, techno-oligarchs, so called "centrists" buddying up with fascists, territorial-/resource wars... and you defend people talking about SOME CUNT TALKING ABOUT SOME DEAD ASSHOLE WITH A TALL HAT? IN A POLITICS SECTION!
What the fuck!
If you say "Hey buddy, don't harsh on our stupid time, let us only talk about dumb stuff this year", I might just think "sigh Ok..." and dejectedly walk away, having my lack of faith in humanity validated once again, but your way of defending it is actually revolting to me.