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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 134 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She has neither the warmth or depth.

(I didn't come up with this)

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 19 points 10 months ago
[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 63 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if there's a country or group of countries that will save Americans that are still decent human beings?

[–] smegger@aussie.zone 63 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The way things are going, it's getting harder and harder to see the good in America. I know not everyone is like what we see in the news, but there's clearly enough to allow things to keep happening. I feel sorry for the regular people in America.

[–] WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 23 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I feel like I have to add in a disclaimer now whenever I tell someone I’m American. ‘Oh and btw Fuck Trump!’ lol

[–] natecox@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I never understand this view because most people I know are absent from any thought aside from consuming and materialistic escapism. Basically no one I know doesn't support trump.

Ignorance is evil. It doesn't take education to be a basic decent human being.

[–] OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

The revolution will not be televised

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Having seen how the world treats Russian citizens, no.

But that is later, after things get worse. Fur now there are plenty of options for those who have money, or are brave, or talented or some combination. Everyone else here will suffer through it

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm guessing that this is pretty straightforward politicking. A lot of the populist-right crowd in the US has historically been adamantly Protestant. Catholics were also a big issue for the KKK, too.

Her district is Georgia's 14th:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_14th_congressional_district

Hmm.

Yeah, it's mostly not very Catholic, but Whitfield County is a notable exception. Gordon County, which is also somewhat-Catholic, isn't in her district.

https://www.dot.ga.gov/DriveSmart/MapsData/Documents/Statewide/Counties_Map_122812.pdf

https://i.imgur.com/fpor3gq.png

Looks like Whitfield County has a population of 103,687, so maybe an eighth of her constituents.

https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/georgia/

And it looks like that county had the weakest support for Trump of all the counties in her district (though it was still pretty overwhelmingly pro-Trump, 71.9% in favor of Trump versus 27.5% for Harris).

EDIT: Might irritate some of the MAGA crowd elsewhere in the US, though. And probably not the sort of thing that'd go over well with the right in Poland...

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[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If evil is being defeated, why is she still alive?

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Because she is a different being than the being that was defeated.

She's still a little bitch.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 37 points 10 months ago (6 children)
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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Quite tasteless but it is MTG.

[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

She strikes me as someone who says controversial things to remain relevant.

Reminds me of one we had over here, I intentionally don't remember her name but like Piers Morgan but less relevant.

Always chuckle at went on TV saying she hates people calling their children after places.... and her daughter was called India.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

She strikes me as someone who says controversial things to remain relevant.

She was a Qanon wine mom YouTuber prior to her political career, so yeah, you are 100% correct.

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[–] TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think she really believes this stuff.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The "private" chatroom from a while ago seems to indicate that, indeed, they believe their own shit. It would be worrying to have these people in position of great power, wouldn't it?

[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wonder what the Catholic Trumpers here in Louisiana will think of her saying that?

I'm gonna have to ask some.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Catholic Trumpers agree with her. They hated this pope.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then they arent real catholics

[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This.

I’ve been Catholic all my life. How can you be Catholic but oppose the pope, one of the central parts of the religion? It means you don’t trust God’s judgment, therefore you lack faith, therefore you’re not Catholic.

Oh right, they don’t think.

[–] cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As the old joke goes, "how do you call a Catholic that disagrees with the Pope? A Protestant".

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its always infuriating me when people "pick and choose" from religion. Either you take the whole deal or nothing. In this case, the pope, the direkt link and voice of god on earth. If you defy the pope, you defy god and say you know better.

I was raised catholic, and what made me leave was people like that, normal and priests of all levels. No you arent better just because you hold a spiritual position, no your "sinns" arent less evil, no god likes all people no matter their sexuality ethnicity gender identity aso otherwise he, to their own logic, wouldnt have created it!

My favorit joke is "so why did they kill jesus?" He said "be kind to another, help the poor, dont be greedy, love another, and spread love"

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the thing a lot of Catholics in America don't wanna look at is the fact that we very well might see another schism between American Catholicism and Roman Catholicism within our lifetimes, possibly within a decade. The American church has been drifting REALLY far from the RCC, and not in the good ways.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Not just Catholics It's All American Christians. American Christianity is just moving extremely far away from its traditional roots, be that Catholic or Protestant or what have you. Of course I would argue the real Schism seems to be between Christians and Christ.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

Georgia elects horrible people: news at 11 (but only the executive branch approved news agencies, everyone else has been locked out to preserve alternative fact distribution)

[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

American Christianity is weird to me. Cult like group rituals and yet it's my fault for noticing.

[–] nico198X@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago (10 children)

it IS weird, and mostly heretical.

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[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If anything he was "rescued", or "promoted to headquarters" if you will. Because he was too good a man for these times ahead, and sadly had been getting weaker for a while. And the world is morally poorer for his departure.

I don't view the Vatican as the shining beacon of light it wants to be, but Pope Francis was a great Pope, who more than talking, walked the walk and lead by example. Loved by catholics and even people of other religions, as well as many atheists/agnostics. A unifying force of good.

Yet before he went he made sure his last big act was to admonish Vance and the Trump administration. Good on him.

[–] griff@lemmings.world 13 points 10 months ago

Marjorie Trailer Queen has spoken!!!

[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Because he spoke Spanish? Wow, that's racist.

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

He was gasp ... Nice to people sometimes?!

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

She's a proper troglodyte. Almost identical to those clay caveman reconstructions you see.

[–] RR321@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Did she misspell her name?

[–] aido@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

So what she's saying is the JD Vance really did kill the pope?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 10 months ago

This is the least inexplicable shit to barf out her word hole. A lot of branches on the Protestant tree hate the Catholic Church and always have.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Somehow I doubt this was because Francis continued church policies of covering up for sex offenders.

[–] PragmaticOne@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Wow what a speck of dust :/

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