• spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app
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    3 days ago

    I mean… would he have even been allowed to be the Pope if he didn’t do those things? (let’s not pretend the Pope is actually a divine appointment)

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      3 days ago

      I’d argue striving to be head of one of the most hateful orgs automatically makes you bad person. Protecting pedos comes with the territory but doesn’t give him a pass so to speak.

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        2 days ago

        What I mean is, the people who decide who is pope were never going to allow someone the title who would fight back against those topics.

        It doesn’t matter how good or bad he is.

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          2 days ago

          And my point is he is a bad person, maybe the best we could hope for but still a bad person.

          I never said I expected better, just that the media lays it on thick and that it’s laughable all the rubes that praise a guy who shrouds himself in homophobia and trans hate, and who protects pedophiles.

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            2 days ago

            Literally and directly better than someone who’d want to bring the crusades back…

            You’re really trying to make perfect the enemy of good here.