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each night that gaza experiences is deadlier than the last, as idf soldiers record propaganda tiktoks, make rave parties and grwms and fit checks, gloat over having food and water, and film themselves deriving sadistic pleasure from torturing their hostages and victims and desecrating the dead.

Palestinians have to display their martyred before the camera for you to believe the atrocities that the zionist entity has subjected them to. they cannot even mourn in private. the apartheid entity murders them in cold blood, and you deliver the killing blow by doubting them.

babies whose families have been killed will never get to know their own name.

i can't reshare a tenth of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. i have seen more dead children in the past month than i have known death my entire life.

israeli settlers burn olive trees, bomb bakeries and fishing boats, shower white phosphorus and earthquake bombs on the captive civilians of gaza. you already know about the disastrous effects of white phosphorus, but earthquake bombs were last used during ww2 to wipe out entire cities.

how holy is the land that seeks to be built over the mass graves of thousands of children? is it holier than the miracle of a child being born in this hypocritical world?

all 11 universities in gaza have been bombed. academics should be agitating right now, especially those who call themselves "decolonial thinkers." destruction of universities is a sinisterly deliberate act to sabotage the Palestinians who will survive this great catastrophe.

the act of cleansing your hands before prayer is extremely important to muslims. no part of us can remotely comprehend the grief of the mother who refused to wash her hands from the blood of her children after losing them in a zionist airstrike over gaza. "I swear I won't wash them, I won't wash my hands, how else am I supposed to sleep near my kids."

it is only both moral and right when one side defends itself. the other side are the price of war, no better than insects and cattle and sheep left to die within the four walls of the slaughterhouse.

this situation should not be up for debate, but let me finish with one final thing : do your research about Palestine. HOWEVER. you do not need a degree in middle east studies to object to an ongoing genocide. if someone outwits you in a debate about historical details and every nuance of a subject, you were and will remain entirely correct in objecting to a genocide.

may those martyred rest in peace and be reunited again with their loved ones in heaven's eternal vastness.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

2024: Maia Poet, a detrans israeli grifter (used to be pro Palestine) who credits october 7 for making her realize she’s not trans (she also called a chest binder barbaric. a zionist. calling a binder barbaric. a zionist.)

2024: Maia Poet, a detrans israeli grifter (used to be pro Palestine) who credits october 7 for making her realize she’s not trans (she also called a chest binder barbaric. a zionist. calling a binder barbaric. a zionist.)

Possibly the most horrifying thing that has ever happened to me occurred today. So I’m in a creative writing class at university right now and we had to print out twenty-five copies of our first, one page assignment to distribute to the class. I had to print mine at the computer lab as I don’t have a printer, but here are the three crucial facts that made this the worst mistake of my life.

1. Sometimes, when you log into Google on Chrome, it activates all of your extensions, even ones you’ve deactivated.

2. In high school, my friends and I got really into Ponify (a words replacing chrome extension) and switched the preferences so we could read political articles and have congress get into a “rousing snow ball fight” and the like.

3. Ponify reverted to its original My Little Pony lingo when opened on a new computer’s chrome.

So when I distributed my twenty-five copies of this I noticed the word “everypony”, my heart seized up and dropped into my stomach, and with my imminent death approaching, I began furiously correcting all twenty-five of them. My teacher, confusedly, agreed to let me correct them as I was too infuriated and ashamed to say my mistake aloud. 

I just realized, however, that the line “as she watched the binding fall away in her hand” was changed to “as she watched the binding fall away in her hoof”. 

And I just had to send this email:

to bring this back. I’m bringing

it back anyways.

if you come to the border you can see the almost mile high dead locust pile though! Its pretty cool, i saw someone make a house in the pile like last week

Thinking the pope is full of shit, or that the current sitting pope is actually an anti-pope representative of the devil who has charmed his way into St Peter's seat, or that the current sitting pope is actually a heretic even, is a very common Catholic thing. It happens all the time. I know this isn't part of the popular image of Catholicism but in practice how actual Catholics relate to that on a personal level is varied and broad and depending on the pope you will encounter one kind of person or another announcing that this one is actually Satan's agent or whatever.

Catholics often think the wrong person is on St Peter's throne, even if they'd never quite say it in public. That just happens a lot.

So does just sort of . . . ignoring the pope. Like this specific pope, what he's said today, just sort of not paying attention to it. Yes, of course he's the head of the church but that doesn't mean we have to agree with him.

There's nothing that radical about either believing that the wrong person is pope, or that the pope is wrong. And it's not new, either: these same kind of twerps were mad about John Paul II's papacy too, and were mad that Benedict's didn't actually go as far as they wanted him to go back the other way. It would be eye-roll worthy but not particularly surprising if this guy were simply to announce that obviously Francis is the Anti-Pope or False-Pope.

That's not what happened here or why this is so incredibly mind-bogglingly fucking funny.

This guy is absolutely hysterically mockable because what he's protesting here is the right of the institution of the papacy to have absolute control over the clergy. He is saying that the pope as an institutional figure should be subject to checks and balances and "process". That the papacy should not have absolute, unquestioned and unquestionable authority over the Roman Catholic Church, as an institution.

It is very normal and quite Catholic to object to the specific person who currently occupies the role of St Peter's heir. Objecting to the person, the specific occupant, is a totally normal Catholic thing!

Being shocked and appalled at how the powers of the institution work and implying that they should not work that way? Saying "what are you saying popes can just exercise absolute authority?" like this is astonishing or somehow against the Principles of the Thing?

That is basically as anti-Catholic as you can possibly get. It is in fact. Protestant. The absolute unhindered unquestioned authority of the pope over the institution of the Church was at the core not just the Protestant Reformation but of every single major fight the Roman Church got into with the Orthodox Church(es), every fight they got into with the lay nobility, every fight they got into with any of the local national churches they would successfully subsume, this is like, possibly the most intense core of the specific Roman Catholic institution: the Pope has absolute authority over the clergy.

The provision of law that allows the Pope as head of the institution to remove this idiot bishop at his will is LITERALLY A CENTRAL TENET OF THE INSTITUTION.

Of course as has been elsewhere pointed out, he didn't actually even do that. He did go through the customary process of investigation and discipline for a bishop, which this idiot bishop defied before being removed from his office, because it turned out that there was far more wild shit up with this dude than his objection to Francis' interpretation of canon law as applied to eligibility for the sacrament of baptism.

But that the institutional figure of The Pope has the right to dismiss, remove, relocate, or otherwise preside in judgement and authority over all clergymen in the Roman Church at all times is so absolutely central to the institution of Roman Catholicism that objecting not to the fact that this specific pope did a bad thing but to the idea that The Pope is in his role as The Pope can do this thing is basically being a Protestant.