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Jewish baby named Edgardo Mortara is seemingly about to die in Bologna, 1851

Catholic nanny secretly baptises him to save his soul, which she’s not exactly the kind of authority who can do that, but w/e, it’s interpreted by the church as valid later

Kid survives

1857 her secret gets out, a baptising makes a kid a Catholic according to the Church and a Catholic can’t be raised in a non-Catholic household in the Papal States, so the church authorises the police to kidnap Edgardo from his family

Raised personally by Pope Pius IX, Jewish family not allowed to take him back due to Church doctrine, this action destroys the family with grief and despair

This case gets international infamy with the Pope not understanding why everyone’s shiting on him for doing this, including allies

Emperor Napoleon III shifts from opposing Italian unification to supporting it as a direct consequence

Bologna falls the next year, 1859

Kingdom of Italy forms 1861

By 1870 Rome is lost to the Italians and the Papal States are no more

(Edgardo Mortara goes on to become Father Mortara)

The most infamous of these cases was the Finaly affair. Two Jewish children in France, Robert and Gerald Finaly, were placed in a Catholic nursery in 1944 in anticipation of their parents being deported to Auschwitz, where they were both murdered. Their aunt, Marguerite Fischel, survived the war and went to find the boys so she could take them to live with her. However, the nun who had custody of the boys, Antoinette Brun, adamantly refused to give them up, reportedly saying that “The Jews are not grateful”

What followed was a years long custody battle where despite being repeatedly ordered by courts all over Europe to return the boys, Brun took them to many different countries and hid them, with the support and help of other nuns and priests. It was suspected at the time, and later confirmed by documents released in 2020, that Pope Pius XII had supported the effort to keep the boys away from their surviving family and have them be raised Catholic.

Thankfully, after negotiations between a sympathetic cardinal in France and the chief Rabbi of Paris, the boys were finally recovered and reunited with their aunt.

I wish I could say that the phenomenon of the Catholic Church kidnapping children and keeping them away from their families for the purposes of forcefully raising them Catholic is unique to Jews, but it’s not. From the mid nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, the Church ran hundreds of residential schools in the US and Canada where indigenous children were kidnapped from their homes and forced into these cruel and inhumane “schools”. The children were forbidden from speaking their own languages or practicing their own cultures and religions, their hair was cut, and they were subject to emotional, verbal, spiritual, physical, and sexual abuse. Many of the children died due to malnutrition or medical neglect, their bodies buried like dogs beside the schools. The Catholic Church was not the only Church to participate in this, but they’ve been the most reluctant to fully acknowledge and apologize for it. It was only in 2022 that Pope Francis apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church for their part, but some people found the apology inadequate.

I Am Once Again Posting Web Lonks

https://soap2day.to/ tv + movies

https://twist.moe/ anime

http://mangakatana.com/ manga

https://libgen.is/ books (includes textbooks!)

I fucking hate “streaming platform”

All of these shitty streaming services will ultimately be dwarfed within the next half decade by the host that they stole off of and will be rendered obsolete.

Are you seriously going to look me in the eye right now and tell me your sorry ass is gonna pay rent moneys for phachking Paramount+ ?

And before you come at me with “Oh but Raymond, your dreams of shutting down all these inconvenient money hungry streaming platforms is nothing but a fantasy, it’ll never happen—”

Remember Quibi? The streaming platform launched a few months ago that was set up to succeed by being made by all these industry professionals? It was shut down shortly after it released because no one wanted anything that was on it! If you just don’t buy into what corporations want you to do you can just fuckin back them into a corner! It’s as easy as that and it works!

And before any fandom people come after me, you don’t have to buy anything n order to sustain your favorite faceless entity. They’re already doing that on their own they don’t need you.

Corporations are not your fucking friend, they are not your childhood, they do not care about you. The only thing a company cares about is that you’re giving money to them at an endless constant rate. You don’t even have to stop consuming their content altogether, just find alternative ways of watching their content. The internet allows you to do that, you know.

Even if your act of resistance against them is as simple as not buying into a streaming service, they’ve still lost a customer and if enough people do that then they will start to notice eventually even if it takes a lot of people to do it.

Moral of the story. If you are so tired of seeing all these garbage streaming platforms everywhere, then maybe don’t like, give companies a reason to keep making them.

If you have the option to get content a streaming service is providing through other measures then do that and cancel your subscriptions to it while you’re at it because if you can just keep doing that then you don’t need it anymore. Stop sucking up to capitalists this is getting ridiculous.

Use your money to support small independent artists, filmmakers, etc instead. Those are the people who actually need that money.

Also I still don’t know what the fucking YouTube TV is supposed to be. But just the thought of it alone was enough to fuel me with enough unbridled rage to make this comic so. Does anyone actually have a clue what the point of this is or are we all just in mutual confusion at the existence of this thing?

your characterization of how I feel spamton was in his big shot era is ON POINT (at least how I would interpret him after doing my own analysis and thinking on it)

I feel a lot of people swing real hard between two extremes with him—him being overly sweet and affectionate with tenna and him being completely conniving and trying to use him and being a dastardly salesman who is pushy and aggressive and rude. I feel with fanon people cling to the two extremes of a character and run with it when the truth lies in the middle

Characters: Italy, Germany, Japan

Pages: 15

Translator: losthitsu

Vibes: cute

Summary: Italy proposes to Germany in the middle of a mission

I just want to enjoy things. I don’t want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately.

Ya’ll eat up fandoms, leave artists and writers bone dry and then move on so fucking quickly then fucking wonder where all the Good Fandom Stuff is.

Idk Maybe cherish some things for longer. Reblog stuff. Interact with people. Comment and share.

Fandom is for community, not consumption.

This fucking post.

(After some time)