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  1. maga aggy doesn’t understand how tariffs work. DHL subreddit provides insight. And I bought this sweet ass used wallet with no ass sweat… how do tariffs work, DHL community? Trump tax is the term that should be repeated over and over and over.
    32 points
  2. Icono is upset. That's good enough for me.
    25 points
  3. The Boston and NYC shade from Ken White (better known as Popehat--his original handle when he was on twitter) which was funny:
    23 points
  4. A bit of earnestness I’m sure I’ll regret. I am not a Catholic, I am a believer. I do not think that the pope is infallible, even when speaking ex cathedra. The Catholic Church, like every institution of the Christian faith, is not infallible and quite often has been significantly worse than that. In the late 1970s Karol Wojtyla became John Paul II. He was also not a perfect or infallible man, and at times he could be rather worse than even that. But this man proclaimed from the chair of St. Peter to millions of Central and Eastern Europeans that the inhuman and anti-moral system they lived under had lost all credibility and moreover, that they didn’t need to be afraid anymore. And while that may seem simple and trite, in the 1970s and 1980s fear was as much a part of that corner of God’s creation as castles and beer and dumplings and sour cream. Fear hung in the air, written in red, blown in from a leaden gray Moscow sky. Millions of people decided to believe him and acted thus. Catholics and non-Catholics and atheists and Jews and within ten years the fear was gone, the Soviet barracks emptied and the castles and beer and sour cream and dumplings remained. No one had to shoot at anyone, no superpower intervened. Maybe it was God or maybe John Paul II or maybe neither. Maybe it was just people who looked for a reason to stop being afraid. Today a friend with Slovak passport, Hungarian name, Jewish roots, and secular worldview— a sensitive and intelligent woman, a graduate of Columbia j-school, an award winning anti-corruption crusader— wrote that perhaps the selection of Leo XIV will serve as an “impulse to calm an agitated America or to return to basic values like care for your neighbor and empathy.” Maybe so. It’s possible. Deus vult.
    21 points
  5. From the comments: “A pope got picked in less time than Shadeur.”
    20 points
  6. texags wishes the Pope would have been Southern Baptist.
    19 points
  7. We, sadly had to say goodbye to our little Ellie. Elliebean, Beanie, Peepers, PeePee. She had a good run, was 16, but was battling some cognitive issues/doggie dementia...and recently had some seizure episodes, which the doc thought could be brain tumor. It sucked, but was the right call.
    19 points
  8. How it started How it’s going Economy? Fixed. Schools? Fixed. CJ, you’ve earned it
    18 points
  9. Analyzing a Pope's retweets is a phrase I wish never had to exist.
    17 points
  10. I think this is the way to stand up to Trump. Francis not a fan of Trump.
    17 points
  11. 15 points
  12. Boy, they really struggle with the whole 'love your neighbor' thing, don't they?
    15 points
  13. The fundamental issue is the god damn politicalization of trans-ness. You’ve got one side saying it’s “ideology” which leaves the other side entrenched. Kids want to rebel and want attention so they try things. In the end, if we could just stop with the politicalization, we could identify trans kids and folk, treat them and move on. I get the reason why people want to ban and the reason why people scream protect trans kids and don’t want to question those who identify as trans. The fundamental problem here, is the politicalization of the issue. stop that, a ton of the ancillary problems go away and all that’s left is treating those who really are trans. And that quite frankly should be the only goal, identity those who really are trans and get them help. Nothing more, nothing less.
    15 points
  14. Shot: Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota, was appointed less than a week ago by President Trump to the new White House Commission on Religious Liberty. This week, however, he was at the Vatican with hundreds of other prelates as the cardinal electors gather for the conclave to choose a new pontiff. Chaser: "Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."
    14 points
  15. It’s still early, but it seems the Church is sending a message to America: if you won’t choose a leader for your nation, we will. Not that all Americans would rally behind Leo XIV, but his words and actions will offer a striking contrast to those of the President.
    14 points
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  17. Deep dish isn’t a casserole. It is good pizza that should be considered the best in the world. And people who live in the suburbs should not say they are from Chicago. Happy to be here, god bless us all. You know, usual stuff.
    14 points
  18. 14 points
  19. I love seeing this conversation move to civil discourse and thoughtful discussion without the presence of the troll. People sharing real and very personal experiences is what has helped me learn and inform my personal positions over the years. We’re all learning and we’re all evolving. Thank you, @troph and @MC Fresh Breath.
    14 points
  20. It's extremely funny that imma gave Ana a timeout right before this news broke.
    13 points
  21. The student loan thing is just wild to me. The last guy was trying to cancel 10-20k of everyone's outstanding student loans, or at least forgive the interest and cancel any that already paid back the principle. Like, do you not see that as your OWN interest? Literally nothing Republicans have done in the last 30 years has been anywhere close to giving middle class or lower people that much of a break on taxes or anything. The only thing even close to it is the Covid checks, increasing child and various tax credits, and now these potential "$5,000 DOGE checks" that are certainly not going to happen. Like what monetary benefits do you people with less than 200k in assets get out of a Republican president? These people are too stupid to even have their votes bought with policies that save them money.
    13 points
  22. Also....how did we not hone in on this earlier (or did I miss it)? He's the literal Blues Brother pope - he's from Chicago, and he's on a mission from God. Somebody needs to dispatch 4 fried chickens and a coke, and some dry white toast, to the Vatican, stat.
    12 points
  23. Just saw a post of Cardinal Prevost criticizing Vance from a while back. That's also significant imo. Stay the fuck away from him though if you want to live.
    12 points
  24. Maybe not, really. This could be an intentional move to counter our current, uh, "leadership".
    12 points
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