this stance may have been prudent in the beginning, but, at this point, Russia is going to continue to escalate regardless of any restraint shown by the West-- in fact, they’ll continue to take advantage of it.
it’s time to step up this fight if victory is ever going to be an achievable goal.
I think the nail in the coffin is really gonna be Michael Cohen‘s testimony. Maga world made such a big deal of calling him a liar, but the trial made it very clear that he was Trump’s liar. He lied for Trump, and the evidence corroborates that, as do the witnesses that the defense called.
some criminals are aided by the fact that they’re so ass-ugly, nobody can stand to look at them for long enough to recognize them from a wanted poster. just a split-second to notice that everything above the neck looks like an exploded baby’s diaper, and you’re staring at the floor.
CAIRO, May 28 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a tent camp in an evacuation area west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, Gaza health authorities said, while advancing to the heart of the southern Gaza city for the first time after a night of heavy bombardment. Two days after an Israeli airstrike on another camp...
french is such a headache, but, then again, so is english. it’s just that english is more forgiving when you mess up, lol
but, yeah… ‘ce’ is (iirc) a more formal declarative when speaking generally to an audience rather than when speaking conversationally with another person.
eventually, a native french speaker is going to come in and admonish the both of us for manglish their language, lol
“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said in a Tuesday statement....
I don’t think we can know what he intended. We can make an assumption based off his past actions, and I’m inclined to believe this explanation. Italian isn’t his first language, he’s old, and I think it’s a likely explanation that he slipped up and made an old man mistake.
sorry, i don’t agree. you can believe what you want, however we can’t really know… and i’m not convinced.
edit: to clarify: i do believe his position about gay priests is homophobic. i just don’t believe that he intentionally meant to use a slur while discussing it, and am willing to believe the “old man slip-up” excuse. it’s hair-splitting, i know.
Italian media has said that the pope used a highly derogatory slur against LGBTQ+ people at a bishops conference. The remark may sour attempts by the pope to make the church more welcoming....
“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said in a Tuesday statement.
“As he (Pope Francis) has said on several occasions, ‘in the Church there is room for everyone, everyone! No one is useless, no one is superfluous, there is room for everyone. Just as we are, everyone.’”
Seems like they’re playing it off as “grandpa had a woopsie”.
All things considered, I am. He’s old, Italian isn’t his first language, and he has a history of progressive changes in favor of the lgbtq+ community. I’m more inclined to believe it was a mistake than to think it was intentional or malicious. Especially given how quickly an apology has been issued.
It doesn’t matter what word he used, he was using it in an anti LGBT sentiment.
i think it does matter wrt what he actually said or intended to say. whether he’s being homophobic in his position regard gay clergy isn’t a matter of debate: he is.
the issue is that he claims not to have intended to use an offensive term, and apologizes for the offense cause by the term. That i’m willing to believe. i’m not debating his gay clergy policy, which i obviously agree is bigoted.
if he were given imprisonment as a sentence, it would be, at most, a few months, and he’d most likely be able to serve it under house arrest (e.g., in Trump Tower).
my parents decided around… i think it was after about 6 months, to cancel their HBO subscription until my brothers and I were older, since we kept finding ways to sneak into their room and watched fucked up movies we shouldn’t be watching, and then we’d have years of nightmares, lol
for my next younger brother, it was Poltergeist.
for my youngest brother, i believe it was The Piano, lmao
a generation of young Republican staff members appears to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.
Nana Visitor opined on this (in the What We Left Behind doco IIRC) and decided that The Intendant was, in fact, not bisexual, but simply overcome with ego and narcissism when introduced with the idea of fucking herself. This is also why she, ultimately, didn’t.
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He has something of a history of flying flags in support of the insurrection.
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CAIRO, May 28 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a tent camp in an evacuation area west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, Gaza health authorities said, while advancing to the heart of the southern Gaza city for the first time after a night of heavy bombardment. Two days after an Israeli airstrike on another camp...
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“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said in a Tuesday statement....
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Italian media has said that the pope used a highly derogatory slur against LGBTQ+ people at a bishops conference. The remark may sour attempts by the pope to make the church more welcoming....
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