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Part 1
17 Nov 2018
r/ambien: It this for real help
Edit: I really dont like this medicine.
I guess 20mg is too much, I mean I'm suppose to take 5mg. And my wife, a really wonderful woman, counted my pills for me. I took 4 5mg accused my wife of Loving our dog more. Then asked her what concrete was made out of then got angry and sat in the pantry until she would tell me. I slept on the couch. She's really upset, but understands it was the influence of the medicine. I made this post last night seeking help more than likely while I was in the pantry.
18 Nov 2018
r/ambien: I accused my wife of knowing what concrete is made out of than accused her of loving our dog more than me.
She's in a bad mood. I need to sleep but i really don't like this medicine.
Part 2
22 Nov 2018
r/ambien: mywife is soft nd ilikeher
05 Dec 2018
r/ambien: my wiwwwfie wife is visting her mom and i miss her
she smells nice and is reall soft
09 Dec 2018
r/ambien: MY EWFIE IS HOME MY WIFE8
yes i lovd her you have to bewilling to love her and shelllove you
Part 3
19 Nov 2019
r/ambien: It's been a long time since I've posted here, but I want you all to know my wife is still soft and I still like her.
I completely forgot about these posts, and I got a message today that reminded me of them I went through and couldn't stop smiling. I got in a fight with her recently and after reading these I went into our kitchen and held her. I told her I loved her and showed her the posts. She said she loves you guys.
Part 4
19 Feb 2022
r/ambien: diforce 
Epilogue
20 Sep 2022
r/ambien: Not on Ambien today, but my Wife calls you all my "Reddit fans." She told her coworkers I'm famous on this subreddit because of how often I gush about her
Bonus Material
r/TheLastAirbender: [No spoilers] just a world building question in general. but be warned NSFW. Do you think water benders can be their own contraceptive?
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You dumb BIPOCs were elected to make eggs cheaper and kick out immigrants, not to open on the most r-slurred fricking week in all of politics.
In his first week, President Trump:
Renamed the Gulf of Mexico
Withdrew from WHO for no fricking reason
Froze medicaid, meals on wheels, student loans and farm subsidies because they're woke
Prepared to enter a trade war with Europe over fricking Greenland and a trade war against Canada for no reason
All and all, an astonishingly shit first week that is a mind-blowing political failure
POV you're a West Virginian 70 year old Trump voter who didn't want to starve to death
So, a shitty first week. But kek on frens, that's not what it's about, is it? It's about winning. It's about the vibe shift. It's about being able to say r-slur in public, and honestly I feel that. You won. You totally won.
Just not on being unwoke. You dumb fricking r-slurs won on the economy;
Even immigration, Trump's strongest social issue, is a distant 4th to the economy. But all Trump is focused on is doing is scoring pointless cultural victories, like banning s from the military or ending affirmative action in hiring federally.
And this is the bombshell; Americans by and large liked wokeness.
The majority of Americans, with the exception of literal boomers, consider being woke a good thing. You don't like woke. Your friends don't like woke, I don't like woke. But no poll has come out to say outright that the American people by and large have a negative opinion of woke, wokeness or DEI. Yes, even DEI - it's popularity is backsliding, but it still commands a popular majority.
You dumb BIPOCs are fricked come 2026 and 2028.
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Video is not necessary to watch at all and there are others, but I'm too lazy.
The comments however are fricking great
Elon has lost complete and total street cred with the most important demographic on the internet - !g*mers
Oh hey look it's Darkmatter2525, haven't seen that guy in like 10 years
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2024 YR4 is an asteroid recently discovered by scientists in Chile (it's not the flying Tesla "asteroid", this one is legit). It is an "Apollo-type" near-Earth object that crosses our planet's orbit.
This week, scientists learned it had a 1.2%-1.6% chance of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.
At a diameter of between 40 and 100 metres (130 and 330Β ft), an impact with the ground could release approximately 8 megatons of destructive energy.
For reference, that is 533 times the bomb at Hiroshima and more than double the maximum yield of a US Navy Trident II ICMB.
All this places 2024 YR4 at a troubling 3 (out of 10) on the Torino Scale of impact hazards. It is the only non-0 threat, and the second highest ever recorded, exceeded only briefly in 2004 by 99942 Apophis before closer observations revealed that asteroid would not hit Earth.
So that is the bad news. Ready for the good news?
Calculations by NASA and the ESA show that 2024 YR4's "risk corridor" (where it would hit) doesn't pose a threat to anywhere important.
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I know people are going to talk about the money, but say someone was buying it for you, what are your opinions of the game outside of cost?
And yes, because I am a troll, I want to join the same Pirate Software server and join that guild harassing him in-game. teeeheeee
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"Did Jesus really raise form the dead? I don't know."
— Protestia (@Protestia) February 13, 2025
United Church of Christ Minister Pat Langlois says she doesn't know if Jesus rose from the dead, and also that it doesn't matter if he didn't. pic.twitter.com/FsRYNpmTow
I'm not familiar with the United Church of Christ, is this a commonly held belief of it's members?
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9 11 is canon in mlp
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Sure, I've neglected everything else I'm supposed to be doing but look at that view count.
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I know I keep saying I'm going to leave but I just have to write this piece because I was inspired by @kaamrev's post about the closing of the Rapport. The truth is I have a shitload to say about journ*lism in general and the South African journ*lism scene but some of it would result in me doxxing myself, and quite honestly, most of it isn't interesting if you've never been in the space. I also have a funny story of how I fricked up so badly I almost caused a long-running newspaper publication to close down permanently, but I'd rather push that memory back to the dark recesses of my psyche.
With that said, I never fricked up as badly as the who we'll be discussing today - Verashni Pillay. This is pretty much South Africa's version of G*mergate, and it caused waves internationally. My post will be organised as such:
1. What is Huffpost?
2. Who is Verashni Pillay?
3. Verashni does a hate speech
4. Verashni is in trouble
5. Conclusion
What is Huffington Post
If you're familiar with online journ*lism, you'll have come across Huffpost. It is a left-leaning publication that aims to be hip and trendy while delivering the news. Not all their content is "news" and it also features a lot of clickbait pop culture slop. It's really a terrible site. The site almost died but it was purchased by Buzzfeed in 2020. It was during this time that the site experienced mass layoffs and the Canadian arm of the business was closed down.
Go on the front page right now and see the slop they post. From experience in the media industry, I can easily tell that it is a content mill that you shouldn't trust at all. I can spot the SEO tricks and the common tactics used to increase engagement and exploit the writers. Take a random article on the front page:
The headline is stuffed full of trending keywords. They had to fit in "elon musk" and "obama" to improve SEO on Google. Secondly, the writer never had to leave their desk to write the article. It's literally a longpost based on a Tweet by Elon Musk. All it does is report on the Tweet and the responses to the Tweet. I can promise you @kaamrev puts more effort into his posts than the writer of this article did.
You can also tell it's a content mill by looking at the writer's profile page.
This is someone pooping out three articles a fricking day. 100% he has a quota to meet and he's grinding away trying to achieve it. There is no way you're going to deliver quality journ*lism when you've got to write three fricking articles every day. The only way you achieve that is by writing slop.
The worst part of Huffpost is the writing. They've been bought by Buzzfeed, as I've mentioned, and they write in that "BuzzFeed" voice. You know exactly what I'm talking about. They use Black People Twitter slang and it's incredibly cringy when you see the author is a generic white dude.
Elon Musk is getting cooked on social media for equating the policies of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party to the U.S. Democratic Party at the start of Barack Obama's presidency, after Musk recently pointed to the AfD as Germany's only hope.
Yasss! Elon Musk is cooked! Fricking kill me.
Who is Verashni Pillay
For some reason, a lot of young people in South Africa want to become journ*lists. It's mostly young people who know nothing about the job market, are probably above average writers, and are highly opinionated. The truth is that once you're in the business, it's all about SEO and meeting quotas, and most importantly, YOU DON'T NEED A FRICKING JOURN*LISM DEGREE TO DO JOURN*LISM. So many idiots get scammed into a journ*lism degree that is utterly useless when all that matters is your portfolio. Instead of going into debt paying university fees, you're better off freelance writing and building up a portfolio to work your way to a permanent position (jk those don't exist anymore it's freelancers all the way down, journos don't get permanent jobs lol).
If you're in South Africa, for a long time, Rhodes University was THE place to go to study journ*lism. It had a very, very strong reputation for being a good journ*lism university and for anyone who wanted to become a journ*list it was assumed you'd be going to Rhodes.
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Quick Notes from Holly!
So I attended Rhodes University, got my Masters Degree in English there and also wasted 3 years trying to get my PhD only to fail (I'm currently doing my PhD at a different university while working). I was fricked over by my supervisor majorly and I had a lecturer bully me so hard I attempted suicide, but that's a story for another day. Rhodes used to be a fun university. I arrived in 2014, which was right around the decline of the university.
Rhodes has a reputation of being a bit of a party university, and it's extremely liberal. It is also known for the National Arts Festival which is held every year. The university is located in Grahamstown which is a small town almost entirely dependent on the university for its economy. I was in Grahamstown when COVID-19 hit. Students studied from home so the university was practically empty. As a result, several businesses shut down and the entire town was financially crippled.
Fortunately, I don't live there anymore because the town can't even provide water or electricity to its residents, resulting in mass protests. I mean, they literally go weeks without any water.
I would not recommend anyone go to Rhodes University these days. It's a dead university in a dead town. Also, due to Rhodes's liberal approach to academia, they allow you to mix and match your degree however you want, allowing you to create a custom degree of your choice. I know a couple of universities in the USA like Evergreen do this shit as well. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NEVER DO THIS. If you're going to university, get a degree with a set curriculum that allows you to specialize in a skill that is in demand. Nobody wants a generalist who majored in Psychology and History, or a weirdo who decided to major in Math and English. Anyone hiring is going to take one look, think "what the frick is this shit", and move on to someone who has clearly specialized in a specific task.
Dear lord if there's any advice I can give it's that university is not there for you to follow your passions. There is nothing passionate in a university setting. YOU'RE THERE TO SECURE THE BAG. Pick a degree that is in demand. If you want to go the artistic route, university is not the place to go. You're better off independently working on a portfolio.
Last point I want to make about Rhodes. The lecturers get paid SHIT. It's actually funny how poorly they are paid. Just look at this shit:
A fricking full-blown lecturer is only netting about $25K. Why the frick would you move to a town with no water to earn peanuts?!?!
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Verashni Pillay attended Rhodes University where she earned her degree in Journ*lism. Verashni quickly proved herself to be quite the ambitious journ*list and she wrote for a number of popular South African publications including News24 and the Mail & Guardian. She has won a number of prestigious awards for her journ*lism. I'm not going to list them all because quite frankly I don't care. All that matters is that she was a journ*list of note in South Africa and she worked her way up to eventually become editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post in South Africa.
Verashni Does a Hate Speech
Verashni's woes began when she allowed a blog to be published titled "Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?". You can still find the blog post online. The author's name is Shelley Garland and the author basically argues that white men should not be given the right to vote, and that their assets should be forcibly redistributed.
For the sake of stirring drama and outrage, I'll post a few choice quotes here
If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely β the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world. The influence of reckless white males were one of the primary reasons that led to the Great Recession which began in 2008. This would also strike a blow against toxic white masculinity, one that is long needed.
A withholding of the franchise from white males, along with the passing of legislation in this period to redistribute some of their assets, will also, to a degree, act as the reparations for slavery, colonialism, and apartheid, which the world is crying out for to be paid.
Although this may seem unfair and unjust, allowing white males to continue to call the shots politically and economically, following their actions over the past 500 years, is the greater injustice.
Almost immediately, the article garnered widespread attention both locally and internationally. It got so big that fricking Jordan Peterson commented on it:
Locally, many groups cried racism and attacked Huffpost for publishing the piece. Afriforum, a group focused on the rights of Afrikaaners, accused Verashni Pillay and Huffpost of hate speech.
This did not deter Verashni and amidst the controversy, she fully defended the piece. Thanks to the wayback machine, we still have access to the article.
A few quotes from Verashni to make you seethe:
Garland's underlying analysis about the uneven distribution of wealth and power in the world is pretty standard for feminist theory. It has been espoused in many different ways by feminist writers and theorists for decades now. In that sense, there was nothing in the article that should have shocked or surprised anybody (or so we thought.)
It would appear that perhaps much of the outcry derives from a very poor reading of the article -- or perhaps none at all.
So in response she basically shits on her readers telling them denying white men the vote is pretty normal feminist theory.
Verashni is in trouble
Well, a big plot twist emerged. Shelley Garland does not exist! The whole thing was a fricking prank written by a white man! Not just a white man, but a fucing full-blooded Boer named fricking Marius Roodt. That's a peak mayo name! Roodt wrote the piece to prove that there was little fact-checking done in South African journ*lism and so he wrote a piece where he intentionally inserted errors and he got fricking published! He made an absolute fool of Huffpost, and he's not fricking sorry about it.
https://www.news24.com/news24/i-do-not-regret-it-huffpost-fake-blogger-20170525
Eventually, the backlash got so bad that the article was taken down and an apology was issued.
But this wasn't just a thrashing on social media. There were legal consequences to face as well. The South Africa's Press Ombud found that the article amounted to hate speech, resulting in Verashni stepping down from her position as editor-in-chief.
Since the incident, Verashni has taken on the role of the victim and has framed herself as a victim of online hate mobs. This is ironic as she tried to stir hate mobs against white men. She is just getting what she tried to dish out to others. When speaking on the matter, Verashni brings up many of the criticisms of modern journ*lism that I've brought up and she confesses that the site is basically a clickbait content mill where writers are stretched to meet insane quotas.
"He targeted a stretched newsroom that was being asked to do way too much with too little resources: we were being asked to publish 30 unique pieces of content a day in addition to wire stories and international content from the other HuffPost sites. We had three junior reporters and were refused sub-editors, despite my warning that we would run into legal trouble given the rate at which we were publishing. In addition, the editorial team was under enormous pressure from management to produce traffic and clicks."
https://themediaonline.co.za/2017/08/verashni-pillay-opens-up-about-her-hate-speech-appeal-victory/
She has also released a Ted Talk about her experience and how she got shamed because of the piece.
Quite honestly, it's an annoying video to watch. She hides behind the fact that she is a female BIPOC and argues that her identity is the reason she was attacked, and not the fact that she published an anti-democratic article arguing that white men should not be allowed to vote.
Conclusion
Verashni was knocked down but she's not out for the count. She currently works at radio station POWER 98.7. I have no knowledge of the station or what it does, and I'm not in the mood to research it. Did she learn anything from the experience? In my opinion, no. I don't think she understands or accepts that she published disgusting hate speech. That blog post should have never been published and it was only possible because
a) THE EDITORS ACTUALLY WANT TO STRIP WHITE MEN OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE
b) Huffpost is a content mill that cares more about clicks than facts.
For this reason alone you should never read Huffpost. It's inaccurate garbage mass produced for clicks. So what do you think of Verashni's story? Do you think she got what she deserved? Or was she the victim of a mean prank?
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https://www.mattinopadova.it/cronaca/molesta-allieva-dodicenne-docente-condannato-qhvgxhjt
uncanny!, even the hairline looks the same!
One year 2 months to Duilio Flora, 43, who has a prior conviction for possession of child pornography behind him. The episode happened on the first day of service
PADUA. The little student who reported being molested by the after-school teacher on the first (and only) day of the teacher's service at the Casa del Fanciullo "il Melograno" educational center on Santonini Street was believed. Thus came the sentence of one year and two months (suspended) for Duilio Flora, a 43-year-old from Brindisi, a graduate in engineering, computer scientist and science teacher in schools, currently suspended from teaching and present in the courtroom: the sentence was pronounced by the Padua gup Mariella Fino at the end of an abbreviated trial, an alternative rite that provides by law for a discount of one third of the sentence. Very serious was the charge charged: sexual assault against the 12-year-old pupil with a double aggravating circumstance, the victim's age under 14 and the fact that she was in his care for educational reasons.
The judge also applied the ancillary penalties of perpetual disqualification from public office and, in particular, from facilities frequented by minors. Flora, moreover, had a previous record (plea bargain of a sentence converted to a fine of 5 thousand euros) for possession of child pornography. Finally, an immediately enforceable provisional award of 5,000 euros was established, 3,000 for the little girl, 2,000 for her mother who constituted a civil party with attorney Aurora D'Agostino. This is an advance on the compensation that, as for the remaining part, will have to be quantified by the civil judge in a separate judgment.
The defense (entrusted to lawyer Luisa Granata) had always insisted on the defendant's innocence, firm in rejecting all charges. Prosecutor Sergio Dini, on the other hand, had urged a sentence of one year and eight months, believing that all the elements gathered during the investigation were sufficient to prove the defendant's responsibility.
The abuse occurred on the afternoon of Sept. 14, 2015, at the center attended by the little girl: her mother is alone, works, and the Municipal Social Services helps her by paying her tuition so that the little girl (good and diligent) can be tutored in doing her homework for a few hours in the afternoon. The 12-year-old is in class with other classmates and is doing her math homework. The teacher is buzzing around her and increasingly trying to shorten the distance with her: his hand insists on touching her until it reaches her private parts. Fortunately, the student immediately tells another teacher at the center about the incident. And the complaint is triggered: the next day the professor is "invited" to leave the school.
The victim had been questioned in the center "The Sunflowers" by a psychologist on behalf of the prosecutor: experts had assessed her testimony as credible.
What a wholesome way to end the year!, 2025 sure looks promising!, may 2025 be the year that TTD and TPD is finally achieved!
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Yea, like, I am not a fighter, but Iβm also not stupid. βWhat if Donald Trump and the Republican Party decides they are kingsβ has one answer, and it is an obvious one
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How did I just get the most golden clip without prompting... pic.twitter.com/K7qO0pmZLt
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Codeberg released an emergency statement regarding a powerful alt right attack that endangered the safety of everyone who has ever used codeberg. Sources say this is was probably organized by a DOGE-Steve Bannon alliance
We stay strong against hate and hatred
Codeberg public relations team
Wed 12 February 2025
Category: Announcement
Intro
Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces, and so are our users. First and foremost, we apologize for everyone who has recently received a notification email from our system containing offending and potentially traumatizing content. We are working hard on containing the effects on our users and systems.
Most importantly, your private data was not leaked. All emails have been generated through Codeberg's servers using the notification feature and the abusers had no access to your email address directly.
Fighting hate and far-right forces is important to us. Read to the end of this article to learn why.
What has happened?
In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.
Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to [email protected] that help us identify abuse quickly.
On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each. Depending on the notification settings of users (if you are a user on Codeberg, you can modify it in your settings), these generate notification emails that contain a copy of the post that includes the mention - and thus the abusive content via email.
Although our staff reacted quickly, blocked access to the used functionality and deleted the user accounts, they managed to generate a large amount of notification emails already.
Since this attack is not only harming Codeberg users but the platform itself, both via technical means (we had brief downtime of our systems and our mail server was suffering a lot), as well as by harming the reputation of our platform and trust users have shown us. We expect this incident to be in response to our swift moderation of the previous campaigns that targeted only individual projects.
How could this happen?
Please understand that Codeberg.org is driven by volunteers mostly. We have sufficient capacity to run the platform under normal conditions, and normal conditions also include some headway to deal with abuse campaigns that come and go. We suppose that most readers did not notice the spam campaigns of the past days, and we are happy that we managed to contain them quickly. We are fighting with advertisement spam, phishing and malware week to week.
However, our capacity was obviously exhausted this time, when it comes to attacks that target us specifically. And we apologize for this.
You might wonder why there are not more technical countermeasures in place to prevent this type of abuse. Technical measures evolve over time, and we have implemented several protections on multiple levels that are trying to contain the amount of abuse you see day to day.
However, doing proper rate-limiting is hard. We need to ensure that legitimate usage of our API and interface is possible, including custom scripts that import or synchronize massive amounts of issues from projects on other platforms. There are some rate-limits tailored to the previous abuse vectors we have seen, which was mostly aggressive advertizing, and so it would not have been possible to create these massive postings if they would have contained a hyperlink to another website, for example.
However, just spamming notification emails to users is a new abuse vector to us, and we did not sufficiently prepare for this. For that, we are sorry.
What will Codeberg do?
Currently, we are investigating the details of the attack and we have implemented short-term countermeasures and monitor activity on the platform closely. Further, we are responding to hundreds of emails from our users that ask about the incident. Some request the deletion of their data in response.
Next up, we will make plans on how to improve our protection against this and future kinds of abuse attacks on Codeberg itself to reduce the likelihood of similar things from ever happening again.
If you want to help with development work on Forgejo, the free/libre and open source software that powers Codeberg, please reach out. Go developers who can commit some time and patience to implement one our more technical measures in the codebase are much appreciated.
Unrelated to the current incident, we have worked with NLnet in the past weeks and secured funding for some moderation cowtools. A meeting was scheduled for later today at 20.00 CET to talk about technical architecture for a feature that allows reporting abuse directly in the app and the goal is to implement it for the next release of Forgejo.
Far-right forces endanger free/libre software projects
We will not be discouraged in our fight against far-right ideologies. They are currently on the rise in many parts of the world, and we believe it is important to protect all kinds of marginalized groups. However, if you believe this does not affect your project, you are wrong. Far-right forces pose a threat to all of us.
Extreme right forces actively target members of our communities and discriminate based on ethnicity and gender, political background, sexual orientation, disabilities, nationality and faith. However diversity is an important asset in free/libre software communities and it is what makes our software great and development productive.
By targetting (Editor's note: Codeberg can't afford a spell checker) some of our most active translators, nicest designers, best developers and all other motivated contributors, they are hurting the free/libre software ecosystem as a whole.
Don't be fooled if right-wing forces promise to "promote open source" in their political agenda. This has nothing to do with the values of our movement! This is about national patriotism and protectionism, and they will happily accept splitting our community on their way.
We all know that the free/libre software ecosystem won't work this way. Every human is an integral and equally important part of it, and targetting some of our community members threatens the ecosystem as a whole.
Let's together stay strong and united against the emerging threats. We stay strong against discrimination of all kind, including but not limited to sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, antisemitism and ableism. And we hope that you all join us for this mission.
A big shout-out to all the projects that collect facts and resources against hate and discrimination and that have been the primary goal of these attacks. Support them if you can.
If you ever considered supporting the fight against right-wing forces, for example by joining political movements and parties, organizing protests or getting involved in online communities with this goal - now might be the best time to move ahead.
Again, we apologize for the disruption of your work and the abusive content delivered to your mailboxes. We are doing our best to contain the situation.
We'd like to thank everyone who signaled their support in the current situation, via e-mail, Mastodon and in Matrix chats. This means a lot to us.
Thank you for your trust and support!
Your Codeberg Public Relations team
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His Holiness Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome, has instructed the American Bishops to get the various trash and right-wing "Catholics" (polytheistic LARPers who love Catholic aesthetics and nothing more) in line with Christ's teachings.
The Pope is rightly concerned with the dehumanizing program of deportations taking place in the United States:
I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations.
His Holiness reminds us that
Jesus Christ, loving everyone with a universal love, educates us in the permanent recognition of the dignity of every human being, without exception.
Yes, this applies to refugees and immigrants too, even if they're "illegal:"
the most decisive value possessed by the human person surpasses and sustains every other juridical consideration that can be made to regulate life in society
Earthly laws follow fundamental rights and dignity, not the other way around:
Thus, all the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights, not vice versa.
Natural law commands us to take care of all people, especially the vulnerable and oppressed:
This is not a minor issue: an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized. The true common good is promoted when society and government, with creativity and strict respect for the rights of all β as I have affirmed on numerous occasions β welcomes, protects, promotes and integrates the most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable
His Holiness explicitly calls out the chud circle of caring chart. If you post that chart to try to own the libs, you are announcing your failure to follow Christ:
Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings! The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation.
JD Vance, Catholic "Convert" and opportunistic LARPer, has weighed in on the concept of ordo amoris, a supposedly a hierarchical ordering of whom you are supposed to care about. The His Holiness Pope Francis would like you all to know that JD Vance is r-slurred:
The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the "Good Samaritan" (cf. Lk 10:25-37), that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.
He closes, asking us to live up to the example set by Jesus Christ, Son of God:
I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters. With charity and clarity we are all called to live in solidarity and fraternity, to build bridges that bring us ever closer together, to avoid walls of ignominy and to learn to give our lives as Jesus Christ gave his for the salvation of all.
Reminder, if you are actually Catholic you must agree with the Pope. He speaks, literally, on behalf of Jesus Christ and Saint Peter. Various clout-seeking LARPers should stfu and make their own hateful religion.
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