It is not a story a Roman would tell you…

  • @[email protected]
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    856 days ago

    You know, if I had a nickel for every time a Pope looked like Palpatine, I’d have too nickels. It isn’t much, but it’s kinda strange that it happened twice.

  • @[email protected]
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    256 days ago

    “Everyone loves America right now, it’s the perfect time for an American pope!”

    -The Vatican

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      6 days ago

      Perhaps they hope he can rein in American Catholics?

      The church is on board with all the anti-abortion stuff, but the rest not so much

    • @[email protected]
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      256 days ago

      Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:

      “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.”

    • @[email protected]
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      46 days ago

      Because the Vatican should make its choices based on Secular politics and your fee fees instead of character.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 days ago

        It’s all made up fantasy and bullshit anyways, no need to get worked up over old men cosplaying, and it is actually based on secular politics and feelings, and money. that’s religion for ya.

  • Wugmeister
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    96 days ago

    You know, I really had fun in Rise of Skywalker purely because Palpatine returned. I didn’t even mind the hand-wavey way he was brought back, because it meant Palpatine was about to Palpatine all over the place.

      • Wugmeister
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        86 days ago

        Yeah, that was my favorite part of the movie. I couldn’t care less about the actual plot

          • Random_Character_A
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            26 days ago

            Kinda.

            Original plot was that a guy goes nuts and makes kebab out of kindergarten kids with his scifi insta-grill machete. It was a slasher movie.

            Then the studio thought they went too far and forced them to make some political drama around it.

            Then it was too boring, so studio ordered them to Tom Clancy it up, so they added some manly stuff.

            After that the original slasher stuff didn’t quite fit, so they just cut it off. Spielberg was allowed to keep his name in the movie anyway.

            End result was a hodgepodge that didn’t make sense. Just stuff glued together with shallow, non-believable character motivations.