dhork @ dhork @lemmy.world Posts 12Comments 4,260Joined 2 yr. ago
Personally, I think it goes back to the Catholic Church's special status as its own sovereign country. They didnt just elect a Pope this week. They elected an absolute monarch. Even though that monarch's territory is only .5 sqkm, it used to be much larger, and the Church literally has outposts everywhere indirectly subject to its rule.
And a key thing to understand is that the Church doesn't use confession to hide crimes from just anyone. If some random Catholic confessed to a priest that he was diddling kids, you can bet that as part of the penance, the priest would tell that person to turn themselves in to the authorities. But we know what has happened when the confessor was a priest.
The Church was always super arrogant when it came to transgressions by its own people. To them, subjecting a priest to civil law makes just as much sense as subjecting an Italian to Australian law. When a priest confessed he was diddling kids, they would handle it in their own manner, without getting the local authorities involved.
That's the real reason why this law is written the way it is. It's to keep the Church from hiding its own people. The Church, as an institution, has proven over the years that it can't be trusted on that front.
I haven't read the law, but it would be interesting if it explicitly allowed a "mandatory reporter" to satisfy the requirement by facilitating the transgressor to turn themselves in. That is a clear way out of this problem, keeping the confidentiality intact while keeping the local government's jurisdiction over crimes as well.
Why should the President tell the truth, ever? He is shielded from all consequences for it, as long as a majority of the House (or, failing that, 1/3 of the Senate) agree with him.
First, it was the Idiocracy movie that started out as parody and became a documentary over time. Now, the Barbie movie is becoming reality right before our eyes. The Kens are in charge, and they are all dumb as posts.
"We can't pick a side, they both look kinda brown"
That's true, will they even let him into the country since he went and changed his name and it doesn't match his birth certificate anymore?
He should have kept his name. We need a Pope Bob
The team that shall not be named won that one
I lost $2 when he picked "Leo" instead of "Bootylicious"....
No, someone at Wikipedia is working overtime though
His wiki says that "Hilary" is also a correct translation. It would be so triggering to certain people to have a "Pope Hilary"
I wonder how much money is about to change hands in the Pope betting markets.
They are voting on the Pope's new name, too. I have $2 on Pope Bootylicious
Hmm, there are Republican Senators with a spine after all....
This guy is missing a key point here, although he almost gets there:
Crypto PACs have raised over $260 million, making crypto the sixth largest Super PAC, dwarfing any other industry-supported Super PAC (all the others are related to a particular party or candidate). But those donations came from just 50 individuals. That’s not a movement. It’s a small elevator lobby.
Those 50 individuals aren't necessarily the smartest people, or the most effective political leaders. They ran the right software at the right time, and now have system-breaking amounts of money. (When Bitcoin first came out, you got 50 BTC for finding a block, and could still do it on the hardware in your basement. That wasn't even worth 10 cents back then, but is $5 million at today's prices. And you find blocks every 10 minutes....)
And in the campaign finance infrastructure that Republicans enabled after Citizen's United, this gives these 50 people (and their spare horde of BTC) an unduly large influence on our politics.
This is going to impact any Crypto legislation going forward. Anything that doesn't directly benefit those 50 people will be at a severe disadvantage. And guess what? Our President is doing the job as a side-gig, he makes most of his money selling shitcoins.
There is simply going to be no way to address Crypto regulations until Campaign Finance is addressed. Because until it is, the cryptobros will just keep shoveling money into our elections to get the outcomes they want.
Still, the NFL has learned the art of the deal, when it comes to dealing with the 47th president. Gratitude, flattery, and praise are the key ingredients to the not-so-secret sauce.
It also wouldn’t hurt to name the new stadium after him.
Eww.
Because even his idiotic voters wouldn't intentionally drive up their power bill.
I wouldnt be so sure about that. They do shit like this all the time:
When it comes to harassing liberals, no price is too small
And to think, in an alternate universe, Trump is ruining the Buffalo Bills instead of the country. What do you think they're drinking when they tailgate, Donnie? It ain't Budweiser....
The DUI hire order the flights stopped when he found out they weren't full of whiskey
No, Yonkers is definitely not Upstate, by any definition. White Plains might be, but is kind of just as far north as the bridge so it tracks.
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