Trump’s second term is not as brutal and repressive as the Argentine junta Francis lived through. At least not yet. But they at least rhyme, and Francis surely understood that Trump and Vance have greater atrocities in mind. www.offmessage.net/p/francis-va... - ThreadSky

brianbeutler.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Trump’s second term is not as brutal and repressive as the Argentine junta Francis lived through. At least not yet. But they at least rhyme, and Francis surely understood that Trump and Vance have greater atrocities in mind. https://www.offmessage.net/p/francis-vance-desaparecidos

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javiertf.bsky.social•12 days ago

"Las dictaduras del Cono Sur de la década de los 70" Brutal. I lived through some of it.

charlottebanks.bsky.social•12 days ago

Shady Vance scared AND disgusted the Pope. Turned out to be a lethal combo. Why tf is he snarling at him??

brianbeutler.bsky.social•12 days ago

If the Trump-Vance regime triggered Francis’s painful memories, I think it stands to reason it’ll give pause to many of Trump’s Latino supporters in the U.S. Yet another reason Democrats shouldn’t fear standing up for what’s right. https://www.offmessage.net/p/francis-vance-desaparecidos

dread2toe.bsky.social•12 days ago

It’s have been cool if Nice Pope had had the judgment to NOT say “both sides are equally bad” running up to the 2024 election

twotenths.bsky.social•12 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/twotenths.bsky.social/post/3lndkiypq2c2f

karmageddon.bsky.social•12 days ago

A haunting and beautiful song that first informed me of these poor souls.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_of_the_Disappeared

cathyw.bsky.social•12 days ago

The one I knew was by Sting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Dance_Alone_(Cueca_Solo)

susanayogi.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’m not saying you’re wrong but Marco Rubio, who like me, was raised in Miami by Cuban parents who drilled into their children the horror and abuse perpetrated by the tyrannical Castro, is using his power at State to disappear people with no due process. They have no self awareness or shame.

oledanielson.bsky.social•12 days ago

"American desaparecidos" Oh shit, we ARE f'ed!

kostotom.bsky.social•12 days ago

You are talking about the Pope like he was some kind of a good person. He was, willingly, a head of misogynist theocracy, where women have no voting rights, and which is famously transphobic and isn't even secular. That's a definition of despicable asshole, at least in year 2025

cleanforgood.bsky.social•12 days ago

In the Brothers Karamazov, the saintly elder Zozima, tells the patriarch, Fyodor Karamazov, to stop lying, both to others and himself. That would be good advice for Vance.

knollie.bsky.social•12 days ago

100% wrong. MAGA has played the machismo card in the US Latino community for a decade now, attracting wildly more, not fewer voters with each new election- though they are still below 50%. Spanish-language talk radio puts anything Fox has to offer to shame. It is a cesspool of misogyny and racism.

2metermatt.bsky.social•12 days ago

Or become a place like El Salvador in the 80s, where priests were assassinated and its current leader supports Trump's illegal deportations for cash and a laugh.

mhoos12.bsky.social•12 days ago

"I think it stands to reason it’ll give pause to many of Trump’s Latino supporters in the U.S." I very much wish this were how I felt, but I'm having trouble believing it.

crosetti.bsky.social•12 days ago

Frankly I’m surprised the Vatican hasn’t asked Trump to stay home.

danielleharlow.bsky.social•12 days ago

Can you imagine being a Catholic and being told not to do something by a Pope and still doing it. That’s FAFO on a spiritual level. If you believe in your religion, you are risking eternal damnation(!)

charlottebanks.bsky.social•12 days ago

He's one of the oppositional-defiant Catholics who converted 6 months ago and feels free to argue with a bishop at the Vatican and also, going by this pic, snarling at the Pope.

I have a friend like this. She's not trying to be disrespectful, it's just she knows more than her priest and the Pope.

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