* He’s an old man in a dress….
Should we really be surprised that an organization of drag queens is like this?
* “Having condemned borders, the Pontiff then returned to his walled compound.”
I visited the Vatican last summer and there are US Air Force bases that are easier to get into.
* Isn’t it a bit selfish to live in the luxurious walled compound that is the Vatican? There’s plenty of space in there, why not turn it into a dormitory for Muslim migrants? Just give them the run of the place; I’m sure they would return it in kind when they get back on their feet and start enriching their new society. You could sell off all those pieces of art for a pretty penny and donate it to charities designed to bring sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty. That way you could still cherish Christian tradition without being small-minded. Isn’t it un-Christian to sit in a palace while children in other areas of the world are starving?
* I think the logic, such as it is, is analogous to the practice of buying carbon credits.
Al Gore buys carbon credits that represent tree-planting in the rain forest and solar-power-installation elsewhere that absorbs CO2 (or prevents its release) to a degree sufficient to offset the CO2 he produces to fly by private jet and air condition his mansion in the Tennessee summer.
In analogy, the Pope lives in his refugee-poor walled city but offsets that by planting refugees elsewhere.
* It’s always nice when those with the power and means to escape the negative consequences of their actions lecture those who can’t escape that the latter just must buck up and take it.
* Average people are far more at risk and have far less means to prevent Muslim attacks than the Pope. Examples: the thousands of young girls forced into prostitution and raped by Muslims in England, the women raped by Muslims in Germany and Austria (they don’t call them rapefugees for nothing); the people at Nice.
The Pope is not going to be raped by Muslims the way say, ten year old girls in England are, to say the least. Muslims do like them very, very young — Mohammed “married” a nine year old. Recently a Muslim man cut off his first wife’s nose for complaining about the age of second wife — six years old.
* The pope’s native Argentina, in forty years, will be one of the few white-majority countries left in the world. The USA certainly won’t. Western Europe will be a mix of black/brown majority countries (Netherlands, Belgium, England, Sweden), but with a few places where elderly Gen-X whites provide for a thin white majority (Italy, Spain, Austria).
Argentina has the right mix of leftism that stops the super-rich from importing a ton of cheap non-white foreign labor, strong unions, and high taxes that stop the country from being too rich or attractive for imported labor. It is the same mix that is protecting the people of Eastern Europe from demographic replacement. While it is far from Africa, there are millions of blacks in nearby Brazil and Indians in Bolivia.
* At least Hitler rode in an open car.
* These days it’s not so hard to be more Catholic than the pope.
* Let me help you out here so you can understand what Steve’s point is. Steve is a very busy guy so he can’t waste time energy and space spelling out in cartoon diagrams every logical step in his proposition.
He isn’t saying that every individual Pole needs the same level of personal protection as a celebrity like the Pope. He is saying that Poland, or any other nation, as a collective is entitled to the same level of security that the Pope enjoys, yet wants to deny to others.
The Pope lives in a walled compound with security controlling who enters. Poland is entitled to the same level of border control.
The Pope decides to keep dangerous people out of the Vatican. You have to go through metal detectors and bag searches to enter St. Peter’s or the museum and grounds. Poland is entitled to vet who enters and block threats from getting in.
You don’t get into the Vatican Museum by just walking in. You have to have a reservation and buy a ticket. Poland also has the right to decide who comes in, and under what circumstances, as opposed to simply strolling across the border.
The Pope decides who gets to live in his little country. When he flew back with those refugees, he didn’t resettle the in Vatican City, he tossed them over to the Italian authorities with a “they’re all yours suckers”. Poland should also get to decide who lives there.
The Pope decides how people behave in Vatican City, and that they conform to the place’s cultural norms. You don’t get to wander around St. Peter’s in a bikini or suddenly decide you want to worship your God by carrying out voodoo animal sacrifices under Bernini’s canopy. Poland should have the same rights.
* How is the normal and healthy desire of Europeans to keep their countries, lands and cultures unchanged and intact a bad thing? The Pope is just another instrument for western disintegration.
