Also has the added entertainment benefit of basically turning God into Rem from Death Note.

sigh

The new pope holds opinion that are counter to what the old pope did. The old pope was progressive because he pushed the church forward. The new pope is regressive because he’s dragging it backward.

I’m not having this conversation anywhere else in this thread. Y’all can bend over backwards trying to justify that he is progressive but he aint. Full stop, simple, flat, you don’t get to argue it. By simple definition of progressive and regressive, this pope is not PROgressive. He is REgressive. He is bringing the church BACKWARDS. His opinions are counter to what Francis pushed for in a lot of cases and, oh yeah, HE FUCKING PROTECTED PEDOPHILES.

And trying to split hairs that “Oh he was a cardinal then!” is objectively insane when it is pedophilia. I do not give a fuck whether or not you get given a silly hat or not, you’re still someone who protected pedophiles. The last pope didn’t have that direct accusation.

I’m all the way the fuck out from this entire posts thread.

Bro, we literally just had this conversation.

Progressive implies in comparison to what came before. This dude is not progressive in what comes from before. It is regressive behavior. The church took 3 steps forward and 2 back. This is called regression.

You’re very “black and white” with your reasoning.

No, I’m being forward and backward with my reasoning.

I’m not continuing this conversation. We’re going in circles. I am not going to call a dude who protected pedophiles ‘progressive’, full stop. Nor will I really respect anyone who does.

Your comment is confusing the hell out of me.

My whole point is that this dude isn’t progressive but, if anything, regressive. You then talk about how progress is needed for the church but then how the progress from Francis was too much?

Also doesn’t address, remotely, the point that calling this Pope progressive is either a lie or a delusion, depending on how much you believe it.

Amongst from personal friends. Queer friends. That blows my mind.

Oh it’s definitely hello but think about how we use that same word in English. We can go from a friendly greeting, to an exclamation of surprise, to yelling it in rage. Mrrp no different.

People were so overwhelmingly thirsty for Elizabeth, the companion from Bioshock, that new techniques and technologies were created in order to animate porn of her. No joke. Those techniques and technologies were so revolutionary in the terms of 3D animation that they taken note of by developers, including Blizzard.

You can trace a direct line from the creation of porn of Elizabeth to the creation of Overwatch. And, subsequently, porn of Overwatch.

So, effectively, homemade porn makers of Elizabeth crawled so Overwatch could run.

I jus tsurprised her. She gets easily startled, poor thing, and I am strangely quiet. I accidentally sneak up on her all the time. She is currently standing on my shoulders and purring LOUDLY.

True. However the default implication is progressive from the thing that came just before it, not something that came 300 years before it. This dude is obviously more progressive than like Pope Pius the Third or something but it’s outright regressive in comparison to Francis. Also, he’s accused of protecting pedophiles on a number of occasions. I feel like that is kind of like a neutron bomb when it comes to any claim that they’re progressive or a good person.

This is my cat.

I don’t care.

She’s too cute.

I literally just pet her while typing this. She’s sat on a shelf next to my dest, looking out of the window. When I did she let out a loud, surprised/indignant MRRP and then glared at me. I pet her again. Her eyes narrowed and she looked back out of the window.

Couple days ago my cat decided to sprint out of the bedroom. She jumped down from her hammock on my headboard, zoomed across the bed, hit the floor and started sprinting. However there was a problem. At the corner of the open door was a manual that I had left on the floor, being a lazy piece of shit. Her back paw hit it and she immediately spun sideways and nearly fell over. Instantly went into a sassy walk and started sauntering off like “I totally meant to do that.” When I started laughing hysterically she gave me the stink eye and sprinted away again.

I’ve seen a lot of people call this guy ‘progressive’ so far and I do not even remotely see it. He’s quoted as being anti-gay, anti-trans, thinks women being in church positions will cause more problems than they solve, put a pedophile up in a church and then is accused of refusing to investigate two other pedophiles. And he’s progressive how, exactly? Because he told off Trump and JD Vance? The absolute bare minimum to not be a horrible person?

It’s painfully stereotypical. Not to mention the hyper common trope of brilliant savant who is autistic and thereby socially crippled. It also just feels really gross

I’m autistic and I like the big bang theory.

In sitcoms, everything is the punchline. That’s sort of the point of them. They take things to extremes for the sake of humor. I find shit like Good Doctor to be way more fucking insulting than an exaggeration of me and my friends. I can 100% be Sheldon at times, especially when it comes to Star Trek.

Autism and nerdculture isn’t the punchline. Everyone who worked on the show was nerdy as hell. It’s the set up. The punchline is stereotype.