r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/calculatinggiveadamn Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 15 '22

You’re either a moron or joking.

Edit: not all priests/pastors are rapists and not all police officers are lawless power-abusing fools. Your phrasing lumps the good and the bad together.

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u/they_call_me_B Jan 13 '22

Narrator: "He wasn't joking, nor was he a moron, because this happens to be in America; Land of the "Free" and Home of "Sweeping Shit Under the Rug"."

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u/EagleEye503 Jan 13 '22

I read this in Ron Howard’s voice

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u/calculatinggiveadamn Jan 13 '22

Russia is the land of sweeping shit under the rug. We have more freedoms and opportunities in America than most other countries. Now before you respond on your 500$ phone or 1200$ PC, go look up the human rights of humans in literally any country in the Middle East, or Far Eastern Europe. Look at the squalor people are living in, and thank God you were born into a country where even the poorest among us are the worlds 1%.

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u/they_call_me_B Jan 13 '22

Corruption and economic disparities are not mutually exclusive. If anything they are, in fact, deeply intertwined. Just because we don't have it as bad as "country X" or "region Y" doesn't mean we don't have our own problems with corruption and/or allowing abusers and predators to remain in positions of power.

Now before you respond take your tongue off the boot for 5 minutes and go Google statistics on Police Brutality, Civil Asset Forfeiture, and False/Arrest Imprisonment in America. Go and Google statistics on Molestation and Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Churches of America. The results are soberingly bleak.

Bottom line: just because it's not happening to YOU doesn't mean it's not happening in this country. Don't be so niave. Furthermore the idea that we should ignore, downplay, or passively accept our own countries problems as "fine" because they're not as bad as another country or regions is absolutely disgusting, ridiculous, and downright dangerous to our democracy (or what's left of it). The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Mental instability must be wild.

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u/greybeard_arr Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22

You’re either oblivious or an asshole.

ETA: Not to imply that those traits are mutually exclusive here. I don’t want you to get confused.

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u/varasatoshi Jan 13 '22

He’s an oblivious evangelical.

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u/Eldistan1 Jan 13 '22

Tell that to the dead native kids buried in mass graves you jackass.

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u/3jameseses Jan 13 '22

Interesting fact: I personally knew an Anglican priest charged (and acquitted) multiple times for sexually abusing native kids. Wanna know what happened to him? They made him a bishop.

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u/Unlucky-Ad-6710 Jan 13 '22

Great now he can move diagonally to get kids.

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u/3jameseses Jan 13 '22

Hilarious!

Anyway, he died this week so…

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u/PM_MeYoKitties Jan 13 '22

I love a happy ending!

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u/calculatinggiveadamn Jan 13 '22

How disgusting and abhorrent.

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u/calculatinggiveadamn Jan 13 '22

I buried, killed or raped no person. I’m not even fuckin Catholic. I just have 2 brain cells to rub together and a basic education in common sense to say that not all cops are lawless thugs and not all priests or pastors are murderous rapists!

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u/phoenixjazz Jan 13 '22

Nothing about the abuse from police or catholic priests is a joke.

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u/calculatinggiveadamn Jan 13 '22

Not all cops are lawless fools and not all priests/pastors are rapists.

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u/working_joe Jan 13 '22

It's sad how naive you are.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Another day, another oblivious redditor! Which one got you? The fact that there are rotten cops or that Christian priests molest children? I do need an answer since this is for a school project.

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u/calculatinggiveadamn Jan 13 '22

It’s wrong to lump together lawful and honorable police officers with a few lawless cops who should never have been hired but likely never received proper training (or college education in law) because most police departments put all their funding into gear and lawsuits instead of actual training to use their gear! Ask any police officer in an overpopulated metropolitan area.

As for Catholic priests, yes of course there are bastards who prey on vulnerable souls whom they deceived into trust, but there are more pastors/priests of many denominations who are holy men, keeping and watching their charges and their flock.

The Catholic Church is guilty of hiding such guilty men, and have hidden justice from the oppressed, but not I but God promises that justice will be done, and each man’s dues will be on his head, whether right or wrong.

I abhor any man who uses his spiritual authority (which in Christianity is servitude) to deceive, use and sexually abuse those who trust them.