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Racism, homophobia, and sexism were still present during his pontificate. Yes, he did better than his predecessors, but the institution remains just as toxic.

this. Although he may have been the least worst of the popes, the fact remains that he was the representative of a racist, sexist, and homophobic institution responsible for abuse, exploitation, and injustice for 2,000 years. So, there's no reason to make a fuss about his death.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over « He did not hide his intentions. He campaigned on them. He made them the central thrust of his election. He told Americans that he would betray our allies and give up our leadership position in the world. There are only three possible explanations as to why Americans voted for this man: they wanted what he promised; they didn’t believe what he promised; or they didn’t understand what he promised. Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak. And no empire can survive the degeneration of its people. »

This is unfortunately true. Racist Barbie remained a hindrance to the party's victory because the Le Pen brand remains radioactive among a portion of the electorate. Bardella and the party will be able to play the victim card to surf all the way to the Élysée.

Racist Barbie is ineligible for the presidential election for a period of 5 years (therefore for the next one in 2027).

Of course he sides with the dictators, because he is one himself! Again, no surprise, that's what he did throughout his first term with his bromances with the worst dictators on earth. Every democracy on earth has sounded the alarm that his re-election would signal the beginning of the end of democracy as we have known it since the end of World War II, and his voters have made it clear that they don't give a damn about democracy. It is therefore left to us citizens of other democratic countries to defend ours against the attacks of Trump and his brotechs. I'm sorry to get carried away and angry on this subject, but I work for an institution in Canada whose mission is to uphold the democratic system and I am always amazed to see that the people who are most protected by the democratic system do not seem to realize everything they will lose when it disappears. In fact, no, I'm not sorry, we should all be very angry right now and expressing it loud and clear.

Exactly. I have no pity for their tears and anger because they are responsible for the chaos that is impacting the entire planet and the Americans who did not vote for this crazy dictator. But my greatest satisfaction is seeing the tears of gays, Latinos, Muslims and Blacks who voted for Trump. They deserve to absolutely feel the worst of what this administration will inflict on their communities.

How can they be? There are no surprises in the unfolding disaster. His first mandate had already very well established his dangerousness. His deteriorating mental health compounding his narcissism and sociopathy have been on display 24 hours a day on medias over the past years. A 900-page plan outlining the authoritarian regime he was going to implement was available to everyone months before the election. The comfort of democracy has led the American population to believe that all politicians are equal and that one politician is no worse than the other. This is false and it is when democracy disappears that they will understand what they have lost. The toxicity of social media have completely dissociated the population from reality and what is currently happening in politics is the main tragedy.

"Is this what we lived through, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now. We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, abstracted as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like bad dreams dreamed by others. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories." - Margaret Atwood, 1985.