Haitian President Assassinated

Revnak

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I know if doesn't undermine the point of the media picking and choosing what stories are to their benefit, but I love that you posted a twitter video with a bunch of people complaining about someone keeping power past their term limit, after previously telling me that term limits are undemocratic and shouldn't exist anyway (if a socialist is in power).
Please tell me your thoughts on Haitian voodoo. We’re going off on random tangents, I’ll roll the dice and bet you have some hilarious takes on Haiti.
 

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Please tell me your thoughts on Haitian voodoo. We’re going off on random tangents, I’ll roll the dice and bet you have some hilarious takes on Haiti.
I know it sits in mega hurricane zone. Thus ends my knowledge of Haiti.
 

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I know it sits in mega hurricane zone. Thus ends my knowledge of Haiti.
Come on, you’re enough of that kind of Catholic that you have to have some hot takes on it. After all, the last major coup that occurred there (which I know of at least) was backed by the Vatican to remove a priest who got elected by recognizing the legitimacy of voodoo as a cultural practice (for which he wound up essentially ex-communicated).
 

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Come on, you’re enough of that kind of Catholic that you have to have some hot takes on it. After all, the last major coup that occurred there (which I know of at least) was backed by the Vatican to remove a priest who got elected by recognizing the legitimacy of voodoo as a cultural practice (for which he wound up essentially ex-communicated).
If you gave me a list of the 10 most Catholic countries in the world, I guarantee I couldn't point to all of them on a map.
 

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Incredible.
For the record, I googled the most Catholic countries (by percent, rather than total number), and after Vatican City is East Timor. I'm not ashamed to say I couldn't tell you which half of which specific island that is on an unmarked map, and I think that's reasonable.
 

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The Philippines had zero chance of successfully defending themselves from the Japanese in WW2 without US help.

Let's bear in mind the Japanese took over a huge chunk of of China, defeated the USA in the Philippines, and blasted the UK and Netherlands out of a large chunk of SE Asia. All of them were much more substantial opponents than a Philippine home army would have been.
I’m pretty sure that’s what I said, and going further, when the president of the Phillipines begged for US support, they refused. Now, it might have been a big ask for the US to do anything without much of a fleet at that current time. But the rhetoric at the time was all about Hawaii and not really including the Phillipines. Hence, they didn’t even really try
 

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For the record, I googled the most Catholic countries (by percent, rather than total number), and after Vatican City is East Timor. I'm not ashamed to say I couldn't tell you which half of which specific island that is on an unmarked map, and I think that's reasonable.
Well, I happened to have an idea where East Timor is. Only because the Australians ‘fought’ for their independence.... and then stole their oil

Its a cheat of geography and circumstance. Them being so densely catholic explains the Indonesia thing.
 

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Well, I happened to have an idea where East Timor is. Only because the Australians ‘fought’ for their independence.... and then stole their oil

Its a cheat of geography and circumstance. Them being so densely catholic explains the Indonesia thing.
We did the East Timorese dirty as fuck.