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Maybe it's part of the course? A sort of krypteia de nos jours

Is this before or after the Rebecca Scofield vs. Ashley Guillard lawsuit, which added just that extra little level of crazy to it all.

He was a post grad; already had an MA in criminal stuff

It's like when the author of How To Murder Your Husband was convicted for murdering her husband.

Former Hitler Youth member and WWII Nazi soldier Pope Benedict XVI has carked it. Not posting this in the RIP thread, as it would be nice to imagine him suffering eternal torment - but that's what his lot threaten their victims with.

Looking forward to a swift canonisation and elevation to patron saint of child-rapist defenders.

That's a little bit unfair, he was also a cunt.

Former Hitler Youth member and WWII Nazi soldier Pope Benedict XVI has carked it. Not posting this in the RIP thread, as it would be nice to imagine him suffering eternal torment - but that's what his lot threaten their victims with.

I find it pretty hard to judge people for those decisions tbh. Without living in those times and being in their shoes, I don't know how much of an appetite for prison or being shot in the head I would have had. Maybe I'm a coward, but I think it's pretty easy to say "I wouldn't have joined" from 2022 Europe. Wasn't his disabled cousin taken from the family and executed?

I spent some time talking to a friend's grandfather who remembers the war in Austria. He answered his conscription off the back of 300 Russian PoWs being shot in the head in his home town. That's going to affect your decision making.

Fair play on the child rapist defending though.

Sipping tea and waiting for the usual Luffgussers to pile on with accusations of being a Nazi apologist.

You'll be fine, so long as it's artisan tea that's sustainably produced by certified nice guys.

Have just spent a summer in Austria retracing my resistance fighter great grandfather's footsteps and talking to people on both sides of the war so I'm probably literally both sidesing this.

To be clear: Nazism bad.

To be clear: Nazism bad.

Bloody sitting on the fence again eh?

tbh I’m mostly wishing him eternal torment for the child rape business. The fact that he was also a judgey cunt over all aspects of the lives and decisions of others when he willingly stuck his hand up to join the Nazis does somewhat compound things.

There's innumerable things to dislike the old dead cunt for (the child abuse / covering up, the misogynist stances on bodily autonomy & birth control, the homo- and other-phobia, the destruction of Alderan etc...), but

willingly stuck his hand up

It looks as though he was 17 when conscripted to the army, and membership of the Hitler youth was all but mandatory for all boys (according to wikepdai, so obvs pinch of salt outwith any other validation).

I was going to says something along the line of “I if I was in Germany in 1939…”

But realised I’d have been murdered already due to Aktion T4 for being disabled.

Just been down a little rabbit hole of his history on child rape - it's actually way worse than I'd appreciated. I'd also never read his explanation of priestly paedophilia (basically, 'blame the hippies for the sins of the Church'), which is all kinds of ghastly dishonesty:

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/41013/full-text-of-benedict-xvi-essay-the-church-and-the-scandal-of-sexual-abuse

priestly paedophilia

Always reminds me of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB958pxquj0

Throwback to when Scumbag Steve memes were a thing:

Not Benedict but the one before him again stayed fairly quiet all through the Jugoslavian civil war. That is until we got reports of groups of Serb men standing by the wayside while Bosnians fled on foot, the Serbs would grab young Bosnian women out of the human column and gang rape them in plain view of family and neighbours.
That’s when the pope finally spoke up against the outrages that were going on. Not against the rapes mind you, but against the relief organisations who provided the victims with emergency contraception.

On reading your last sentence, my jaw has literally dropped.
Grim.
ETA - There's a reason I stopped attending RC church at around aged 12.

There's a reason I stopped attending RC church at around aged 12.

The priests lost interest in you?

Lel.

It just closed up really tight.
Couldn't get anything in there.

“The clothing of the time provoked aggression”
Always blaming women for everything. Fucking church is so out of touch with reality it’s sickening.
Just a bunch of dirty old men and mosogynists. Time to get rid of them.

Time to get rid of them

And their tax status.

Think of how much prime real estate they own, property taxes alone would be enormous.
Then charge them with criminal extortion: you can’t get into Heaven unless you pay us to lobby God on your behalf.
What a bullshit religion.