New pope: Good for America?

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Starks
05/08/2025
02:40 PM
#1
A rare soft-power win for the US? Further alienation? Puppet papacy?

What do you think?
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Crushed515151
05/08/2025
02:43 PM
#2
I'd expect similar to Francis
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Hayame_Zero
05/08/2025
02:44 PM
#3
He's anti-Trump, so probably.
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LoZguy709
05/08/2025
02:47 PM
#4
Voted yes in hope that he'll go hard on his own country's destructive influence on the rest of the world.
Starks
05/08/2025
02:49 PM
#5
It seems inevitable that he'll serve as a friendlier face for the US and maybe even become a new column of US politics. The honeymoon with Trump will end very quickly.
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LoZguy709
05/08/2025
02:50 PM
#6
Starks posted...
It seems inevitable that he'll serve as a friendlier face for the US and maybe even become a new column of US politics. The honeymoon with Trump will end very quickly.

Hopefully that doesn't mean people turn a blind eye because that's exactly what this administration would like.
Doe
05/08/2025
02:50 PM
#7
He will rarely step foot in the US again. It's not like the papal office will be here.

He is the bishop of Rome now
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Umbreon
05/08/2025
02:51 PM
#8
Too early to tell, but apparently he doesn't like what Trump is doing and isn't afraid to express that. A good sign.
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LoZguy709
05/08/2025
02:54 PM
#9
Kind of want to hear from all the no's because the comments aren't adding up with the poll, and I admittedly don't know much about him.
Sephiroth_C_Ryu
05/08/2025
02:56 PM
#10
Didn't vote on the poll, but I would probably lean "no" simply because America won't care any more about this one than they did the last one.
Edit: Unless they DO care, and end up taking the Russia route of making their own pope.

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dhampire1
05/08/2025
02:56 PM
#11
Didnt he call JD Vance a dumbass or something? If so hes got my vote
LoZguy709
05/08/2025
02:59 PM
#12
Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...
Didn't vote on the poll, but I would probably lean "no" simply because America won't care any more about this one than they did the last one.
Edit: Unless they DO care, and end up taking the Russia route of making their own pope.

So the no's are more like saying he won't make a difference in the grand scheme? Certainly more plausible than your edit.
Dark_twisted
05/08/2025
03:12 PM
#14
Anyone against the current administration is good for America
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bluezero
05/08/2025
03:12 PM
#15
"here's how this is bad for the Democrats"
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CobraGT
05/08/2025
03:15 PM
#16
lol just voted and its 50-50.
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ScionTC_07
05/08/2025
03:18 PM
#17
he hates the stuff Trump is doing so hes good in my book
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Extreme_light
05/08/2025
03:31 PM
#18
The only good thing is that it means that Trump is now the number 2 most influential American.
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Scardude
05/08/2025
03:40 PM
#19
He is a republican and pro life pope. GOP will use that to their advantage. I give him a few months to settle in before we start seeing it.
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imagine606
05/08/2025
03:42 PM
#20
I prefer no pope in my orange juice.
LoZguy709
05/08/2025
03:43 PM
#21
Extreme_light posted...
The only good thing is that it means that Trump is now the number 2 most influential American.

Which is better for America than Trump being number 1 most influential American.

What I'm most afraid of is the new pope somehow ending up making Trump seem more palatable, stoic, or in some way converted in the eyes of Americans. Better case scenario is Trump keeping up his usual and having the person in the once-most-powerful position in the world at odds with "Trumpism" altogether.
ai123
05/08/2025
03:59 PM
#22
Can't hurt for America to have someone on the world stage who is beloved by millions and isn't a nasty racist sociopath.
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