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Wingus Dingus

(8,052 posts)
1. They can also be preyed upon by exploiters, scammers, pervs, traffickers.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 09:43 AM
Jun 2022

I would never trust one of those "crisis pregnancy centers".

mopinko

(70,027 posts)
5. i'm sure they will be the 1st in line.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 09:57 AM
Jun 2022

they're on the ropes at this point. they prolly still have the old blueprints for the magdelane laundries.

might even revive their rapidly folding school systems. they're almost gone in chi, having been replaced by, sorry friends, charter schools. cps did build a lot of selective enrollment schools as well, but that didnt help average kids. for decades they were the only alternative to a shitty public school system. as soon as new schools started opening, they started closing apace.
we dont allow the big chains here, tho, there are holes in the barriers. the highest rated schools here are all charters or selective enrollment schools.

but hook up a home w the schools that are still open, and yeah, off to the races.

OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)
7. You can bet on it. I've no doubt that they'll get any restrictions
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 10:09 AM
Jun 2022

booted out too...after all they have a majority on the SC.

Over here, they still have the overwhelming majority of primary schools under their patronage, and despite lots of positive noises, there's very little movement to divest. In effect they've become the biggest property company in the world.

mopinko

(70,027 posts)
8. bankrupting the vatican is my most fervent dream.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 10:13 AM
Jun 2022

all that real estate, all that art.
have said hundreds of times- i wont be happy til i see the vatican art collection on the auction block, esp the naughty bits in the bsmt.

OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)
9. It's why they're so wealthy, they're well practiced in holding on to it.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 10:32 AM
Jun 2022

They're building a co-located national maternity hospital in Dublin next to a church owned hospital on Dublin's southside (an obscenity imo), and they wouldn't sell the land to the government, it's only leased to them for 300 years. That says everything about the attitude of the Catholic Church, IE we'll still be here to own it in 300 years, not sure about you.

mopinko

(70,027 posts)
10. i've said it many times-
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 10:47 AM
Jun 2022

the #1 reason i am glad i was born here and not there is the irish catholic church.
no doubt my sister would have been a slave in a laundry, and i'd never know my neice.

OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)
11. 1000% right. We're not going back to that shit I hope, but I fear
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 10:56 AM
Jun 2022

that younger people will be taken in by whatever messaging they come up with.

mopinko

(70,027 posts)
6. yup.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 09:59 AM
Jun 2022

at least we have already codified roe here. we are ready for the refugees.
and the president of the cook county board is no longer an old, white, catholic man.

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