"Redditors can’t resist repeating the same joke on a thread of hundreds of comments over and over again" - https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1k484c0/pope_francis_has_died_the_vatican_camerlengo/mo82yqt/
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Because many people replaced religion with politics and are obsessed with it now. "Oh look at those kittens." "I heard insert politician owned kittens once, fuck those kittens!!" https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1k484c0/pope_francis_has_died_the_vatican_camerlengo/mo84y0b/
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It's honestly comical. I get that reddit is mostly American but does this ever get tiring - https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1k484c0/pope_francis_has_died_the_vatican_camerlengo/mo850wl/
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It’s a problem all over Reddit, no matter what the subject is people are constantly in a rush to make jokes…very unfunny ones at that… - https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1k484c0/pope_francis_has_died_the_vatican_camerlengo/mo85baq/
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Ikr instead of focusing on this man's accomplishments they find a way to make this about American politics - https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1k484c0/pope_francis_has_died_the_vatican_camerlengo/mo85oz3/
So far, the first 8 hours after the Pope died. Bluesky and Reddit (and I assume Lemmy, I haven't looked at front page) are absolutely full of JD Vance chanting, this time less "couch couch couch" compulsive behaviors, but about his super-powers with the Pope.
The issue is the same as December 4, 2024 murder in Manhattan. The "Clown Population" can not get a 2010 book published by a law professor to the front of Bluesky and Reddit social media systems, people can only get reactions to status symbols / icons in meme stupors over the symbolic arrangement of the Vatican and Vice President of the White House.
People can not resist mocking the individual status symbol and icon trees and do not see the "Clown Population" problem of the entire USA nation being a forest of clowns. This is the very basis of power of the White House and Vatican both, symbolism systems where people are unable to resist unusual mannerisms, funny clothes, expensive lavish buildings (Trump Tower, Church buildings for the Vatican), etc.
Way back in 2017, an article was published on this topic that I have not forgotten in April 2025 despite all the networked meme machines pummeling my brain constantly to join in with the mass dehumanization and White House total mockery USA "Clown Population": "If I had one worry, as we see the cacophony of confusion and alternative facts, it’s that we’re reverting to a pre-Enlightenment form of thinking, which will take us back to the days of blood-letting and faith-healing. And this is wrong." ... February 23, 2017 — George Q. Daley, the new head of Harvard Medical School Harvard scientist worries we’re ‘reverting to a pre-Enlightenment form of thinking’