“And if he really committed crimes as heinous as those he is accused of, I wonder how he can continue to be a priest with that weight on his conscience,” - that’s what people have to get: it’s not that they’re in organized religion despite they did horrible things, they are in it BECAUSE they did it. They feel protected and righteous, all the time. We have to end this. The real monsters are always right behind the so-called prophets to organize everything.
Survivors of crimes committed by the 1970s military junta in Argentina are fighting to see a priest stand trial for his alleged role in kidnappings and torture against opponents of the regime.
The military junta led by Jorge Videla which seized power targeted anyone who opposed the dictatorship and an estimated 30,000 people were killed before the transition to democracy in 1983.
However, as part of that trial, four former detainees - among them Mario Bracamonte - testified that Father Franco Reverberi, an Italian national by birth, had been a regular at the clandestine detention centre.
In 2007, Christian von Wernich, a Catholic priest who worked as a chaplain for the police in Buenos Aires province, was found guilty of complicity in seven murders and dozens of kidnappings and instances of torture.
Twenty-five-year-old student Manuel Furlan says he was “deeply ashamed” when he found out that “a person accused of those crimes, and a priest at that, was originally from and lives in my village”.
The niece of disappeared activist José Guillermo Berón says that she hopes that “justice will finally be done, even if he will never really pay for the enormous damage he has caused since he has lived almost his entire life with total impunity”.
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Hes not sorry for what he said. Hes sorry that it went viral and people called him out.
Fuck this guy.
Seasick Steve has a lyric in the song “Last Po’ Man” where he says “Never met a rich man that I liked” and the more I read about billionaires, the more it seems he was right lol.
What brand makes good tea, in your opinion? (I feel like I should push my box of PG Tips into the back of the kitchen cabinet. I'm American and drink a lot of matcha green tea so what do I know.)
Where I live there are a couple of tea blenders that make various different loose leaf offerings.
You can get good loose leaf on amazon too from (e.g.) teapigs or whittard.
In my experience, the trick with loose leaf is to not to get the ones that have been ground too finely, as they make a too strong brew and the bits can pass through the filter leaving you with a dusty cuppa.
I will admit though… sometimes I want a quick tea, and I may just make a pg tips… not as good, but less faff than getting the tea pot ready etc
Gotta disagree most strongly with the guy who says “Trying to shorten the time of brewing is in my opinion an insult to teatime”. Getting tea quicker when I wake up seems like it could only be a good thing.
What IS an insult to teatime, though, is PG Tips. So while I applaud the apparent technology, it probably still tastes like wank.
Not sure why I remember this, but around 17 years ago I watched a BBC show about the history of Tea and IIRC the Dutch think we’re all crazy for drinking our tea when it’s hot. They also advocate for a bare minimum of two minutes brewing.
I’m usually a solid 3 minute sort of guy. I’m a rockstar like that.
I agree with the Dutch. Some teas I’m at 4-5 mins, remove the bag, then forget about it for 10-30 mins at which point it’s cool enough that I can drink without negotiation.
If not already clear, this comment was absolutely meant as a complement to you. I plan to teach this phrase to my continental coworkers when they visit us in the US next week. They're always seeking ways to expand their English language skills.
And since they continue to challenge me about the acceptability (in US english) over the phrase "Ulrike washes her coffee cup in the toilet every day," I think this is fair. We would accept: washroom, restroom, or bathroom without thinking twice. We might even pass over "in the shitter" and although it would be considered much less polite it would be excusable in a non-native speaker and probably not even noticeable in some of the more salty regions of the US.
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