I don’t believe it (one source), but if it is true that’s good news.

Depressingly, CIA agents are amongst the least trustworthy of all sources (retired or not).

Singapore does try it.

Not very hard. Stop murdering people over transporting plants.

Simple.

Thats why there are warnings everywhere about what will happen to you if you are so unfathomably self centered and stupid to try and do it anyways. Basically begging people NOT to do it.

Doesn’t matter, still murder.

And no amount of your performative pearl clutching will change the fact that this is the smugglers fault and that he faced the very publicly known consequences of it.

Not the smuggler’s fault often; many are doing this unaware. For example, driving a vehicle for work without knowing your coworker is a smuggler.

But, even IF every single one was 100% guilty (even though this is not the case), it’s murder.

Many are totally innocent. It doesn’t matter to you.

Trying to compare it to police planting evidence is a fucking insult to actual victims.

Wrong. Imprisoning and murdering people over plants is a fucking insult to all humanity

But I’m the smug one. Yeah, sure buddy.

You’re revolting to me, pal. You are defending murder.

It’s a statement. It means Singapore is unpleasant.

“addiction” used to mean physical withdrawals… now it means weed, television, working out, phones, sex, and more.

Weed withdrawal is milder than caffeine withdrawal for most people.

With 10 being death from withdrawal (like from alcohol), on a scale of 1 to 10 cannabis is a 1.

… and Singapore has an active policy of condoning and committing murder. That’s bad.

I pray that clears things up for you.

Not at all. Murder is murder regardless of the country.

How could you possibly think that is challenging? Of course it should be criticized.

Very smug, how many innocent deaths are you comfortable with?

Cops are found planting evidence all around the world… the judged are proven innocent with DNA every day.

… and even if everything above wasn’t the case, even IF every one of the guilty were truly guilty… they were each murdered by the State, many with no blood on their hands.

It’s an abomination. But be smug about it, it lets everybody know what you are

You know what else is easily avoidable? Not murdering people. Singapore should try it

It depends on their location.

In USA, they don’t pay property taxes, with more benefits than any secular non-profits.

Property taxes are how many states fund their schools, infrastructure, and more.

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2025/01/more-than-5-billion-spent/

This is who you are defending. Disgusting

And I’m native, so why don’t you stop fantasizing about me, and while we’re at it, maybe, just maybe, stop defending pedophiles

ETA note that the study is self-reported… so God knows how much bigger the real problem really is. Many certainly lie, as always.

Not having kids, every time I have any remorse I spend some time around kids and their parents, in about 5 minutes I’m good

They learned from the best! The Catholics are no longer so obviously gold-crazy as they once were (for centuries!), they have so much wealth it is hardly a concern for them at this point, untold billions, 170 million acres of land, and so much more than we will ever know.

Baptists, Assembly of God, et al? They have a lot of catching up to do, so they are still obsessed with fleecing everyone for every dime that they can.

Sadly, they are all tax free in many places, so the poor are still being robbed to pay for their “faiths”

“Slaves? Rape? Don’t worry about it, not worth mentioning. So… do you have a foreskin?” ~Jesus

People choose to “take insomnia” every second of every minute of every hour of every day, in thousands of ways.

You’re not speaking up.

Wrong!

You’re trying to silence the guy who’s speaking up.

Ridiculous. One person on Lemmy can’t silence the Pope by responding to his latest press release. I know what my motivation is… and believe me, it’s not “trying to silence the Pope”.

You’re also just posting something on a niche forum with maybe a few hundred like-minded people at best viewing your comment. In what world is that speaking up?

You can speak up with only ONE person viewing/listening to your comment. How do you not know this?

Also, I haven’t seen him do a lot of vile stuff yet, so I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt.

His organization is evil and revolting with centuries of horrifying history, and truly unspeakable acts to this day. But, you can suck up to whatever billionaire organizations that you’d like to, don’t let me dissuade you. I like watching your efforts to defend a massive, multinational organization that has robbed communities for many generations.

It’s funny

They claimed 144,000 because that’s the number of “true believers” described in the Bible in Revelation who are rewarded with Heaven.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/who-are-the-144000-in-revelation-14-bible-meaning-and-verses.html

Jesus told His apostles that they would be alive to see His triumphant return.

They all died, confused and bewildered.

(or perhaps they are still walking the earth to this very day, revenant Highlander apostles are always a possibility)

So?

I’m speaking up. Things will never change if nobody is allowed to speak up, right?

He’s fucking vile.

So? He’s a piece of shit, and his church is evil incarnate.

How about he starts paying taxes like the rest of Earth? You may be fine with thieving rapists sharing their opinion about other thieving rapists, that’s your right.

And it’s my right to point out what they are and what they do.

Just like Trump, the Pope knows that he has to attack those like him to protect himself and his organization.

Unlike Trump, this Pope is clever and much more manipulative.

People refuse to be friends with Republicans because of what they do, so of course it’s perfectly fine to refuse to be friends with Catholics because of what their church has done (and continues to do).

This is like Jeffrey Dahmer bemoaning murderers, like Donald Trump complaining about the rich, like Mark Zuckerberg bitching about social networks

The Catholic church is filthy rich, unbelievably wealthy, and sitting on many generations of stolen wealth.

They own 170 million acres of blood-soaked land across the world, more than any other organization on the planet.

Sadly, they are still tax-free in much of the world. God knows what they are really up to