

I don’t really have an opinion on this, but it feels really weird. Though elected to the rôle, Pope Leo is one of the world’s last absolute monarchs, answerable to no one. Partly because of this the Vatican isn’t even in the U.N.
Like I said, no real opinion on it, and I suppose that legally there’s no reason to keep an absolute monarch from voting in U.S. elections—it’s not like dual citizenship isn’t absolutely normal—but it does feel strange somehow to have a monarch vote in a republic’s elections.




It’s infuriating how they’re desperate to insert themselves into the act of cognition itself. Thinking is free, and as they see it, anything you do for free is money rightfully theirs denied them. It absolutely galls them that you can think for yourself and not pay them rent for the privilege.