Offside Chat Archives (2014-2021)

There's no Duhaček column on Yahoo anymore 😲

Bjesotard took offense 😢

loneseal said:And honestly, it looks like the FBI has even managed to infiltrate the clergy. 🙄

Who knows? I might have even officiated at your baptism.

Back in the nineties, we were baptizing adults en masse; we practically needed a tanker truck to handle all that water.

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Gritting my teeth here, but honestly, ROFL 🤣

brightpilot6 said:Who knows? I might have even officiated at your baptism.

Back in the nineties, we were baptizing adults en masse; we practically needed a tanker truck to handle all that water.

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All those labels like ''FBI'' and stuff like that 🤣

That's my favorite part to read 👋

Almost as much as reading those ridiculous fabrications by Ribi 👋

Matthew Young35 said:Honestly, I couldn't care less about your motivations.
What I see is you spitting on a journalist who went there to film an illegal assembly—something the Police should have known about, much like anyone who keeps even a passing eye on the news.
If that reporter hadn't been there, this whole "incident" wouldn't even be worth mentioning, which is exactly why her presence was necessary.
The Church and its clergy act as if they are above the law. We ought to offer at least some symbolic resistance, no matter how futile it might seem.

So, one priest breaks the rules of the HBK, his Archdiocese washes its hands of him, and suddenly you're claiming the entire Church operates above the law? That's a stretch. 🙏
By that logic, every single cafe owner in the US acts like they're above the law just because a few of them stayed open when they weren't supposed to. Or every employer is acting above the law just because one guy didn't pay his taxes... It's some pretty questionable logic, if you ask me.

It’s probably not quite as big of a deal as dropping your phone on the pavement, but it’s definitely not nothing either, you know? Just wanted to share a decent little write-up about some total nonsense, just so we can take a breather from all the heavy, serious stuff going on in the world for a second.

The absolute worst part is how religious communities just do whatever they want, and almost always, they get away with it without facing any consequences at all.

Take what happened yesterday. This guy spent a whole week announcing he was going to hold Holy Mass, yet there wasn't a single law enforcement officer in sight to stop him. What really kills me is that if you dare criticize his decision, suddenly you're the idiot, the jerk, or some kind of monster.

Then you've got that supposedly "honorable" nun who came back from Italy, wandered around a bit, went to a spiritual retreat or whatever... all while hiding the fact she’d even been in Italy so she wouldn't have to deal with a 14-day quarantine. The reaction? Oh, she's our saintly sister, no harm done. I guess if anyone else had pulled that, they would have been crucified.

Or look at those people taking communion from the same spoon over in Mexico.

And honestly, the list goes on.

Most of this crowd are older priests who think they're untouchable just because they've been around long enough to feel entitled to everything.

When you call out this kind of behavior, people act like you're attacking everything—the church, God, faith, science. They'll even claim you're a secret FBI informant.

restlesssurfer97 said:It’s probably not quite as big of a deal as dropping your phone on the pavement, but it’s definitely not nothing either, you know? Just wanted to share a decent little write-up about some total nonsense, just so we can take a breather from all the heavy, serious stuff going on in the world for a second.

- The issues surrounding permits and people just trying to meet their basic needs might have actually created a new sensibility here. It’s sharpened the awareness that our current territorial setup has hit its limit and is honestly just causing more harm than good, Koprić told us.

The sheer amount of ignorance and laziness among Americans is staggering. People only seem to wake up when something as mundane as permit issues happens. Only then do they realize anything is wrong.

I mean, when the biggest headline you can find is about some guy pushing his phone away, we really shouldn't be surprised at all, honestly, just look at Reddit where people have been arguing over nothing for twenty pages straight.

Beyond the current 576 municipalities, cities, and counties across America—many of which barely have the resources to provide even the most basic public services to their citizens—there’s this massive, swelling mess of regional branch offices for central government agencies, according to Koprić, and it's a huge issue. Back in 2015, there were 1,279 of them, but by 2018, that number had climbed to 1,465, which just goes to show that despite all those official claims about shrinking the federal bureaucracy, they actually created 186 additional regional offices for various departments in just three years.

And you also have to factor in the regional outposts for state-owned companies and government institutions, which some conservative estimates put somewhere between 500 and 600. That basically means that across about 90 American cities, you have a total of 2,000 different regional branches for central government bodies, state corporations, and agencies all operating at once. Every single one of them, Koprić points out, has its own offices and its own bosses driving around in official government cars...

Public Administration Reform by Andrej Plenković 🙏🙏🙏

It’s like getting hit with a splash of quicklime, honestly...

I honestly don't get why we're still waiting around on these local tourism boards, like, why haven't they just switched everyone over to minimum wage yet? It's not like they actually do anything productive anyway, and now, legally speaking, they don't even have a legitimate reason to justify their existence anymore.

urbanhawk17 said:All those labels like ''FBI'' and stuff like that 🤣

That's my favorite part to read 👋

Almost as much as reading those ridiculous fabrications by Ribi 👋

What's next? Are we calling them clerical fascists, religious zealots, or just straight-up cannibals now? 🍿

urbanhawk17 said:- The issues surrounding permits and people just trying to meet their basic needs might have actually created a new sensibility here. It’s sharpened the awareness that our current territorial setup has hit its limit and is honestly just causing more harm than good, Koprić told us.

The sheer amount of ignorance and laziness among Americans is staggering. People only seem to wake up when something as mundane as permit issues happens. Only then do they realize anything is wrong.

That’s what happens when everyone lives purely for themselves, with zero regard for anyone else. Now that things are getting difficult, suddenly everyone is nostalgic for the old American municipal system...

So, after checking with three different banks, I finally got official confirmation: you aren't allowed to go into the church and start filming.

It's just tourists with their cameras everywhere.

Paul Martinez73 said:I honestly can't tell if you're refusing to understand or if you just can't. I'm starting to question your mental capacity at this point. It seems pretty obvious to me that you're just trolling, but whatever.

Let me break it down for you one more time—maybe then it'll sink in.

Actual documentation would mean filming IN FRONT OF the church! Calling the police, having a police report, and expecting the police to actually act on a tip!

What happened was illegal UNAUTHORIZED FILMING on PRIVATE PROPERTY! And under the law, if someone interferes with your property, you have the right to use reasonable force to defend it. Basically, you're allowed to push someone off your land.

I don't know if the ALL CAPS helped you grasp the concept.

If the police had received a formal report, they would have shown up just like they always do.

It turned out later that the police didn't actually follow protocol when they arrived—which basically means the reporter was right to warn everyone about the legal violations.

Recording someone on private property without permission is a violation of the law—period. And honestly, the law actually states that if someone is trespassing, you have the right to use reasonable force to protect your property. Basically, you're allowed to push someone off your land if you have to.

No, that’s just not what the law says—you can't do that.

The Police said they got a tip—and if that's the case, they would’ve shown up just like they always do, and will continue to do from here on out.

The lawbreaking was announced days in advance—the police had plenty of justification for stepping in preventatively. Like I said before, they didn't even move when the report came in; they waited until the Holy Mass was over. Any other gathering like this would have been shut down by force immediately. It just brings us back to the privileged ones—I’m not going to list who those people are in this circle, because we all know.

Anthony Jackson2 said:It turned out later that the police didn't actually follow protocol when they arrived—which basically means the reporter was right to warn everyone about the legal violations.

Recording someone on private property without permission is a violation of the law—period. And honestly, the law actually states that if someone is trespassing, you have the right to use reasonable force to protect your property. Basically, you're allowed to push someone off your land if you have to.

No, that’s just not what the law says—you can't do that.

The Police said they got a tip—and if that's the case, they would’ve shown up just like they always do, and will continue to do from here on out.

The lawbreaking was announced days in advance—the police had plenty of justification for stepping in preventatively. Like I said before, they didn't even move when the report came in; they waited until the Holy Mass was over. Any other gathering like this would have been shut down by force immediately. It just brings us back to the privileged ones—I’m not going to list who those people are in this circle, because we all know.

I think the police aren't allowed to intervene inside religious facilities (just look back at those veteran protests in Times Square).
On top of that, once a Holy Mass has started, you aren't supposed to interrupt it.

Anthony Jackson2 said:It turned out later that the police didn't actually follow protocol when they arrived—which basically means the reporter was right to warn everyone about the legal violations.

Recording someone on private property without permission is a violation of the law—period. And honestly, the law actually states that if someone is trespassing, you have the right to use reasonable force to protect your property. Basically, you're allowed to push someone off your land if you have to.

No, that’s just not what the law says—you can't do that.

The Police said they got a tip—and if that's the case, they would’ve shown up just like they always do, and will continue to do from here on out.

The lawbreaking was announced days in advance—the police had plenty of justification for stepping in preventatively. Like I said before, they didn't even move when the report came in; they waited until the Holy Mass was over. Any other gathering like this would have been shut down by force immediately. It just brings us back to the privileged ones—I’m not going to list who those people are in this circle, because we all know.

Another way to protect property is through self-defense. A person whose possession is being interfered with has the right to defend that property using force against whoever is taking it or disturbing them. It's a reaction meant to stop the interference, though one must be careful not to cross the line of what constitutes reasonable self-defense.

This right is tied to the following conditions that must be met:

– the interference with possession must be unlawful,

– permitted self-defense must be taken within 30 days, or specifically within one year,

– if it is necessary because legal assistance would arrive too late,

– the danger of interference must be immediate,

– and only if the force used isn't greater than what the circumstances justify.

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brightpilot6 said:Who knows? I might have even officiated at your baptism.

Back in the nineties, we were baptizing adults en masse; we practically needed a tanker truck to handle all that water.

🤣 🤣