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[–] [email protected] 96 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The money from the fountain gets collected and sent to Caritas, a catholic charity that focuses on health, disaster relief, poverty, and migration. I am a Queer atheist person in Spain that uses their services and they haven’t once made my queerness an issue. Nor have they exposed me to their religious views.

So, shrug, I’m not gonna shit on them doing the tradition that many diplomatic events in Rome do.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Objectively, it sounds like it's an innocent tradition and a healthy charity.

Subjectively, it's tone-deaf af, when the rule-makers perform superstition for such a massive world-changing problem. Basically "thoughts and prayers."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I can guarantee you that nobody did this with the idea it'd help fight climate change

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

+1 for Caritas. My mum, a non-religous person, worked for them for quite some time and I've never heard a bad thing from her.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A friend once applied for a job at Caritas in Germany and got rejected for the reason of not being catholic, but christian. I think you could argue that is okay, but by German law it actually is not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I realy don't understand why the church still gets to do so many things that are simply not legal. It seems like the law that they have to follow is an older version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My aunt works for Caritas in Germany. They do seem like they do good work, even if they believe in the whole resurrected vampire man who was birthed by a virgin and impregnated by a dude who flooded the world for fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wait what does Jesus have in common with vampires? I’ve always seen him represented more as a Zombie (?)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's a reverse-vampire. He makes other people drink his blood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Holy shit you’re right. And since the Bible was published before 1700 (when the term was born), I guess it would be even more accurate to say a vampire is a reverse-Jesus…?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You're right, zombie

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Is that Angela Merkel in the middle? If so this must be at least an old photo. She is not the German chancellor anymore. Not that that would make thing any better...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And Boris from the UK.

I guess it didn't work. Any other lucky rivers or wishing wells around?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Punishing corporations for their misbehavior is too much work

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Especially when they barely pay your bills

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Right? There's nothing you defend, these major corporations and billionaires are literally ruining everything and offering no benefit. Most of the best stuff that happens is from publicly funded research or volunteer work.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

They are literally the people who can enact change, the fuck do they need luck for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

"We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it."

Career politicians are a cancer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hoping that the situation solves itself without having to make hard decisions or, Gott bewahre, sacrifices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are Rules for Rulers. In the background there are always nobels, clergy, bankers, businessmen, military and the common folk each with their own demands and reasons to pressure or remove the ruler of their demands are not met.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Boris looks confused at the idea of throwing money at anything other than his mates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm surprised there isn't a follow up photo of him falling into the fountain somehow.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They did NOT toss coins for "good luck fighting the climate emergency." Maybe some did, who knows. It was not a collective wish for something, just a stage for a nice group photo.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/made-wish-g20-leaders-toss-113600490.html?guccounter=1

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-31/g-20-leaders-pose-by-trevi-fountain-macron-and-johnson-face-off

From the Yahoo article: "Of course the wishes can't be revealed to anyone if they are to become true - so who knows what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel wished for."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

"I wish I didn't have to let the peasants elect me. I wish I could just have power so I could enrich myself! I wish I didn't have to stand here for this damn photo!"

We know what they wished for whether they tell us or not lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe instead of tossing coins they could sign binding agreements that actually accomplish something

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Due to reports of misinformation from users I'll post this comment here.

No. They were not actually tossing coins backwards for good luck fighting climate change. No one knows exactly what the people in this picture were actually wishing good luck for.

I don't want to come down too hard on people but one of my jobs as moderator is to prevent the spread of misinformation.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Is it possible to pin comments on Lemmy? This one's kind of buried, it seems a bunch of people missed it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Oceans 111°

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

well toss a coin for good luck while we let corporations rape the planet

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (10 children)

When was this? Merkel and her party luckily aren't in the government anymore.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the fact-check. I hate that we’ve gotten to ragebait on Lemmy as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Boris Johnson was already 2 prime ministers ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The rate they burn through them, that could have been last week.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Look at the average age of the people in that picture. You think they care for climate change? They know they'll be dead soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I despise Modi but there's not one single Indian who doesn't care about climate change. It's at least one thing literally all politicians and people of all classes get behind here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would like to know how many fetch back their coin afterwards...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

You think these fuckers used one of their own coins? They were just props that was handed to them. They probably haven't touched an actual coin themselves in years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This is literally worthy of nottheonion material lol. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

“Heads we live, tails we die.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Can't hurt or tell the rich what to do for the 99% /s

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