• @DandomRude
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    3 hours ago

    I wonder how that can be. The Catholic Church owns real estate in almost every city in Europe, usually several buildings in larger cities, often in prime locations. Especially since these properties are only a fraction of the church’s financial assets, the rental income alone should be enough to finance the church for all eternity.

      • @Valmond
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        110 minutes ago

        Yeah the church is rich af, just sell some of your gold you fucking parasites.

    • @[email protected]
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      183 hours ago

      Organizations that own that amount of stuff borrow against it to buy even more stuff and as it all goes up in value they borrow more and buy more stuff. In an endless loop. And people call crypto a scam 🤔

      Owning that much in assets typically means you also have a lot of debt. Particularly with generational, wealthy, corrupt organizations.

      Point being, they can be on the brink of bankruptcy even when owning half of Europe if they can’t service the debt they wound up.

      • @DandomRude
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        150 minutes ago

        Well, they can always get back to selling indulgences again or take out (another) mortgage on their state in the middle of Rome when the going gets tough.