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Portugal, but they hate expats at this point because they got overrun by them in the last couple of years

A monarchy is a government form.

Monarchies can be anything from a parliamentary monarchy to an absolute monarchy, and yes there have been fascist monarchies as well - see WW2 Japan or Romania if I recall that correctly

Mastodon simply isn't designed for discussions. It is designed to (micro)blog. People can react to your microblog, but if you're not a well-known personality or your content isn't relevant for the people who see your posts, that probably won't happen.

What helps to build a followership on Mastodon is to regularly interact with people who post about similar things to your interests and who already have a big following. Then they might be inclined to know who you are, follow you and actually interact with your content/rebl9g it for their audiences.

There are multiple music production communities:

!musicproduction@lemmy.ml

!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works

!musicproduction@lemmy.studio

I will argue against what others have said: don't create another one specifically for your need. It will either end up being pretty dead or you'll need to put a lot of energy into building it up.

Ah yes, exactly what I tell my boss when I do stupid stuff for fun

While a good chunk of the country supports the fascist government, there has always been a part of the Israeli population saying that the war in Gaza was not right. Some of them think it's the genociding that is wrong, some of them think that any kind of war in Gaza is wrong. But voicing that can be risky in Israel, so there hasn't been a lot of media coverage in the past.

I mean, there are catholic priests and officials that are very liberal - they do exist. But those people do usually not even get into a position as a bishop, so they are not on the table to potentially become cardinals.

Vatican itself does not have much influence on this election. Francis was smart enough to appoints lots of bishops from "remote" regions like for example Mongolia or Pakistan, who have not been able to form political networks with each other and make it far more difficult for court intrigues to work out. Yes , the conclave surely will see those again, but there should be a counter weight at play here

You should know that lots of countries and societies will not do this. Especially in the global south.

There is a roman saying, "the one who enters conclave as the pope [to be] leaves it as a mere cardinal"

The catch is that he did not appoint by ideology. His appointments were mainly based on the guys doing work for poor people, for migrants, and on them doing their jobs in the global south.

Quite a few of these he made cardinals are somewhat conservative in their views, especially regarding sexuality

Imported US culture (movies, TV etc) has successfully planted the idea in a lot of people that teenagers under 18 are "essentially the same as little children". So no one cares about technicalities.