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Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto (www.dw.com)
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[–] 26 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands

Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.

The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States...

I'd also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And the farthest west you go, the more the federal government owns lands. In some states like Nevada, the state only owns a small portion of their state land.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    This caused a lot of problems when the state courts tried to protect Native American lands being leveled by the Trump admin because of his bullshit wall but the federal government just outright ignored them.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    That's not anybody! I will be more specific, the Catholic church owns more land than any other private organization on Earth, but yes governments own more, and can seize land from the Catholics, too. It's happened before.

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