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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 96 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not really not the onion though. The Pope was apparently calling priests in Gaza almost every day. He believed parking the Popemobile in front of hospitals and children's clinics would make for really bad optics if (who am I kidding, when) Israel bombs them.

[–] cj2127@lemm.ee 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was right though, it would look terrible when Israel bombs them.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yesterday Israel used a bomb for a gender reveal. They don't care if they look bad.

[–] cj2127@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, they made jokes about how it looked like a gender reveal.

Fucking Al Jazeera.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

Username does not check out

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't the comeback you think it is.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a comeback, it's setting the record straight. Repeating false accusations doesn't help anyone.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They changed the headline on their news story from one to the other.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They changed the headline to "jokes about" because you can't prove initial intent. It hardly changes anything.

Again, this isn't the comeback you think it is. Stop dumping for genocidal maniacs.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Blowing up a building for fun and making slightly off colour jokes aren't even close to the same thing.

There's enough accurate information to make Israel look bad, stop making shit up.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

I'm not defending Israel or the folk who did that, just saying that some idiot in southern California did that in the last decade too. Started a big fire. I recall we mocked them in public discourse because we had little other way of venting our frustration that a public employee would burn down an appreciable portion of the state to announce what gender they think their child has.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Sheesh, imagine being that priest, doing daily status updates skipping about 23 levels of chain of command.

This Pope had a personal charity underling who would walk the streets of Rome and hand out cash to people who needed it. The money came from selling autographed indulgences. So I'm not surprised in the least.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

My first thought is that seeing a popemobile outside a hospital would cause members of the idf some pause, but I've been watching this conflict for almost a century and some 18 year olds would consider it a high score.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

There are other articles here that don't really read as satire ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

The Popemobile was Hamas

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Say what you will about Pope Francis but he seemed to genuinely care about others.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's odd, it's almost like that's the way Catholics are supposed to be.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

The very start of his time looked really good. Especially in contrast to Pope Palpatine before. Later, a bit more confused.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Some are

There are also the ones who are far right and don't seem to actually can about helping people. Those are the people who make me sick.

[–] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Pope wanting the Catholic Church to touch children one last time.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

I wish I can gold this

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago

Well at least it is bullet proof....not sure about missile strike proof though.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That cars about to be bombed. I hope they have a spare.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I heard at one point that they have at least one on every continent except Antarctica.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

That would make a lot of sense.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discriminating against penguins again?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Penguins are definitely protestants.

Wonder how long until Israel bombs the Popemobile

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A good usage of the vehicle.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, the cardinals probably view it as a failure because they desperately tried to stop people from calling it the Popemobile.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that an el camino? WTF is that.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago
[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just as soon as that dude power washes the Pope stank out. Then they can load it up with fresh, young, traumatized boys.

[–] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all know that things seen many young traumatized boys.