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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 99 points 1 month 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 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month 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 month ago
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month 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 month ago

Username does not check out

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

This isn't the comeback you think it is.

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

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

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

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

The Popemobile was Hamas

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

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 month 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 2 points 1 month 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 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago

I wish I can gold this

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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 month ago

That would make a lot of sense.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Discriminating against penguins again?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Penguins are definitely protestants.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Wonder how long until Israel bombs the Popemobile

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

A good usage of the vehicle.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that an el camino? WTF is that.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago
[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are usually Mercedes vehicles

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

Doesn't Italy have a ton of car manufacturers? It keeps getting stranger.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but most of them suck and I don't see the Pope using a Ferrari

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's also not great optics...

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

You didn't know what the popemobile is? Wha

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

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

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month 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 month ago (1 children)

We all know that things seen many young traumatized boys.