• wildbus8979
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

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

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          2 months ago

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

          Fucking Al Jazeera.

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            2 months ago

            This isn’t the comeback you think it is.

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              2 months ago

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

        • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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          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.

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      2 months 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.

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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      2 months 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.

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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months ago

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

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        2 months 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.

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        Yeah, Francis might have done nothing about the problem but he didn’t seem to support it like the previous pope Joseph Ratzinger who was pope from 2005 to 2013 when he renounced the papacy, the first pope to do so of their own initiative in over seven hundred years.

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    2 months ago

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

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    2 months ago

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

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    2 months ago

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