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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 96 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days 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 3 days ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days 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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

Fucking Al Jazeera.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago

Username does not check out

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This isn't the comeback you think it is.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 day 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 13 points 2 days 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.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days 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.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

The Popemobile was Hamas

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

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