Microsoft Bought the Catholic Church
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@Nostalgianerd
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
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@durrcodurr
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
OMG WTF 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 People come up with the most deranged of hoaxes.
@Sentraman4
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Microsoft execs and the Catholic Church? Nightmare blunt rotation.
@danielrhouck
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
I misread the title as Minecraft acquiring the Catholic Church
@harpintn
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
I knew this was a joke because Bill Gates know that there is no god greater than him.
@MatmarSpace
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Such an epic joke XD
@TheWyleECoyote
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Honestly, I would join any religion Bill Gates creates, at least he'd be honest at where my religion fees go, way more streamlined, with luck he may be able to make a direct wireless connection to speak to God (for a small fee of course).
@HannumKellie
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
This must have been some kind of joke 🤣🤣
@fiatlux00
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
I go to clippers games pretty frequently and Ballmer is just like that. Dude does weird things
@rightwired
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
MS was sued for owning less, than either Apple or Google own today.
@virgiepintotvchannel
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Watching from philippines
@UnhuhYuwandisnaht
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
The Frankish Papal "church" is false and I'm glad they get made fun of.
@nmosfet5797
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Microsoft: Excel does super-fast conversions. Me: this is totally in line.
@zerazara
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Apple creates religion, Microsoft buy's it.
@InfiniteLoop
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
I fondly remember the old days when Micro$oft was the Evil huge company everyone hated, now they are just that friendly company who doesn't offend anyone.
@BlackhandPL
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
My favourite lightbulb MS joke is:
Q How many MS emploees you need to replace lightbulb?
A None. MS just declares darkness to be new standard.
@EpixAndroid
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
And on September 7th, the Catholic Church will canonize Bl. Carlo Acutis, who literally made a website documenting miracles in an attempt to prevent such disinformation from being spread.
@heart5929
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
"we've had 2000 years of working with icons, microsoft has only done it for three" lmao good one
@Ti-JAC
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Interesting… TY for posting.
@johngangemi1361
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Steve Ballmer going nuts on stage never gets old 😂!
@sdFreerey
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
this is why I say that the catholic church is such a meme
@JustBoredGaming
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Dec 11 1994? that's literally my birthday, what the heck
@abdelali9279
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Those darn dogs spreading misinformation on the world wide web during the 90's.
@tohur
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Checking calendar Nope not April fools.. WTF did I just hear
@marwellusXVII
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." 😉
@websurfer5772
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
This wasn't a joke. Of course one of the richest men in the world bought the Catholic Church, the backlash just made them say they were joking.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." – William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
@botterik81
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Oh well, turns out Windows is just as crappy as the Catholic Church.
@Desert-edDave
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Fortunately the real Church can't be bought. They can have their man-centric heretic idolatrous anti-Christ clubhouse that does nothing for the salvation of mankind.
@DicDawson
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
The music video that was made out of Balmer flipping out on stage is amazing as well.
@GreatSageSunWukong
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
I don't know who you are talking about at first I thought musk but then you said American so bezos?
@websurfer5772
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
"We will revive the popular pre-Counter-Reformation practice of selling Indulgences," said Bill Gates.🤡
@BadBunny
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
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@albase1112
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Pope Portus I. and his Camerlengo Cardinal Balmer 😂😂😂
@ThePartialGod
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
I think the world has judged poor innocent Bill Gates very harshly, what did he ever do to deserve to be treated so badly?
He's a brilliant self-made businessman who built Microsoft from scratch singlehandedly without any help. Inventing DOS and Windows all by himself when Microsoft was a struggliing startup. Why are people so cruel?
@johanngambolputty5351
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Are you telling me microsoft aquired the term "microsoft aquires"?
@koztech
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
7:31 Amiga 1000 sighting!
@AnarchyLynn
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Worthless shill
@kayk1686
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Nazis and Microsoft have more in common than I thought…
@NovelViewing
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
To think Slope would go on to open a games room.
@ComradeRachel
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Wait it’s not April 1st
@404DisasterNotFound
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
And that's why me, and many friends (And I heard even countries) are going for Ubuntu 🙂
Ef Windows and EF Billus Gattus!!
@jorgealzate4124
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Not including the Simpsons reference for Microsoft acquires? I'm disappointed 😂
@Boogie_the_cat
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
In the thumbnail it looks like Mr Gates is using hand puppets to describe the time his priest stuck a finger in his butt.
@BethAltairTransFurryMaker
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Microsoft did it first, but apple did it better. the Apple Store as a rounded corner white and glass cathedral that you go to to meet your people, receive the latest good news, show your faith and find out what in your life just can't be beaten.
@nlm2nd
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 pm
11th December 1994? I was nine months old!
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