• Prior_Industry@lemmy.world
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      Because the arsehole has the money to impose his views on others all over the world. Also hopefully making his name and associated companies dirt might actually start impacting his bottom line.

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        ^^^THIS RIGHT HERE! ^^^

        It’s very hard to overstate how much power this asshole’s wealth gives him. People joke about it all the time, but he is effectively above the law. For some reason, people equate his wealth with intelligence, so they listen to him. When the disagree with anything he says, that wealth/intelligence pops up and they assume he knows something they don’t.

        He is an incredibly dangerous person. Especially so, given his obvious fascist and racist tendencies.

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      wealth is control, and people who have a lot of control and power should be closely monitored. ideally people should be prevented from having such exaggerated control, but you work with what you got i guess.

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      All these months later and I still can’t believe someone Nazi saluted at the US presidential inauguration. Absolutely wild.

      And then a few months after that the US gave him trillions of dollars. Just wow!

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    Wow. I bet he said that specifically because the assailant was white and the victim was black.

    This reminds me very much of Donald Trump taking out an ad calling for capital punishment for the Central Park Five.

    Too much power is bad for you, man.

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    He doesn’t have to have intended to kill the guy to be criminally liable for his death. He was grossly negligent in his sustained use of a restraint technique with lethal capacity and callously unrelenting in the force applied, which was deemed excessive, even as the danger Floyd was in was apparent, and even then after he went still and no longer had a pulse. Whatever his intent, he murdered that man by two different legal definitions as the justice system concluded.

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        ‘Tell him we will pray for him.’ ‘He needs your prayers.’ ‘Is he, then, an unhappy man?’ Poirot said, ‘So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.’ The nun said softly, ‘Ah, a rich man…’ Poirot said nothing—for he knew there was nothing to say…

        • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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          Protip: if you do two spaces at the end of a line, the formatting works.
          Like this.
          Thank you to the person who posted this tip before me.
          The end.

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      Bro’s not even going anymore. The dude has got an apocalypse bunker and aristocract-breeding fetish he’s putting his energy into now

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    Still real sad. This is the Space Nazis I was promised. And instead we get ~gestures at the blob of putrid waste that is Musk~

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      I mean…maybe we just shouldn’t have nazis at all? I know my deceased purple heart WWII normandy beach storming grandfather would have prefered that outcome. In fact in the 90s, he was quite proud of the lack of nazis due to his and everyones combined efforts in the 1940s.

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        I take it you haven’t seen the movie…

        spoiler

        The blonde on the pic was raised by Nazis on a moon base. She meets the black guy, realizes she’s been indoctrinated into a terrible regime and helps kill the fuhrer

        It’s very much a tongue in cheek comedy movie mocking Nazis.

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            Can you see the image on mushroommunk’s post? They have a poster for Iron Sky on there, which is the tongue-in-cheek movie in question.

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              I cannot. Not sure if app (Thunder) or instance.
              Usually I will get a ‘file not found’ from some instances. This one though, doesn’t look like anything was in the comment aside from text.

      • freagle@lemmy.ml
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        Uh, there wasn’t a lack of Nazis in '90s. The US, under Truman, partnered with the Vatican to save over 10,000 Nazis from justice and brought them to the US, its territories, and its vassal states. It gave them fake names and official documents, money, jobs, property, and protection. Then the US staffed the first generation of NATO with Nazi officers, and together they organized Nazis and Nazi collaborators all over Europe in a covert operation to arm, fund, train, and prepare them for a resurgence. In West Germany, former Nazi politicians were openly elected and appointed into government positions, and it was so egregious that some Germans and Scandinavians turned to terrorism in protest. The USSR had to build a wall completely around West Berlin because it was a small little polity in the middle of East Germany that was literally electing Nazis to power.

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    No one gives a shit what you think, parasite.

    The sooner fuckface leaves this planet, the better.