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[–] 61 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Only monsters accumulate that much wealth. You do it by stealing it away from those less fortunate.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    In this case the American people in the form of government grants and contracts.

    I still can't believe he did a Nazi salute at the inauguration. What a thunder cunt.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Steve Bannon did it too not long after, if I recall.

    Only thing is I can believe it. They're pushing the boundaries of their capacity to gaslight. Testing waters and arrogant in their confidence.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    To me it really reeks of a pathological illness, honestly. Like a compulsive obsession.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, not only could he use his money for good, but he’s literally part of the billionaires seeking

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

    The money and power isn’t enough until society as we know it collapses and techno-billionaires run their their own neofuedalist slave kingdoms because it’s about “competing” with the other billionaires rather than having money. It’s just about some weird psychopathic idea of having to “win” and and have the biggest legacy, no matter how fucked that legacy is

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    And by wage theft. Tesla and spaceX used a lot of small subcontractors and simply never paid them. They incurred so many costs on the smaller businesses that they would go bankrupt and didn't have the means to sue for their wages.

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  • [–] 53 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I actually kinda want Musk to dive into a comically large vault of gold coins. Real world physics would take care of the rest.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    PETER from family guy already tried this, he broke most of his bones, because gold coin is solid pieces of metal.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I can't believe this fucker got away with this. It's just forgotten, not to mention all the media and celebrities that defended him saying it wasn't a Nazi salute.

    He knew what he was doing. He's a fucking childish edgelord, did it on purpose knowing he could get away with it. And he was right.

    I hope he dies in a Tesla car fire.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Even the defence is bullshit. The „Roman salute“ was invented for a film and almost immediately adopted by Italian fascists. The Nazis copied it from them.

    So, it is a „Roman Salute“. Because that‘s exactly the same thing as a Nazi salute.

    Maybe he means that he admires Mussolini more than Hitler?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Imo, there’s no such thing as “pretending to be a Nazi long-term”. If you’re repeatedly okay with saying racist things or forgiving the crimes of Hitler, even as a “joke”, you just are a Nazi.

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago

    What an embarrassing shit stain

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I recommend checking how Scrooge McDuck career started. He was absolutely miserable, horrible and alone. I guess as Disney itself grew more popular, and wealthy, it had to change the persona in order to better fit the situation, resolve the discrepancy.

    What's even more ironic IMHO is that... Disney itself is absolutely terrible too. They make money by selling a seemingly endless supply of plastic toys and arguably even worst retrograde ideas, sexism, racism, normality (that they are literally dictating based on their rich) and above all other values, consumerism. It's an empire of prisons where nothing is what it seems. Even the fairytells it stole have been transformed beyond their initial point and are so locked down via lawyers that they became unrecognizable. See how creators who collaborated with Disney regretted it, from P. L. Travers to Ub Iwerks for the iconic mouse itself.

    So... yeah, deconstructing all that as an adult is fascinatingly grim!

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I recommend reading The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, which, while not officially considered cannon, is the origin story that is most accepted by fans. It tells the story of how Scrooge got corrupted by greed, resorting to horrible acts for profit (he actually burned an African village, and blew up a historical monument right in front of Theodore Roosevelt), them turned around at the end of his life when he realises his real wealth is his family.

    There is also that one page that subtly confirms he isn't a virgin.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    In my mind, the true injustice is that his wealth is largely speculative. Scrooge McDuck had all that liquid wealth, kinda like Warren Buffett. For this reason he, in my opinion, doesn't even make a worthy enemy for a proletarian uprising focused on real economic equality.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Power corrupts.
    Eat the rich.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Be well never know the joy if walking into a random bar without fear.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's not a liquid, it's a great many pieces of solid matter - that form a hard floor like surface.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Does anyone else think Scrooge McDuck is MAGA too?

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