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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 61 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

They were trying to normalize it for a while afterwards. One or more of the right wing Barbies did it later too, maybe Ann Coulter I can’t remember.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh hey, a 30 minute video basically breaking down Dark Enlightenment into what's currently happening: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are traitors to humanity. Their hoarding hurts all others. It should be illegal.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

If the Republicans were actually following the bible, not power and cruelty, it would be.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 6 points 2 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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 53 points 2 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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 2 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.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

That was indeed the joke

[–] FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

GOLD COINS DO BEHAVE AS A LIQUID, THEY ARE INFACT TINY PIECES OF SOLID

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

so do planets if you zoom out enough.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

it could be rendered safe with sufficient amounts of vibration or injecting air into the vault.

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago

I accept those terms.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 46 points 2 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.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Him dying in a Tesla fire, early, would be a glorious and fitting end.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

early,

Like, preferably yesterday.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 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?

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 2 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.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 45 points 2 months ago

What an embarrassing shit stain

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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!

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Walt was also a pretty outspoken antisemite.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 turning 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.

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He still owns pretty much every kind of industry, with his only competitors being two even worse billionaires (Glomgold and Rockerduck).

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Power corrupts.
Eat the rich.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

As frequently as I gotta shit and how alcohol runs through me, I have similar anxieties (especially after I went to that coffee place in Tacoma that didn't have toilets).

[–] BoredGamer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone else think Scrooge McDuck is MAGA too?

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

His political inclinations are probably dictated by what his class finds economically advantageous. Blah blah material interests blah.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He probably would be against Trump wanting to be a dictator because he would want to be the dictator, considering he himself seceded from the US and made himself king.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago