• Rhynoplaz
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    11421 days ago

    I’m confident this guy is serious and insane, but if you read it as satire, it really hits home.

  • @[email protected]
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    7921 days ago

    I’m pretty sure this is satire. It was posted earlier without the name obscured, and it’s a comedian.

    • @[email protected]
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      720 days ago

      When you can’t tell anymore, it’s very telling. Mirepoix is tasty and the onions are cut very finely in it.

      • @[email protected]
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        120 days ago

        I frequently find myself with a shit ton of mirepoix and I’m getting sick of soup, what else can I do with it?

        We’ve left the analogy, I’m just looking at a giant bowl of mirepoix in my fridge

        • @[email protected]
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          Dang, was trying to look up a few suggestions and all the results were bullshit articles about what it is, its history, etc.

          Off the top of my head, it should work well in fried rice, added to a potato filling for perogies, or a red sauce for pasta.

          • @[email protected]
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            220 days ago

            Ooh I never thought about potato filling. I don’t have any dumplings/pierogies, but I do have potatoes…maybe a shepherd’s pie

            I’m gonna use up some of it tonight with bolognese

  • @pizza_the_hutt
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    4421 days ago

    The irony of this is that Hitler did have good business connections. Fascism cannot rise to power without strong support of big industry. Trump is trying to forge similar connections with the oil industry currently, offering to slash environmental regulations in exchange for a big campaign donation.

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      621 days ago

      Good thing the rest of the world isn’t as oil thirsty as the US

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          Comparatively no, people drive about half the miles on year per average in europe and there are more households without cars.

          Also less consumption per capita

          And then for developing nations it’s not even close

        • Granixo
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          220 days ago

          I live in a medium sized town in South America, and everywhere i go is by pedal. 🚴‍♂️

          I only use transport whenever i need to travel outside of town.

          And i’ll probably only own a car when i have a family 🚗

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            Idk why but the emojis make this comment 1000 percent better. It reads like a picture book. The only way this comment could be better is if it said “Beep beep!” at the end.

    • @ThrowawayPermanente
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      220 days ago

      Is that really forging connections or is it just directly asking them for a bribe?

      • @pizza_the_hutt
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        320 days ago

        Both. Hitler did the same thing with the big businesses at the time. He promised them greater profits and reduced regulations in exchange for their support.

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      You definitely had the ability to invest in the US/UK stock markets from Berlin during the 1920s. The Black Tuesday 1929 Wall Street crash kicked off a shockwave of economic contraction that toppled multiple European governments, Germany included.

      I have to assume that a hypothetical alt-history Hitler who was heavily invested in the DOW Jones in 1929 would have felt just about the same way.

  • capital
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    2119 days ago

    he can have power of people in a business context, which is always morally good

    Man, what???

  • Flying Squid
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    2020 days ago

    If I were a good writer, I would write a science fiction story that was about a guy who goes back in time and convinces the art school that this Hitler kid isn’t very good yet, but he has a lot of promise, so accept him.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      1520 days ago

      So I hang around social media with a lot of Nazis (I have a fake white Facebook alt to befriend them and get them banned), and many of them collect prints of Hitler’s art. It’s pretty awful.

    • @[email protected]
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      1020 days ago

      Eh, you’re only delaying the holocaust for about a year that way. Hitler was a talentless hack and he’d never make it in the art world in any timeline.

      • Flying Squid
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        1820 days ago

        Maybe, but I still think it would be an entertaining story.

        It’s sort of like this comic but longer.

      • @ThrowawayPermanente
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        You would need to teach him the way of the artist statement. His bullshit would be 100 years ahead of anyone else and he would effortlessly conquer the art world. Men would still be wearing those goofy little moustaches and people would rob banks wearing masks of his face.

  • @Ghyste
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    Using LinkedIn here is cheating.

  • @[email protected]
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    1920 days ago

    I was with them until CEO lording over people = Good.

    How about just sending him to art school?

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      I try to think with this approach of grace as well.

      It’s uncomfortable for us to realize that the descent to mass murdering supervillain is simply the festering of frustration and helplessness combined with blame and opportunity to act that hatred.

      It’d be fascinating to see what happens if he was set up with a lovely Jewish art teacher that believed in his ability to improve.

      Seriously would people nowadays be streaming old archive footage of “Painting Happily with Adolph Hitler” (holy crap that was awkward to type) and would Bob Ross be citing him as an influence?

      Would History Channel have any material?

      Of course the “fun” part of this thought experiment is that evil seizes power wherever there’s opportunity, and some other maniac would have taken the role, inevitably.

      People are absolutely responsible for their own actions, but also the truth is that a series of neglects and bad influences, especially in formative years, can program someone into a monster that just requires the catalyst to act on it before they cease to be human any longer…

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    1519 days ago

    Sooo… Hitler in that timeline would yet be another capitalist growing their wealth thanks to the mass-murder and exploitation people like Hitler in this timeline creates.

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    I call LinkedIn occupational hubris

    I come from a big accounting firm, so most of what I see are former colleagues who’ve made partner posting about occupational efficiencies and how much financial gain they accomplish.

    Some of them are complete blithering idiots who’ve failed upwards and now think they’re geniuses

    Others are just complete psychopaths who would gladly shiv their own mothers in the neck for a fraction of a step up the ladder. Hell, they would boast about doing so.

    The latter facilitates and nurtures a toxic culture of stabbing your coworkers in the back at every possible opportunity for your own gain wherein saying anything good about a coworker, especially a subordinate, is a sign of weakness and considered sinful.

    But on LinkedIn, they’re all the heroes of their own narratives.