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buttfarts ,

TIL that the slave trade was a good and wholesome business

echodot ,

Clearly this guy didn’t read the the by laws. There’s always someone.

pachrist ,

If I had a time machine, I’d go back and try to awaken Hitler’s creative side. I feel like getting him into writing, or maybe art, would be beneficial. It couldn’t possibly go wrong.

BonesOfTheMoon OP ,

That’s an excellent idea. One of the things that I’ve read is that conservatives have lowered creativity and probably expanding that would help him not be a goddamned Nazi.

www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0191886907000682#:~:text….

Vytle ,

This dude really looked at fucking Adolf Hitler and said “man, he’d make a great CEO”

DragonTypeWyvern ,

I mean

capital ,

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

Man, what???

probableprotogen ,

mf wants to turn hitler into an investor, ignoring the economic state of the Weimer Republic

solomon42069 ,

If you read it in Chris Parnell’s voice, it all makes perfect sense.

LinkedIn is entirely populated by Leo Spaceman’s.

nyctre ,

Yeah, but… What can you do? Medicine is not a science!

toynbee ,

Of all the roles I associate with Chris Parnell, this … Is not one of them.

GratefullyGodless ,
@GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world avatar

I went back and reread it in his voice and it was just perfect. Good catch.

Smoogs ,

So a more secretive villain then.

Got_Bent ,

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.

masquenox ,

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.

MonkeMischief ,

So he’d be just another BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Bayer, GM, IBM—oh geeze this list is long.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

Yeah, can this guy tell us again how companies are morally good life-saving constructs and the uber-rich wouldn’t just find some other atrocity to profit from? 🤔

Sam_Bass ,

…or kill them slower

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Imagine if we could go back in time and teach Hitler about Bitcoin.

BonesOfTheMoon OP ,

LOL!

Emerald ,

etherscan.io/…/0x829f66110deb205c2cd05c88cb04830c…

RememberTheApollo_ ,

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

How about just sending him to art school?

MonkeMischief ,

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…

FireWire400 ,
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

Funny, if someone asked me that question I would just give them a weird look and slowly walk away; never to speak to them again.

I guess that’s just me.

Emerald ,

Would you go back in time to kill baby Hitler?

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

I’m not sure how many stock options there were in 19th century rural Austria.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

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.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

In 1929 Hitler was already well and truly…well, Hitler, and hated the “Jewish” stock market.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Not so much that he rejected IBM, Standard Oil, Eastman-Kodak, or Coca-Cola.

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