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Rhynoplaz ,

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

BonesOfTheMoon OP ,

The influencers post stuff like this often I guess.

Rookwood ,

It’s definitely satire. The status is the clue. Also a lot of what he says makes him sound like an idiot in a business context.

jjjalljs ,

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

state_electrician ,

Correct. It was posted by Ken Cheng: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ,

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

jjjalljs ,

This is Poe’s Law. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.[

Cryophilia ,

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

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ,

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.

Cryophilia ,

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 ,

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.

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

Serinus ,

They’re not?

kameecoding ,

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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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 🚗

Emerald ,

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 ,

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

pizza_the_hutt ,

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.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

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

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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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.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

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

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

IzzyScissor ,

Slavery = bad

Wage slavery = good??

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

FlyingSquid ,
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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.

BonesOfTheMoon OP ,

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.

FlyingSquid ,
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Oh, I know. He had technical skill but no creativity.

MindTraveller ,

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.

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

It’s sort of like this comic but longer.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e42b9114-dff8-4efd-aa0f-83095d78b313.png

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Went back in time and killed history’s greatest monster, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

ThrowawayPermanente ,

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.

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…

Ghyste ,

Using LinkedIn here is cheating.

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? 🤔

Vytle ,

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

DragonTypeWyvern ,

I mean

BetaDoggo_ ,

Germany just invaded Poland. Here’s how it will effect B2B SaaS:

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…

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

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