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[–] [email protected] 167 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Is the first one Disney? If so, 2 of 3 are confirmed Nazis, so yeah, huge red flag. Steve Jobs was just a dick, right?

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Musk started out as just a dick then turned full fascist. I bet Jobs wouldn't be too far behind if he was alive.

The guy died from a treatable cancer because he listened to a health guru instead of doctors. I bet he would be an antivax idiot gulping down horse dewormer to prevent COVID-19 if was alive today.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's even worse than that.

He stole a liver transplant from someone at the top of the list, and then died a few months later. He wasn't even a candidate, he was terminal at that point, but he did it anyway to try and give himself a few more months to live, while likely killing someone else who needed that liver much more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Rules for thee.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago

Behind the Bastards had a great series on him, as always.

I liked that when he died, he died knowing he could have avoided it if he wasn't a miserable, narcissistic idiot :)

[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The behind the bastards about Jobs was fucking wild. The guy made children cry (not his own) for eating incorrectly and he would hold meetings in the bathroom so he could soak his feet in the toilets. It is a great series of episodes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The same dude who refused cancer treatment because he was convinced his “healthy” lifestyle and alt med bullshit would cure the cancer itself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

He literally thought eating tons of fruit would cure cancer. He also refused to shower and stank like shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and he would hold meetings in the bathroom so he could soak his feet in the toilets.

Pardon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Listen to the episode. It is fucking wild. He apparently didn’t bathe either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because he said he didn't need to. Some wild shit about mucus and body odor and how his diet removed the need for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Narrator: It didn't

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll look for that one, he's great. Sometimes, it's just too hard to listen to, but Jobs would probably be okay.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

The Jobs series is fairly tame as far as BtB goes. Definitely worth a listen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do you eat incorrectly, stick it up your nose?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If I recall it was a small girl who ordered a hamburger which conflicted with what he thought a proper diet should be. He absolutely let her have it in public and she cried.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Disney technically isn't a confirmed Nazi, AFAIK. He actually worked with jewish employees at his company who vouched for him.

He was a nazi by association, to the antisemite Motion Picture Alliance of the time and his welcoming of Nazi film film director Leni Riefenstahl. He also had a specific beef with a specific Jewish businessman who labelled him an antisemite, and his company produced at least one antisemitic portrayal of the three little pigs, but it also produced propoganda for the US Military fighting the nazis. In their cartoon "the ducktators" they mount the stuffed heads of Hitler, Mussolini, and a japanese military leader I don't recognize on the wall above the fireplace.

He was racist af, tho, but no less than average in 1930s and 1940s.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In my book, Nazi adjacent = Nazi. He wasn't trying to get along with Nazis to save orphans or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There should be zero tolerance for Nazis.

But if a profiteer trades media with a nazi it doesn't make him one. It makes him an asshole, but a Nazi is something far worse and by watering that down and normalizing it you're doing great harm to society.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

if a profiteer trades media with a nazi it doesn't make him one

I would argue it does. By assisting a Nazi in any way, you have actively chosen not to hinder them, and are thus furthering their cause. That makes you a fucking honorary Nazi at the very least.

It's not about watering anything down, it's about keeping those pieces of shit as radioactive as possible. Their ideology should be completely isolated and driven to literal extinction.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Oskar Schindler

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I somewhat agree, because their opinion can be changed by whatever is most profitable. However, that view also makes it impossible to identify Nazis. It's hard to say Disney wasn't a Nazi and only did things against that because it was profitable, or he was anti-nazi and only did things for them because it was profitable. If "just following orders" makes you a Nazi, then just following the profits does too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think if a nazi is living secretly in hiding all is well but since we live in a world where people tell us who they are it becomes incredibly easy to identify Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"what do you want tattooed"

"I want the american history x tattoo but make it slightly less on the nose"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just gonna point out that that's a Crusader cross, I think it's the cross of Jerusalem specifically but I'm only really familiar with like three Crusader orders so it could be one of the more obscure ones I'm just not recognizing. I only say this since I keep seeing folks calling it the iron cross which is an entirely different symbol and would be less of a red flag since at least the iron cross has connections to the German Empire, Modern Germany, and American Biker gangs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I made a recreation of a local bust of Kaiser Wilhelm (one of the good ones, brought peace to Europe (the non-ominous way)) that happened to include an actual iron cross medal. I was concerned about modern interpretations and so I did research on it, and the anti-defamation league tells me that it is not a hate symbol. Good enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The same anti-defamation league that said musk's nazi salute was just a awkward gesture?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The very same! I don't really care about these guys anecdotal evidence, because in practice everyone with an iron cross tattoo is actually a Nazi.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It was the God-Emperor himself. Casual reminder that Imperial Japan was a divine monarchy, and fascism and monarchism are not mutually exclusive.

The glasses are the giveaway. Plus him being the head of state...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sounds like he just didn't have any morals, just cared about the money.

Which I don't think is any better than being a Nazi, but could be worse

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, no morals

No, Nazis are way fucking worse

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Now, no morals and only caring about money would take you the same path Nazis took if it was found profitable. Just look at what the megacorps are doing - absolutely anything they can to squeeze couple more pennies without caring of the consequences to human life, as long as they're not financially penalized for it.

No, it's the same monsters different motivation

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism dude; at least it's an ethos...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Man, that's a bold quote to drop ITT. 🤣 Just watched again two weeks ago.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least jobs had the presence of mind to let himself die of a curable condition because he thought he knew better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Even that tongue in cheek comment is unfortunately true as another person put it: he stole the next in line spot for a transplant when he was already way too far gone for it to do anything only to die months later.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Yea, just an unbelievable asshole.

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