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        ‘Tell him we will pray for him.’ ‘He needs your prayers.’ ‘Is he, then, an unhappy man?’ Poirot said, ‘So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.’ The nun said softly, ‘Ah, a rich man…’ Poirot said nothing—for he knew there was nothing to say…

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          Protip: if you do two spaces at the end of a line, the formatting works.
          Like this.
          Thank you to the person who posted this tip before me.
          The end.

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            Ipve markdown and that places like this support it but the way it handles single returns and needs those spaces bugs the shit out of me.

            Like why else did I add a return/paragraph?

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            In this case it was a stylistic choice.
            I felt it would look too spaced out otherwise.

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    This is slander to space. Elon has never been there, and probably never will be. He’s not associated with it at all, and if asked, space has dozens of planets as witnesses willing to corroborate this.

    He’s not a Space Nazi. He’s a Rocket Nazi. Not even the Rocket Nazi (that’d be Wernher von Braun); just a wannabe hack.

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    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Derek Chauvin himself pleaded guilty in federal court and admitted that he used excessive force.

    Whatever the constitutionality or merits of his current effort to reduce or eliminate his federal sentence, that has absolutely nothing to do with his underlying murder conviction. Chauvin was convicted of murder in state court beyond a reasonable doubt, and he admitted his guilt. A subsequent challenge to his sentence does not erase, invalidate, or somehow put that conviction up for debate. Derek Chauvin is, and will remain, a convicted murderer.

    And Elon Musk continues to prove, over and over again, that he may be the stupidest smart person I have ever seen in my life.

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      He’s not smart! Holy shit why do people think he is a genius? I just don’t understand, he didn’t invent anything, doesn’t design anything engineers are currently talking about having to walk him back because he’s deadset on something catastrophically stupid.

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        Because you can hate the guy all you want but he’s still smart enough to make himself untold fortunes. Neither you or me or the rest of the planet have been able to do something like that. Yes he did it in an underhanded immoral way but nevertheless.

        The caveat with this asshole is that he’s also dumb at the same time making him absolutely unique which is why I call him the dumbest smart person in the world.

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          Making millions starting from millions is expected more so when you buy into successful businesses and run off the creators. Eg Tesla and space x

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      He’s not a dumb smart person, he’s a dumb person’s interpretation of a smart person. He was just born with too much money to fail. The guy is stupid as fuck.

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    Not a “space” Nazi. Just a very rich and powerful one.

    What did we used to do to rich and powerful Nazis? Because keeping those around seems like a problem for everybody.

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    He continued to kneel on George’s neck for several minutes after being told - by his fellow officers - that he had no pulse. He 100% intended for that man to die.

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    Jail all billionaires. You can’t be that rich without being a thief. You’ve stolen wages from the people.

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      Derrière chaque grande fortune se cache un grand crime (Behind every great fortune lies a great crime).

      -Honoré de Balzac

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        He didn’t run PayPal. He swept in at the last moment with money just like he did with Tesla. The man is really good at taking credit for shit that he didn’t do

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    He doesn’t have to have intended to kill the guy to be criminally liable for his death. He was grossly negligent in his sustained use of a restraint technique with lethal capacity and callously unrelenting in the force applied, which was deemed excessive, even as the danger Floyd was in was apparent, and even then after he went still and no longer had a pulse. Whatever his intent, he murdered that man by two different legal definitions as the justice system concluded.

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    Still real sad. This is the Space Nazis I was promised. And instead we get ~gestures at the blob of putrid waste that is Musk~

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      I mean…maybe we just shouldn’t have nazis at all? I know my deceased purple heart WWII normandy beach storming grandfather would have prefered that outcome. In fact in the 90s, he was quite proud of the lack of nazis due to his and everyones combined efforts in the 1940s.

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        I take it you haven’t seen the movie…

        spoiler

        The blonde on the pic was raised by Nazis on a moon base. She meets the black guy, realizes she’s been indoctrinated into a terrible regime and helps kill the fuhrer

        It’s very much a tongue in cheek comedy movie mocking Nazis.

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        Uh, there wasn’t a lack of Nazis in '90s. The US, under Truman, partnered with the Vatican to save over 10,000 Nazis from justice and brought them to the US, its territories, and its vassal states. It gave them fake names and official documents, money, jobs, property, and protection. Then the US staffed the first generation of NATO with Nazi officers, and together they organized Nazis and Nazi collaborators all over Europe in a covert operation to arm, fund, train, and prepare them for a resurgence. In West Germany, former Nazi politicians were openly elected and appointed into government positions, and it was so egregious that some Germans and Scandinavians turned to terrorism in protest. The USSR had to build a wall completely around West Berlin because it was a small little polity in the middle of East Germany that was literally electing Nazis to power.

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            It is an .ml account, not really surprising.

            Tagged as such and moving on

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            They were 45 years after Operation Overcast and 30 years after Operation Paperclip officially ended. Which means Nazis got to regroup after having been defeated and cast into disarray by the USSR and spend 3 generations developing their program under the protection of the US military with the resources of the US economy.

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    “the ants are unifying under the banner of socialism! Quick! Divide them racially again! Get them hating each other!!!”

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      It has always worked before, if not race then sex, if not sex then nationality, if not nationality then religion, if not religion then age, if not age then social status, on and on ad naseum.

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      All these months later and I still can’t believe someone Nazi saluted at the US presidential inauguration. Absolutely wild.

      And then a few months after that the US gave him trillions of dollars. Just wow!

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    I distinctly remember when that video popped up on reddit.

    My reaction was “i just watched a murder.”

    It was very clear in the moment, nothing has changed that.

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      Depends on the facts, if you intend to kill someone it is murder and if you don’t intend to kill someone it is doing something you didn’t intended that left someone murdered because of you.

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        You’re trying to be sarcastic about how the media and bootlickers use the passive voice, right? “X murdered Y” vs. “Y died, X’s knee was in the vicinity.”

        I think these other commenters are jumping to the wrong conclusion.

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          Yes, might be better to use /s behind it but i refuse to put it there only so people read beyond the first line. I dont care about downvotes, and some of those might come from people who read everything but did not understand my message, that could be my fault, but so many people start writing a comment or downvote something without even reading the whole thing. Those people lead lives full of emotions they gave themselves. They want to be angry about something and will fire at anyone who seems a valid target. People who jump to conclusion do really hurt themselves and especially their world view, because they only see what they want to see.

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        He was already cuffed and in the cruiser. They stopped, took him out and killed him after he was already fully in custody.

        bootlicker, go back to Reddit.

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        He looked dead inside when he was on George Floyd’s neck for 9 and a half minutes. There’s also better ways much better ways to restrain someone. There’s two-point restrain methods and they could’ve done a four-point because there was two officers there, they could’ve held his legs and his arms, they could’ve shackled higls ankles and made him walk slowly to the vehicle; They could’ve done anything else.

        They didn’t have a reason to do a neck restraint. A neck restraint just isn’t chill, unless the person is a terrorist then give em the neck knee… 😋

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          You can deadly things without intent to murder someone. I didn’t say he wasn’t murdered. I’m taking the piss they consider intent ‘a fact’ that can be proven.

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          It’s not racist bullshit. You just didn’t read more then the first line. Like most people in the internet i guess

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    Oh boy, the Nazi that is now suing a US state over them trying to stop AI from generating CSAM has a bad take? Shocked.