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.[
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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? 🤔
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.
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.
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.
TL;DR total wages rose because people worked longer hours. The economy was forced into, effectively, a war economy upheld with deficit spending (like America was doing with the New Deal, but with tanks instead of roads).
The scam continued with the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the stolen wealth and enslavement of the first Holocaust victims paying those debts.
TL;Dr;tl;Dr
They paid for their tanks with IOUs and then stole a bunch of gold with the tanks
My comment never at any point claimed it was sustainable or that their economic growth was ethical and somehow beneficial to the population. In the context of this post, that has someone talking about how Hitler would be nicer if he was financially successful I said that because to him he was successful, and to the countries economy he really was. Economic performance has nothing to do with a population's quality of life, as it can be seen in China, but even so, when compared to Weimar republic it was still arguably better for everyone,which is the lowest bar ever.
I'm not a nazi apologist, none of that makes what they did right or desireable, I'm just pointing it out that nothing would have changed if the likedin''s insane post actually came true. Heck, if he made more money he would just spend even more on the army just like your own link says, the economy' s only purpuse to him was to build an army so they could steal more through conquest.
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I'm confident this guy is serious and insane, but if you read it as satire, it really hits home.
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.
The influencers post stuff like this often I guess.
I'm pretty sure this is satire. It was posted earlier without the name obscured, and it's a comedian.
Correct. It was posted by Ken Cheng: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng
When you can't tell anymore, it's very telling. Mirepoix is tasty and the onions are cut very finely in it.
This is Poe's Law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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
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.
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
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.
Good thing the rest of the world isn't as oil thirsty as the US
They're not?
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
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 🚗
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.
Is that really forging connections or is it just directly asking them for a bribe?
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.
I'm not sure how many stock options there were in 19th century rural Austria.
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.
In 1929 Hitler was already well and truly...well, Hitler, and hated the "Jewish" stock market.
Not so much that he rejected IBM, Standard Oil, Eastman-Kodak, or Coca-Cola.
Slavery = bad
Wage slavery = good??
Man, what???
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.
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.
Oh, I know. He had technical skill but no creativity.
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.
Maybe, but I still think it would be an entertaining story.
It's sort of like this comic but longer.
Went back in time and killed history's greatest monster, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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.
mf wants to turn hitler into an investor, ignoring the economic state of the Weimer Republic
I was with them until CEO lording over people = Good.
How about just sending him to art school?
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...
Using LinkedIn here is cheating.
This dude really looked at fucking Adolf Hitler and said "man, he'd make a great CEO"
I mean
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.
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? 🤔
Germany just invaded Poland. Here's how it will effect B2B SaaS:
Imagine if we could go back in time and teach Hitler about Bitcoin.
LOL!
https://etherscan.io/token/0x829f66110deb205c2cd05c88cb04830c2190cce5
Yeah, but... What can you do? Medicine is not a science!
I went back and reread it in his voice and it was just perfect. Good catch.
Of all the roles I associate with Chris Parnell, this ... Is not one of them.
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.
Sanest Linkedin user.
The "profit solves everything" guys.
Why do people ask him about Hitler so much
I’m pretty sure it’s just Bret Easton Ellis.
A index. Much funds.
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.
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.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886907000682#:~:text=The%20present%20study%20showed%20that,actual%20creative%20products%20and%20accomplishments.
Are we all asphyxiating on the higher CO2 levels in the air? Is this really what humans are like?
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.
Would you go back in time to kill baby Hitler?
So a more secretive villain then.
Linked in is social media for people who like to say, "i don't use social media."
LinkedIn is Facebook for people that want to return to the office full time.
...or kill them slower
TIL that the slave trade was a good and wholesome business
Clearly this guy didn't read the the by laws. There's always someone.
Economically nazi Germany was doing really well, which had no small part in how they managed to raise such an army
A lie as great as saying Mussolini made the trains run on time. Not that you're the only one to fall for it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills
TL;DR total wages rose because people worked longer hours. The economy was forced into, effectively, a war economy upheld with deficit spending (like America was doing with the New Deal, but with tanks instead of roads).
The scam continued with the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the stolen wealth and enslavement of the first Holocaust victims paying those debts.
TL;Dr;tl;Dr
They paid for their tanks with IOUs and then stole a bunch of gold with the tanks
My comment never at any point claimed it was sustainable or that their economic growth was ethical and somehow beneficial to the population. In the context of this post, that has someone talking about how Hitler would be nicer if he was financially successful I said that because to him he was successful, and to the countries economy he really was. Economic performance has nothing to do with a population's quality of life, as it can be seen in China, but even so, when compared to Weimar republic it was still arguably better for everyone,which is the lowest bar ever.
I'm not a nazi apologist, none of that makes what they did right or desireable, I'm just pointing it out that nothing would have changed if the likedin''s insane post actually came true. Heck, if he made more money he would just spend even more on the army just like your own link says, the economy' s only purpuse to him was to build an army so they could steal more through conquest.