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3y ago
>Given they are chanting "Gas the Jews" and "Rape the Jews". When?
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3y ago
yes. just browse twitter for a bit, bluecheck replies are consistently nonsensical and/or vile it's like asking "is the sky blue?"
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3y ago
That wasn't the narrative I was referring to, and wasn't what I was questioning. I meant your apparent insistence that he was flawless and that any assertion of the contrary is "trashing his legacy".
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3y ago
Maybe. But there's also literally zero chance for us to know if he was ever actually a porter. What we do know is he married the sister of a billionaire in 1953...
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3y ago
Ahhhh, that explains it
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3y ago
I completely agree with you, regardless of how he kickstarted his empire it was effectively from nothing and a bit of charisma
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3y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I wasn't quoting from the article posted - I can't see where you quoted from OP's posted article - so I'm not sure what you mean. All I see is you referring to the guardian article as
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3y ago
I guess you include fraud and theft as legitimate methods to build your own wealth then
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3y ago
"Trashing the man's legacy" - all they did was tell the truth in how he got started, not the false narrative that you seem to be pushing.
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3y ago
I think portraying him as having "built his empire from the ground up" (apologies if I misquoted you, I can't see your post anymore as it was flagged) is misguided at best and very dishonest at worst.
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3y ago
fixed
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3y ago
> In 1964 Fayed arrived in Haiti, one of the world’s poorest nations, hailed as a rich sheikh from Kuwait. He romanced one of Papa Doc’s daughters and persuaded Duvalier to give him an oil concession and a contract to manage the Port-au-
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3y ago
not an argument, ad-hominen, etc etc https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html or is that also just a "bunch of words placed together to form nonsense" like everything else you don't understand?
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3y ago
nope, find a dictionary. your fantasy world doesn't reflect reality
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3y ago
>What he said is the cornerstone of socialism. nope >There isn't a way that it is incorrect. It just isn't. It is like asking "how is it incorrect to say Wubble Bubble Jibble Quibble." It is a bunch of words placed
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3y ago
when did they mention socialism? how is what they said incorrect?
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3y ago
> Otherwise it would "force" employees to not call sick days to get the big reward they are already forced to not call in sick by the fact they don't get paid sick leave i can't believe you're sincerely making th
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3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy hope this helps :)
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3y ago
I don't know how you get those - all I get are ads for AI drawing apps or people using twitter ads to get more followers on their "shitposting" accounts A friend also got church of scientology ads
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7y ago
>Charging vs Donations, I don't see what the difference is. Charging: Person paying gets something in return Donating: Person paying does not get something in return >The primary difference is the open ended pricing model. What d