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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 2 points 58 minutes ago

King of England owns the swans

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, the American oligarch’s dad owned the trees.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

"What does Bloobr do, anyway?"

"It's an AI company that mines Bitcoins which represent a futures market for derivatives tied to the large stake we own in trees."

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 128 points 1 day ago (3 children)

German oligarchs: Don't ask who originally owned their companies before 1933.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 18 points 13 hours ago

What I hate the most is how they always try paint themselves as a family business. Little family business called BMW with 150k employees, producing millions of cars each year.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago

More importantly, don't ask why the same people still owned companies after 1945.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Porsche 😎 Volkswagen 😎 Bayer 😎 Hugo Boss 😎 Adidas 😎 Puma 😎

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

And all they got was a slap on the wrist.
Capitalism and fascism have always been good to eachother.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Being successful at either requires a total lack of morals and ethics.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not uncommon traits in humans.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

actually extremely uncommon traits in humans, which is why it took hundreds of thousands of years for it to get this bad, and why our species is still alive despite it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Hey now, they wouldn't exist without the help of IBM, Ford, and Standard Oil.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think they were referring to originally Jewish-owned companies that were taken over. Aren't these or at least some of these founded by the nazis themselves?

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

Volkwagen was a (Nazi) state founded company. It is one reason why the Nazis were popular because they genuinely gave people jobs with re-industrialisation (albeit on borrowed time because of excessive government spending, and of course with how history unfolded).

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

They also made tanks

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Oligarchs who own Scotland ≠ Scottish oligarchs

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 23 points 1 day ago

Genuinely Scotland had to join the United Kingdom because the landowning gentry blew all their money on a failed start-up colony.

[–] Civil_Liberty@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

did you read what was in that linked article?

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 day ago

Canadian oligarchs are like either:

I own your entire province and everything inside of it

or

I own every company in this sector, try to escape me :^)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I heard in an interview that the difference between US and Britain class systems, is that the US class is based on money and the Britain class is based on bloodline.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

English Aristocracy that has notadjusted for the modern world are clinging on their inbred bloodlines while their estates went into administration.

Britain is like any other westoid regime is owned a hand full of wealthy people some of whom are aristocratic but they are definitely oligarchs first and foremost.

[–] FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

westoid

I don't know what you're trying to imply with this word but it sounds like some 4chan incel "femoid" shit

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

It's a Polandball-ism

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"The rules based international world order"

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You are right, we don't deserve better this.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

'Rules based international order' as opposed to what?

How do you expect society to function without rules of behavior, for example?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments

That tracks

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I'd take Niel as my overlord any day over the fuckers who are actually running the show.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 1 day ago

That's a very navie perspective... Owning land is more indicative of aristocracy

German oligarchs for example are mostly Nazi nepo babies and their capital was entirely or in part a result of slave labour among other crimes.