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    So I remember this was already brought up and there was a Twitter post saying that the minions didn’t serve Hitler.

    Then the implication was that meant Hitler wasn’t evil or something.

    This is just what I saw, I hate Hitler, I hate Nazis and I have never watched a movie with these minions. My daughter is 1 so I’m sure I’ll see all the minion movies soon.

    Correction: Apparently these minions were frozen during the 1930s and 1940s… Good save to a Twitter post that didn’t think of the implications

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    From what little I could understand in the movies I think the minions tend to have somewhat of an upper limit on evil? Like they’re fine with stealing and destroying property but seem genuinely scared when people are murdered, so I guess no they wouldn’t be Nazi. Not to mention how generally chaotic and hard to manage they are, not exactly dictatorship friendly

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    They were specifically locked in a cave in the 40’s so they couldn’t help our least favorite painter

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    ★☆☆☆☆

    Unoriginal AND proven false by the source material (they were conveniently stuck in an ice cave)

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        Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos are all unapologetic James Bond villains.

        In fact, they might be even more ridiculously evil than the Flemming and movie villains. Ernst Blofeld is arguably more reasonable. (Blofeld, on whom Felonious Gru was based.)

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      They were no doubt involved with banana republics. Can’t forget the Khmer rouge so so many evil things they did

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        For sure. They were part of Operation Paperclip and went to work for H. W. Bush who sent them to South America as CIA operatives after WW2. They became close friends with G. W. Bush during that time and followed him to the White House, which is how they met Dick Cheney.

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    Our concept of evil has changed overtime. In Dantes Inferno the people at the bottom of hell aren’t the people who killed the most, it’s the people who are most famous for betraying others. One of them is there because he stabbed the Hitler of his era in the back to protect democracy.

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      Dante’s Inferno is also effectively fanfiction of a socialite without any real ecclesiastical value. He wrote in the vernacular, instead of Latin, which was what made it accessible and popular.

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          I had a friend in college who wrote a paper that religion was started by the original nerds who needed to classify and rank which level of angel and spirit.

          I believe he argued the term “Angel of Death +2” is as equally valid as one name to the next across cultures and history.

          I still think he was right.

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        And as a result made an absolute mess out of what Christians actually believe about death and the afterlife (and you, John Milton, don’t think I’ve forgotten about you)

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    if minions were real who do you think they would follow today? Trump? Tim Apple? netanyahoo? Sam AltMan? Putin?

    edit: lesson learned, don’t try to spell politicians names while high

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      Peter Tiel I think. Trump and Altman are more like grifters. Net Yahoo and Putin are contenders, but they’re using mass murder to solidify their own power… It just feels too pedestrian

      But Tiel is like a hardcore death cultist or something. He gives speeches warning about how AI will be the anti-Christ, then goes around putting up AI cameras everywhere. He’s the type that reads 1984 and pays people to build the torment Nexus

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        He also says the antichrist will be a “self-described protector who promises peace, safety, and an end to technological risk” and sites Greta Thunberg.

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        He’s probably the closest thing to a Bond style supervillain that exist, if alchemy were real he would be trying to create a global transmutation circle to sacrifice humanity and gain immortality

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          I’m pretty confident Putin is the number one backer of immortality age reversal research globally.

          He does all sorts of things, as is tradition among Russian Tzar’s, to halt his aging. The joke is the anti aging gurus tend to die before turning 70 and it has scared every Russian leader in history when they’ve observed that

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          I decided not to use the word supervillain, but I was certainly thinking it loudly

          Hold on, I need to check deflock and make sure the cameras don’t form an alchemy circle

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          That’s what he says in public, he’s said different things to a captive audience of billionaires apparently

          I think he’s actually just pro antichrist and so tries to sell his positions as the opposite

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          I’m not, Steven Miller is a creepy little piece of shit

          But capability and reach are part of my moral framework. Miller is basically a coach for the brown shirts… He just yells at them to hurt more brown people faster. His words are vile, but they don’t change much

          He lacks the influence to be in the running

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        In a list with Netanyahu and Putin, complaining about glasses is a bold choice.

        Nazis? Hmmmm, I didn’t like their mining policy, very polluting!

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      They seem to be wowed more by flash than anything, and the villains don’t seem to be particularly competent or bright. That rules out Larry Ellison and AIPIC.

      Various congressional Republicans, Elon Musk, or Javier Milei.

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    They were too busy helping the British systematically starve millions of Indians.

    PS: There were no good guys in WW2.