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[–] catdog@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Doesn't matter. That company and its leadership are worrisome, with or without that trivia.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Amen, i strongly believe in "you're not your ancestors."

Though this one is probaboy an exception, but as you said regardless of who the CEO is, it's the whole leadership that's rotten.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz -4 points 1 day ago

That's a cheesy position. You considered working with the American, Charles Entrapment Cheese?

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Musk and Thiel were both raised in apartied south Africa when their Nazi families sought refuge there.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what you’re saying is Hitler lost, but the Nazis won

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

It definitely seems that way. The Marvel comics about Hydra were a warning.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

This is why you execute traitors. So they don't continue to spawn

[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Should we start practicing euginics on the objectively evil/disney villan rich.

Fascist ceo has fascist parents. Donald dipshit is a pos, his kids are a pos, his parents are pos. Musk is a pos, his kids are pos, his parents are pos. Koch brothers are pos their parents were pos.

Like, I am just recognizing patterns here.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Musk is a pos, his kids are pos,

Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Wilson

Also Trump may be evil, but his niece Mary is fine, so the "piece of shit syndrome" ends somewhere in that family too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Trump

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isn’t genetics, it’s cultural values being passed down. The children need education and a loving home.

Elon and his dad are POS, Vivian Wilson is based.

[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Vivian separated on her own accord despite the circumstances. This is damning of the other kids, the sub-humans if you will.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

Of course he is.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So a nazi company is run by a nazi.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think an important distinction is he's CEO for the UK branch; Palantir is a USA company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir

Founders

  • Peter Thiel
  • Stephen Cohen
  • Alex Karp
  • Joe Lonsdale
  • Nathan Gettings
[–] Quokka@quokk.au 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And Peter Thiel grew up in Nazi Town, South Africa.

It’s safe to say Palantir is a Nazi company and employs Nazis.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Probably just a coincidence.