• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    12·
    2 hours ago

    What a nice breath of fresh air. Goes to show that this is possible and preferable. Fuck trump and his gestapo regime.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
        66·
        10 hours ago

        While its been scientifically proven that it was indeed aliens, I don’t think anyone knows for certain that they weren’t alien slaves.

          • Hupf@feddit.org
            11·
            4 hours ago

            I was just trying to extend JoeBigelow’s joke by suggesting that contrary to the actual pyramids, Abdelatty would actually not want to pay those who would assemble that Lego set.

          • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
            24·
            2 hours ago

            So… they were free to move elsewhere and use that money for luxuries? They could go get another job?

            Because being paid doesn’t mean you’re free. Or is the only type of legitimate slave the typical American kind? It’s not black and white, there’s nuances here. If the black slaves in America were paid, it wouldn’t have been slavery….? Because that’s the logic that’s being used.

            It really just sounds like you’re trying to justify not calling people who aren’t free slaves when they still were by every other metric.

            • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
              5·
              2 hours ago

              It sounds like you don’t know very much about how the pyramids were built, and aren’t interested in learning the truth. The workers who built the Pyramids engaged in some of the first labor actions in recorded history–they went on strike, multiple times, and were successful in securing higher pay and better working conditions. Many of the workers who worked on the tombs of kings were highly respected craftsmen in their own right, who often were given permission to build their own tombs nearby; in many cases, only a little bit less grand than the tombs built for the pharoahs themselves.

              The Ancient Egyptians definitely practiced slavery, and also, they didn’t use slaves to build the pyramids. The slaves were doing things like growing food for the people who built the pyramids.

  • OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca
    35·
    14 hours ago

    Later that night he sat on the floor, in a onezy in front of his fireplace while his family, glowed in the enjoyment there young president had putting it together, until he fell asleep and his son carried him to bed.

    But seriously love this

  • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
    291·
    14 hours ago

    Not when it’s a despotic regime.

    The elected President was murdered in jail by this stooge’s boss.

        • America@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          11 hours ago

          I just realized how good the deal he offered was. Partial repayment of Lego value and a silly little dance is far and away the best settlement that one could hope for. And they rejected it because…

          • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            10·
            10 hours ago

            I have a theory that Mormonism plays a big role in BAM’s behavior. It makes good business sense to settle with the LEGO owner—they’re a 400 million dollar company, so 100k is a drop in the bucket. BUT, the top brass is all Mormon, so if they settle, they essentially admit to being a thief. Public moral failures lead to total social exclusion in the Mormon community, and I’d wager that any hint of an admission that you stole from old people would make you a pariah in the church.

            If my theory is right, then the totally over the top behavior of the management starts to make some sense: there is potentially a lot more on the line for them than just some money and Star Wars bricks.

            As long as they don’t admit it, the rest of the Mormon community automatically assumes they are innocent (because a Mormon would never do that), but if Amon does the chicken dance, then that community protection is shattered and he’d be cut off from everything he seems to value.

            • Ougie@lemmy.world
              3·
              7 hours ago

              So the community whose police department is corrupt to the core and exhibits blatant mafia tactics with nobody batting an eyelid would care about a business defrauding some poor sod? I’m not so sure tbh…

              • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                1 hour ago

                I think so, yes. Mormon’s stick together and have a bit of a victim complex. I think, due to their assumption that another Mormon can do no wrong, they automatically defend each other to the maximum extent.

                So, when Amon calls and says “this man is stalking me and he made threats”, they not only believe it completely, but also see it as a sacred duty to protect their own. Furthermore, I’d wager that part of the over the top response is so that all the other Mormon’s see how “good” they are since they are defending their Mormon brother so hard.

            • America@sh.itjust.works
              8·
              10 hours ago

              This honestly makes more sense than any other explanation I’ve heard so far. There’s no reasonable way to account for this many unforced errors without veering somewhere strange.