• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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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 think they’d have split into groups, some with the Nazis, some with the British empire, some with the Japanese Imperial army…

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    ★☆☆☆☆

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

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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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    Or catholic priests…

    The Church got away with a lot in WWII, the President of Slovakia was a priest and that country was the one that killed most jews proportionally.

    Lets, not forget either that the biggest monstrosity of WWII was the religious cleansing, who had a beef with the Jews?

    I rest my case.

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      Meanwhile the Nazi officials feared that Catholics may cause a civil war if they didn’t put just the right amount of pressure on the Vatican. And Protestants tried to become the official state church of Nazi Germany.

      Lets, not forget either that the biggest monstrosity of WWII was the religious cleansing, who had a beef with the Jews?

      I think you should take some history lessons. Being Jewish wasn’t a religious definition for the Nazis, we’re not talking about the Spanish Inquisition here. And it’s not like Catholics were more (or less) antisemitic than Protestants.

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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’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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        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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    That was a period of Great Minion Divide, where half of them supported Hitler and the other half Stalin. It worked out well until 1941 and then things got… complicated.