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    11 hours ago

    Stolen from twitter:

    „Bro likes age appropriate intelligent women.

    That’s unacceptable in Epstein country”

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    5 hours ago

    Desi Lydic of The Daily Show says a mistress is included with the leather jacket. Funny stuff.

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    15 hours ago

    This timing. Nvidia sacrificing Huang at the alter of capitalism (resigned to live out his life in unimaginable luxury) to distance themselves from the disastrous Trump administration they have been cozying up to for two years. “It wasn’t us, it was that Huang guy! Please do not impact our market cap.”

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, I doubt that mansion lifehood is for long. Mr. Huang has the foolishness to directly hurt more than several of the noble clans up top, not to mention selling out important property to a rival.

      He’d be lucky if several heads rolled before he does

    • Boost@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      We had no idea that 20% of our revenue for the year came from illegal sales to China! And neither did the president!

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      14 hours ago

      Unless it’s little girls or he raped someone this really isn’t that big news. What’s this Bill Clinton morality suddenly popping up.

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        5 hours ago

        Now that you mention it, I wonder if Monica Lewinsky’s current boyfriend sometimes thinks he’s the president of the US when she’s blowing him.

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        14 hours ago

        Subordinates and spies are newsworthy.

        If these were randoms on hinge (or grinder) then hopefully there would be less uproar.

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        14 hours ago

        Affairs are in the news all of the time. What’s up with you thinking this is some unusual thing? The morality never left.

        Shouldn’t you be moderating fifty empty subs, posting to yourself?

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          12 hours ago

          As if an affair is news to oust a CEO over when the entire Western elite is raping children lmao.

          What’s the problem? Mad that you’re not allowed to post your imperialist propaganda to one of my communities?

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        13 hours ago

        It’s maybe not news in America, because your president is a pedo rapist. Other countries mostly frown on this behaviour.

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    15 hours ago

    Lost his job, will lose his wife, and half of his wealth. Lucky for him half his wealth is still wealth. He won’t get the Chinese spy baddies anymore, he’ll have to make do with the regular billionaire groupies.

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    20 hours ago

    Just fuck an escort if you are so horny and an unfaithful piece of shit. Having an affair with an employee and a business partner is the dumbest thing you can do as a CEO.

    • The D Quuuuuill@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      so a thing to understand about weird rich guy sex stuff is that they find power dynamics sexually alluring. the fact that he had power over this employee surely factored into the desireability of the encounter

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        19 hours ago

        I hate Elon as much as the next guy, but we don’t need to resort to using slurs to get our point across

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          I think it has a very legitimate use, when used as a describing word about actions, instead of a way to mock handicapped people. And I think it’s a shame to completely dismiss a word that has a very nice length and prononciation for saying things in anger. It could just as easily be co-opted to mean something different that doesn’t mock handicapped people. There’s just not a better fitting word for many situations, since “stupid” just doesn’t cut it.

          Basically, I find it okay to use it when refering to actions like “Elon has done some retarded shit”. In such a case it isn’t used to mock handicapped people, which is never okay no matter what word you use anyway.

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            16 hours ago

            Considering the disabled community has said Southpark handles how disabled people should be treated real well with Jimmy/Timmy, and Southpark uses the word retarded, I concur.

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            14 hours ago

            While I generally agree with the sentiment, you’re overlooking the inherently social nature of language. At the moment, that is a word non grata. Give it a decade on the euphemism treadmill, and it will become mostly acceptable to use in the contexts you outlined.

            At the moment, I think you’re going to have a hard time using that word without offending someone outside of a musical composition situation. You’ll probably offend some folks using it in the context of musical composition too, but at least “retard” is the proper term for slowing the tempo in the middle of a composition.

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              14 hours ago

              It seems to very much depend on where you are. I have yet to hear literally anyone irl complain about use of the word retarded, when refering to an action. Either way, the meaning of the word is only going to change when people actively use it. It’s not going to change if we decide to stick with the “bad” version of the meaning and making it taboo.

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                13 hours ago

                I have. Not very often, but it has happened at some points.

                I think using retarded to mean stupid could be part of the problem, actually. Like your Elon example, tbh. The fact that it is being used in a way that refers to mental faculties could cause offense to people with delayed mental faculties. Using the word to mean “slowed”, in the original meaning, without referring to mental faculties, is probably more likely to rehabilitate the word apart from the use as a slur.

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            17 hours ago

            Seems like its regional. Some areas really hate it. Others its totally fine to use at work. Thanks to the internet, both can interact and think the other is odd.

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            17 hours ago

            Here’s a good test for whether it’s a slur. Would you say it in front of someone with Down’s Syndrome, or would you find another word?

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            14 hours ago

            Without taking sides in this debate, let me just say that you’d have an easier time arguing that “slurs are sometimes okay to say” than trying to argue that “‘retard’ isn’t a slur”.

            It’s like, 100% a slur. You know how ethnic slurs are called ethnic slurs? That’s because there are non-ethnic kinds. Really curious what definition you use for slur that wouldn’t include “retard”. It’s an old-timey word used to describe a specific type of person, which is now largely considered offensive by that type of person, and has become used in a general sense as an insult…I mean, what box does it not check?

            • b3nsn0w@lemmy.world
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              personally i do consider it a slur and avoid it accordingly, but i think the difference with this one is that colloquial usage took it over entirely. i’m fairly sure the average person does not think of down syndrome when they hear that slur, they just think of a particularly stupid person. which is also how the words “idiot” and “dumb” stopped being slurs over time, even though those also used to refer to medical conditions.

              this might differ between cultural backgrounds, i suspect that’s why it was categorised as a slur in contemporary internet culture. but it’s pretty hard to find another slur that doesn’t unambiguously, inseparably refer to a particular group it degrades. with the r-slur, some people do appear to separate it, i think that’s why they insist it’s okay to use.

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            17 hours ago

            I think Lemmy is over sensitive about these things too. To me, retard is more like a funny word. But there are plenty of people who think it should never be used anymore because of actually retarded people and how they may feel.

            Also, the word is banned from YouTube I think, and possibly large parts of reddit as well. :) I think its silly but whatever, I can live with not using it, sure.

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                I think banning words are funny. :) Can’t wait to see what’s next. Probably the word Muslim will insulting soon.

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                  It’s harder to understand why using a word would be wrong when they don’t affect you. Have some empathy and understand why for people that are marginalized and called something as a slur that it would be nicer to just stop using the word.

                  Nobody is banning the word, either. Just responding with their own free speech to say it’s idioitic to not understand why slurs are wrong to use.

    • BillionaireStew@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Having an affair with an employee and a business partner is the dumbest thing you can do as a CEO.

      Correction: Doing so without a prenup is dumber.