• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

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

      • auzy1@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        It’s a Lego kit dude. I’d be excited too. Its no different to if someone invited you to stay at theirs, you would get them a gift. And, this is a very normal one

        if it was Trump, he’d probably gift them a picture of himself, or expect the other party to give him a gold trophy or some bs like that.

        Trump would expect the lego bricks to be pure gold.

        • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Trump would expect the kit to be already put together for him, and then he’d claim he built it all by himself. He’d then go on to say he designed the kit, and actually Lego itself was his idea in the first place.

      • MBech@feddit.dk
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        7 days ago

        … Are you angry that 2 countries who are not in any kind of conflict are being friendly toward eachother on a diplomatic level?

      • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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        6 days ago

        I don’t know if it’s fair to call them the Disney of Europe but they have damaged their reputation by aggressively going after competition, such as BlueBrixx.

        • America@sh.itjust.works
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          7 days 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
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            7 days 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.

            • America@sh.itjust.works
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              7 days 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.

            • Ougie@lemmy.world
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              7 days 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
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                7 days 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.

  • OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca
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    7 days 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

        • snowydroopz@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          I’m an Egyptian, and 2011-13 was 110% a dictatorship. We’ve always been under one, just different people in different ways

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 days ago

            Morsi won office in a popular election, lasted barely two years, and then was couped and imprisoned.

            I wouldn’t call that interm period a dictatorship, if for no other reason than it stood in stark contrast to the periods immediately before and after. There was no well-defined national leader. Bureaucrats were still shuffling around and rebuilding a power base, before settling on el-Sisi.

            • snowydroopz@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              No no, sisi was also elected and wanted very much so by everyone, two things can be true at once. Yes, we did elect morsi, yes, we did elect sisi (first time atleast), No. Both were and are fucking horrible in their own ways. One caused major major MAJOR unsafety, Egypt was a fucking warzone somtimes, the amount of citizens that died was insane due to islamic extremists, we’re a muslim majority country yet get along perfectly with christians and have done so for so long, Morsi, well the man pulling the strings behind the scenes wasnt him… morsi was just a facade of who the leader is, were a bunch of religious extremists that did what 95% of shitty people do, promise so much. Sisi has done the same, Egypt has always been under dictatorship and will remain so until people stop being so ignorant and desperate.