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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 141 points 1 day ago (5 children)

His father is Charles Coristine, who bought the snack company LesserEvil in 2011 and runs it as chief executive. His maternal grandfather was Valery Martynov, a KGB lieutenant colonel who spied for the FBI and CIA in the 1980s and was executed in Moscow in 1987 after Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen betrayed him. Coristine has said on Fox News that his grandfather “died so that I could come here and live in this free country that I love so much.”

Jesus Christ, no wonder his politics are fucked.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 83 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His grandfather was a double traitor who only cared for personal gain and money. He got what was coming to him.

Meanwhile he is following in his grandfather's footsteps by being a complete parasite and sack of shit to the country he lives in.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

His grandfather sounds based as fuck, I actually wonder how he turned out this way.

EDIT: Ya'll Tankies downvoting? I'll say it again. Fuck the USSR, they're no different than what MAGA aspires to be.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He spied on the US and the USSR. He was not some principled ideology. His ideological and moral compass only pointed towards money and nothing else.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

He was sent by the USSR, made deals with the FBI and CIA, moved his family to the states and was executed by the KGB for spying on the USSR.

Sounds like the ultimate redemption arc. We should all aspire to be so strong of will against tyranny.

Clearly he couldn't pass off the tiniest bit of it to his son and grandson before he died, sadly.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

MAGA...USSR...

Incompetent Party Oligarchs in palaces and bread/gas-lines for everyone else 🤝

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Can hardly wait for the De-Trumpinization on the same level as De-Stalinization.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 21 hours ago

I’m doubtful after 2020, that it will happen.

[–] ewo@piefed.ca 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Only a self-deluded accelerationist would think this is the bottom. It goes much lower than this.

[–] ewo@piefed.ca 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The pitts of the Stalin regime held twice the percentage of incarcerated, multiple famines, no real elections, widespread war, etc. The USA isn't there yet but it will be.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The number of people the USA currently has in prison far outpaces the height of the gulag system in absolute numbers and percentage of the population. If you want to talk about famines you can check out how the USA treated indigenous people. To be frank, Stalin was small time compared to the USA, whether you’re talking historically or currently.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -1 points 19 hours ago

And per capita it is half as much as the USSR, thanks for the rehash.

[–] Reckless_Moose@ttrpg.network 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LesserEvil? As in the popcorn with avocado oil seen in many health food stores? What?

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yup. I boycott that brand hard and I tell everyone I know to stay away from it.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 22 hours ago

Geeze, TIL.

I really hate that every cent we spend that doesn't go to like, struggling indie artists we enjoy, goes straight into the pockets of people actively obsessed with making our existence miserable.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dang. It's really good popcorn. Why couldn't he buy a worse brand...

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 22 hours ago

Right? This is more like classic Nestlé behavior.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Can you tell me why and what is so bad about it? I am legit interested in knowing. It isn't available in my area but I will avoid it if I see it.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I boycott LesserEvil because BigBalls' dad is the CEO. I'm not gonna give more money to that twerp's family.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I love(/s) how mask-off Fox is now. "Former KGB double-agent lineage put into high places of government when people still remember the Red Scare? Fiiiiine! Look he's so ~~rich~~ 🇺🇸🗽🦅🏈pAtRiOtIc. . .

. . .REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA WORE A TAN SUIT THO AND MAMDANI HANDED SOMEONE A PEN?! THE OUTRAGE!! Shariah law! Immigrants! Reeee!!" [mouth foaming intensifies]

It feels like 50's-80's Republicans, still-evil as they were, would eat these bitches alive. LOL

As much as they screech about slippery slopes, it seems conservatism is the ultimate one. What vague notion of principles they might have had, erodes astonishingly quickly as soon as money and vulnerable children are dangled in front of them.

An opposition that lacks any kind of consistency doesn't deserve even the slightest respect.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shit apples don't fall far from the shit tree.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -2 points 1 day ago

Well damn, his gramps sounds amazing.