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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

it is never too late to exploit other human beings, you just need Capital and the blessing of the bourgeois State

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

In Gein's case, you don't even need the capital or blessing!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Look at the president, mid 90's, barely able to make bowels with mouth noises, but he's expertly dismantling the country. Not slowly like the Dumas Republican party. He's been doing this in days! While we go to work our asses off every day, this old fuck goes to work in destroying our economy and our children's futures!

All to show you, it's never too late.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Step 1: .... be born white

Step 2: ... be born male

I was only able to achieve step 2. Too bad for me I guess.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guarantee you don't need either quality to reach Ed Gein levels of notoriety. All it takes is effort.

And a dedication to folk art.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where do you live again? .... you know ... so we can 'talk'.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, Ed didn't care if you lived or not. You want to achieve what he achieved, you better get a shovel and head to the nearest cemetery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should do inspirational talks on stage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am way too busy with my folk art.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

But imagine what you could accomplish!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Ooh, is this demotivational adjacent? That's old school material!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You forgot to say LFTL but thanks!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy to me that Ray Kroc was already in the unedited version of this image... Dude Edison'd the fuck outta McDonald's.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd consider it worse than Edison. Edison's real contribution to technology was the creation of a company R&D lab geared towards new products. He would invest in the development of the product before it became big.

Kroc took over an already functioning business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

....dude Musk'd the fuck outta McDonald's?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ray Kroc started buying up the land the franchises were being built on and became McDonald's landlord. Then he was able to eventually force McDonald brothers into a deal because he could have shut down the businesses by not renewing their leases on the land.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was really disappointed by the film about him with Michael Keaton. Even though they couldn't completely hide who he really was, it was a hagiography.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's exactly how you start a fight with Colorado.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Buzzfeed title: Who shortened the most human lives, the answer may shock you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ed Gein only killed two people officially! The least evil of the four!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Unironically true.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Lotta people showing a lack of serial killer knowledge

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Like, are you saying i should try to become an oligarch?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, you could just as easily become someone who does arts and crafts with human remains.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Human remains are so hard to come by. I prefer human waste, much more abundant and it really captures the spirit of america.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Hey, Ed waited until they were already dead.

Most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gross. I thought this was gonna be about authors, artists, or inventors.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying Ed Gein wasn't an artist? And he invented the woman suit!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ok I had to look up Ed Gein and it all makes sense now. 😂 Good one!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The joke went so far over people's heads it struck a passing 737.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

https://youtu.be/0sYK2RwH5E8

Like crocodile but not spelled that way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like past your 50s it's too late

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What’s shit about this post?

I mean the whole „you’re only successful if people talk about you” thing is shit, but is that ot?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think it's pretty shitty how few human corpses Ray Kroc skinned on his own. Ed Gein did all the corpse-skinning himself. Rich man Kroc got the butler to skin human corpses when he wanted human skin.

Edit: Look, Kroc fans, I know you're mad, but the fact is that Ed Gein was a working man who did a working man's job flaying a corpse. Ray Kroc would never get his own hands dirty digging up a grave and you know it.

And while we're at it, did you ever see Sam Walton's "woman suit" sewn together out of the corpses of exhumed women? It's shit. Just shit. Gein knew how to make himself a "woman suit."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kroc and Ford's numbers put Gein to shame though...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but with far less creativity and artfulness.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m glad you didn’t try to defend Ford. You know that nazi would have been happy to get his hands dirty skinning various people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh he did. The original Model T had seats upholstered from the skins of Jewish orphans that Ford would personally strangle every morning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I hadn’t heard that, but it definitely scans with his whole vibe. That dude loved to be antisemitic. One of the best to ever play the game. Up there with the okhrana.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait what? Ford was a nazi?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sort of the other way around. He published the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (a famous antisemitic book) in serialized form in his newspaper and Hitler admired him for capitalist reasons as well. He kept a photo of Henry Ford on his desk.

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