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borplk 6 hours ago

His whole "I love fast food and coca cola" thing is a fake persona

nine_k 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Coca-Cola is a great energy drink. But you have to expend this energy, say, by thinking really hard.

koolba 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As a red blooded capitalist who loves this country as much as the next patriot, I can assure you admiration for fast food and coke is 100% real.

dyauspitr 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Admiration for how American it is maybe but it’s goddamn preservative and sugar ridden slop.

lotsoweiners 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes but many of us love it all the same.

nntwozz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, impossible to prove of course but it reminds me of Ingvar Kamprad (the man behind IKEA) who used to drive an old Volvo when in Sweden to appear as a "man of the people".

In fact he had his main residence in Switzerland and was filthy rich which is a bit of a hard swallow especially in Sweden, a country still very much affected by the "Law of Jante".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

A reporter that was doing a documentary about his wealth asked him once directly when stepping out of his old Volvo and Kamprad kinda lost it; it was a big kerfuffle at the time on the telly.

For those paying attention it was really revealing about the true nature of the man (let me add he was a young Nazi back in the day).

Most people came to his defense like the red-blooded capitalist gentleman commenting above about Buffet being a 100% American.

The older generation still swallow the farce hook, line and sinker. For the rest of us it's pretty clear it was a well thought-out facade to placate the plebeians to sell more cheap furniture.

eps 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> he was a young Nazi back in the day

He remained a Nazi member well into the 1950s, which I find truly bizzare.

nntwozz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I didn't know that, talk about being late to the party.

On a tangent I also found this recently about Le Corbusier:

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Research from the last decade, primarily from a series of books published in 2015 and released correspondence, has confirmed that the influential modernist architect Le Corbusier was a fascist and antisemite with ties to the Nazi-collaborationist Vichy regime in France.

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He wanted to build this in Stockholm in 1933:

https://ptpimg.me/om1779.png

bdangubic 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

if one is to make a fake persona, fast food and coke (the drink) probably won’t make top-100 list

PaulHoule 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I seem to recall the secret service was driven crazy by Bill Clinton going for a run out of the white house only to pick up a Big Mac at McDonald's.

jodrellblank 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Berkshire Hathaway holds over 9% of Coca Cola's shares, worth $28 billion and returning over $800 million a year in dividend payments. Isn't that worth being seen visibly supporting Coca Cola products?

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xXwAtQqkN6c/XM3Brj-ZkuI/AAAAAAAAv...

ignoramous 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Au contraire, larger-than-life people may desire to pass off as normal & common.

IncreasePosts 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Or that's just what he feels. He also sleeps in a fairly normal home. Wouldn't he have a secret mega mansion if he was just putting on a show?

lo_zamoyski 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it's secret, then how would you know?

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vasco 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's all fake to fool you!! Coca cola is only the popular beverage it is because the illuminati chose Warren to shill for it!!