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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I opened the article thinking that, surely, the painting had been sold for cheap and gone through several hands before ending up above this person's couch.

But no, the house actually belongs to the daughters of the Nazi officer who supposedly fled with it.

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

One of whom claims not to know what picture everyone is talking about.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Argentinian Nazis, the only people to give the British Museum a run for their money.

[–] lost@lemmy.wtf 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah.... and very large chunk of the Objects in the Louvre were stollen...

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I'm calling fake news. I don't recall seeing any German pastries in the Louvre when I was there.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, my friend from Brazil says the Brazilian ones are just as bad.

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The brazilian museums or the brazilian nazis?

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The Brazilian Nazis. Many of the ones who didn't end up in Argentina ended up in Brazil with just as many stolen goods. (They say, I haven't studied Nazi flight patterns)

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

oh I know, I'm brazilian. it just sounded like you were talking about brazilian museums, which are notoriously underfunded and therefore in extreme decadence.

but yeah, brazilian nazis, just as nazi as all the other nazis, i suppose.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you mean the museums are in decay or decline. Decadence means "moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury. " Like Nazis living lavishly off the profits of genocide, or Trump having everything in the White House gilded.

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i meant decadence.

according to dictionary.com:

the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay.

i did not know of this other meaning of decadence you mentioned, but boy does it ever apply. corrupt brazilian polititians living lavishly off stolen public money which could be going to museums, among other things.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago

That's a version of decadence, and I got what you meant originally, but most speakers in the north (well, United States, Wales, and Toronto, Ontario as those are who I talk to most) think more of the excessive indulgence stemming from moral decline.

"Oh that chocolate was so decadent" meaning "I feel like I slipped into gluttony and sin eating it it was so good".

It's kind of used as a mix between the two definitions depending on the context. It's so interesting how language changes from place to place.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Oh well if that's where the money's going, I agree.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the Israelis hunt them all down?

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

No, if they did america would look very different

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Weird how something looted by Nazis would end up in Argentina.

What? It's not weird? Oh. Oooh.

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

I'm shocked. Who would have thought?!

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Huh, how did that get there? Oh well, will probably never know.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

That royal must be pissed the chiaroscuro didn't hide her inbreeding...

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Weird how she kinda looks like King Charles...