• FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today
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    I’m going with Nikola Tesla. Just imagine having THAT tasteless shit gibbon slap your name on a product and making gobs of cash off it. The fact Tesla hasn’t awakened from the dead to haunt his ass proves there’s no spirit world. If ANYONE could/would do it, it would have been Nikola Tesla.

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    -Karl Marx: his ideology, that intended to fight oppression, was only used to build dictatorships.

    -Martin Luther King: institutionalized racism is still alive and well.

    -Marsha P. Johnson: the current situation of american queer -and especially trans- people in America is self explanatory.

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    Since others have been poking fun but not helping…

    “Who’s” = “Who is”. So the post title asks “Who is rolling grave […]”.

    Instead, it should be “whose”, which is the possessive form of “who”. It’s equivalent to “yours” or “his”.

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      So what you’re saying is that grammarians, with their total collective rollage, would be the correct answer.

      Perhaps, in order to simplify, William Bullokar would be a good answer?

      I’m sure I made mistakes here because one can’t discuss grammar without completely fucking it up.

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    Socrates.

    This man upheld his right to think his own thoughts and to go where the evidence led him. He stood trial and was sentenced to death.

    Now, the most powerful people do not think, have zero principles, disregard evidence, and would gladly have others die to secure their power.

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      That would be Edward Jenner. He saved more lives than anyone else in history, and that number increases by the day. If it were up to me, his birthday would be an international holiday and kids would learn his name in elementary school.

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    I was going to say George Washington with the direction the US is going he’d be pissed

    But someone else said Jesus Christ, so yeah I think I’ll go with Jesus

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    Aaron Swartz.

    Guy was opposed to any and all censorship and was politically left-leaning.

    Almost immediately after his death, such people started to die out, opposition to censorship has been a right-wing cause for about the last decade.

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      BULLSHIT. Opposition to censorship continues to be strong on the left. I was there for “Stasi 2.0”, “Schäublone” and “Zensursula”. And nobody could EVER justifiably accuse Wolfgang Schäuble or Urula von der Leyen of leftism.

      It’s continually the right that screeches “cEnSoRsHiP!!1!” when they get deplatformed by someone who has the right to deny them service, but it’s also the right that continually tries to implement state censorship.

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        How would you fight the far right trying to silence you if there is no censorship of their hatred?

        They don’t listen to facts. Shouldn’t you draw a line somewhere and say, regardless of what you scream, this is not acceptable?

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    My grandfather for sure. No way he would be able to understand the current cultural climate. He basically died from getting worked up about stuff the entire time in the late 90s. I’m 100% sure he never stopped rolling around.

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    John Brown has been writhing and spinning (and mouldering) in his grave for a very long time. Vengeful Wraith of John Brown for President!

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      Considering how badly Eisner ran the company in the 2000s to whoever is running it now. How the company treated his brother and so on. How Disney don’t really value hand-drawn animation to the point of firing all of them.

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      Idk he kind of power tripped a lot, especially near the end. Might be another Musk.

      Or did you mean because a Jewish man is CEO, now?

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    George Washington. He would be rolling for so many different things. Political parties existing, America becoming the new british empire basically, black people having rights, the fact he wasnt alive to get modern dental care, non-landowners being able to vote, women being able to vote, etc

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    Probably William Thomson after his body started breaking the laws of thermodynamics like that.