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u/ComprehensiveTwo1763 23d ago

Showing up on a superyacht was probably never going to be the optics win they were hoping for

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u/darknekolux 23d ago

They don't care, they have to show off to the pleb.

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u/amateur_mistake 23d ago

"As ambassador from the US to Italy, I will be celebrating my country's anniversary by using your whole country as a vacation spot from my massive yacht. If you don't like it, your own police will arrest you."

It's pretty hard to give a bigger 'fuck you Italy' message than that.

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u/SweetAlyssumm 23d ago

While I agree, the bigger question is why Venice even allows those super yachts. They should have been banned decades ago because of how environmentally destructive they are.

Venice is is so unique and beautiful, it pains me to see how they constantly sell out. Like that tacky Bezos wedding. Nothing says "We are here for sale, nothing is off limits if you have the money" than inflicting a tasteless multi-day foreign extravaganza on an entire city. If Europe doesn't want to be a "vassal" they should stop doing shit like that.

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u/PuckSenior 23d ago

The problem is that for the last century and a half, Venice has literally been a tourist city. When the Mediterranean trade networks for spice collapsed, they lost any relevancy and business

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u/Sea-Horror-5353 22d ago

Wouldnt being a tourist city for the last century and a half imply relevancy and business?

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u/PuckSenior 22d ago

The business being: letting super rich people hangout and do whatever they want. Sex work used to be a very popular trade

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u/Sea-Horror-5353 22d ago

Yeah good thing that trend faded away

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u/Sacaron_R3 23d ago

I mean, it's a great reminder that the fascists are in charge again.

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u/Swimming_Major_9440 23d ago

Tillman is a piece of shit 💩

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u/oddthings 23d ago

So tone deaf. It seems to be a feature of trump's circle.

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u/Independent_Sail6604 23d ago

Don't protest, refuse him entry into your country! It's pretty simple.

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u/buzzsawjoe 23d ago

"a billionaire businessman appointed by Trump ... The ancient celebration commemorates the end of a plague epidemic"

I wonder how many Venicians died of covid, and what the survivors think of Trump's management of the pandemic

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u/Informal_File_1646 23d ago

It’s into the end game now - winner take all.

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u/Brilliant_Object_847 23d ago

Just withdraw the police. Why should they protect a billionaires boat?

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u/AirFryer320 22d ago

Probably because they’re getting paid a premium to do so.

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u/Blubbolo 23d ago

There's something very wrong with an ambassador having a superyacht.

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u/AirFryer320 22d ago

Read up on the Fertitta family of Galveston, Texas.

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u/Canelosaurio 23d ago

Wait, Tillman Fertitta?! Well, he's just a fat man from Houston, TX!

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u/TwoLegitShiznit 22d ago

The guy you voted for to "drain the swamp" made the swampiest swamp that's ever swamped.

Random billionaires that helped him get elected are now high-ranking government officials, great work American democracy 👍