“We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!” Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.

“We’re just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city.”

The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.

  • I Cast Fist
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    54 days ago

    No matter how one looks at that assertion, it’s just plain fucking wrong.

    Did slave owners build Venice? No. Rich Romans? Also no. Someone who isn’t a slave owner but worked all his subjects to the bone? Nope as well.

    • @plyth@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      You have it backwards. Do I miss the /s?

      Did slave owners build Venice? No.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_slave_trade

      Rich Romans? Also no.

      This is further supported by documentation on the so-called “apostolic families”, the twelve founding families of Venice who elected the first doge, who in most cases traced their lineage back to Roman families

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Republic_of_Venice

      Bezos doesn’t come from a rich family

      Ted was a Danish American unicyclist born in Chicago to a family of Baptists.

      Ted struggled with alcohol and with his finances. Jacklyn left her husband to live with her parents, filing for divorce in June 1965 when Jeff was 17 months old.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

      Bezos is a rich trader, like the Venetians. Compared to them he doesn’t look that bad.

      Downvoters, these are facts and OP is wrong. You should’t build your convictions on lies. Find valid reasons for the things you want to do.