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[–] 66 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I tried rewatching these, to re-live some happy part of my childhood. Turns out Scrooge McDuck is actually a giant asshole.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 days ago

    In 2026, there would have been an episode where he partners with the techbros (which are related to the Beagle Bros some how) to get rich off of "selling intelligence", Only to be stopped by his nephews uncovering a deep conspiracy to take over the world at the last minute(a partnership with Magika and Glomgold, perhaps) , and Scrooge pivoting to making a tidy profit from selling all the DRAM and renting data center space he's suddenly come into possession of. It would have been a 2-episode season-ending cliffhanger.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    “Eat the rich” absolutely includes Scrooge.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Definitely. Although hed be the only one id be a little sad about, duck tales propaganda got me as a child sorry to say. But the hoarding cannot be excused.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    So, I get where you're coming from, but Scrooge McDuck seems to have two key differences from your average flesh-and-blood billionaire, one, his fortune seemed to be in actual, tangible, assets (mostly gold coins and other currency), rather than imaginary share valuations, and two, he was unwilling to spend a cent of it if it could be avoided, including on things like buying politicians. The net result was that the gold and currency was removed from circulation, which would increase the value, and thus buying power, of what was left, without exerting any influence itself.

    Another key difference is that he liked to dive face first into his fortune, and if other billionaires did that, the problem would largely solve itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    He did regularly exploit everything for maximum profit though, so really he'd still be a problem, even though he's not power hungry. And to protect his wealth he'd totally meddle in politics too (there's probably more than one comic where that happens).

    Well, he is at least often shown to have some amount of conscience left. Which is probably more than any real-life billionaire, at least the ones you've heard the names of.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Scrooge would have sold Epstein out for a dull nickel.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, you don't get to Scrooge McDuck levels of money by being friendly. He absolutely would've sold out Epstein then made his own island, because the money bin doesn't fill itself.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 days ago

    Sure, until you realize that Goofrey has videos of Scrooge alone and undressing in front of multiple gosslings... There's a reason Goofrey was able to life the life he had openly and without getting slapped around by the system.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Only in America can super rich characters like Scrooge, Richie Rich, Batman be the protagonists we are supposed to cheer for

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  • [–] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Tony Stark, too.

    Though even with that propaganda, it doesn't seem to be aging well.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    IMHO it's the deliberate Musk parallels

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago

    Or that he was in one of them, written as if he had anything useful to contribute rather than reflecting the truth of how his companies have people whose job it is to manage him when he shows up so that he doesn't fuck things up with his orders. But yeah, Tony Stark himself is basically billionaire competence and morality propaganda. Entertaining propaganda but a lot of propaganda is these days.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    You are missing Epstein's best friend Donald

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  • [–] 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    The disrespect to a war hero is untenable.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    What war hero? Donald "bone spurs" TrUmP

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  • [–] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago

    Not the Nazis, the Japanese. He served on the Pacific front. No wonder he's pissed all the time.

    Also, it's interesting he served in the Army. I thought we would've been in the Navy, for obvious reasons.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    This is also funny cuz “Goof” is a Canadian regional prison slang for “Child Molester.”

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    LPOTL fan detected. GET THE NET!

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If Gizmoduck ends up being caught up in this

    later

    oh god damn it!

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  • [–] 21 points 6 days ago

    Scrooge McDuck had a lot of issues, but come on

    Just because someone refuses to wear pants doesn't make them a pedophile. Live and let live.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    Maybe that's because I mostly read the Italian Disney comicbooks (they had the same style as this image) but I always thought Scrooge was aupposed to be a greedy, cruel prick who usually gets his commeupins at the end?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    They softened that image in the US by having him adopt his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie in a cartoon.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    We'll, he's rich sure. But would he have paid even a red cent to visit an island resort?

    He was more of the "stay at home, swim in pile of gold" rich.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Jeffrey Epstein's talent was to offer the things that powerful people wanted. Some of them wanted a secluded island where they could molest children. Others wanted book clubs with Nobel prize winners or famous writers.

    Epstein would have tried to figure out something that appealed to Scrooge's sensibilities, like maybe an audience with a dumb charismatic TV personality who's running for president and that owes him a favor or two.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Look, Epstein was a businessman. Im sure Scrooge was just there to invest in his massage business

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago

    Unrealistic because the duck is actually hot. Maxwell is disgusting inside and out

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    That Ghislaine Quaxwell caricature should have saggier tits & a potbelly.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    Artist or slop? I like the joke but I have a bad feeling about the pixels

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