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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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renewiltord ◴[29 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43517794[source]▶
The people opposing these things do themselves a serious disservice by conflating someone who attended the funeral of the top guy of a designated terrorist group with the biologist moving biomaterial between research labs.

Now every time I hear one of these stories I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and hear about how the frog biologist attended Prigozhin’s funeral (purely out of recognition for his work as a chef, of course)

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jimbob45 ◴[29 Mar 25 19:53 UTC] No.43518162[source]▶
Would these people feel the same if he’d attended Hitler’s funeral rather than a Hamas funeral?
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1. tialaramex ◴[29 Mar 25 20:53 UTC] No.43518644[source]▶
"In accordance with Hitler's wishes, their corpses were carried outside to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where they were placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol, and set on fire"

I would describe attending this "funeral" as merely "arriving too late". Hitler was dead, Germany was in ruins.

I'd have more questions about somebody who travelled for the funeral of Levrentiy Beria, because it appears some people (unaware, or deliberately without thinking about what Hitler had ordered done) liked Hitler, I can't find any records of people who liked Beria, they only feared him.