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Seth Cotlar (sethcotlar@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 09:34:52 JST Seth Cotlar

So it turns out Clarence Thomas’s benefactor has a big collection of Nazi memorabilia (including a signed copy of Mein Kampf) to remind him of how bad fascism is, because who doesn’t need to be reminded of that now and again? https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/
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  Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts
  
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  Harlan Crow also has a garden full of dictator statues.
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  Englestad had a 3000 sq. ft. "War room" stuffed with Nazi memorabilia, had a special cake made with a swastika on it for the Hitler's Birthday celebrations, and reportedly insisted that a Jewish employee be brought in to cut the cake. Just "tongue-in-cheek" though.
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  1. Ten years earlier, he had also been enmeshed in a high-profile situation in Las Vegas. Engelstad owned the third largest antique car collection in the world, including cars owned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and three infamous Nazis, Adolph Hitler, Herman Goring and Heinrich Himmler. His interest in these cars spilled over into an extensive collection of Axis and Nazi memorabilia housed in the Imperial's "war room." It included swastika banners, uniforms, propaganda posters, weapons, and a portrait of Hitler reading, "To Ralphie from Adolph." In 1986 and 1988, Engelstad held parties in the war room on Hitler's birthday, and the resulting scandal ended with the state of Nevada demanding 1.5 million dollars for harming the state's reputation. Engelstad insisted the parties were tongue-in-cheek, but he paid the fine so that he could retain his gaming license
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  Back to Crow and Thomas in 2023, though, take 5 seconds to imagine how Fox would cover the story if Justice Sotomayor attended an event at a house that displayed sickle and hammer linen along with a large collection of Soviet memorabilia. You’d have to blow up tanker trucks of LGBTQ-themed Bud Light to quench that rage.
  
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  What is it with these American plutocrats and their fascination with spending millions to buy authentic Nazi stuff? Ralph Englestad, the owner of a Las Vegas Casino who was worth about $400 million, paid $12 million to buy Hitler's limousine and was caught holding parties to celebrate Hitler's birthday and wearing a Nazi uniform. Hattiesburg American, 26 March 1999.
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  1. NAACP criticized for convention site BILOXI (AP) - Jewish and black honoring Hitler at his Las Vegas leaders are upset with NAACP casino. The commission also officials for holding the group's placed restrictions, including a regional convention at the Imperi-ban on additional Hitler parties, al Palace, whose owner has had on his casino license in the state. Parties in the past honoring Adolf One party featured a picture of Engelstad in a Nazi uniform. Julian Bond, chairman of the Engelstad apologized and said he National Association for the was not a Nazi sympathizer. Advancement of Colored People, NAACP officials on the Missis- said he did not know about Imper-sippi Gulf Coast said Imperial ial Palace owner Ralph Palace has not signed a reciprocal Englestad's ties to Hitler until initiative pledging to do business after the convention had been with minority businesses, as have planned. other casinos, but was selected Bond, who spoke at the conven-anyway. tion last weekend, said the group will not return to the casino for "The Imperial Palace had the amount of space we needed. When future events. we found out about the other stuff, "I was surprised when I read it was too late to cancel," said where the convention was being Gwen Holmes, NAACP state con- held,' said Milton Grishman, for-ference chairman. "What this does mer district president of B'nai is send out mixed signals. We said B'rith, a national Jewish advocacy one thing, and did another.' organization. "The
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  More on Englestad from the Biloxi (MS) Sun Herald, 30 September 2001. The UND hockey stadium was named after him. And of course he was a staunch opponent of changing the racist name for the university's sports teams.
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