Pope Leo needs to start handing out excommunications like they're Halloween candy.
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![Post from Patrick Briggs @ pbriggsiam . bsky . social
Yes it was her choice to make. We should be looking at why women let themselves be in abusive relationships. We should look at how some women (not necessarily this one) use this later to seek power, money, or attention. Man [sic] are the primary problem her - absolutely. Full stop.
All the double-spacing after periods was in the original post. I would NEVER.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egtkuay72hkdcfk53vqumo5y/bafkreihqwyithulb3y67mocbyz4cmvfprkqdiy2jvs7yops5hkrsu2gwgy)
![A passage from the Wikipedia entry on the Swarovski company which reads: Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.[24] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler”. The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich.[25]
In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP."[26] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent "grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.[27]
The company exploited its political connections and stewardship of the regional business association to emerge stronger from the Nazi era. During the war it diversified its production and expanded its business lines, adding abrasives, optical devices, telescopes, binoculars and other product lines and growing from 500 to almost 1,200 employees between the Anschluss and March 1944.
"From my party affiliation, I only took advantage of the fact that it was possible for me as a party member to initiate the negotiations necessary for maintaining the company and to bring it to a successful conclusion with the responsible economic agencies of the Reich." Alfred Swarovski told the Innsbruck People's Court after the war.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egtkuay72hkdcfk53vqumo5y/bafkreicq53pv2ocpqjjlmc2y2oosowyavqj6jopvtgl2i3pvwsogzmakji)
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