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[Image description: a dining room with teal blue walls, with a pink neon sign saying "let them eat cake" written in cursive.]

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[-] wild@lemmy.world 141 points 10 months ago

For those who don't know, the phrase "let them eat cake" is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France in the late 18th century. However, there's no concrete evidence she actually said this. The phrase is used to portray her as out of touch with the suffering of the French people during a time of widespread poverty and famine.

Having the phrase "let them eat cake" in a super luxurious house is incredibly insensitive because it symbolizes a callous disregard for the struggles of those less fortunate. It's a reminder of the kind of detachment and insensitivity that can perpetuate social inequalities and exacerbate class divides, which is particularly tone-deaf in a setting of opulence.

[-] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna say they probably just think it sounds cool and have no idea what it actually means

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago

Nah they definitely know and are using it to flaunt their wealth over us poors

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

One of you is right.

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[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Generally when something can be explained due to stupidity or maleficence, stupidity is usually the culprit.

Given that this quote is related an historical myth, I think this stupidity is way more likely.

Stupid, but still insensitive.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

What if the homeowner openly and confidently enjoys the struggles of the less fortunate?

[-] ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

They might be a cake maker

[-] Cjwii@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

They probably use a TON of fondant. Ewwe

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

It's interesting to note that she was widely hated even at the time though not because she was a rich noble, but because she was austrian. So it's possible the phrase is a fabrication that stuck.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

It's not tone deaf. They know exactly what they're doing. That's the tone they want.

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[-] kimpilled@infosec.pub 116 points 10 months ago

Is it still "tone deaf" if they know exactly what they're saying?

[-] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 62 points 10 months ago

Yeah, tone deaf isn’t the right word. Overtly evil and stupid is probably the phrase they were looking for.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I could easily see an out of touch rich person thinking of it only as a thing that goes along with rich people, (and not realize the actual meaning).

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[-] 0ddysseus@infosec.pub 35 points 10 months ago

I mean we already have a solution to this don't we?

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 25 points 10 months ago

My wife is a pastry chef and her dream is to open her own pastry shop and called it "let them eat cake".

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Your wife probably needs to have a charitable angle to her core business plan or people may get mad if it's solely catering to wealthy people. Something like weekly cupcake donations to a local shelter.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

That might make it difficult to get an online presence since the name is a common phrase.

Elon is having the same problem with X because... well it's a letter that's part of the friggin language.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yes, Elon is really struggling to get him or his business mentioned online lol

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't. That's just begging for a guillotine shop to open up next door.

[-] PreachHard@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

People forget that it was the bakers that got it first at the start of the French Revolution.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Your wife must attain her dream!

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

"Up the Bundt" would be a better name.

[-] mashbooq@infosec.pub 25 points 10 months ago

It's like they're trying to get eaten at this point

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

The bourgeoisie know EXACTLY what they are, and what the joke is. They get it. They're laughing at us.

Constantly laughing at us. They know how stupid we are for doing exactly what they want like their little slaughter pigs. Generation after generation, we obey them with a smile on our faces.

So I mean, can you really blame them for laughing at the joke, when we're the ones making it funny for them? :-(

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[-] Seraph@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

I very badly want to know what that pattern is in the pool. The striping is tacky but what's that crest/logo?

[-] MonochromeLadybug@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Looks like it says "The Beverly Estate". I really like the "Cocaine toothache drop" backrest on the pool bench, stay classy 1%!

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Oof that's bad. Also looks like they're about to build something big up that hill and there will be other houses looking down now.

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[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Tacky is an understatement. The striping is superglue.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

It says "The Beverly Estate," in part because it's located at 1326 Beverly Estates Dr. in Beverly Hills.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

if you search for let them eat cake decor, you'll see it has turned into another live laugh love

[-] ShartyWaffles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, unpopular opinion but this is just whimsical (albeit tone deaf) kitchen decor about cake. Not “evil”.

[-] Remmock@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Arbeit macht frei is just whimsical tone deaf commentary on hard work, amirite?

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I once saw a giant "Who Is John Galt" sign in an Urban Outfitters. So... Could be worse?

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

There are John Galt signs in Brandy Melville stores.

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago
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[-] Clent@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Let them eat the rich

[-] incogtino@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

1326 Beverly Estate Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA

[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Omg too soon

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Only three bedrooms? No thanks.

[-] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

If this doesn’t radicalize you, nothing will.

[-] soupspoon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I didn't realize at first that the property manager decorated it all this way to be ready for renting out lol

The over-the-topness of it all makes more and less sense that way- let them eat cake and monopoly man, naked newspaper reader and swimmer ladies, cocaine ad bench cushion by the pool

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