• lost@lemmy.wtf
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      Yeah… and very large chunk of the Objects in the Louvre were stollen…

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        I’m calling fake news. I don’t recall seeing any German pastries in the Louvre when I was there.

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          The Brazilian Nazis. Many of the ones who didn’t end up in Argentina ended up in Brazil with just as many stolen goods. (They say, I haven’t studied Nazi flight patterns)

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            oh I know, I’m brazilian. it just sounded like you were talking about brazilian museums, which are notoriously underfunded and therefore in extreme decadence.

            but yeah, brazilian nazis, just as nazi as all the other nazis, i suppose.

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              I think you mean the museums are in decay or decline. Decadence means "moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury. " Like Nazis living lavishly off the profits of genocide, or Trump having everything in the White House gilded.

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                i meant decadence.

                according to dictionary.com:

                the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay.

                i did not know of this other meaning of decadence you mentioned, but boy does it ever apply. corrupt brazilian polititians living lavishly off stolen public money which could be going to museums, among other things.

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                  That’s a version of decadence, and I got what you meant originally, but most speakers in the north (well, United States, Wales, and Toronto, Ontario as those are who I talk to most) think more of the excessive indulgence stemming from moral decline.

                  “Oh that chocolate was so decadent” meaning “I feel like I slipped into gluttony and sin eating it it was so good”.

                  It’s kind of used as a mix between the two definitions depending on the context. It’s so interesting how language changes from place to place.