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You know what’s cheaper than building fucking castles and living in fucking fear all the fucking time?
Paying your taxes to fund a proper welfare state. Simple as.
But they earned that money. /s
You need to be more alarmed about this.
Conservatives (and the rich tend to side with conservatives) have no imagination and project their own intentions on others.
I cannot possibly stress this enough:
IF THEY THINK WE’RE GOING TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK THEM, IT’S SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING TO ATTACK US THEMSELVES.
They have THOROUGHLY demonstrated that they can’t imagine anyone wanting to do anything but that which they themselves want to do, are preparing to do, or are ALREADY DOING.
Mark my words:
The rich are preparing to exterminate us all.
No, not exterminate, just control with even further violence. The rich are stupid and useless, but they do know that they need bodies to do their work for them, even if they’ll never admit it.
This is, honestly, much worse because complacent people won’t fight back nearly as hard.
They don’t care about extermination. Lol. How do you exploit the dead?
They want you alive. And supple to their desires.
This is why they are absolutely shitting themselves over plummeting birth rates.
They aren’t even that smart. They’re just self-obsessed, greedy, pedophiles.
So it’s not that they’re going to exterminate you as and kill you. They are going to exterminate your way of life to supplement their own
Well the Epstein files had something like ‘get rid of the poors’, right?
Also rich assholes fantasize about shooting dead random poors for fun all the time.
Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.
And what is so funny is that despite all the eat the rich talk from lefties like us it is usually a right winger that will be the one pulling the trigger on those people.
Impenetrable
Lol. Keep thinking that.
We played this game back in the 70s, during White Flight. I lived through it.
White professionals got very paranoid about living in THE CITY. Built giant gated communities just at the edge of town. Stuffed their neighborhoods with cops and private guards and security cameras and retractable road spikes and giant fuck-off electric gates and stone walls. Then nothing happened for a few years, and people inside realized this shit was boring af and obnoxiously expensive.
So they brought in a bunch of developers to add parks and malls and theaters and clubs. And then these places needed labor, so they built a bunch of low-rent housing just outside the spots just outside THE CITY. And these places filed up with the same working class folks who lived in THE CITY. But now the white professionals weren’t living in the exurbs anymore, they were living in THE CITY again. So they all panicked and sold out and fled to the new edge of town.
And we’ve been repeating this pattern for 50 years, such that now it’s a two fucking hour drive to get from Katy or Clear Lake or The Woodlands into downtown Houston where all the fucking professional jobs are. But, of course, this is Texas so nobody is allowed to build commuter rail. Instead we have several hundred miles of twelve lane highways gobbling up a bunch of historically prime real estate. And we spend $1.1B/year on cops who mostly do dick-all jerking themselves off in their squad cars earning 2.5x overtime pay on six figure salaries.
Everyone under 30 wants to GTFO of these horrible boring overpriced suburbs. While everyone over 60 is still too terrified to walk out their front doors when they live 30 miles outside of town, because the news said someone in a suburb on the opposite side of the city was center stage on the nightly news for getting their purse snatched.
But hey, don’t worry, because Palantir Presents THE PANOPTICON is coming soon. And they’ll definitely finally permanently for real this time solve the problem of crime forever. Just give them access to your retirement account so you can pay for it.
The ultra rich have always done this, we just used to call them “castles”.
I wonder if someday there will be guided tours of Jeff Bezos’ mansion. A little museum too, all about his reign of terror.
Drones with explosives go vrrrr.
How will drones ever cross the moat?
How will vigilantes ever be able to catch these oligarchs at their office if they have moats around their house.
Honestly, wouldnt it be cheaper to just not be evil?
I got a trebuchet for sale.
I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.
The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust
I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/0 4/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
Installing special combination locks to keep the food secure and the. Locking yourself in a bunker with those people sounds like an excellent way to spend the last ten minutes of your life having your fingernails slowly pulled off.
Both of those sound more expensive than drones.
True but I think this guy means that we commoners could cross their strongholds with drones. And I meant that the wealthy could defend themselves against our paltry drones with surface-to-air missiles & their own personal armies.
They surely could.
And we could fling stuff over the walls to make sure they don’t get a minute of quiet or more than a week with un-scorched grass.
What kind of life is that though. So now you’re stuck in a fancy prison and can’t trust anyone around you?
They can only store so much food in there.
So they’re working really hard to make impossible to enter their houses. How hard would it be to modify them to make it impossible to leave?
Pretty sure that getting close enough without being murdered by hired goons would be the hardest part.
After solving that, anyone creative and/or competent enough should have no problem sealing the would be pharaohs in their pyramids of hubris 🤷
You can cause lot of fatigue in those goons by just having someone randomly shoot at them and run away once or twice a night.
So, ‘Under the dome’ but with the very rich instead of a random city, then.
Guess who can swim!eventually those with money and power could have AI controlled, shoot on site, robot and drone security systems wherever they want. all legalised by the corrupt government.
To partially quote a certain movie which holds startlingly true right now:
No. What they have are bullets and the hope that when those guns are empty we no longer will be standing…
This is nothing new to the Mega Rich and absolutely an ad read from WSJ to the Middle Rich.
