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That's what happens when you let people accumulate too much capital.
Capital = power
Should be a 100% wealth tax rate beyond a few hundred million. No individual should have billions of dollars in unelected, unaccountable power. And no one earns those kind of sums either.
Not like the truth matters though. Oligarchs like Musk own this fucking place and both parties have spent half a century dismantling any possible means of reigning in their power over our government, our media, and us.
but mah yacht
We've had one yacht sure, but what about second yacht?
You joke, but have you heard about yacht support vessels. Essentially a second yacht for the personell to live and sleep on, and stow all the toys like jetskis so you have room for a bowling alley and other essentials on the parent yacht. It is also faster than the yacht in question, so they can clean up if the yacht leaves and arrive ahead of the parent on the new location to setup already.
That's the most dystopian shit I've heard in a long time.
Yeah we live in a world that has people dying of hunger while at the same time CEO's have yacht support vessels and private planes for LA to Seattle commutes.
i need my floating mansion and empty hotel that my serfs maintain
I'm SUPER GLAD my Taxdollars go to pay for the Yacht of a Man calling for the ASSASSINATION of the UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT INSTEAD of going to Feed Starving American Children!
He mentioned Biden too in that tweet.
Naturalized citizens can be stripped of citizenship for violating their oaths btw.
They keep talking about deporting the criminals but why haven't they deported this criminal 🤔
Money, skin color, religion
You repeated money twice
“Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”
How is someone this stupid that rich?
Was born rich
Same as Trump.
Has to be an odds thing, 100 people born rich, 1 gets lucky and gets way more rich..... By screwing over every working person in America.
silly ashman, he just happened to pull his bootstraps a little harder than we did
Instructions unclear Pulled bootstraps too hard and they broke What do?
EZ, hangout in the house your parents bought for you while you wait for them to send you more seed money
Generational wealth doesn't have to select for intelligence.
Turns out you never needed to be smart to be rich, just connected. And once you can pay people to be smart for you, you just need to be smart enough to keep your mouth shut. Elon is just a tad too stupid, but not stupid enough to blow it all up. So we get to see the curtain pulled back a little bit.
Politicians and billionares have been an enemy to mankind for many years by now
You say it has always been class warfare?
With government a conquerable island of agency amidst the sea of struggle?
Do tell, player.
This is written like a bad Chinese translation and that really speaks volumes
I take it you skipped social economic studies. Perhaps you’re a tad confused as it may have been commonly known as racism up until recently when it was admitted favourable to white people holding a certain class.
And yes, it has been a warfare in a very aggressive way.
Hyper divorced stochastic terrorist. His own kids hate him, listen to them.
Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.
I found that out in my teens, the dude is 53 years old. And he owns a giant social media platform. That excuse sounds silly to me.
He bought the platform just so nobody could tell him no.
“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on 𝕏,” he wrote, adding, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”
He didn't say it to a group of people and get a laugh. He just said it on his shitty website.
because I say something to ~~a group~~ sycophants and they laugh
Dude is an intelligence asset which is why he carries on swimming despite his various tomfooleries.
🌏🔫
It was not a joke at all
Not so much a risk, more of a direct and persistent antagonist.
Honestly, id do just about anything to see him fight Putin, or the zuck. Id do even more to make it a hardcore match, and even more if it was a thunder dome match with Putin and zuck vs Elon and Trump.
As if running the largest scam in us history wasn't convincing enough, we need more proof? Lock the fucker up! People have gone to jail for MUCH less than what this fucking monster did! Same with Trump! None should be above the law!
This is what happens when the justice system is designed to keep poor people subservient and not to uphold the law.
Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.
But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.
Outside of just saying "America" or "Capitalism" How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?
shitocracy, or a skatacracy if you will.
I might...
No shit Sherlock. We've been saying this for decades. Letting the nobles accumulate too much wealth has been a security risk for the state since Hammurabi's time. People think democracy is some kind of a divine fucking shield and it just isn't.