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    Because they think a bunker will help them. Eventually people will get so pissed off that even the oligarchs own guards are a risk to them.

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    It would be so fucking funny if nuclear war, instead of some intercontinental nightmare, was just an american civil war.

    Well, technically it would still be bad news, but just think about irony…

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    Why is a horde of geese raising the usaian flag? Because usaians aren’t doing s***

    In fact, they elected a rapist to president and their reaction to a major pedophile conspiracy being uncovered in their government is to seethe on the interwebs

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        He purchased a shit ton of land there and the locals didn’t like it a few years ago. I’m not up to date on what’s going on now but I did want to share that he had some fuckass picture of himself with a phat ass paddleboarding slathered in sunscreen that was lightly memed although it didn’t catch on, and the theory was that he did it so that when you google Zuckerberg Hawai’i that picture would show up instead of his land grab. Thought that was interesting.

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      The response from overseas is sort of confusing. He’s a dictator. He doesn’t need to be voted for. That’s not how being a dictator works. Dictators always say that they won the vote, but they didn’t. We have an electoral college which was established when black men won their right to vote, so we didn’t elect our presidents in the past, not even under “normal” circumstances before the establishment of this regime. Our political system hasn’t ever worked the way you imagine, at least not to my knowledge. Can you explain more how you imagine elections work? (said in good faith)

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        The ‘response from overseas’ comes from a decade of watching trump politics gain favour in the US. Massive rallies about making America great again, and taking your country back rhetorics, even after all the Epstein stuff came about, the religion of trump flourished in America.

        Sure, you can claim that he’s a dictator now. But only because americans have allowed him to become one. That’s why the overall sentiment from the rest of the world is negative. Americans made this monster, and now it’s the world that has to deal with his bullshit.

        That’s not to say america wasn’t already fucking everyone else over, that’s the American way and has been happening since they discovered stars and put them on fabric. But Trump has exacerbated that issue, and the American people are complicit for supporting the growth of such a monster; it’s fresh to Americans, because now even the American people are on the receiving end. But for the rest of us, this is the same story just worse.

        I’m not saying this applies to you personally btw, I’m just trying to share the honest sentiment around Americans as a whole. There will undoubtedly be exceptions to the rule, but from an overseas perspective, there’s been nowhere near enough.

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          The ‘response from overseas’ comes from a decade of watching trump politics gain favour in the US. Massive rallies about making America great again, and taking your country back rhetorics, even after all the Epstein stuff came about, the religion of trump flourished in America.

          Those are on TV (edit: or on the news). Those rallies aren’t “massive” according to the reports I’ve read, and they do not take place in my part of the country, so I have no idea how big they really are. I’ve read reports of smallish crowds, rather than the large crowds Trump reports. One of us is probably believing propaganda, but I have no idea which one.

          Sure, you can claim that he’s a dictator now. But only because americans have allowed him to become one.

          That isn’t how power works in my country.

          American people are complicit for supporting the growth of such a monster;

          If you have a plan on how we should free ourselves, I’m all ears.

          I’m not saying this applies to you personally btw, I’m just trying to share the honest sentiment around Americans as a whole.

          Do you visit here often? What are you basing this opinion on?

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            Ah so you weren’t interested in the overseas sentiment at all, you’re just looking to excuse yourself from the culpability.

            Atleast we know which category you fit in I guess.

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              …what? No. I’m genuinely asking how you came to this conclusion. It seems like you got here by viewing propaganda and not by talking to Americans in real life. I don’t want to make that assumption about you, and that’s why I’m asking for clarity. I didn’t vote for Trump. My part of the country holds massive rallies against him, and I know they’re massive because I can see them with my eyes.

              How did you come to this conclusion? Was it from reading the news? Watching TV? Talking to people? Do you know a lot of American Trump supporters? I know a few of them, but I wouldn’t say they are the majority, they are mostly very old people who watch Fox News all day and are in mental decline. I don’t know these people in a social context. I do not see the world from the news reflected in my day to day. Support for Trump is, from my perspective, entirely manufactured by the media.

              edit: Even if it wasn’t… we can’t vote him out, and we couldn’t vote him in. We can’t meaningfully vote for the president.

              And if you hate Trump so much, how come that’s my fault and not Trumps? How come you let Trump into your country and let him shake hands with your leaders, but you won’t let me seek asylum?

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                  Like the majority of Americans, I am being targeted by this regime. This regime has promised to exterminate me, my relatives, my friends, and the people who live in my neighborhood. ICE took three of my neighbors a few weeks ago.

                  How that my fault? Why does Trump deserve to go to Europe, but not me?

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              Ah so you weren’t interested in the overseas sentiment at all, you’re just looking to excuse yourself from the culpability.

              DING DING DING

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    hes building his replacement android bodies, incase the current one gets destroyed he can just upload to a new android body.

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    To be honest, if I were a tech billionaire, I’d do the same. Not in fear or anything, but to show off how well it was thought out.

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    Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable that they have kept under wraps due to the inevitable collapse of society once people learn of it. This is why there are no long term plans for anything anymore. Because there won’t be a long term.

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      There never were long term plans. Market economics is an evolutionary system. Business are the organisms with that system (so are nations, and any other organization made of people, really). So long as a business metabolizes human labor into profit, it continues. What looks like planning was really just ~two centuries of exponential growth. There is no driver’s seat, not really. The capitalist that forsakes profit doesn’t stay a capitalist long. The system itself imposes a greater selective pressure than any individual human will. It will outlast last its components… until it doesn’t. Nothing can maintain both exponential growth and equilibrium within it’s environment.

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      Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable caused through their greed and selfishness

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      It’s also not necessarily indicative of anything. $100M is nothing for Zuckerberg, about 0.05% of his estimated net worth.

      For context, excluding billionaires, your average 42 year old American (Zuckerberg’s age) is worth about $135k*. 0.05% of $135k is about $68.

      Given the choice, would you spend $68 to completely cover you just in case the world falls apart? Most people would. I certainly would.

      *That still includes some pretty wealthy people that skew it higher, so don’t feel bad if you’re not even close in net worth. I’m sure not!

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          Definitely the second, the second is 10000x worse.

          If someone is only worth “that little” but society provides free healthcare, childcare, education, price controlled utilities, housing, and food, and income security through some form of universal income, and everything was clean and green because billionaires didn’t exist and the extra gold hoarding blood money went into society and making sure the earth would stay safe for humans, everyone would be much better off.

          A high net worth isn’t needed when all of your basic needs are covered and billionaires aren’t ramming prices of everything up 2-10x

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    Zuck:

    My actions might lead to the most anti social behavior ever conceived including: genocide; cataclysm; and living in a hole in the ground

    My mom:

    “Likes anti-trans propaganda on Facebook”

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    People refusing to work for them would put a quick end to them.

    They need us way more than we need them. They’re the parasites, we’re the hosts.

    If you know someone who works directly under a billionaire’s umbrella, shame them. Make it uncool to work at Meta, or SpaceX, selling Teslas, or Amazon at any level. Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.

    We DO have the power, we need to exercise it together.

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      Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.

      Hang on a sec, some of these jobs come with the opportunity to, uh, do something very cool.

       

       

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      I 90% agree with, but given the state of the economy, lots of people gotta pay the bills and finding another job is difficult if not impossible right now. And that’s exactly by design. Not to mention working inside one of these companies comes with the potential for sabotage. Maybe lets not shame people who don’t get the luxury of choice right now.

      And of course, encourage union participation as well as any form of sabotage that one can perform that won’t end in the death or harm of innocents.

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      Those companies haven’t been “cool” to work at for a while now, but they’re prestigious because they pay so much and people care about money and status.

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    Zuck building a bunker for his ex-military head of security who will murder him instantly.

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      Murder him? Nahh put the explosive collar on his neck with help of the IT guy and make him a bitch boy.

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    Come on. If you had all the money in the world you’d probably build one too, tbh. I know i would. I would build a freaking underground network like extra homes. It would be awesome

    but yeah, zuck probably is doing it for evil reasons.