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[–] 123 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 68 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but did Mary Antoin-ette have a stroke on live television after eating cake in a newly constructed ballroom!!?!?

    You know nothing about good storytelling.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    Clears throat

    We gather here today on the 250th anniversary of "Cakeday"

    ..As some of you may have read in the history pads, "cake day" was a day on which signaled the end of "The Trumpish Cuckholding of The Empty Minds & Weak Voiced".

    It was the day a piece of human shit choked on cake/ a day of remorse for Karen & Kid Rock.

    The following days were brutal. Lots of slack-jawed pound folks riding on lawnmowers with commemorative plates & cups & flags. xxxl T-shirts were sold in record numbers. The water smelled like cholesterol.

    Somehow, the brass lamp remained.

    My brass lamp.

    A lamp full of stories.

    For more, please throw coin on ground.

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  • [–] 98 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    What really gets me in this picture is that they’re not looking at each other and smiling. They’re looking at each other and hating that “his is bigger than mine”. They can’t even enjoy what they have.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    They can’t even enjoy what they have.

    It's worse than that. Many do enjoy what they have. They are extremely happy and simply don't care.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not a single one of them doesn't strive and debase themselves every single day to get more than what they already have, to add billions to their pile of billions. I don't think that is evidence of happiness.

    I mean when they attend one of their Epstein parties they are probably happy in the moment of it, but they do seem to be fundamentally unsatisfied creatures overall.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Not a single one of them doesn't strive and debase themselves every single day to get more than what they already have,

    People like to think that because it makes them feel better about not being rich. But many billionaires are very happy.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Bold of you to assume that any of "them" are actually "there" to see each other. The people that own these are "too busy" to sail there and then out. These ships are manned by staff who bring them here and then wait for the .01% to fly in, spend a few hours and then fly out.

    Even better, is that I am willing to bet that more than a few are there to hold their positions, so they don't get pushed back next year, but won't be there this year at all. In fact I guarantee that at least a few are there to piss off someone else who is farther away, but can't get closer because the other ship is there.

    I mean let's be serious, do you really think that the type of person who spends this kind of money on something is going to sleep somewhere that someone in a speed boat could get close enough to cause noise or even a minor bobbing of the ship any time of day, much less in the middle of the night?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    If you’re referring to the direction each boat is facing, this is just because they are anchored and there is wind and current in the water. If you watch a time lapse of boats parked in a bay, you will see they all eerily move synchronously over time.

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  • [–] 89 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    It really is. It really, really is..

    See Moe (Maureen) Tcacik’s latest piece in The Nation, Larry Summers, We Knew Ye Too Well

    Or alternatively listen to the Jeffrey Epstein, the Russian Mob, & the Hidden Assets of the Maxwells (w/ Moe Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report episode of The Chris Hedges podcast

    Edit: you can also watch the above podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JNkIusoUAo

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It's not even, "let them eat cake," it's "I have my delicious cake, those peasants can starve."

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's not even that. It's "I have so much cake that I can literally never eat it all, even if I live ten thousand years. I need more and those peasants are keeping me from it"

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's a lot of pedophiles...

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    If only we knew, it would unironically be a good way to rid the world of it's biggest problems, within minutes.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    One "Klasse 212" submarine would solve a lot of problems.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    according to the Wikipedia page, only 13 problems could be solved.

    A total of 13[35] heavyweight torpedoes of type DM2A4 Seehecht can be carried.

    Unfortunately I see a lot more boats than that.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    So kind of them to put targets up for canon practice

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    So so much cocaine in one photo.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    "A picture is worth a thousand words" situation for our current situation

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    As a sailor, it bugs me when I hear this sentiment. Orcas can't do anything to mega-yachts. The billiionaires are completely unaffected. The boats that they attack and damage are the sailboats in the 35 to 50-foot range, that is, the kind of boats that I might be able to buy, if I were motivated enough. (Like, $200,000, rather than $250,000,000.)

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  • [+] -11 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    If you have 200k to spend on a boat that isn't your livelihood, that's nice, but I need you to stand up against this wall for a moment

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    How about you save your bullets for the actual, child eating billionaires instead of some guy who is just kinda well off, huh?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    On a global scale, anyone dropping 200k on a pleasure boat, lets assume they have a net wealth of at least 1 million (insane to spend 1/5th of your wealth on a toy but anyway...), is in the top 0.1%. It's not "kind of well off".

    Even possessing 200k dollars puts you in the top 5%.

    People don't understand numbers and that's ok. You let one lunatic have a trillion and now you're excusing the 0.1% as "kind of well off".

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    A lot people can earn a million dollars by scrimping and saving for years. This includes many everyday working people who happen to make a decent salary. A billionaire only gets there by exploitation and taking advantage of others, you can't save up a billion dollars by having a good job and being thrifty. If somebody works a job for 30 years, saves, and then wants to buy a boat to retire on then good for him. They are not the enemy.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Someone who owns $1 million is maybe like 5 years away from complete bankruptcy if they drop $200k to purchase a boat.

    There is a reason people say that boats are "a hole in the water to throw your money into". They cost a literal fortune to maintain.

    Nobody with "just" $1 million can afford to buy and maintain a $200,000 boat.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    You can if the boat is also your home. That's what I meant when I said I could buy one if I were really motivated.

    But yeah, you're right, anybody with $1 million who buys a $200,000 boat as a toy is bad with money.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    I've just explained to you that in the unrealistic circumstances that someone with 1,000,000 buys a boat for 200,000, that puts them in the top 0.1% of global wealth. Again, what part of that says "everyday worker" to you?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    As my dad who grew up sailing says, "a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into."

    There's nothing you can do to them that's worse than they're already doing to themselves by owning a boat.

    Besides, they're talking about the kind of boat that you'd see in every harbor all over the world, not some monument to greed:

    It's no 15 foot Boston Whaler, but there's hundreds of boats that size in every harbor and marina you can think of.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You do know that the working poor and a neurosurgeon are much, much closer in terms of money than a neurosurgeon and a billionaire, right? The neurosurgeon that I know is fabulously well-off, but his net worth is a rounding error compared to a the 0.01%.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Define "fabulously well off" and explain why they deserve that and someone who works twice as many hours to feed twice as many people does not?

    You need "just" 30 million dollars to be in the global 0.01% BTW. Not a rounding error. Again, you've let the fact America has created a few actual supervillains get in the way of recognising where actual inequality begins.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Thirty million is a rounding error for a billionaire. Anyway, good luck effecting change by making an enemy of everybody.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    🏴‍☠️

    I'm gonna leave it at a flag and no "/s"

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    In today’s world, if the billionaires said “let them have canoes”, we’d probably thank them for the canoes

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    "Okay, but hear me out! What about..."

    Nope. No.

    No.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    really need to bring back underwayer nuclear testing

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    So are they looking for the 1 piece or putting everything in one place

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    "Formula 1" and the formula is H2O

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    One big explosion would solve so many problems.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Pedophile gathering

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I don't understand. You're a boat in real life?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Orca's would do little against yachts of this size I'm afraid. Torpedoes on the other hand...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    searches indeed for Yacht craftsman

    Seems like a stable industry.

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    ✊🏼🇦🇱

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Epstein Class Reunion

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    "Marie Antoinette lost her head for less" they were the ones who chopped her head.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Jacobin magazine isn't the same as the French revolution Jacobins.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    What is Jacobin magazine, I'm talking about the same bourgouisie that owns our world nowadays also took over the revolts of the poor and spearheaded the French Revolution because they had no rights compared to nobles that were poorer than them. That's why after all of that head chopping and revolving governments, they voluntarily and happily chose an emperor to rule over themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    People who own all the property & land: spend their time at sea instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    But she didn't have mass media to misinform and manipulate the behavior of the masses.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    How many of those are owned by Gabe Newell?

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