• opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Look at this fucking picture and tell me the bourgeoisie aren’t just the aristocracy

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Ehm, what's the difference?

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Billionaires pretend they didn't inherit their status.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Ah, I thought aristocrat just mean "rich people wielding the real power"

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            "the descendants of rich people wielding power" is more accurate. As production centralizes, monopolies and trusts become important for quelling overproduction and that creates money aristocracy.

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This was solidified for me when I learned that a Firestone married into the Ford family (Firestone being a giant tire manufacturer, and Ford a giant auto manufacturer).

      I don’t know if it was an old school “consolidating feudal domains” thing or if rich people only congregate amongst themselves and therefore wouldn’t even know where to find a poor to marry, but I still think it’s absolutely hilarious and revealing

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      It must be nice to have an army of buttlickers praising you while you text your reptilians brethren asking where's the next Epstein island

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Just preface by saying it sucks that the Q psychos made a dumb bill gates conspiracy, because everyone knows he's been a massive scourge since the 80's and 90's

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      What's the fucking joy in being that evil. Like, "you won motherfucker, go lounge on Epstein island forever and leave us alone for fuck sakes".

  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I've noticed lately just how little media there is out there refuting the idea that Bill Gates is some wonderful, altruistic, charitable, philanthropist hero. Like for example, if you go on youtube and you type in the name Bill Gates next to any negative descriptors, basically the only videos that'll show up are interviews with him and short videos by news channels about all the great work he is doing. The only negative thing I've gotten to come up on the first page was one Thought Slime video refuting the idea Bill Gates is a good billionaire. Everything else is just fluff about what a great man Bill Gates is. The thick layer of propaganda surrounding just this one guy absolutely boggles the mind.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      He's also shielded by all the videos made by lunatics saying he's the antichrist for vaxxines and shit.

      To get an explanation of why he's a fucking shitbag you gotta read some boomer blog explaining how he spinelessly climbed the tech revolution ladder by lobbying and fucking over cool smart people who did the job of building today's technology. And the worst part, he lost a lot of legal battles in the way, had he the upper hand in everything, I probably wouldn't have internet or something fucked like that.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It's kind of a small miracle that the internet wasn't developed as an entirely patented, for-profit enterprise.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Back in the day people hated him. He used to be the evil tech billionaire.

  • threshold [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    They gonna decarbonise their companies? No, they'll think of Futurama's giant space mirror before doing anything close to that.

    • cosecantphi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Buddy I wish they'd build a giant space mirror. What's really gonna happen is they'll funnel public money into their own companies to build more electric cars or mine more lithium for solar panels. Whatever "solution" they come up with for climate change will undoubtedly be something extremely profitable for them

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Too bad their "solutions" are lifted from Zecharia Sitchin's Annunaki bullshit, which is definitely the wrong alien theorist :posadas:

  • PurrLure [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Heroism is when you launder money into charities you run, and the more you launder money the more heroic it is. :lord-bezos-amused:

  • Janked [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    These stupid evil mother fuckers have enough money to instantly end world hunger, poverty, homelessness, etc etc etc and every second they choose not to is causing more people to die of preventable causes and that's just the "passive" harm they cause, not even including all of the actively harmful and terrible shit they did/do to get that money.

    The fact that they get praised for it makes my blood boil. Every single person on earth should want their heads on pikes.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      No. We have vengeance to do.