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.
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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
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.
Fantastic moats on the tax payer. Is this a family guy episode?
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.
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.
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.
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What's sad is, they already essentially do this with us.
The Epstein class literally do
Just to elaborate for the folks I've run into who doubt and downplay the worst of it - even if you remove the more lurid reports, the simple fact of "recruitment" for such a hideous enterprise, what accomplishing that requires - that is hunting humans for sport.
Extending globally to identify and traffick vulnerable young people, targets meeting the right criteria to make it all "work".
No metaphors are needed, nor any reliance on anything remotely controversial in the files. Hunting humans for sport is exactly, dead on correct.
Castles often weren't conquered by forcefully breaking through the walls but rather by keeping them under the siege until their inhabitants either surrender or die from hunger.
They are very small, and we have a LOT of raw sewage, and some very powerful pumps.
Won't take long.
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Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.
Ah yes, that worked during previous revolts
There is a very thin line between “Safe inside your bunker” and “Trapped inside your bunker”. The people on the outside dictate how that plays out.
The smart built, expensive ones have 2-3 Exits. Bulldozer mostly solves this problem
I was thinking it'd be a real shame if someone waited for them to go inside and then welded the gates closed.
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But can they really trust their guards? What guard wouldn't want to have the nickname the kingslayer?
That’s why they’ll fit their guards with death collars to prevent them from getting ideas.
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This is nothing new to the Mega Rich and absolutely an ad read from WSJ to the Middle Rich.
This plays out on a less extreme level too, when an area attracts wealth the more wealthy residents will silo themselves behind security gates and kill any sense of community that the area previously had.
Luigi Gon' Give It To Ya
Society failed when it allowed people to start accruing this kind of wealth
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Stay scared, shitheads.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." -General George Patton
Do they not realize the ones installing their security devices are also the same people they are trying to protect against?
"We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep."
Air supply. You can find the intake with those microphone cameras or old school smoke.
The Hamptons are a low lying area. You never want to be defending a low lying area.
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They can only store so much food in there.
The ultra rich have always done this, we just used to call them "castles".
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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?
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What kind of life is that though. So now you're stuck in a fancy prison and can't trust anyone around you?
Drones with explosives go vrrrr.
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