paranoia

Good idea, maybe you should start by not electing a man who only likes dictators and would like to be one himself.

Dutty bussy

There isn't really any rehabilitation of his current image possible. It's not like he did one or two bad things he could apologise for, it was systematic and continuous. He's revealed himself to be a fascist which is pretty bad to begin with, but also a degenerate which repels even the fascists from liking him.

Yeah but you can't though. Like let's be real, you have 1bn, you're not Elon Musk or Bill Gates level - and even they would not be able to stop an angry Donald Trump

Okay, cool. Probably so do a lot of billionaires, at least from a pure pragmatic POV of them not wanting their skull cracked open. The point is that for a tiny portion of their wealth, they can insure against a lot of more realistic severe problems (unrest, riots, communism arising in the US, war, assassination, widespread famine), in addition to more extreme and less likely problems (doomsday, machine uprising, environmental collapse).

Frankly, were I a billionaire and able to see the choices Trump is making to make the average civilian in America jobless, penniless and hopeless, I would also be making a bunker in the wilderness or distant nation.

I don't think they necessarily "prefer" it. It's more just that they have what is an unimaginable amount of money in comparison to us, why not invest to preserve your long term survival?

They have already dealt with the normal shit the rest of us have to. They have a house, car, enough money for them and their families to never work again, to do whatever hobbies they like with no restriction.

If you are someone with a worth of a billion, this bunker development will cost something like 10m. That's 1% of your wealth. It would be the same as the median American spending $1920 in pure relative terms, but probably would have an effect more like $500 on their real finances (again, every other need has been financially met long, long ago)

Which book do these come from?

200 tons is less than I would have expected honestly.

Hearing people younger than me talk about how their bodies are falling apart is surreal. I do basically the bare minimum in terms of nutrition, exercise a bit daily, and I feel basically the same as I did in my 20s. Maybe better even because I'm not underweight.

It's a trope in detective shows/movies where they reach a dead end, get frustrated and flip the table. When they calm down they look at the pile of now rearranged evidence, and because of this new pattern, realise a new connection to investigate.

I mean the diesel engine department would probably be quite big for a company like Volkswagen. Each engine type has a team of engineers and a manager.