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    That’s what happens when you let people accumulate too much capital.

    Capital = power

    Should be a 100% wealth tax rate beyond a few hundred million. No individual should have billions of dollars in unelected, unaccountable power. And no one earns those kind of sums either.

    Not like the truth matters though. Oligarchs like Musk own this fucking place and both parties have spent half a century dismantling any possible means of reigning in their power over our government, our media, and us.

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          You joke, but have you heard about yacht support vessels. Essentially a second yacht for the personell to live and sleep on, and stow all the toys like jetskis so you have room for a bowling alley and other essentials on the parent yacht. It is also faster than the yacht in question, so they can clean up if the yacht leaves and arrive ahead of the parent on the new location to setup already.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_support_vessel

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              “Well, that’s exactly the kind of whining I would expect of a peasant. You should have chosen your parents better.”

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              Yeah we live in a world that has people dying of hunger while at the same time CEO’s have yacht support vessels and private planes for LA to Seattle commutes.

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    I’m SUPER GLAD my Taxdollars go to pay for the Yacht of a Man calling for the ASSASSINATION of the UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT INSTEAD of going to Feed Starving American Children!

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    “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

    How is someone this stupid that rich?

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      You say it has always been class warfare?

      With government a conquerable island of agency amidst the sea of struggle?

      Do tell, player.

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        I take it you skipped social economic studies. Perhaps you’re a tad confused as it may have been commonly known as racism up until recently when it was admitted favourable to white people holding a certain class.

        And yes, it has been a warfare in a very aggressive way.

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    Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.

    I found that out in my teens, the dude is 53 years old. And he owns a giant social media platform. That excuse sounds silly to me.

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    “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on 𝕏,” he wrote, adding, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

    He didn’t say it to a group of people and get a laugh. He just said it on his shitty website.

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    Dude is an intelligence asset which is why he carries on swimming despite his various tomfooleries.

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    Honestly, id do just about anything to see him fight Putin, or the zuck. Id do even more to make it a hardcore match, and even more if it was a thunder dome match with Putin and zuck vs Elon and Trump.

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    As if running the largest scam in us history wasn’t convincing enough, we need more proof? Lock the fucker up! People have gone to jail for MUCH less than what this fucking monster did! Same with Trump! None should be above the law!

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      This is what happens when the justice system is designed to keep poor people subservient and not to uphold the law.

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    Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.

    But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.

    Outside of just saying “America” or “Capitalism” How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?