• justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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    Also note that this was a spare VIP jet for Qatar.

    It isnt something they had built for him, its just something they had laying around and gave it to him.

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      There comes a point when a person, organization, or country is so obscenely wealthy that the normal human mind can’t readily grasp just what that kind of wealth means. A normal person hears “bespoke private 747” and thinks “Wow! That’s worth rather a lot!” An obscenely wealthy person thinks “Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve got a couple of those parked somewhere. I bet I could pack one full of listening devices and pass it off as a special gift.”