The billionaires know they’re essentially immune.

Immune from what exactly? Their biology isn’t unique. They live in information bubbles surrounded by sycophants.

Billionaires with their estates and servants (cooks, nannies, security, lawyers, brokers, PR staff, butlers, etc.) represent a huge attack surface and a very soft belly of capitalism.

Billionaires are not like Trump who can lean on the USA’s first-tier state actor security, the US Secret Service (which isn’t even all that great as we have seen for ourselves, only human).

Why are the billionaires building themselves doomsday bunkers? Because they feel scared or because they feel secure?

Very informative, thanks.

The police are our, the public’s, servants.

What proprietary information can they have from us? Literally everything they do and who they are must be transparent and auditable at all times.

If I were a ferengi, I would be loving this whole setup.

If.

The person you are replying to said that the smart TV collects spy data onto a hard drive even when it’s not connected.

Then once the TV acquires a connection, it dumps the entire drive worth of spy data to the mothership.

The danger here is obvious, I think.

But why?

I once worked for a startup where the founder and the CEO was a hundred(s) millionaire, and he could have easily funded the startup on his own. And you know what? He’d be constantly pitching to investors, nonstop. And when the other investors lost confidence, he closed the business.

It’s a matter of principle for many of these people. You don’t ever want to risk your own money unless there is no other choice. It doesn’t matter if you can afford it. The question is why? If I can spend your money why would I spend my own? It makes no sense.

These billionaires will spend our money, time, dreams, energy indefinitely, if they can. Only if there is an absolute and absolutely unbypassable barrier that prevents them from even trying would they stop. They won’t ever volunteer to stop.

the checks and balances

Once the checks clear, their balances reflect it.

Oh, you meant different checks and different balances. Never mind.

That’s exactly what they meant this whole time. We are the rubes.

It’s free in the sense that the wealthiest businessmen are free to decide how the rest of the country shound live.

Maximum freedom for the maximally wealthy.

And getting the big money out of politics is communism, according to these fascists.

Yea, fuck them both.

It’s not the same. Linux is unkillable. However the proprietory software purveyors can try to slow down the growth of Linux.

It won’t work.

Are they the avarage teen ij the avarage family tho? I feel like we cannot call that avarage if the parent uses the Fediverse xD

Self-marginalization for the “win.”

Limp energy.

Not kill, it’s an attempt to marginalize Linux, maybe.

Blame jobs, not cook.

Why not both?

Their biology is the same. What’s missing is common cause.

Mismatch between behavior and words.

I’m getting the id system I was hoping for though. I’m getting my crumbs.

If you are satisfied, why the pro-crumb advocacy here?

No, no, no, you are trying to persuade people here to settle for crumbs. That means your agenda has either not been achieved, or is on a shaky ground. Which explains the work you are doing.

Begging for crumbs does NOT mean getting crumbs.

Usually when you beg for crumbs the power brokers understand you to be an inwardly defeated person and they spit you in the face instead of negotiating with you.

This is not about getting.

This is about what you aim for to begin with.

If you go to a shooting range and delibarately aim for a 1 instead of for a 10 it does not make you more likely to hit a 1. It makes no sense to sabotage your own aim before you even squeeze the trigger.

You think if your aim is modest, the powers that be will take pity on you? What a foolish notion.

Aren’t you tired begging for crumbs?

I want a ten course dinner with hookers and blow. Nothing less will do.

Apple, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, those are some of the pupeteers. The Orange Pedo, The Guardians Of the Pedophiles (GOP) party, and the corporate Fascism Lite Democratic Party (we promise to build one concentration camp fewer than the GOP, so vote for us Dems) are the lackeys.

We have to be careful, because The Democratic Party is not a monolith. Some of the Dems are actually economic populists, which is a good thing.

This doesn’t change the fact that most Dems are just the less angry, the slightly less brutal, and the smilier fascists who don’t literally rape people usually, unlike the GOP who are pro-rape in addition to being against democracy and against The Constitution outright.

Hakeem Jeffries recently met with Jared Kushner to, you know, talk about things and to plot together.

How I wish that everything I wrote above was just a giant hyperbole. But, everything I say here is factual. This timeline has me feeling like I am taking crazy pills every day.