i thought it was ships falling off the exploding flat earth’s edge
I would also accept sharks with frickin laser beams
Or some very determined killer whales with torpedoes. I’m so down for these alt timelines.
The Epstein Class
It really is. It really, really is…
See Moe (Maureen) Tcacik’s latest piece in The Nation, Larry Summers, We Knew Ye Too Well
Or alternatively listen to the Jeffrey Epstein, the Russian Mob, & the Hidden Assets of the Maxwells (w/ Moe Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report episode of The Chris Hedges podcast
Edit: you can also watch the above podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JNkIusoUAo
What really gets me in this picture is that they’re not looking at each other and smiling. They’re looking at each other and hating that “his is bigger than mine”. They can’t even enjoy what they have.
They can’t even enjoy what they have.
It’s worse than that. Many do enjoy what they have. They are extremely happy and simply don’t care.
That’s not being happy. That’s hate, they want to smear their wealth in your face.
Not a single one of them doesn’t strive and debase themselves every single day to get more than what they already have, to add billions to their pile of billions. I don’t think that is evidence of happiness.
I mean when they attend one of their Epstein parties they are probably happy in the moment of it, but they do seem to be fundamentally unsatisfied creatures overall.
Not a single one of them doesn’t strive and debase themselves every single day to get more than what they already have,
People like to think that because it makes them feel better about not being rich. But many billionaires are very happy.
Bold of you to assume that any of “them” are actually “there” to see each other. The people that own these are “too busy” to sail there and then out. These ships are manned by staff who bring them here and then wait for the .01% to fly in, spend a few hours and then fly out.
Even better, is that I am willing to bet that more than a few are there to hold their positions, so they don’t get pushed back next year, but won’t be there this year at all. In fact I guarantee that at least a few are there to piss off someone else who is farther away, but can’t get closer because the other ship is there.
I mean let’s be serious, do you really think that the type of person who spends this kind of money on something is going to sleep somewhere that someone in a speed boat could get close enough to cause noise or even a minor bobbing of the ship any time of day, much less in the middle of the night?
Its a fair assumption that “they” are all “there”. As “there” is Monte Carlo, and “then” is the Monaco Grand Prix.
That’s how they get stuck in the money game. They are incapable of being happy or content. They exist to serve The Hunger
You’re more right than you may realize.
After 9/11 one of the very first things the current president remarked upon is that his building was now “the tallest” [not even true] in NYC.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911-building-lie_n_57d8017be4b0fbd4b7bb6182
Fuckin 25 years ago this mf was spouting off blatant prime time TV lies.
If you’re referring to the direction each boat is facing, this is just because they are anchored and there is wind and current in the water. If you watch a time lapse of boats parked in a bay, you will see they all eerily move synchronously over time.
Yeah, but did Mary Antoin-ette have a stroke on live television after eating cake in a newly constructed ballroom!!?!?
You know nothing about good storytelling.
Clears throat
We gather here today on the 250th anniversary of “Cakeday”
…As some of you may have read in the history pads, “cake day” was a day on which signaled the end of “The Trumpish Cuckholding of The Empty Minds & Weak Voiced”.
It was the day a piece of human shit choked on cake/ a day of remorse for Karen & Kid Rock.
The following days were brutal. Lots of slack-jawed pound folks riding on lawnmowers with commemorative plates & cups & flags. xxxl T-shirts were sold in record numbers. The water smelled like cholesterol.
Somehow, the brass lamp remained.
My brass lamp.
A lamp full of stories.
For more, please throw coin on ground.
It’s not even, “let them eat cake,” it’s “I have my delicious cake, those peasants can starve.”
It’s not even that. It’s “I have so much cake that I can literally never eat it all, even if I live ten thousand years. I need more and those peasants are keeping me from it”
“Say, this gives me an idea. I’m gonna share some cake with science hippies to see if they make me live 100 thousand years. THEN I can have all my cake.”
The actual endgame. At least right now we’re equal in that we all must die.
“a certain number of peasants must starve in order to motivate my cake baker to maximum productivity”
If only we knew, it would unironically be a good way to rid the world of it’s biggest problems, within minutes.
Maybe if we get a ball of highly unstable material and quickly force additional atoms towards it
Or just an autocannon.
All it takes is a few minutes and an rpg
That’s a lot of pedophiles…
I wonder how human trafficking numbers look when a lot of these are in port.
Rock bottom, because all the cops look the other way.
So so much cocaine in one photo.
One “Klasse 212” submarine would solve a lot of problems.
according to the Wikipedia page, only 13 problems could be solved.
A total of 13[35] heavyweight torpedoes of type DM2A4 Seehecht can be carried.
Unfortunately I see a lot more boats than that.
How about a Class VII C u-boat? It has torpedos in five tubes, a 8,8cm deck gun and a 3,7cm aa gun.
Probably easier to just use a small fleet of torpedo speed boats since its way cheaper and esch one can carry 4 torps.
A few maiale marino would be cheaper and just as effective
Where my Orcas at?
As a sailor, it bugs me when I hear this sentiment. Orcas can’t do anything to mega-yachts. The billiionaires are completely unaffected. The boats that they attack and damage are the sailboats in the 35 to 50-foot range, that is, the kind of boats that I might be able to buy, if I were motivated enough. (Like, $200,000, rather than $250,000,000.)
If you have 200k to spend on a boat that isn’t your livelihood, that’s nice, but I need you to stand up against this wall for a moment
How about you save your bullets for the actual, child eating billionaires instead of some guy who is just kinda well off, huh?
On a global scale, anyone dropping 200k on a pleasure boat, lets assume they have a net wealth of at least 1 million (insane to spend 1/5th of your wealth on a toy but anyway…), is in the top 0.1%. It’s not “kind of well off”.
Even possessing 200k dollars puts you in the top 5%.
People don’t understand numbers and that’s ok. You let one lunatic have a trillion and now you’re excusing the 0.1% as “kind of well off”.
A lot people can earn a million dollars by scrimping and saving for years. This includes many everyday working people who happen to make a decent salary. A billionaire only gets there by exploitation and taking advantage of others, you can’t save up a billion dollars by having a good job and being thrifty. If somebody works a job for 30 years, saves, and then wants to buy a boat to retire on then good for him. They are not the enemy.
I’ve just explained to you that in the unrealistic circumstances that someone with 1,000,000 buys a boat for 200,000, that puts them in the top 0.1% of global wealth. Again, what part of that says “everyday worker” to you?
Someone who owns $1 million is maybe like 5 years away from complete bankruptcy if they drop $200k to purchase a boat.
There is a reason people say that boats are “a hole in the water to throw your money into”. They cost a literal fortune to maintain.
Nobody with “just” $1 million can afford to buy and maintain a $200,000 boat.
You can if the boat is also your home. That’s what I meant when I said I could buy one if I were really motivated.
But yeah, you’re right, anybody with $1 million who buys a $200,000 boat as a toy is bad with money.
And this is ignoring the fact that boats cost an absolute fortune to maintain. That $200k is just the beginning.
You do know that the working poor and a neurosurgeon are much, much closer in terms of money than a neurosurgeon and a billionaire, right? The neurosurgeon that I know is fabulously well-off, but his net worth is a rounding error compared to a the 0.01%.
Define “fabulously well off” and explain why they deserve that and someone who works twice as many hours to feed twice as many people does not?
You need “just” 30 million dollars to be in the global 0.01% BTW. Not a rounding error. Again, you’ve let the fact America has created a few actual supervillains get in the way of recognising where actual inequality begins.
Thirty million is a rounding error for a billionaire. Anyway, good luck effecting change by making an enemy of everybody.
You don’t get it. We have billionaires - trillionaires - because we allowed millionaires to happen.
Both are problems. One is the direct result of the other though.
As my dad who grew up sailing says, “a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into.”
There’s nothing you can do to them that’s worse than they’re already doing to themselves by owning a boat.
Besides, they’re talking about the kind of boat that you’d see in every harbor all over the world, not some monument to greed:
It’s no 15 foot Boston Whaler, but there’s hundreds of boats that size in every harbor and marina you can think of.
Yes, and they cost a shit ton of money to own. Most of the people who own those boats literally own multiple houses.
Lemmy ahh comment
Orcas wouldn’t do anything to those yachts… If they went swimming / fell overboard then yeah.
So kind of them to put targets up for canon practice
Can you imagine how painful it must be to own the blue superyacht on the left, and see that megayacht right next to you?
Can you really blame anyone for firing another 1000 employees to free up liquidity for an upgrade?That’s what keeps them going to want more money and get that bigger yacht.
In today’s world, if the billionaires said “let them have canoes”, we’d probably thank them for the canoes
“Okay, but hear me out! What about…”
Nope. No.
No.
“Okay, but hear me out! What about…”
Nope. No.
No.
Hear me out. We sacrifice those who call themselves the best of our humanity to Dagon, the Father of the Deep Ones?
Hear me out : Asmodeus
🏴☠️
I’m gonna leave it at a flag and no “/s”
