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Brenda

(2,025 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:13 PM Monday

Do all those billionaires really think they will escape?

Not just TechBros but sadly those very wealthy actors who do commercials for even MORE money so they can build their bunkers and hire only the best security and chefs!

I know. They're into transhumanism and they are all insane because of AI already.


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Do all those billionaires really think they will escape? (Original Post) Brenda Monday OP
What do they have to fear? DJ Synikus Makisimus Monday #1
Yeah Brenda Monday #3
what I don't understand is Skittles Monday #2
Right? Can't threaten folks for so long Brenda Monday #6
Let them go to their hidey-holes. . . DinahMoeHum Monday #4
It's been that way for the whole of human history. JustKay Monday #5
Yes, because no matter how smart they might have been before they got their money... haele Monday #7
escape what? WarGamer Monday #8
They believe their savior is coming to rule the world and enslave humanity. Clouds Passing Monday #9

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,404 posts)
1. What do they have to fear?
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:22 PM
Monday

The Justice Department isn't going to prosecute any elite billionaire unless they pull a Bernie Madoff and rip off richer people, or unless they become inconvenient like Jeffrey Epstein. And you know what happened to Epstein. Look at the consequences paid by former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick "Gorilla" Fuld, for example - none.*

If you liked the 2007 subprime mortgage crash, you'll love the crypto crash; brought to you by the same sorts of folks.



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*start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Fuld_Jr. and/or see the film The Last Days of Lehman Brothers; then read some of the serious journalistic investigations.

Brenda

(2,025 posts)
3. Yeah
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:35 PM
Monday

Had to take shelter for awhile due to a lightning storm.

All Republicans are Guilty of this. All people who keep voting Republican are guilty of cover up!

Skittles

(171,133 posts)
2. what I don't understand is
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:29 PM
Monday

WHY doesn't someone LEAK what is in there - I mean, by now it would seem LOTS of people have seen these files

haele

(15,333 posts)
7. Yes, because no matter how smart they might have been before they got their money...
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 08:20 PM
Monday

Have forgotten what it means to be human or hungry for the most part, or they believe they can just buy their way out of any situation.
Buuutttt...
They never think there's ever going to be a time where all their money or stuff isn't going to mean anything. They've forgotten how economics really work.
When the majority of people, including their servant class, can no longer buy anything of worth; when farms and other productive businesses cease to function because those who "own" the means of production (or the debt owed on those businesses and farms) think it's stupid to pay anyone to do the work required to do production, or that labor should be a sacrifice made on the alters of monied greatness and power.

Money, especially crypto, isn't edible.
And most people don't like watching their families and friends die from starvation, or lack of health care or shelter, because a small group of wealthy twits (who don't understand or respect Maslow's hierarchy of needs) think they're just all that in a bag of of shit.
They going to find out, when there's nothing to eat, their soft arrogant hides look pretty damn tasty. And so long as you have become too rich to take care of yourselves, there's really no where to get away and hide.
I can survive at least a few months in the wilderness. Can Eloon or MarkyZ, or St. Peter the Antichrist?


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