• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        Free to build the data centers necessary to control an army of terminators; to genocide the proles once capitalism no longer requires their labour.

        Like, I’m not even joking. I have zero doubt whatsoever that is the final solution in the minds of psychopaths like Thiel or Altman. Humanity is currently a parasite and our civilisation can not continue at the current rate of consumption for more than a couple of centuries without monumental leaps in technology.

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    Here’s my tinfoil hat hot take:

    Considering the development of hypersonic missiles, Greenland would do little to defend/protect during modern warfare.

    But the location combined with low population, thermal power sources, would be ideal for development for an attempt to create a future climate change shelter. If a select group wanted to keep cool on their own big island as the rest of the world burned, this is how I would expect them to plan it out.

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        He’s a means to an end for those that want to do whatever the fuck they like. Can him the smartest man you’ve ever met, throw him some pocket change and give him a fake trophy, he’ll do whatever you tell him.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Maybe all the shitheads will move over there and the rest of us can get to work on clean night up the country. Although that would mean the poor Greenlanders being drowned out with shithead invaders, which is extremely unfair on them.

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      They have no interest in living a good life for themselves, the main purpose is always to lord over others and stomp on their faces to satisfy sexually sadistic urges.

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      Just shows that the idea that Bill Gates was one of the good ones was just PR. There are no good billionaires.

      • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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        Somebody said that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a way for him to funnel money to his children without paying taxes, and that the disease fighting stuff is just a side benefit.

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          I mean, the thing is that a donation to philanthropy is tax deductible, so even if you control the charity 100%, it counts. Instead of paying taxes, you’re just paying yourself. And once it’s in that charity, you can use that money for any charitable cause, even if that cause benefits the non-charitable side of your portfolio. This means that you can

          • pay for your own PR
          • use the charity money to buy a bunch of medicine to eradicate some disease, while you have investments in the pharma company that will provide said medicine
          • donate to academia to steer research goals and then become a early investor in any spinoff companies that result from that
          • donate to a charity run by a politician/other rich person to curry favour

          It’s not a coincidence he’s become richer despite ‘donating his wealth’.

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          it is 100% a tax-avoidance scheme, they occasionally spend that $ wisely…that $ would 100% be more effeciently spent if done via a properly coordinated/supported government effort.

          that being said…in the Land of the Free…considering how shit is run I 100% understand why so many of these people keep as much of their $ as possible out of the feds hands. the ratfucking doesn’t stop when Dem’s are running things, it’s just slightly better hidden.

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      True! Unfortunately amazon, microsoft windows, google are so deeply integrated in the whole society of a lot of countries sobthat a lot of people contribute to fascist powers.

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    Bill’s wife left him because of hos trips on the lolita express so he is full mask off now. Cunt

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    6 months ago

    This is why being a philanthropist doesn’t reform a billionaire. They’re making decisions for the rest of us using our money.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      The money still have to come from somewhere, either they get it from stock or from investment/project like these.

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        keep following that chain…where do you think the $ going into the stock market comes from?

        ultimately, the entire thing hinges on underpaying people for their labor

        • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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          Uhh, where do you think i’m going? I thought it’s pretty obvious that i point to both stock and such project, which is very much contradicting to his philanthropy project, but meh people here really need to have thing spell out for them in a wall of text.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    6 months ago

    So a fascist wants to invade Greenland. These ghouls want to capitalize on that to build some tech bro dystopia shit. I think we know what we need to call these ghouls. Fascist ghouls.

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      As a US citizen who will suffer under the embargo the rest of the world will set up around US trade, I will kind of miss things like toothpaste and medicine and food.

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    6 months ago

    wait wait wait…

    is THIS the real reason Trump wants to take over Greenland? because the cool kids are all going there, and they didn’t invite him?

    hahaha! what a turd. old Donny Nofriends. so pathetic.