Then the plebs reach for the scythes and the machetes.
That’s why the billionaires steal as much money as they can, but stop short of making a critical mass of people desperately poor: they keep most people poor enough that they try to fight for what little they have left, and between themselves for the scraps, instead of uniting and rising up against the kleptocrats who engineer their poverty.
Rich people don’t know the price of anything.
I think the reason (some) people haven’t noticed is the same reason family members don’t notice until it gets really bad.
Yes, and something else also: when somebody is a “colorful” character like Trump, it becomes even harder to distinguish what is somebody’s normal behavior from the effects of the dementia.
My Dad was somewhat eccentric and neither my Mom, my siblings or I realized there was something seriously wrong with him for a long time: we just assumed he was being weird like he always was, until he become erratic enough, and most importantly violent - which he had never been - that we brought him to the doctor, who showed us the MRI: he was in an advanced state of FT dementia, but we just didn’t see it. And then with hindsight, it all became clear all of the sudden.
There’s no reviving and there’s no debate: anybody who’s ever had to deal with a loved one with fronto-temporal dementia has know what Trump is suffering from for years.
Don’t click on that link: it’s a crass antisemitic site.
Nothing says “working towards the need of the working stiffs” like grandiose pointless architecture.
Fun fact: all dictators like architectural megaprojects. This is what Hitler had in mind for Berlin for instance. Or this monstrosity built by Ceaucescu. The Arc de Epstein and the Epstein ballroom should tell you something about Trump.
Me to smart glasses owners: if you point your dystopian Facebook surveillance camera to my face, I’ll punch yours.
I think the longest internet shutdown in world history is from 13.8 billion years to 40 years ago.
I’ll have you know I enjoy my horse-piss-tasting scotch with a plate of surströmming and a side of vegemite.
To each his own.
It’s offset by how immature she sounds when she opens her mouth to sell her demented grandpa boss’ lies.
It’s not just in different languages, but sometimes in different variants of the same languages.
For instance, in Belgian French, “tournante” is any task in which people take turn, like a card game. In French French, it’s specifically gang rape. Or “torchon” which is a cleaning cloth in France and a mop in Belgium.
And then you have words that aren’t spelled exactly the same way but seem like an obvious translation (actual false friends, which aren’t usually exact matches), like the Spanish “constipado”, which means to have a stuffy nose and not what you think.
I’ve always thought that faces like hers that radiate contempt and hatred seem to be forever frozen in their unpleasant pose.
People who smile and have normal human expressions tend to age faster, simply because their faces move all the time.
Also, of course, plastic surgery…
Plenty of places are disputed because they have natural resources or sit in strategically interesting locations.
But plenty of other place have nothing special to offer and are just disputed for stupid nationalist reasons.
Kashmir is one of the latter. As always, the ones who suffer from the nationalist nonsense are the everyday Kashmiris trying to live a normal life.
I think you read too much into this. I too think it’s not very smart to shun new forms of news reporting, but I doubt this community does this to support billionaires and fascists.
I would have removed this substack post for the deceptive summary alone.
I’m curious: why do you find the summary deceptive? I thought it was quite factual - which is why I elected to post it here.
Did you read the article? It’s not just Saudi media and MBS staying quiet. MBS did tell Trump “it’s over” for all intents and purposes.
she was wished well and told she did a good job
She was wished well in a mafia don’s kiss kind of way.
It’s just the particular style of the Trump mafia family.
This community only accepts “traditional” forms of reporting - i.e. newspapers. It doesn’t seem to understand the new realities of news reporting, news sources and news formats.
It’s fine, it’s the community’s choice. But I regularly get caught posting stuff that is perfectly normal and legit in this day and age, like videos and blog posts from reputable sources. Sorry about that…
I reposted it on [email protected].
Rich people hoard money without any regards for morals or ethics, and they certainly don’t stop to ponder the purpose of their wealth. That’s just their drug.
You’re not addicted. That’s why you’re not rich.
It’s also why a lot of people who win the lottery end up broke within a year: they don’t have the mental illness of greed necessary to stay rich.
A lot of rich fucks are starting to feel the danger though:
https://time.com/article/2026/04/15/-it-beats-pitchfork-rebellions-and-the-guillotine-why-these-super-rich-americans-are-asking-for-higher-taxes/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/millionaires-billionaires-taxes-super-rich-mark-ruffalo-wef-davos