And who’s gonna change the laws when there’s no democracy and wealth almost directly translates to political power?
Billionaires can just go around national laws and stuff shit in tax havens. And when they get caught, it gets hushed up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
Moneys fucks people up. Trying to reason money out of the hands of billionaires is harder than convincing a jonesing crack addict to not hit a loaded pipe they’ve got in their hands.
Headline is tricksy, first mention of “asteroid” (referring to the small one) isn’t with the descriptor “massive”, but the second one is.
They just added the one that’s gonna miss so they could get “massive” in the headline.
Also, one can play around with asteroid impacts with this fun little tool.
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
Only goes down to 1m, so larger than what it was. Iron core and I put it to 100km/s (fastest you can in that, default being like 17km/s) dropped it in Siberia, and it blew up 53 km above the ground. Tried again with switching angle to straight down and…
The thing with billionaires is that they don’t live in any single legal framework.
Which is why it would be so crucial to actually imprison them to get them to see any sort of consequences, as otherwise they’ll just hop on a private jet and fuck off.
Literally no consequences for stealing the value of labour of hundreds of millions of people. It’s crazy.
We as humanity allow these people to exist. We could just decide we don’t. If we all do, simultaneously, and pinky-promise, then the problem would be dealt with.
But ever tried getting 8 billion people on a zoom call at the same time? Yeah…
What’s to stop them doing it all over again, given some starter money? Usually what makes these assholes so effective is their lack of empathy. That works well in capitalism.
White collar crime needs to start getting hard time in the same prisons that proper criminals go to. That’d be a deterrent, or a motivator to fix the prison systems.
Well fuck billionaires but papers can and trials can be wrong.
Like who’s to say she wasn’t a patsy?
I’m not saying she was, but how would you prove beyond any doubt that she wasn’t?
Probably this case is an open-and-shut case but my point is valid, I think.
You’re completely right.
However, I feel like I’d make an exception for people who massively contribute to an actual existential threat to humanity. Ie billionaires. All billionaires.
I’m not saying we should kill them. I’m saying we should use the possibility of that being on the table to make them pay their taxes. The entire planet is ruined by billionaires when we could literally everyone have enough to have our basic needs met while having an economy and industry which isn’t on track to make the planet uninhabitable for us, seeing as it’s the only planet known to support life.
Yes, all life is important. That’s why all life should be protected by making sure the planet doesn’t become one huge airfryer. If while doing that a few billionaires get guillotined, I’m honestly fine with it. I’d prefer they’d just actually help people instead of being selfish assholes, but if them being selfish assholes is putting everyone else in danger, then the choice is clear, no matter your views on the death penalty. (Which as you say, shouldn’t be a thing.)
Should be noted that in Norway it is not just for war, but rather any emergency like natural disasters or someone takes out critical infrastructure in a digital attack etc.
A digital attack would be an act of war, though, so…
“Wololoo”
And she knew we knew she knew.
Just too proud of a bitch to admit to having been on the wrong side of anything.
Like >60% of humanity suffer from that, at least. 100% of people some time, some people 100% of the time.
Lol whops, bad phrasing on my bad, I can dee that.
I meant “we are sure of who’s doing it”, obviously, but yes, it could be read like that.
Oh fuck I wrote a lengthy comment on mobile and it got lost without getting saved to drafts.
Tldr I guess is that growing up I used to wonder how Hitler ever became accepted. Then in 2016 Trump won, when I thought it impossible, a meme candidate. My belief in Americans was crushed. Now again. And shameless genocide going on in Palestine. And Russia coldly invaded Ukraine.
Growing up in the oughts as a teen, Obama as president, things didn’t seem this worrying. The drone strikes morally dubious, but not worldwide threat concerning.
Now I don’t wonder anymore how Hitler got to be so accepted. Slowly. Step by step. With each of Trump*s elections and these conflicts, my belief in a lot of humanity decreases, and my passion about changing things in creases, yet resources to do anything about it dwindle.
Ugh the first one was so much better grumble grumble
Exactly the fucking problem, I feel like.
Especially when basically the biggest party we had to go against them is now proverbially sucking Putin’s cock.
So…
Yeah. I fucking hate war mongering, but I can’t ignore the crazies. And I live like less 6 hours away from St. Petersburg by car, in Finland. I mean technically Russia would be dumb to nuke us, but also if there’s a lot of nukes flying to St. Petersburg, that wouldn’t be too good.
Idk man I know we shouldn’t doom too much over this but I’m anxious at home and it is a real thing, however improbable. I mean Putin might be off his fucking nut, but he did serve in the military and should be quite aware of what nuclear war would be like. Which is not something I’d say for Trump.
Here’s the thing though, trusting that it’s only a threat sort of relies thinking that the leadership of Russia isn’t batshit-fucking-insane, and that’s not something I would put money on.
I agree we can’t allow them to just go “nukes” and do whatever they want, but let’s not pretend the threat isn’t real to some degree.
Oh they really preparing to end humanity, huh.
Fuck Putler.
Fuck with him with a shit-covered brush, sideways. Until he stops this insanity.
Also Baltic Sea isn’t really known for sharks, cold as it is.
and nobody’s really sure who’s doing it.
We are.
Mandatory murder-windows.
Well, I guess, but… you could argue that Zionists are mostly seen to be purely Jewish due to the nature of the movement.
Honestly, people don’t realise just how little this makes any sort of difference.
A few weeks of the markets in a few particular places being a bit dry, if even that.
So fucking moronic letting this massive trade be ruled by criminals and actively using societies money for a war that is completely fucking useless.