Um…guys? Are we going to talk about this? Because…seriously. He’s trying to shut down, silence, and censor media. That’s literally a fascist move. That’s straight from the fascist playbook. The nazi’s LITERALLY did this. So instead, Radio London would broadcast in french. They’d open and close each broadcast with a series of nonsensical phrases they called “personal messages”. What was otherwise disguised as the station listeners calling the station with messages like “Pierre dit bonjour” or “Pierre says hello”. Just seemingly innocent phrases that listeners would call in, so other listeners could hear them. Personal messages. And on one random night, a night that could have been any other night, a very special personal message went out.

“Blessent mon coeur d’une langueur monotone”

Which if you didn’t know it’s meaning, would seem harmless enough, if not a bit random. However, those in the french resistance knew it well. It was their signal to grab arms and join the fight. Because this random night just happened to be June 5th 1944. A night now famous among those who know their history. However you may also know it by another name. D-Day.

I bring all this up to mention the fact that all of that was necessary to do on Radio London, because all radio stations in France, were now occupied and ruled my the nazi’s at that time. The nazi’s shut down and censored any actual French media.

Which is what trump is doing right now. Shutting down and censoring media, while being the president of a nation that has for literal centuries prided itself on being the home of free speech. I just want you to consider the irony here, and take in the full scale of what’s happening right now. We are actively taking more and more steps each day to becoming a full on fascist state. Does anyone not see this? Is everybody forgetting history? I feel like it’s obvious. It’s on full display. They’re not attempting to hide it. They’re just going through with it.

It’s reminding me of that scene with heath ledger as joker saying if you execute a plan, and somebody unexpectly dies, everybody loses their mind. But if you state a plan is intended to have a few deaths, then nobody panics when people die.

I feel like that’s what’s going on right now. In 2024 we learned about project 2025. Details leaked. And now that people are used to the ideas, they accept them more easily, despite knowing the actual plans are terrible plans that shouldn’t be plans. But they ARE plans. So everybody is just going along with it.

Real life. He was mayor, like 10 years ago. This was an actual thing people were mad at him for.

And as many times as I reconfirm this was real, I still get vibes of this being Micheal Scott as mayor.

I might have tacos…

I would make a joke like “Wow! I should use mass media to convince people to buy my shitty products, but convince them that they need it. Then overcharge!”

Except the basis of that joke being a joke would rely on the core concept NOT happening for real. Which it is. So that would just make me a part of the problem…

I don’t know how to feel about this. Because, he’s not wrong. From Germanys perspective, trump controling the usa is basically putin controling the usa.

So I can see why that is the thought process here.

But I don’t want that to be the thought process. I don’t want to alienate all our allies. I want life to make sense. What we got instead is a clear indication that the united states is going to attack itself, and is already attacking itself.

Germany is just trying to stay out of the crossfire, and I get that. So, I can’t just say “Good! Let them be our advasary so they don’t get caught up in this”. I can’t say that because it has long term reprocussions that I feel we may have already crossed.

Mostly, I just want all this bullshit in the usa to boil over. Lets get this civil war out of the way. Lets forge our path that nazi lives don’t matter.

And to all other nations out there, I’m sorry. I’m embarassed to be an American right now. When even Canada is getting stern with you, you know you fucked up. And we did. We fucked up bad. We’re going to keep fucking up presumably for at least the next 4 years. After that, I have no idea. But right now, saying you’re American is like shitting your pants in an elevator.

And to all other countries out there, I’m sorry for existing.

Even before musk bought it, it was a house of cards. At no point in it’s history since it’s creation has it EVER made money. It was ALWAYS a money loser. That’s why they were trying to sell it in the first place. It had value, but nothing close to 43 BILLION dollars.

It was assumed to sell for a few hundred million before musk ran his mouth, and joked that he’d do it for 43 billion. Then he took the joke as far as signing legal paperwork, then bitched that he HAD to now buy it for his joke price of 43 billion.

And now you read daily how much money it’s losing. Firstly because even if he paid a fair price for it, AND ran it perfectly, it would still be losing money. But he bought it for 43 BILLION dollars, and from day one publically harassed advertisers saying he doesn’t need them.

Well, even under perfect conditions, the advertisers were the only thing keeping twitters losses pre-musk at a minimum. They were losing about 13 million a year since 2008. And now it was adding up.

But now you got advertisers to go fuck themself. And they leave. Then he alienates twitters at the time core leftist by…well existing. And now you got all these people leaving twitter in droves. So now, even for the advertisers that remain, twitters reach loses 40% of it’s value. Which means advertisers aren’t willing to pay old rates. Which means less revenue.

And all these other companies, before musk bought it, looked at an unprofitable social media site, then remembered how MySpace went, and thought “…no.”

You don’t think you could live in a $70,000 house, that’s fully paid off, with $1,500 a month?

He’s not advocating for just taxing the rich though. He’s advocating for eliminating the rich. Which he’s part of.

Seriously? You think that’s the worst house in America? There’s not even pictures of the inside because long term tenants live there.

Thats not a bad area. Thats W.46 between Storer and Clark. I could open zillow again, and try to find some of those $2,000 dollar houses if you want to see some houses that need repairs. And they’d be in the actual ghetto.

I never said I don’t comprehend the gaps. I’m saying they don’t matter.

Tom is a rich guy, who doesn’t need to work for a living. He lives off the interest in his bank account.

Jeff is a rich guy who doesn’t need to work for a living. He lives off the interest in his bank account.

Bob is a guy who has some savings, but if he stops working he becomes full of debt.

The difference between Tom and Jeff are the number of decimal points in their bank accounts. The difference between them and Bob is that Bob doesn’t work to maintain an image, or run a company. Bob works because he HAS TO.

The second you have the ability to quit your job, and not impact your ability to live, is when you’re rich.

Sure, there’s a big gap between having a few billion, and having a few million if you look at numbers. There is no difference however with you being required to work. Thats why the gap doesn’t matter.

I wouldn’t call 44th and Clark BFE.

If anything, I’d have to check the map, and make sure Daves is as close as I think, but you could just walk everywhere. Although at his age, maybe he’d need a car. But the neighborhood is very drivable. It’s not like you’re out in the sticks.

…I never understood that line. Like, why wouldn’t the people deserve a hero?

Of coarse, that’s assuming you take the movies POV, and think of Batman as the hero.

I mean, I don’t. But if you think he’s the hero of the movie, why would gotham not deserve him?

And in Luigis case, I DO think of him as the hero of the story. But I also think we deserve him.

So, I never got that phrase.

I never bitched about him. I’ve said the same thing over and over and over. The comment was about context of why he’s saying to eat the rich, when that’s him.

He’s ABSOLUTELY rich! The rest of what you said isn’t really on topic, and I don’t disagree with it, but he IS rich.

I’m saying that gap doesn’t matter. At that point, it’s just numbers. It’s like a high score as opposed to meaningful currency that dictates your life. I never said he’s the richest. I said he’s rich, and his whole thing is “destroy the rich”.

But thats him.

Thats the whole point of the original comment. I can’t figure out WHAT his motivation is, when his entire career is him basically saying “DESTROY ME! I SHOULDN’T HAVE THIS MUCH MONEY! NOBODY SHOULD!”

…but whys HE saying that. Like I could understand if he made like 30k a year, and had a few thousand in savings. But he’s the image of who’s he’s trying to turn the torches on. Is it intentional? Does he not realize?

Meanwhile, people read the innitial comment I made, and are defending him by saying he’s not the problem.

Which completely misses the point.

Oh I never said he wasn’t humble. I’m just confused by his motivations behind saying to eat the rich…ya know…because that’s him.

You’re saying to me that Bernie Sanders is in the 1%, but not the 0.01% so it doesn’t count as rich. That’s REALLY your arguement here?

$900,000 x .02 = $18,000 ÷ 12 = 1,500.

$1,500 every month, no rent, no mortgage, no electric bill. Basically means you’re paying taxes, insurance, water, gas, phone/internet. I’ll just round that off at $600. Means $900 a month after bills. All without working.

You telling me that ain’t rich?

He doesn’t have to work. The comment was that he could buy a house, buy solar, and never have to do anything again.