Instead of paying 25% more taxes to their community, they just need to pay 1% direct kickback to dear leader.
Instead if a world where their employees can leave and find better jobs if treated like shit, they'll have desperate serfs who will put up with whatever shit or sexual harassment gets thrown their way.
What's effectively the difference between Bezos having 100 billion dollars versus having just 8 or 9 billion?
To his lifestyle, what he is able to buy for himself - functionally nothing.
But what happens when the unemployment rate is 14% and interest rates are zero? That's the magic formula for them, that's where they can actually do whatever they want to whomever they want.
When Wayfair employees organized and staged a walkout to protest ICE that freaked out every CEO with lots of white collar employees. When female microsoft employees told the press that Bill Gates was a creepy sex pest to them that freaked out every CEO who saw his position as a way to leverage sex.
You're giving these people far too much credit. They are of average intelligence, their success hinges entirely on preexisting wealth and a mindset where they always get what they want.
I suppose it depends on how dumb you think the average person is. I've worked for the outragously rich and successful and it's definitely not their intelligence that got them where they are. Bezos, Musk, Theil, Gates are all successful because they were in the Right Place^tm^ Right Time^tm^ and have a relentless drive to get what they want.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued international aggression....
We needed this type of guy in the internet ecosystem. We hunted them to extinction because they were cringe and annoying but they were all that was keeping the religious wackos at bay
"Hey common, we're going to Shaun's house and going to enter as many random numbers into the CD key input box as it takes to unlock our burned StarCraft copy we got from my older brother"
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I remember being very confident and optimistic. I had just started college, and nerd shit had just become the dominant force in our culture.
People were joining the internet and connecting via Facebook which I thought would lead to world peace.
Bush was out of office and Obama had won.
The iPhone meant I could use the internet and apps whenever I was.
Everything was becoming higher quality. The fast food restaurants were all remodeled to look like actual buildings. TVs in waiting rooms became all flatscreen, something I associated with the very wealthy.
Every brand was trying to copy apple so everything became a lot more white and clean. Simplified.
I had discovered reddit which felt like cheat codes for knowledge, especially since I was the only person I knew in real life who knew it existed.
It's because nothing Trump is doing scares them as much as:
Whites becoming a minority
Gender not being a fundamental way of organizing society
Random made up things they heard online that they believe to be true
Trump doesn't look so bad if you believe every US city was burned to the ground 6 years ago and had to be rebuilt using taxes from rural america which were collected by black & latino paramilitary troops controlled by the jews.
Donald Trump announces plans to hit the UK, Denmark and other European countries with a 10% tariff on "all or any goods" exported to the US from 1 February...
I'm absolutely certain he's dying and thinks he can make the legacy he leaves behind 'America was at it's territorial height under President Trump' instead of 'Donald Trump lied, cheated, and stole his way into the US presidency, thus weakening America forever'
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it....
I don't think the fascists have that capacity. Too many people in the chain of command would give pause. Bombing Iran or Venezuela, pieces of their invisible empire that slipped out of their grasp, is easy - the plans are all ready to go. Canada would be a fresh directive and it would take time to build the consensus that this was actually something the military and state department would go through with.
Let's be honest, the president is deeply unpopular with everyone except the dumbest and most incompetent humans. You have divorced dads who work in automotive and post Ron Paul memes calling him a pedophile protector to his face. People are just going to delay and drag their feet on anything he asks them to do that they don't want to do.
The goal of releasing the video wasn't to prove the NKVD agent was innocent, it was to prove that the victim was a white liberal lgbt urban woman and thus deserving of death.
JD Vance on Thursday accused Denmark — a fellow NATO member — and the rest of Europe of failing to protect Greenland from the intentions of Russia and China....
They became anti-government when the government forced them to de-segregate, they became pro-government when the government began forcing us to re-segregate
The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota....
You guys are attributing a level of sophistication to trump/the right that they just do not possess.
They want Greenland because it looks big on the map.
They want history books to say "America was at it's height under President Trump when it's territorial size was at it's largest" the same way they do with Trajan and the Roman Empire.
America has basically unlimited resources and freedom to operate militarily. Venezuela, Canada, Greenland, and Panama are the vanity targets of an insecure leadership desperate to prove that they are more than incompetent idiots who lucked their way into control of a dying empire.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's not worried about the prospect of increased oil production from Venezuela challenging Canada's energy exports because Canadian oil is cheaper, cleaner and lower-risk....
They're punch drunk because no US personal died in the Maduro mission, but I guarantee you they are such fuckups that a major casualty event is inevitable if they keep it up.
Because Canada is such a good friend of the United States, Canada was allowed the build the sort of nuclear power plants that other countries are not allowed to build for fear the waste could be used for nuclear weapons.
During the pandemic, the glass high rises that struck terror into my young, impressionable heart stood empty, and for a while, people wondered whether offices were relics of the past. But over the past two years, companies have begun to call employees back into the office. Ontario public servants are expected to return to office...
We have a separatist movement in Alberta, that is fueled by a sycophantic and borderline treasonous Premier and UCP, multiple NGOs and special interest groups some of whom have already been fined for hiding their funding, and a think tank that gets more than 10% of their reported and direct funding from the US (ignoring funding...
Okay, so you want CSIS to stop the foreign backed ideologues seeking to destroy our country — but then who is going to sit online and try to convince Muslim teens and college kids to start planning terrorist attacks??
Whenever you hear about a terrorist attack being stopped before happens, that is because a law enforcement agency found people online and began to encourage them to follow through on planning to commit a terrorist attack.
Former Trump administration official and wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, Katie Miller, posted Saturday on X (formerly Twitter) an image of Greenland covered in the U.S. flag with the text “SOON”.
The reality is that it will be easier to wait for trump to go away, and assume whomever takes over after him will restore the status quo, then it would be to confront the US in anyway.
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I’m currently a lump of chocolate and cheese, but once the new year hits, I’m determined to make 2026 the year I finally get back to a healthy weight (I’ve lost about 20 pounds, with about 80-100 to go). I’m pretty good about exercising regularly, but, as they say, abs are made in the kitchen. Those who have successfully...
I really really wish when the media talked about vaccines and diseases they'd stop using images of needles and start using images of people suffering from the diseases
The board of Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday said it was recommending that shareholders reject the hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance and its controlling shareholders, the Ellison family....
Carney announces suite of food affordability measures, including boost to GST rebate ( www.cbc.ca )
Luckily there's a lot more than the grocery rebate....
US seeks to use Alberta to destabilize Canada ( www.lemonde.fr )
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day' ( apnews.com )
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued international aggression....
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a man of many minds
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Stocks sell off globally as traders digest Trump message saying he wants Greenland because ‘your Country decided not to give me the Nobel’ ( fortune.com )
Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Donald Trump announces plans to hit the UK, Denmark and other European countries with a 10% tariff on "all or any goods" exported to the US from 1 February...
Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it....
Nearly a third of Canadians believe U.S. may try to invade Canada: poll ( globalnews.ca )
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Nearly a third of Canadians believe U.S. may try to invade Canada: poll ( globalnews.ca )
Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: 'Are we really going to be the Gestapo?' ( www.nbcnews.com )
ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing ( www.advocate.com )
“Fcking bitch,” Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, says in the video.*...
Greenland: Vance warns Europe to take Trump 'seriously' ( www.dw.com )
JD Vance on Thursday accused Denmark — a fellow NATO member — and the rest of Europe of failing to protect Greenland from the intentions of Russia and China....
ABC News: 2 shot by US Customs and Border Protection agents in Portland, Oregon ( kstp.com )
Federal Agents Swarming Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis ( i.imgur.com )
Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city ( apnews.com )
The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota....
France and allies discuss response to possible US invasion of Greenland ( www.theguardian.com )
French, German and Polish foreign ministers to meet amid escalating threats to seize part of Danish kingdom...
TIL about “Second Screen Viewing” and that Netflix pushes writers to make scripts and dialogues simpler to keep viewers who are on their phones engaged ( www.pcmag.com )
No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.
Canada's cheaper, cleaner and lower-risk oil can rival a resurgent Venezuela, Carney says ( www.cbc.ca )
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's not worried about the prospect of increased oil production from Venezuela challenging Canada's energy exports because Canadian oil is cheaper, cleaner and lower-risk....
Colombian president says ‘I will take up arms again’ if US invades ( www.theguardian.com )
Gustavo Petro makes remark after Trump threatens military action similar to Venezuela...
Trump’s Terrifying New Security Doctrine Turns Canada into a Target ( thewalrus.ca )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/45007926...
Welcome Back to the Office. You Won’t Get Anything Done | The Walrus ( thewalrus.ca )
During the pandemic, the glass high rises that struck terror into my young, impressionable heart stood empty, and for a while, people wondered whether offices were relics of the past. But over the past two years, companies have begun to call employees back into the office. Ontario public servants are expected to return to office...
Where the hell is CSIS? Where is the media?
We have a separatist movement in Alberta, that is fueled by a sycophantic and borderline treasonous Premier and UCP, multiple NGOs and special interest groups some of whom have already been fined for hiding their funding, and a think tank that gets more than 10% of their reported and direct funding from the US (ignoring funding...
U.S. will ‘soon’ annex Greenland, wife of top Trump aide implies ( www.arctictoday.com )
Former Trump administration official and wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, Katie Miller, posted Saturday on X (formerly Twitter) an image of Greenland covered in the U.S. flag with the text “SOON”.
After Venezuela operation, Trump says the whole hemisphere is in play ( www.politico.com )
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"Triple-A is in crisis" and games "don't have staying power because they're bad," says ex Gears of War director and Painkiller creator ( www.pcgamesn.com )
Peter Thiel and Larry Page are preparing to flee California in case the state passes a billionaire wealth tax, report says ( fortune.com )
Tech billionaires are making plans to bail on California ahead a possible ballot measure that would tax their assets to help pay for healthcare....
How do you successfully maintain a calorie deficit over the long run?
I’m currently a lump of chocolate and cheese, but once the new year hits, I’m determined to make 2026 the year I finally get back to a healthy weight (I’ve lost about 20 pounds, with about 80-100 to go). I’m pretty good about exercising regularly, but, as they say, abs are made in the kitchen. Those who have successfully...
My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?
Please don't tell me "see a therapist" I know that already.
Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Nigeria ( www.mediaite.com )
Proposed Alberta separation referendum question approved ( globalnews.ca )
Alberta’s election agency announced Monday it has approved a proposed referendum question on the province separating from Canada....
Nothing to see here folks
Measles outbreaks won't end in 2025 as cases mount in Utah, Arizona and South Carolina ( www.nbcnews.com )
Across the country, confirmed cases are nearing 2,000, closing in on the highest number since 1992....
Warner Bros. Discovery recommends investors reject Paramount's hostile takeover bid ( www.nbcnews.com )
The board of Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday said it was recommending that shareholders reject the hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance and its controlling shareholders, the Ellison family....