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« Reply #2295 on: February 23, 2024, 02:26:26 am »
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. So someone who is worth more than 100 billion basically has absolute power.

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« Reply #2296 on: February 23, 2024, 02:26:50 am »
True. I saw an article somewhere yesterday about an 85 year old woman who lost her part-time job because she was unable to understand how to correctly use the new pronouns. Apparently she wasn't just being a jerk she simply couldn't understand.

Yeah, I would have to doubt that story.
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« Reply #2297 on: February 23, 2024, 02:28:24 am »
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. So someone who is worth more than 100 billion basically has absolute power.

Only if others give it to them and do their bidding. 
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« Reply #2298 on: February 23, 2024, 02:28:47 am »
Finally, some sense!


"...Chicago Board of Education votes to remove Chicago Police officers from schools..."
They'll revisit this at the next mass school shooting I guess. Of course that cop in El Paso was just a craven coward. Truly I would have had that guy executed.

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« Reply #2299 on: February 23, 2024, 02:29:21 am »
Bet she will not.


"...Trump says Melania will be on campaign trail ‘quite a bit’ when asked about absence..."
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« Reply #2300 on: February 23, 2024, 02:30:05 am »
Only if others give it to them and do their bidding.
I've noticed that humans kill for money pretty quickly. So if you got unlimited amounts of money you can find an unlimited amount of people who will kill pretty quickly for you. I'm sure it would be pretty easy for a billionaire to start their own private Army.

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« Reply #2301 on: February 23, 2024, 02:30:43 am »
Bet she will not.


"...Trump says Melania will be on campaign trail ‘quite a bit’ when asked about absence..."
She has no desire to even be in the same room with that man.

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« Reply #2302 on: February 23, 2024, 02:31:16 am »
They'll revisit this at the next mass school shooting I guess. Of course that cop in El Paso was just a craven coward. Truly I would have had that guy executed.

If that is the kind of thing someone fears then station a cop outside.   All they have managed to do is make a lot of kids hate cops and turn childish discipline problems into arrests.
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« Reply #2303 on: February 23, 2024, 02:32:07 am »
Bezos and Musk are worth more than the combined gross domestic product of many countries.

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« Reply #2304 on: February 23, 2024, 02:32:55 am »
I've noticed that humans kill for money pretty quickly. So if you got unlimited amounts of money you can find an unlimited amount of people who will kill pretty quickly for you. I'm sure it would be pretty easy for a billionaire to start their own private Army.



How long until one becomes a james bond villain?  Or has it already happened?
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« Reply #2305 on: February 23, 2024, 02:34:10 am »
Bezos and Musk are worth more than the combined gross domestic product of many countries.

Take it all and make them suffer through 20 years of court cases to get it back.
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« Reply #2306 on: February 23, 2024, 02:34:46 am »
If that is the kind of thing someone fears then station a cop outside.   All they have managed to do is make a lot of kids hate cops and turn childish discipline problems into arrests.
if a teacher is afraid of the students I think the best thing the teacher can do is to quit. If Crime inside the school is so bad that you actually have to have armed police then we have a problem that goes far beyond that don't you think?

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« Reply #2307 on: February 23, 2024, 02:35:07 am »
I have been warning about this for years.


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« Reply #2308 on: February 23, 2024, 02:36:34 am »
if a teacher is afraid of the students I think the best thing the teacher can do is to quit. If Crime inside the school is so bad that you actually have to have armed police then we have a problem that goes far beyond that don't you think?


It always starts as protecting the kids and always ends with kids being arrested.
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« Reply #2309 on: February 23, 2024, 02:36:43 am »


How long until one becomes a james bond villain?  Or has it already happened?
remember if you're super rich you can not only control people you can control media outlets. So I would guess that  something very bad has  probably already happened regarding billionaires and crime. But covered up spectacularly well by all that money
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