That’s not true. But their signifiers of wealth are invisible to the common folk. They wear sweaters that cost as much as a used car. Jackets that cost as much as new cars. Their watches cost more than a house.

I think a good look on how they live really is succession. The clothes they wear don’t look crazy expensive, to us. But they are more expensive than you could even imagine.

Idk man, if we had the drugs of the Victorian era but the worker rights of today, I think everybody would be happier 🤷‍♂️

My only real take here is basically every single libertarian eventually becomes a technofascist. Why is that? Idk. But it happens over and over again.

Nah you gotta feed and house the slaves. With workers you just pay enough they don’t die and many will even live in cars and eat trash.

The problem is the system that was set up hundreds of years ago (“liberal democracy”) ended up just incentivizing psychopathy. This system always brings the worst people in society up to the top. Either in government or business.

You can’t be a genuinely good person and become a general, a congressperson or a billionaire.

Some of the push for “safety” has been responsible for cars lasting less and getting larger as well… but I’m sure this is NOT what they mean.

At your age you be profen?? Is this a flex cause you can get it up as an old man or are you admitting you’re a teenager? Cause you be profen ALL night long?? Hey guys this guy be profen!

It’s not banned, but it’s not forced. Only mandarin is forced (all other languages are optional to the school), and teachers are forced to pass mandarin exams to teach. And even in Guangzhou most people speak mandarin in a business setting, so parents make their children focus on mandarin even if they are native Cantonese speakers themselves.

But dude, it’s like a much milder version of language consolidation than what happened in France, Spain, Germany or Italy. They literally killed people for speaking the wrong language.

It’s just that I am inclined to not believe the white supremacist colonizers on what counts as “repressing minorities”.

Real criticism based on reality, yes. Empty claims based on propaganda, no.

Repression of minorities? Seriously, can anyone in the west even judge any country like that? Why, because you’re the experts in oppressing and repressing minorities?

Bro China has autonomous regions with self-governance for all major minorities. And they still spend a lot of federal funds to develop their regions, building schools, hospitals, power plants, roads, trains etc.

The federal government built one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world in the Dai autonomous region, for the Dai people. They sponsor cultural and religious festivals, spending federal funds to promote minority culture. All minority languages are taught in school in their respective home regions.

When has the US, Canada, Europe ever done anything like that? Japan doesn’t recognize its minorities at all, Sami are repressed in the nordics, and don’t even get me started on native peoples in the US and Canada.

Seriously this is all pure propaganda. It’s literally the meme “China lifts hundreds of millions out of poverty. But at what cost?! 😱”.

Ah that’s where you draw the line? Not killing and starving millions in Gaza, Sudan? Not killing millions in invasions in the Middle East?

Ok, you know where your allegiance is. You’re wrong, as your “good billionaires” would eat you for an afternoon snack. But have fun.

I feel like it doesn’t have to be so extreme either way y’know. Getting a new better tool while your old one still (kinda) works is not wasteful. What’s wasteful is for cars to be manufactured purposefully to breakdown earlier. For TVs to break right when warranty expires. That’s something that impacts the world INFINITELY more than you holding on with white fingers to some old shit that’s falling apart.

Dude comments are public, you can easily see all I’ve ever commented 😂

The oligarchs and billionaires. Or do you only oppose them if they are “asiatic” or something?

But then you defend their plans and expansions like what they are doing in the Balkans, Southern and Eastern Europe.

May I just ask… why? Why this obsession with old and used things? Seems like misplaced concern for the environment/the world.

Misplaced I say because our individual impact is negligible, and 99,99% of all problems stem from like 10 massive polluting corporations.

But it’s crazy how the media and “common knowledge” would imagine scammers to be usually very low level people. That scamming the upper echelons got you in trouble real quick.

When the truth is scamming IS the game, and the higher up you get the larger and more ubiquitous the scams get.

Epstein was already very prominent before becoming Les Wexner’s money man.

Reminder that Epstein first worked for Wexner (publicly) after Wexner was being investigated for tax fraud. And his tax lawyer at the time was going to be made to depose, and was shot in the face a day before it happened.

Wexner is FAMOUSLY tied to the mob.

Epstein apparently “cleared up” all of Wexner’s books, and cleared him from the fraud case. AND saved him millions in taxes.

That’s why Epstein was given control of Wexner’s fortune. Allegedly, publicly.

But like, Epstein was already extremely connected to the mob and intelligence even before this. His mentors were Adnan Khashoggi and Robert Maxwell. Both spies, one an arms dealer and the other a high level financial scammer.

He was besties with Donald Trump, whose mentor is Roy Cohn, a lawyer for the mob and CIA front runner.

Just look at these guys’ mentors. Their mentors are spies and mob connected scammers. Also a lawyer, and a media mogul.

But Epstein didn’t become a media mogul like his mentor, or Donald a lawyer like his mentor.

Have you ever heard of someone mentoring with someone and NOT following their career? Does that even make sense?

Unless they did follow their mentors’ careers, it just wasn’t the public facing ones.

Donald inherited Resorts International from Rot Cohn. Epstein inherited Ghislaine from Robert Maxwell (and that network), but there’s also evidence he was brokering arms deals all over the Middle East and Africa…

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For some years after leaving Bear Sterns Epstein worked as a “financial bounty hunter”. These are people that specialize in finding, and hiding, stolen money. Usually for extreme high net worth individuals and families.

Epstein’s most prominent client at that time was an aristocratic Spanish family. He allegedly helped find “hundreds of millions” for them, which he was paid a couple dozen millions over the years for.

But just the fact that “financial bounty hunter” is an actual position, job. That people make millions off of… is kinda insane isn’t it? Are the ultra wealthy just stealing millions and millions off each other? So much that they need specialists to help hide the stolen money, or find money that was stolen? Absolutely insane.

The richest and most powerful people in the world are all falling for schemes, and scheming each other.

Yeah original comics Captain America would be called a woke commie by most MCU fans nowadays.