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That island is a half hour drive down the coast from my parents house. The whole coastal area has been bought up by the super rich and developers. It's really heartbreaking.

I wonder what they're gonna do now, between a rock and a hard place.

They need to remain Trump sycophants while also accounting for Democratic Congress.

If the latter really push forward, billionaires will get into some very precarious position.

This doesn't work in today's world. Even if all of the fediverse and reddit would be on board with this idea, the impact might be less than 1% in missed sales, simply because the other 99% would not know about it because they don't use social media, or it's not in their algorithm, or it's not on tv news. Plus you need to keep it going for a long time, not just a week until a different topic overtakes.

Many of these people don't have fortunes from consumer goods. An awful lot of them are making money out of thin air. They create markets that rise, bubbles that grow, manipulate markets, etc., and the value of their investments go way up. No products were created, distributed, purchased. That's too much trouble. Better to just manipulate numbers on a spread sheet, and voilá, wealth out of thin air.

That just works when the people buy directly, not thru government contracts or subsidies.

It's of just Musk, it's billionaires as a whole. One may have very hard time not buying anything from them while still surviving.

looks like they did? https://capybara.info/

Most people are not yet materially desperate enough to risk going to prison and ruining their lives.

That day may be coming, but we're not there yet.

I've been telling people who have been criticizing America for not getting violent, that we have two Constitutional checkpoints to go through before violence becomes the appropriate tool. The first was the Midterms, which we got through in spectacular fashion, far better than I even dreamed. We proved, far beyond ANY doubt, that Dem voters have serious POWER in this country, and they are now fully mobilized like never before. Most importantly, we didn't just prove that to MAGA, we proved it to Dem voters themselves. In the future, it will be far easier to mobilize them, now that they've done it, and was such a big success that everybody was rewarded with happiness.

Now we have to keep it together to get through the 2028 Presidential Election, where we can elect a Democratic president, and increase our majorities in Congress. Ted Cruz, for instance, is up for reelection in 2028. It will be fun to end his political career.

If MAGA decides to create a situation in which they feel they can eliminate the election, THEN it will be time for violence.

If we get through the election without a problem, he is almost certainly going to try to pull a Maduro, and just try to stay in office, no matter what the outcome of the election was. In that case, the violence will be directed only at the criminal who is holding the White House hostage.

Violence is a tool, to be used in the appropriate situation. If you needed a screwdriver, you wouldn't start pounding it with a hammer. The next project is the 2028 election. We just need to stay the course, and not let them knock us off our strategy. We managed to do that for the last two years, now let's do that for the next two years, and get our country back.

I think someone should build a simple, relatively cheap drone with a bomb and open source the design. Make it so anyone with a 3d printer and some basic supplies can hit their property from a reasonable distance away. Make them afraid to have that wealth.

Generally, I am anti death-penalty... But the billionaire class, at the very least, deserve guillotines, gallows, and their heads on spikes outsider their little enclaves