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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?
the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”
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Killing them would just create younger billionaires, thru inheritance. Smash capitalism, instead
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You can do both.
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Oh fuck, that would get their attention
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Unless it's Elon, he doesn't give a shit about those kids
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The trick is to pass an inheritance tax first. Self-funding that way.
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Sham Compton, I don’t think it works that way. I think they flee a country and abandon their assets. I think that’s what really happens
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Can raise the blade back up
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oh once you reach the kids just, like, disinherit. What they gonna do?
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does it rhyme with “schmillotine”?
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Or perhaps shmeeyotine? I'm never sure
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You guys are very optimistic
No, hiring bod is what it rhymes with.
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Holy shit that is amazing
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They’re assuming when it gets down to brass tacks that the highly militarized police forces are going to put down the rebellion
Generally in these situations the military wins. Whose side the military is on is the real question they should ask.
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Depends on whether or not the military is also supported by the largest neoliberal bullshit empire in the world.
History is full of militaries breaking for one faction or another (or themselves alone!) all the time, often to the fatal surprise of one faction or another. Anyone who is certain how it would go is a fool.
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And rich folks security/troops grabbing what they can and running, when things get hot. The problem with mercenaries…
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Naw these people became rich because they're smart. They clearly know how to make keep their subordinates loyal & will have the military on their side in any conflicts
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They know. That’s why they want the robot dogs and cops.
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Our military is led by professional officers/NCOs who are very separated from civilians. They're not lining up with the people.
History is also full of officers trying to do one thing and the rank and file going another way.
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Spartan rank and file indoctrinated from birth about sheep and sheepdogs
Oh you mean to cosplaying bullies too scared to actually go into the line of fire. The cops ain’t gonna be a factor if shit goes that far south. Only the regular military will matter and sheepdog/sheep nonsense isn’t taught as much there.
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our military and police are brainwashed maga. don't count on them.
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Also there’s probably plenty of officers smart enough to lie about why they want to do a coup
On one hand true, on the other hand the social and economic class they hail from is most definitely not that of the wealthy elites.
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The Us has been very effective at creating a Spartan military and police and the Spartans were oligarchy owned and controlled. Very good at massacring the helots and terrible at winning wars in the late period.
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Which is hilarious given the historical utility of trying to get highly-militarized police forces from not killing you and taking your stuff in exchange for the pieces of paper that you yourself have rendered inadequate to feed a family.
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Typical royalists, knowing the price of getting someone to not kill you but not the value of feeding your family.
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Or private security. Either way it would take a *massive* rebellion to put them out at this point; this isn't 18th century France.
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They've assumed nothing. They are expecting their investments in police foundations to pay off.
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They're extremely outnumbered if things really heat up
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But the police are understaffed
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And they'll probably win the first few times; but nobody wins forever.
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gets the mayo all messy, to put it in bluesky terms