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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 22 hours ago

While millions face cuts, superyacht sales are somehow exploding

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While millions face cuts, superyacht sales are somehow exploding

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 22 hours ago
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Heading into midterm season, voters are experiencing Trump’s economic illiteracy first hand, even as Trump, embarrassingly, keeps blaming Biden. If he hadn’t elevated personal loyalty over professional competence when choosing his cabinet, staff would advise him that blaming a long gone predecessor ...
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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au
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    It’s not “somehow” - the real economy is tanking precisely because the oligarchs have got so efficient at skimming the top off.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      Skimming the top, yeah, but the “top” is 99.99%.

  • DigiHippie@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    VOTE

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    3 hours ago

    somehow

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    People selling all of their stuff to go live permanently on the ocean?

    I know of at least one person with that plan

    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip
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      I wouldn’t mind it. Fish everyday, enjoy beautiful scenery, peace and quiet.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    Enslave the wealthy, make them work for us.

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    The suffering of millions is directly proportional to the wealth of the ultrawealthy. These things are not tangentially related. They are direct consequences of one another.

    • Jimbel@lemmy.world
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      Yep. People can only be wealthy if the wealth is not distributed evenly.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    These things are terrible for the environment.

    ‘Megayachts’ are environmentally indefensible. The world must ban them: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/megayachts-environment-carbon-emissions-ban

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      We don’t need to ban them. They just need to be made to sink through a series of unfortunate events that are nobody’s fault at all.

      • pulsey@feddit.org
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        11 hours ago

        Release the Orcas!

  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Don’t worry. They’re actually research vessels. So it’s all good.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    I am tired of pretending I don’t want to behead all billionaires.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      10 hours ago

      That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.

    • _wizard@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Then stop. There’s plenty of us that feel the same. Our community needs more people.

  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Ukraine has gotten pretty good at flying drones. Anyway, what’s this post about?

    • zbyte64@awful.systems
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      4 hours ago

      Unfortunately the weapons they develop there will be used against us here.

    • decolo@piefed.social
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      They also have some good unmanned ground vehicles, and interestingly enough, unmanned sea drones

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    gabe newell the ceo of valve has an entire fleet of superyatchs

    https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php

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      At first I saw that among his fleet of 6 ships, that he has a research vessel and a hospital vessel. I thought, “Ok, funding research and a fucking full on floating hospital that he can send to disasters and places in need. That would actually be pretty fucking cool.”

      But, then I kept reading “a full-fledged hospital, serving as a safeguard for the cruising billionaire during the COVID-19 pandemic”. 🤦

      It’s a “support” vessel that follows his main yacht around in case he needs medical care.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        He’s create a fleet that he, his family, and his friends can escape to when the revolution comes, and Sociopathic Oligarch families start losing their heads.

        He’s not the only one. When this is over, we will task a military outfit to hunt down superyachts, arrest the occupants, confiscate the yachts, or destroy them if they resist. With satellites, they shouldn’t be too hard to find.

        I know Lemmy loves him, but if he’s got fleet of superyachts, he’s part of the problem.

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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      I like to think he has an elite crew of engies and demo guys to keep his fleet safe.

    • Damage@feddit.it
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      14 hours ago

      And to think it’s the Rainbow Warrior that got mined and sunk

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    Manufactured economic crisises are designed for the rich to get richer. its not a side effect, its by design

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    How odd. Its almost as if the insanely wealthy are getting richer at the expense of everyone else. Not to worry, they earned and deserve it through knuckling down. It’ll trickle down anyway. It’s not their fault. If anything it’s the brown people risking their lives on unseaworthy craft that are to blame for everything being so expensive.

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      Let’s Tricke It Down by just taking it back.

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    Tax their fucking wealth. We should be voting en masse for wealth taxes. They are just social parasites that extract wealth from the rest of the population while killing it. [email protected]

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    This brings the same energy as “somehow Palpatine returned.” Come on, we all know how.

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