The difference is if you’re useful to the Oligarchy.

A woman who was an obvious domestic terrorist.

Putin owns Trump.

“Kompromat” is a portmanteau of “Compromising,” and “Material.”

Which the Russians have a ton of on Trump. His sexual activities with Epstein, laundering money for Russian oligarchs with his real estate properties, his deliberate bankruptcies in the casinos the Russians financed. Oh, and his last 2 wives being blatant Eastern Bloc informants.

Scott was CEO of a health insurance entity that robbed Medicare for hundreds of millions and millions. If he was a commanding officer in the military, he’d be court-martialed, and sentenced to Leavenworth.

But, because corporations are “Persons,” and CEOs of corporations are civilians who couldn’t possibly know what their executives are up to, none of them are subject to the same legal liabilities as real “Persons,” or the military CoJ, he got away with it.

He should have been under the jail decades ago.

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And why can’t I just grab the secretary’s ass and get a date, without her getting all mouthy?

/s, obviously.

The thing is, you never really “own” your home. Don’t pay your property taxes, and see what happens. You just pay less when the mortgage loan is paid off.

To them, it’s the perfect business model. Keep you customers in perpetual debt, and dependent.

This has been the goal of Microsoft for 20 years, like you stated. Bill Gates stated it. We’re just now to the point of ubiquitous internet connectivity, and cultural conditioning to accept this model.

Windows itself is eventually going to be a subscription service, with all your data saved on Microsoft’s servers. Microsoft announced at the end of last year a dumb Office terminal that does just this, to test the waters.

Welcome to Rent Based Economy, peasants.

Perpetual debt. As planned.

Well, don’t think their dissent has anything to do with empathy, or compassion. They just don’t like seeing a gravy train derailed by an overgrown child.

Cop - “Uh… what’s going on…”

Woman - “Nothin’…”

Putin may have started at the bottom, but he’s smart, and competent, and made his way to Premier on his own talent.

I don’t agree with what he’s done, our his suppression on the Russian people, but he earned what he has.

Reading comprehension is a valuable skill.

I agree. Imagine being so insecure, feeling so insecure, and being so weak to want to belong to a “Tribe” that hates anything not white, because some asshole in YouTube says you should.

I can’t think of anything more pathetic.

I can.

Thiel is on the spectrum, and was bullied for it. But because he was privileged, it couldn’t have been his fault, all the peasants are just stupid. Tolkien was his escape.

Hitler was treated like a prince by his mother, and lost his mind when he was rejected from art school. By the Jews, of course… The Jew part was sarcasm…

Himmler was a D&D nerd who tried to create his own Viking Religion, beheaded subjects to cast a spell where the heads were supposed to speak prophecy, spent a ton of Deutschmarks looking for The Holy Grail, Mjolnir, Gungnir, etc. Magical thinking. Delusional.

Musk pays people to make him look like a “L33t G@m3r” to impress edgelord teenage boys.

Trump wants a military parade to try to impress Putin, Xi, Kim, etc., because he thinks they’re badass, and wants them to think he is.

All of this is narcissism. Which is a psychological defense mechanism against a massive inferiority complex developed in early childhood, due to neglect, abuse, or both.

These people have the emotional maturity of pre-pubescent children. And always will, Which makes them very dangerous, due to having virtually unlimited wealth.

Imagine a child under 10 years old with the wealth and authority to do anything they wanted to you. That’s what we’re dealing with.

Aww, so cute that the Russian Troll Farm employees are here.

Yes, but the hardcore Wanna-be American Badasses don’t bring up The Russians did most of the fighting, and lost millions and millions of men.

Not defending Russia today, I’m not a tankie, but just acknowledging they fought, and fought hard, for a long time in WW2.

Right?!

A symptom of malignant narcissism.

He’s a raging narcissist. He wants to worshiped, and adulated, and most importantly, he wants to be loved, what he didn’t get as a child when it mattered… Embarrassment is a fate worse than death to narcissists.