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• Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You need to be more alarmed about this.

  Conservatives (and the rich tend to side with conservatives) have no imagination and project their own intentions on others.

  I cannot possibly stress this enough:

  IF THEY THINK WE’RE GOING TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK THEM, IT’S SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING TO ATTACK US THEMSELVES.

  They have THOROUGHLY demonstrated that they can’t imagine anyone wanting to do anything that they themselves want to do, are preparing to do, or are ALREADY DOING.

  Mark my words:

  The rich are preparing to exterminate us all.

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  • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They don’t care about extermination. Lol. How do you exploit the dead?

    They want you alive. And supple to their desires.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, not exterminate, just control with even further violence. The rich are stupid and useless, but they do know that they need bodies to do their work for them, even if they’ll never admit it.

    This is, honestly, much worse because complacent people won’t fight back nearly as hard.

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• hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They can only store so much food in there.

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• shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s sad is, they already essentially do this with us.

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    • BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Epstein class literally do

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• Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Castles often weren’t conquered by forcefully breaking through the walls but rather by keeping them under the siege until their inhabitants either surrender or die.

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  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They are very small, and we have a LOT of raw sewage, and some very powerful pumps.

    Won’t take long.

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    • Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is proper problem solving for the task at hand.

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.

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• Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How will drones ever cross the moat?

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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How will vigilantes ever be able to catch these oligarchs at their office if they have moats around their house.

    Honestly, wouldnt it be cheaper to just not be evil?

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  • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got a trebuchet for sale.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.

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    • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

      It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust

      I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.

      www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/0 4/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Both of those sound more expensive than drones.

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• aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But can they really trust their guards? What guard wouldn’t want to have the nickname the kingslayer?

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  • artifex@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s why they’ll fit their guards with death collars to prevent them from getting ideas.

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    • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Where do you buy death collars from?

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First you have to get said guards (who are hired to protect you) to agree to wear those. Only a moron would agree to that. And sure they malfunction too. So be hard if you security is fucking disabled from your death collar to protect you. Rich people are not smart.

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    • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Reminds me of Wedlock. Little perfect movie with Rutger Hauer.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Forget about guards, what about mortar shells?

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• MOARbid1@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is a very thin line between “Safe inside your bunker” and “Trapped inside your bunker”. The people on the outside dictate how that plays out.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was thinking it’s be a real shame if someone waited for them to go inside and then welded the gates closed.

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    • jbellows@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Delicious. Where I live (Auburn WA, represent!) the copper and the plumbing feeding into the property would be stripped and sold for pennies on the dollar for fenty. And then when a food or repair truck comes for resupply, the nanosecond the driver leaves the truck, it’s gone. Jacked. Bye bye. Those rich aholes gun starve to death yo

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who needs to get in? They wanted to be pharos - gods even. They want to be in there? I say let them be. Concrete is pretty easy to pour and it just doesnt seem capitalist to just leave such prime real estate under developed…

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Walls work both ways. Sieges are back on the menu boys!

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unless you got a Black Agnes hiding in there it ain’t gonna do much.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s that, a Scottish 90yo version of Black Widow? 🤔

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      She was the lady of Dunbar during the second war of Scottish independence. She rather famously held the castle from pro-English forces through most of the war.

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The ultra rich have always done this, we just used to call them “castles”.

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder if someday there will be guided tours of Jeff Bezos’ mansion. A little museum too, all about his reign of terror.

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• Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So they’re working really hard to make impossible to enter their houses. How hard would it be to modify them to make it impossible to leave?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty sure that getting close enough without being murdered by hired goonf would be the hardest part.

    After solving that, anyone creative and/or competent enough should have no problem sealing the would be pharaohs in their pyramids of hubris 🤷

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    • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, ‘Under the dome’ but with the very rich instead of a random city, then.

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• RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mario & Sonic at the Olympics - Luigi in the pool
  Guess who can swim!

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Society failed when it allowed people to start accruing this kind of wealth

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s been a problem since pretty much the very beginning.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, it failed at the very beginning.

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• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seems a lot simpler to just not be a greedy POS.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, contrary to their self-perception, they’re not always the sharpest spoons in the forest 🤷

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Power corrupts. Absolute power…

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• RedRibbonArmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Luigi Gon’ Give It To Ya

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.” -General George Patton

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• AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do they not realize the ones installing their security devices are also the same people they are trying to protect against?

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep.”

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What kind of life is that though. So now you’re stuck in a fancy prison and can’t trust anyone around you?

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Air supply. You can find the intake with those microphone cameras or just old school smoke.

  The Hamptons are a low lying area. You never want to be defending a low lying area.

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Air supply? Why would you want to threaten them with great music ?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah but that could be hidden (if they’re smart) miles away.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If they went to that much trouble it’s either the direction of another property probably owned by a shell nearby or it’s a large piece of land and you’ll need ground penetrating radar or a ditch witch.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know the signs of a aproaching class war if i see them.

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean a sudden escalation.
    The current class war has been going on for decades.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Drones with explosives go vrrrr.

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• gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  if only, and stay with me here, if only there was some contraption invented since we last had moats around castle, i don’t know, something that can fly in the air and carry, oh i don’t know, bags of shit over these moats and into the castles, maybe even more of it at the same time like swarms of bees, maybe we could even name it after them like bee, or worker, or drone, or something. that would be something, I tell ya!

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  • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t sound like any trebuchet I’ve ever heard of. Also plague riddled corpses work better, although they might be hard to come by nowadays.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      plague riddled corpses work better, although they might be hard to come by nowadays.

      With RFK Jr in charge of the HHS? Give it a few months and there’ll be plenty.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I volunteer.

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      While we are busy building some older contraptions used in times long past: perhaps might we add an additional favorite of the french revolutionaries?

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s called a market opportunity.

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• FluorideMind@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re so afraid of the proles maybe you should give up a fair share of your slice.

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  • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But there’s so many of us…

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• Zenjal@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ya think this be related to the rumor that rich people taste like wagu? Plenty of alcohol an massages make for great marbling

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  • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Always wondered about long pig myself, but gosh, the regulations!

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    • Zenjal@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hear tell they are looking to eas regulations in general

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They could just try being nice, but I guess that’s too much work

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• DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  eventually those with money and power could have AI controlled, shoot on site, robot and drone security systems wherever they want. all legalised by the corrupt government.

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To partially quote a certain movie which holds startlingly true right now:

    No. What they have are bullets and the hope that when those guns are empty we no longer will be standing…

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So…

  Anyone have stocked up on siege weapons?

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I saw some really neat YouTube videos about trebuchet. They don’t seem that complex.

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    • BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Local High school kids build them for a graded project around where i live, so not very difficult for an adult to handle.

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  • SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Been meaning to find an excuse to engineer a trebuchet.

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Forget siege weapons, just a shovel and jackhammer.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is plan B. Plan A is to create militarized security force that’s a bit less poor and a bit more privileged than everyone else and is ready to kill people in order to protect their position.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you mean the police or make a whole new group?

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Police will do.

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These armed guards have the ability to do humanity a great service. I hope at least one of them finds their conscience.

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