Moats are back!

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• RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can cause lot of fatigue in those goons by just having someone randomly shoot at them and run away once or twice a night.

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    • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Impenetrable

  Lol. Keep thinking that.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We played this game back in the 70s, during White Flight. I lived through it.

    White professionals got very paranoid about living in THE CITY. Built giant gated communities just at the edge of town. Stuffed their neighborhoods with cops and private guards and security cameras and retractable road spikes and giant fuck-off electric gates and stone walls. Then nothing happened for a few years, and people inside realized this shit was boring af and obnoxiously expensive.

    So they brought in a bunch of developers to add parks and malls and theaters and clubs. And then these places needed labor, so they built a bunch of low-rent housing just outside the spots just outside THE CITY. And these places filed up with the same working class folks who lived in THE CITY. But now the white professionals weren’t living in the exurbs anymore, they were living in THE CITY again. So they all panicked and sold out and fled to the new edge of town.

    And we’ve been repeating this pattern for 50 years, such that now it’s a two fucking hour drive to get from Katy or Clear Lake or The Woodlands into downtown Houston where all the fucking professional jobs are. But, of course, this is Texas so nobody is allowed to build commuter rail. Instead we have several hundred miles of twelve lane highways gobbling up a bunch of historically prime real estate. And we spend $1.1B/year on cops who mostly do dick-all jerking themselves off in their squad cars earning 2.5x overtime pay on six figure salaries.

    Everyone under 30 wants to GTFO of these horrible boring overpriced suburbs. While everyone over 60 is still too terrified to walk out their front doors when they live 30 miles outside of town, because the news said someone in a suburb on the opposite side of the city was center stage on the nightly news for getting their purse snatched.

    But hey, don’t worry, because Palantir Presents THE PANOPTICON is coming soon. And they’ll definitely finally permanently for real this time solve the problem of crime forever. Just give them access to your retirement account so you can pay for it.

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• hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They can only store so much food in there.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I suppose the ones who buy entire islands have a chance at raising their own food, and producing clean water, but the rest of them are vulnerable to an old fashion siege, to go along with their moat.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I should practice building a trebuchet…

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  • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, if they’re wanting to do the old castle thing, they forget castles had funny things like ways to produce food and unblockable access to clean water.

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• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And what is so funny is that despite all the eat the rich talk from lefties like us it is usually a right winger that will be the one pulling the trigger on those people.

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Curiousfur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Looks like mortars are back on the menu

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lets make them put those security systems to use.

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Time to start the siegin’ folks!

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When they hide in a bunker, just bury the bunker.

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    • Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I just had a brief fantasy of immigrant laborers bricking up the gate, then backing dozens of cement trucks to the walls of these compounds and filling the whole fucking thing.

      Archeologists hundreds of years from now will have a field day with these sites.

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is nothing new to the Mega Rich and absolutely an ad read from WSJ to the Middle Rich.

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Read this as “black angus”

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• cymor@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure a tomato and a slingshot could still touch them.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Seems like a wasted opportunity though.

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• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good luck, shit birds.

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• KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ah yes, that worked during previous revolts

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• FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This plays out on a less extreme level too, when an area attracts wealth the more wealthy residents will silo themselves behind security gates and kill any sense of community that the area previously had.

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• glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That wall looks fairly easy to climb over

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How are their defenses against suicide drones? What about human shit dropping drones? Bomb dropping drones?

  If it’s a war they want

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  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’ll have radar, and antiaircraft artillery.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doesn’t help against sewage pumps.

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• Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Look how they run.

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• JustAGuy@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fantastic moats on the tax payer. Is this a family guy episode?

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• aeration1217@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  wow we’re really in end game huh

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