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That is the dumbest thing you could have possibly said. Are you just lying?
Take a look at history. How about the Palace of Versailles?
Rich. People. Are. Not. More. Rational. It is not rational to hoard all of your money is banks while other people starve and get angry at you.
That convincing plan is greed.
It's not that simple. If you store your money in banks, the banks are going to lend it out, even being allowed to lend several times more than you had put in.
It's also rational but evil, to have starving people so that the others are 'motivated'.
Versailles was very rational: bind the aristocracy at the capital so that they couldn't organize revolutions at home.
But that's a good argument, Versailles' aristocrats didn't see the revolution of the people coming.
The difference is that Versailles' aristocrats ignored the change of history whereas the Republicans are changing history. People must be on board with that change. If greed is the plan, how do the billionaires make money by dismantling the USA?
Brother. I'll say it one more time because it's clear you aren't following the story from comment to comment
Peter Thiel, a buddy of Elon Musk, has been trying to get land for billionaires for decades. It is literally the plan to overthrow democracy & give themselves land/city states. Called freedom cities.
I already said you can google a video of Trump saying it.
You are literally either lying or in cognitive dissonance. Billionaires are not more rational than us. Power and money corrupts. It always has. It always does. Stop making excuses for rich people or else you advocate for the same monarchy that Elon Musk does
I agree with you that Musk and Thiel are stupid or at least front their real plan with a stupid plan.
My point is that there must be some billionaires who see the stupidity and given that they are billionaires, they have the resources to make themselves heard, they must argue against the plan. However, there is just silence, apart from one Koch brother.
That silence makes me believe that the shown plan is not the real plan and that it's a show to distract from something else, most likely something more evil, but which makes economic sense to the other billionaires, unlike the freedom cities.
You're acting like these billionaires are all a monolith that are all going to act the exact same way.
That is a mistake, and one that will cost you, as underestimating people in previous conflicts, revolutions, etc, have before.
They are not all knowing. They are not all powerful. They, too, make mistakes and believe lies.
Of course it's not their final plan. We don't even know what phase 2 of project 2025 is.
But everything they've openly said about project 2025 has pretty much come true... and all very consistently seems to be working toward this goal of Balkanizing the US. It might not happen during Trump's presidency. The tech bros plan for longer than 4 years
But the tech bros don't care about EVERY billionaire. They're not all in the circle. This isn't the rich guy circle. This is the dark enlightenment tech bro circle.
Does it make WAY more sense than the rest of the billionaires just aren't 100% informed about what's going on and are trying to hedge their OWN bets?
Again, I agree we don't have the full story. But you are putting almost superhuman levels of intelligence on these billionaires... when it's just not true
I expect the rich guy circle to have access to the best information sources. Besides, the dark enlightenment circle will talk to them to have them on their side, so they know the details.
These people don't have to rely on newspapers. They can spend 10 million to have ten of the most brilliant people analyze the plan.
Simple balkanization doesn't make sense. I am sure that whatever is shown as the plan is false as long as I don't see the path to prosperity for the rich guy circle.
US democracy is formed under the influence of the rich guy circle. It is what they want to have. Why are they giving it away?
Continuing to act as these people are all one unit. Stupidity. Can't go in circles if you won't apply any critical thinking. Already made it very clear not every single billionaire does want to do this.
But some of them do. It's those ones that are dangerous.
But go ahead and keep giving yourself a reach around and trying to figure out why not every single billionaire literally acts in lock step with each other... good lord it's painful.
Have a good one bud.
Thanks.
Yet, let me tell you that my argument is precisely that these people are not one unit. You must also be misunderstanding me.
Anyway, this was a nice conversation. Thanks again.