Post B2KzhflDpEFkwphBTs by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
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(DIR) Post #B2KR14c49VPv8GvctU by alexwild@mastodon.online
2026-01-15T18:49:54Z
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Why are US fascists fixated on Greenland? It's weirder than you think and only happening because a few nutjobs became billionaires (from April, but still relevant)https://www.thenerdreich.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-build-a-network-state-in-greenland/
(DIR) Post #B2KR160YxubfSXOhiS by alexwild@mastodon.online
2026-01-16T02:20:18Z
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/115900612237201487It's worth noting the tech billionaires are not trying to expand the US empire. They have incubated inside it and are planning to discard the United States like a spent shell once their new network state emerges. In theory, those hoping to protect Europe from this new threat could find common cause with a number of more traditional American oligarchs, though it might be distasteful, because their interests are also threatened.
(DIR) Post #B2KR175YwoCSoKkD9E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-16T02:34:03Z
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@alexwild I have more than average exposure to rich people, as one does in NYC. I don't think any are billionaires, but millionaires probably.Anyway. These are the most helpless people on the planet. Really most people are much more helpless than they suspect, even the more rugged off the grid types. But, having a lot of money makes it too tempting to just let other people do things for you. I think this is why they like the fantasy offered by AI and robots so much. 1/
(DIR) Post #B2KRByZGy4qlZMowOO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-16T02:36:06Z
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@alexwild It's also why you find so many rich people in places like NYC, Tokyo, London etc. They want the good services! The best ones. How is that going to work in a bunker? Are you going to have five chefs in there? What do you do when they decide to kill you and keep your bunker?2/2
(DIR) Post #B2KRcx0irkHSYgWTJI by Lazarou@mastodon.social
2026-01-16T02:40:55Z
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@futurebird @alexwild it's why I laugh when people say these parasites will flee into Space, they would be useless in Space, even worse than passengers....like some belligerent livestock perhaps?
(DIR) Post #B2KRuUYJPa1dVdb94y by lukeryanps@toot.community
2026-01-16T02:44:03Z
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@futurebird @alexwild I think of it as an internal guilt thing (the fascination with automation and robots). No matter how charmed your perceptual filters about your relationship with a social inferior are, it's a continuous subtext. It calls into question why some, "deserve," to be rich/poor. The rich want to be unburdened of their guilt. It's very natural.
(DIR) Post #B2KSLPUSLBdDczd8Hg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-16T02:48:57Z
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@wakame @alexwild Living with people with only shock collars keeping them from killing me is a hell only second to living with a shock collar myself and trying to figure out how to get it off and get rid of whoever put it on. Why live in hell?
(DIR) Post #B2KSSn2HCJE4gDy5wm by ubi@ecoevo.social
2026-01-16T02:50:17Z
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@futurebird @alexwild This tracks with my experience with millionaires too. They’re very helpless people. Trapped within the system because it's "convenient ".
(DIR) Post #B2KSVJ80qiVUnBqsXw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-16T02:50:47Z
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@neia @alexwild That's basically the same thing I think to some folks.
(DIR) Post #B2KSXv3gnRJ30h4iIa by jannem@fosstodon.org
2026-01-16T02:51:15Z
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@futurebird @wakame @alexwild Or, you know, deciding that "fuck the collar" and push the guy out a window.
(DIR) Post #B2KSn0Q19Lj9yhiFPc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-16T02:53:53Z
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@wakame @alexwild What if you had a bunch of well paid staff who did a great job helping you because you were reasonable and treated them with basic respect?
(DIR) Post #B2KTVwLl7jiIOH9BZI by OrionKidder@mas.to
2026-01-16T03:02:05Z
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@futurebird @alexwild The corollary being: no, they are *not* going to leave and their their money with them if you raise their taxes by a few percent.The claim they're going to leave must be read as *threats*, and empty ones at that.
(DIR) Post #B2KUjujM2dBfNOPXG4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-16T03:15:44Z
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@cshlan @ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @alexwild There is a thing called a NORC "naturally occurring retirement community" where if a bunch of old people live in the same building it sort of turns into a nursing home.I thought the libertarian floating cities would be NORTVS "naturally occurring reality TV shows"
(DIR) Post #B2KV75OoXdb57oqvFQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-16T03:20:02Z
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@cshlan @ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @alexwild Announcer VO: "For the fifth week the sewage system has remained broken. Some residents have set up a blockchain to monetize the repair process but no one wants to clean the pipes. Tensions are rising and some want to go home. Where will this adventure in freedom take them next? Find out in this weeks episode of "Libertarian Barge!"Roll music and intro sequence.
(DIR) Post #B2KYkox5PXazYpWPA0 by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-01-16T04:00:43Z
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@alexwild I'm tech but not a billionaire, but I love iced tea and Greenland has lots of ice.
(DIR) Post #B2KYzYAo4m3jrlxkno by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-01-16T04:03:14Z
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@alexwild And actually truth be told I think the tech world is more interested in Iceland, cheap electricity, natural cooling, and a government not consumed with censorship.
(DIR) Post #B2KclsSAHKEAWfokqm by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2026-01-16T04:45:48Z
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@futurebird @cshlan @ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @alexwild I have read that book:https://mastodon.online/@michael_w_busch/115108903895923471
(DIR) Post #B2KhWfoRUevAkTo7Ye by Grovewest@mstdn.social
2026-01-16T05:39:03Z
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@futurebird @alexwild And sure it's an island but even with global warming it will never be like Majorca. It will still be dark half the year and always cold. Could be like the party car in ‘Snow Piercer' but look how that turned out when the servants got tired of it.
(DIR) Post #B2KxKb5ooXNVu0CN3A by katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2026-01-16T08:36:12Z
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@futurebird @alexwild This is why they don't leave when they're taxed.
(DIR) Post #B2KzhflDpEFkwphBTs by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-01-16T09:02:30Z
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@michael_w_busch @futurebird @ai6yr @ColesStreetPothole @cshlan @alexwild That's what they said about 1984, and yet other than computers substituting for memory tubes, it is.
(DIR) Post #B2Lg8R50iEPJJGOaki by Landa@graz.social
2026-01-16T16:58:11Z
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@futurebird Every season ends with bears.Even the ones on seastading.You all know it’s true 🤣@cshlan @ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @alexwild