at the end of the day our billionaires mostly want to be plantation aristocrats - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 1 day ago

at the end of the day our billionaires mostly want to be plantation aristocrats

The latest dream of the “freedom city” proponents: Transform the island prison into a “migrant proving ground” that doubles as an American Dubai. newrepublic.com/article/1945...

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lawnerd.bsky.social•1 day ago

trixienorton.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am in favor of more Norm McDonald memes!

glennmuir.bsky.social•1 day ago

They all watched Django Unchained, yet only took away from it:

"Wow, Leonardo DiCaprio is so funny as Calvin Candy. I want to be JUST LIKE HIM! 😃"

deirdreassenza.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve been thinking this all week. Plantation economies, that’s what they want. Personal sandboxes where they can run economic efficiency experiments on captured human subjects.

catsandchronicles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, the “low regulation” meets “biotech innovation” screams illegal human subjects testing to me.

laurenceballard.bsky.social•1 day ago

NeoFeudalism.

janetsmith77.bsky.social•1 day ago

So many struggling Americans STILL support MAGA. It's so baffling to me.

jammaj.bsky.social•1 day ago

Emotionally and morally deficient social rejects want more than just a few dolls to play with.

5andman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elysiu? Wall-E? Matrix? Footloose? Ready Player One? Is this a preview of AmeriKKKa’s future 🤔 .. anyone else want to add to the list ✅

5andman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elysium

mudsludge.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's always about slavery with these super pro-capitalist types

bigheadzach.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is why we can't recklessly show these folks dystopian horror films because it's just porn for them

jrosevear.bsky.social•1 day ago

And then they go on and on about how we're stuck in outdated conventional modes of thinking. (No, my dudes, you just want to be Bond villains.)

andyspags.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even worse, it’s a business plan that they can beat off to before unleashing on the world.

deaconbluesclues.bsky.social•1 day ago

We need more movies where time travelers shoot at 1850s era plantation owners with helicopter gunships

bigheadzach.bsky.social•1 day ago

Best we can do right now is the Time Haters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsvH7_EF34

diabol.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's seemed to be the case for awhile, but now it's glaringly obvious.

chelawallace.bsky.social•1 day ago

💯

trixienorton.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ain't that the truth.

rebeccajunelane.bsky.social•1 day ago

deaddropholiday.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe a cross between Logan's Run, Soylent Green and Escape From New York. I swear if Trump sees the latter it will be his next EO proposal.

julianes.bsky.social•1 day ago

These fucking douchecanoes read George Orwell books and thought they were business manuals.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•1 day ago

The plantation aristocrat ideology not only survived, but spread across America.

jamesknowsthings.bsky.social•1 day ago

The ones who don't consider themselves bigots apparently latched on to bringing back serfdom. "You and your descendants will work for us, as is proper."

benjaminchambers.bsky.social•1 day ago

every libertarian plutocrat wants his own private state that he is philosopher-king of

constantexhaustion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds like the non 1% class needs to commit to eating the rich sooner rather than later, otherwise we will all eventually become full on slaves to a bunch of lazy, useless rich people.

sburr741600.bsky.social•1 day ago

Slave owners. Right?

mrxexon.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's an ancient formula for slaves and masters.

They contructed and own the society we grow up in. So that you will always know your place among them.

sigreign.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes I've been saying this since they started the rollback on civil rights in '13 with Shelby vs Holder. I thought the whole start honestly was the patriot act but that came and went mostly unused at least in from if US (maybe not FISA) and Americans weren't targeted yet. Just financially until

sigreign.bsky.social•1 day ago

.. the bottom fell out from the corruption with the deregulation in real estate leading to thehousing crisis and then the financial system extorting the gov for their errors and the proliferation of that by the first djt term and further destruction this time.

sigreign.bsky.social•1 day ago

Except this time they're using tools specifically made to avoid the system all together and the regulations don't exist at all on them. They won't because they've frozen the government in place to their advantage in every way.

sigreign.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're taking even more and pushing it those who can't afford it making wealth gaps even bigger than they had been. They want feudalism they want totalitarianism.

diamondlifeca.bsky.social•1 day ago

Opus Dei meets Epstein Island.

independentmedia.bsky.social•1 day ago

I thought this video was pretty informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

independentmedia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep, pretty much. They want a manual slave labor force, where much of the 'cost' of running business is taken over by "AI" so they don't have to pay for humans (though they still need the power and hardware to run them).

rossmwilson.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s it in a nutshell

woolwerks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Migrant proving grounds? Are we talking about an island like in the movie No Escape? These people are insane.

diamondlifeca.bsky.social•1 day ago

Epstein Island

dougmasson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reminds me of Cory Doctorow saying that capitalists want to be landlords. Rents require less work than profits.

meldoublet.bsky.social•1 day ago

They also want to be feudal lords.

eyeofthestorm434.bsky.social•1 day ago

Given how willing they are to blow up the economy it's time to accept that a lot of people commonly thought to be hard core capitalists were just using that as a beard for the fact they would give up any amount of money if they could just own slaves for real.

pearlriverflow.com•1 day ago

freedom cities? what freedom, exactly?

anylength66.bsky.social•1 day ago

100 percent.

nromanek.bsky.social•1 day ago

Heck, get the migrants to build it themselves. Auschwitz-stylze.

brainmist.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's become blatantly apparent. When Vance referred to China as a nation of "peasants"? It's a projection of what he wants America to be.

https://bsky.app/profile/brainmist.bsky.social/post/3lgozq2bvjc2a

taratomato.bsky.social•1 day ago

WTAF???!!!

drnelk.bsky.social•1 day ago

lilhistorian.bsky.social•1 day ago

New question to ask them: Do they believe the North won the Civil War?

invertedpyramid.bsky.social•1 day ago

In a similar vein: the half-baked idea of giving the crypto boys free rein in Puerto Rico has yet to translate into improvements in the lives of the locals.

zoesamuel.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is just feudalism. It's been done for centuries, there is nothing new in it.

dioiioib.bsky.social•1 day ago

Imo one of the least explored influences on modern conservatives is the Arabian Peninsula. Every grifer loves the idea of being a slave-owning priest-king living in a city of gold, Dubai is aspirational for thousands of conservatives and liberatarians.

indigenousdesigns.bsky.social•17 hours ago

black folks have seen this movie before because they were the main characters!

thereeljon.mov•1 day ago

While also being feudal lords. The worst of both worlds.

bjw7.bsky.social•1 day ago

Always has been that way….get others to do your work and you collect the money to live a comfortable life at the expense of others 🤬

andyc300.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have you read Neuromancer? They want their orbitals and some semblance of eternal life.

sofivalenciac.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are you telling me feudalism and slavery aren’t new ideas?

danreidnelson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Big "Confederate dead-enders moving to Brazil" vibes.

whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think they all should sell off their assets here in America and move to some little corner of whatever country will take them and leave the rest of us alone while they stew in their increasing irrelevancy.

lucygoosey70.bsky.social•1 day ago

Some of them are doing that. Google Honduras, prospera, and a freak named Balaji Srinivasan (an andreeson acolyte). Honduras is suing to keep them out.

whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good to know, thx!

chiprogressive.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like with the Confederacy, gentlemen avoid work at any cost.

101deadpool101.bsky.social•1 day ago

They want to be the Neo-Planter Class. The conservative America has always been an antebellum America. An America where only land-owning White men call the shots.

alanfarago.bsky.social•1 day ago

By “immigrant proving ground”, they mean helping to deliver Cuba to Miami.

c0nfluence.bsky.social•22 hours ago

With the poor people of the earth
I cast my lot
Mountain streams
Please me more than the sea

tmcatee.bsky.social•1 day ago

putting them in one place has a certain appeal...

ediblepetals.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why couldn’t they just move to Dubai with the rest of them?

lacywardjr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds a lot like 1789 America.

rimaanabtawi.bsky.social•1 day ago

Massa Musk, Massa Mark.. Massa Jeff, Massa Peeta - you got that right

jbf.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s what the second A stands for

bongrippinbasher.bsky.social•1 day ago

"the hypothetical city could house migrants who wish to move to the U.S., keeping them under surveillance for a “probationary period” while “evaluating their contributions to the local economy and society"

We let them perfect dystopian surveillance abroad, and now it's coming home

andyspags.bsky.social•1 day ago

The more things change…

diamondlifeca.bsky.social•1 day ago

Amen to that.

stacy125.bsky.social•1 day ago

@sarahcpr.bsky.social got it 💯 correct

tonymanz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Brilliant. This slays …

ddnmia.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This needs to go viral....

stacy125.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I’m surprised it didn’t when I first saw it

catsandchronicles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Plantation aristocrats sometimes at least pretended they had a paternalistic duty to their slaves. Our billionaires outsource that to AI and call it innovation.

bioteach2018.bsky.social•21 hours ago

This is a nightmare

eschatonblog.com•1 day ago

slaves and especially sex slaves, and especially underage sex slaves

judah-grunstein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Been saying this for a while. They do not object to immigrants. They object to freedom for immigrants.

bluestatedon.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Fix me a mint julep while I sit on the veranda surveying my field hands. I may whip a few just for fun.

thrasybulos.bsky.social•1 day ago

And there’s only one language plantation aristocrats understand. That of Dessalines

haveyouanywool.bsky.social•1 day ago

These un-American, unpatriotic traitors to the Constitution want to reinstate the Confederacy and establish Gilead, always presuming they would own the plantation; it never occurs to them they could be owned. Like those who believe in reincarnation were always kings in a previous life, not serfs.

inverarity.bsky.social•1 day ago

the natural progression of capitalism isn’t toward utopia, it’s toward feudalism

rekati.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely. I've been saying this since I first read an interview with Peter Theil. America is his plantation.

nunyabitnez.bsky.social•1 day ago

They want to be Kings. They want no laws for them and sex slaves. They want harems of sex slaves like the Arabian sheiks.

brianhill53703.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are lusting after dystopias.

eljeasel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, T Boone Pickens, JR Ewing, or even Scrooge McDuck.

And they choose to be Calvin J. Candie.

Absolute losers.

scot-f.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly goes well with my theory that fundamentally middle class Republicans have never gotten over losing access to a minority domestic workforce because of civil rights and the minimum wage and that this continues to drive much of their politics.

merlyngabriel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Imagine being that wealthy, having everything you could ever want and being this evil. They could be heroes and save the fucking planet but nope they gotta be the Bond villains and fuck as much shit as possible all the while gleefully cackling about it on social media.

javax2.bsky.social•1 day ago

The more they seed discontent, the more flowers of revolution.

fincoot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk is so dying for his own slaves he's building his own robots.

heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not a novel idea, but I think conservatives have never been able to let go of Jefferson's dream of every white man in the country having infinite land and resources, and only doubled down on that dream after slavery was abolished. They're trying to lay the groundwork for realizing it.

jonlewis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes--Trump and his ilk would love to repeal the 13th, bring back the auction block, the overseers, and the lash.

anondissent.bsky.social•17 hours ago

not enough people are talking about the techno-fascists, these people need to become a kitchen table issue

badforbusiness.bsky.social•1 day ago

I appreciate this framing because it highlights they have some weird anachronistic desires.

All that wealth should allow them to foster desires that are ambitious and creative, and they’re falling far short.

benfteresa.bsky.social•1 day ago

"In many ways, the plantation social-economic model is the neoliberal ideal."

johncraighammond.bsky.social•1 day ago

Western history from the mid-1700s forward is really just one big battle between democrats and aristocrats.

sdbreton.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’re mad they aren’t allowed to surpass JP Morgan in levels of visible wealth and power inequality; private shuttle to the moon or whatever.

revolution2dot0.bsky.social•1 day ago

You know that dictators and tyrants around the planet a quite chummy with Trump. They had freedom and democracy are eager to team up with Trump to finish it off. That's why dictators of the world hate Democrats and other democracy oriented political entities and countries..

roaringgirl.bsky.social•22 hours ago

More like the Imperial Russian model: huge serf populations that they can play with, like dolls. Create an opera company with serfs, a dance troupe, an athletic team. Exchange pretty girls like trading cards, or use them yourself to create a new humanity. Oh, and hunting us for sport. Fun times!

gafrmms.bsky.social•1 day ago

...are they seriously copying L. Ron Hubbard and Sea Org??

independentmedia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep, they are their own little political collective of techno-fascists.

meldoublet.bsky.social•1 day ago

See Neo Feudalism
Or Tech feudalism

Or if you really want to see them for who they are, read Curtis Yarvin
His "butterfly revolution" is project 2025. He invented RAGE (now DOGE). RAGE stands for Retire All Government Employees.

badgerfacts.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hopefully, we need more billionaires putting them into the direct fury of the climate where money can’t protect them.

101deadpool101.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think I played this game before...

tonymanz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, they are!

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/map-utopian-california-city-solano-county-18612996.php

cloudberrysundae.bsky.social•1 day ago

Basic ass bitches

persianx6.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Left wing city planners: "Hey, wouldn't it be nice if we had more open space and could ride our bikes everywhere? What if we could... walk?"

Right wing city planners: "WE WANT SLAVERY, PROVE YOU SHOULD BE AMERICAN."

gminks.bsky.social•1 day ago

New money fever dreams

suburban-vampire.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's simple; we kill the Batman

guybaddis.bsky.social•1 day ago

BINGO

Since Trump showed up, I've been telling people that that Republican Policy shed Northern "Shopkeepers" cloak and revealed itself to be aligned with Southern Plantation Owners.

annihilatethisweek.bsky.social•1 day ago

Whoever is running Cuba now should just bomb the entire shit out of Guantanamo and take it back from us already. We don’t deserve it.

diamondlifeca.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank You

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