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        If you have a dominance-oriented worldview, being less shitty than your clout allows you to get away with is preemptively surrendering. Imposing your full shittiness on the world is dominance.

        The former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to have not changed his socks daily, seeing imposing his stench on underlings and those wishing to deal with him as a power flex.

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      Who would dare question his nobility? Guy has so much money not a person around him is going to want to risk telling money bags himself he’s not the greatest person on earth.

      The reason: they either depend on him for money or if they don’t then they know he’s emotionally unstable enough to turn this into a monetary problem with lawsuits or political fuckery.

      Most people have seen how things go when they talk to their insane MAGA uncle about reality. Now just imagine if he had all day to fuck around, was constantly taking drugs and was unimaginably wealthy.

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    Capitalist scumbags live in golden prisons of their own making.

    Meanwhile I can go almost anywhere on the planet alone without any major problems.

    “Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”

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      Yup.

      Being wealthy would be cool, but being a celebrity, a well known person. Nah dawg. Major pass on that shit.

      So many things you can’t do anymore. Including basically all my favorite things. Sounds like a curse to me.

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    It’s wild to me how Musk is proving (just like Trump is) how fundamentally weak and small he is.

    Fred Rogers never had to travel with a single bodyguard.

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    Elon Musk, father of 14 children was basically never seen with his kids until a CEO was shot. Now he always travels with at least one portable meat shield.

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      Father of 14 known children. The down low is apparently he pays women one million dollars to bear his child and she has to sign a non-disclosure agreement that she won’t tell people it is his baby.

      He is on record saying he wants to make a legion. That is around five thousand babies. He is one of the richest men in the world so this is within his reach. I am going to go throw up now.

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        A million dollars? It’s sad those women don’t even realize what a paltry sum of money that is. You become a billionaires concubine, and all you get is enough money to pay for a house in a low cost area, and food/medical bills/clothes/school/activities for like maybe five years at most, then you get to find a job and become a single mother that works full time. And you better be careful with your choice of housing, taxes are due every year

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          How crazy expensive is america? One million is like thirty years of minimum wage salary before taxes in Spain. I bet I could manage to retire at 45 with that kind of money.

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            This person is greatly exaggerating. I bought a house in central Illinois with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms for $130k

            Also, just having a million dollars is a big step up

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            Highly depends on area. $1 million is about 16 years of the median wage. It can be hard to survive on the median in some cities, but can be OK in rural or extremely economically depressed cities/towns. I don’t think federal minimum wage is enough to survive anywhere without assistance.

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          I just want him to feel like he can never trust anyone. No matter how much he pays his bodyguards, it would only take someone else offering a few of them just a little bit more to get him out of the way.

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      Yeah, 20 is about the point at which you’re actually making it easier for a nut job with a gun to get access to you.

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      Why would he need protection from them? When was the last time security personnel offed the person they were hired to protect?

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        1989, when Nicolae Ceasescu got killed by the Romanian Army officers he ran to for protection.

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          I always love to be reminded about that. It probably should have happened years earlier, but you take what you can get.

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        You’re right. Think about this. On January 6, 2021, Trump was illegally inciting an insurrection. He was surrounded by Secret Service agents who are only ostensibly paid to protect him.

        Secret Service agents first oath is to defend the Constitution. So, they actually had a primary duty that day, not to protect Trump, but to arrest him.

        They had all sworn a solemn oath that required them to take action against Trump, but nobody did anything of the sort. In fact, they famously broke the law by not retaining the information from their phones from that day.

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    To be honest as someone who works alongside these people occasionally: That’s a rather small security detail and I know of people with far far less money that have bigger security details.

    20 people is not even a close protection detail, a chase car and an advance party plus medics, even less so if you consider that some people will be off duty, etc.

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    Good. Stay lonely with the gang of dudes you have to pay to hang around you and whose only job is to keep people away from you.

    I just went to see a movie with a big group of friends and now getting a burger, before tonight I work on a creative project with some other friends who all really respect and appreciate each other’s talents.

    Something this fascist freak will never have.

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      assuming the freak is even capable of wanting such things or even understanding why someone would want it.

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    Is the human shield kid a security professional too? By the time he’s 18 he will have 16 years of bodyguard experience, the perfect employee just like in those entry level job ads.