• doug@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

    sadly I would not put it past a lot of those psychopaths to do it for free.

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      12 days ago

      No doubt that some of them are doing it for the love of the game. 🫤

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    11 days ago

    This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?

    He doesn’t just screw over workers, he does it for his business partners, too. Wealthy and powerful people… people who can hire hitmen and also pay to make the evidence disappear. If they can kill Epstein why wouldn’t they have gotten rid of him in the 80s and 90s when he didn’t have as much power as he does now?

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      11 days ago

      The american legal system is catered to one principal:

      if you owe your bank $10 that’s your problem, if you owe your bank $10 billion dollars, that is your banks’ problem.

      This is why salespeople and scammers flourish in america: get enough loans and debt and you can uno reverse any monetary problem here but often rich people and bullshit artists are the only ones who have enough collateral to get that kind of debt.

      The courts are designed to take a lifetime to figure that kind of stuff out - it keeps going as long as you have money. This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out, all the ill gotten gains are laundered. Your kids are set for life and all the people you conned foot the bill.

      It also shows how much a high estate tax would cripple these incentives.

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        10 days ago

        This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out

        Same thing with the AI bubble. Sure it will burst, companies will go bankrupt, millions of peoples retirement savings will disappear, and many will suffer /die from the economic aftershock…

        BUT

        The rich will have already realized their dividends / capital gains

        The rich will have already purchased the land / property

        The rich will already have the data centers / ram / AI

        They rich will have their assets and eat ours to

        The whole system is a kleptocracy and the AI bubble bursting will make late stage capitalism worse not better.

    • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 days ago

      Unscrupulous people use other unscrupulous people as patsies… They’re all so up their own ass that they don’t think they’ll be the one that has one over on them. They are all narcissistic.

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      11 days ago

      I don’t get it either. My cousins lived in Southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, where all of his casinos went bankrupt. He was notorious for not paying local contractors and some went into horrible debt due to his refusal to pay. Yet that whole region is crazy about him. I suppose they just don’t have very good memories around there.

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      11 days ago

      This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?

      All his fans and supporters believe that he only screws over their common enemies. In fact, they love that he does that. They falsely believe that he would never screw over them. He will never eat their faces. They think they’re the in group with Trump.

    • JustAGuy@lemmy.org
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      11 days ago

      Parents are probably more connected than we know, or he got in by providing their proclivities.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      It’s one of the most hilarious things to me, just a masked face with Arnold’s lips making Arnold groans. That scene was gold, fuck that whole movie was gold

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        that whole movie was gold

        Indeed, I miss the James Cameron golden era when he was pushing cinema boundaries and not pumping out the nth iteration of Avatar

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        12 days ago

        When he uses a squad to break into Bill Paxton’s sleazy getaway spot where he tries to seduce Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s followed by this scene:

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        It’s where the squad attacked bill paxton when bill was trying to convince Jamie Lee Curtis to leave the country. They cut the trailer in half, bill fell on Jamie and arnold flipped his shit, made this face.

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    Wait, are they really not getting paid? Dont get me wrong id rather see them just lose the job and or get deported (to the bottom of the ocean), but if they arent getting paid that a lil karma at least. And funny.

    Also please dont lump A’nold in with those scumbags.

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      10 days ago

      They’re probably getting their monthly salary but that 50k bonus requires 5 years “service” so they’ll all be out of a job before then

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      10 days ago

      ???

      I mean a large portion are in it for the money. The power trip is a bonus for many. Let’s be objective here

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        10 days ago

        The laying off of massive amounts of civil servants made a desperate class of people that needed to pay their mortgages and support their families. Now you’ve got ice, an agency beholden to following through their contracts or forced to pay back money they already spent.

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      12 days ago

      I do indeed! But what is a political meme, if not a shitpost?