• Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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        You laugh but here in Australia when the Labor government was pushing for a Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) the big miners made their staff go attend a “protest” on Perth Foreshore during business hours.

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    Wow.

    Turns out, if you try hard enough, you can find a protest that you want your police state to crack down on.

    If only one more rally ever gets tear-gassed, I hope it’s this one.

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    I stopped reading after “AI startup”.Everything these clowns do is a publicity stunt aimed at sucking up VC money and splitting before the jig is up.

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    “Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive.”

    If this isn’t a Honeypot it is absolutely hilarious that think that billionaires being “lost” is them leaving the country/state

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      It sounds like yet another dumbass that had their brain scrambled by the horrible sci-fi writer named Ayn Rand, who was even worse at philosophy than she was at writing prose. Surprised they aren’t just outright saying they are threatening to “go Galt”. 🙄

      There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

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          I could not agree more. At one point, I was Libertarian and was always told what great lit it was and it would explain so much, etc. Some time later I was no longer Libertarian and doing lots and lots of reading due to a layoff and trying to find something positive (and free, thanks to good libraries) to fill my time with in between responding to recruiters and job interviews, etc.

          I decided I’d finally read Atlas Shrugged. The magnum opus. The book so many Libertarians point to. I had the time and the library had the book, so why not?

          And…oh gawd. What drivel. What a shitty philosophical system. I had to force myself to finish reading it. LOL. And then shortly after, I started seeing all these “who’s John Galt?” and “gone Galt” stickers on cars.

          Gag.

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    It’s not going to happen and we all know it, it’s funny as fuck to imagine and on some deeply repressed level they know it, that’s why they knew it would get publicity.

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      I agree. I’d be surprised if even some centimillionaires would be there…I imagine seeing counterprotesters up close and personal would be a frightening prospect for them.

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      I’m told by a neighbor, she used to live in the neighborhood where this clownshow is starting his March, that it’s a reasonably affluent area and several billionaires do actually live there. I suspect you are absolutely correct and none of them will show. Wish it wasn’t quite so far away, but there’s no way I could get to SF quick enough to watch the shenanigans that this is gonna cause.