I wouldn’t spend carelessly. If I had that much money I had planned for years what I would do to it.

The question that Nazis hoped that people would forget is ‘why are Nazis so hated?’ The answer is they wanted to do to Europe what the Zionists want to do to the Middle East. But Europeans were white (at least to us now) so it was seen as particularly evil.

Mussolini and the fascists in Italy were jokes. Imperial Japan was as evil as the Nazis but people forget that for some reason.

Not really. Most lottery winners go bankrupt, and it is because they spend or give away their stuff.

Perverts know what perverts want.

The souls of four donkeys and a rotten egg?

Yes I have, and I am not that. I would like a few tens of millions of dollars so I can sooth my anxiety that I will never want for anything again. But that is all.

Call me medieval, but I don’t understand these people… If I somehow had a ploy to make that kind of money in one shot I’d make like a bandit and vanish… Then retire. That kind of money is never work again money. I could retire at 30 and die in my 80s a rich man.

I would just say don’t do Spaceballs wrong like that… But no.

The actions of the US government have been so destructive that they are comparable to the empire in the dumbest way possible.

Starmer probably has more dirt on him than Jimmy Seville and they are using that to keep him in line.

I got bored REALLY fast of their shit.

Zuckerberg and Thiel.

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I remember when the TSA first started after 9/11. People were extremely critical of them from the get go. I still remember when Joe Foss (WW2 Medal of Honor recipient and the highest scoring US Marine fighter pilot ever) was stopped by the TSA in 2002 because they thought that the Medal was a weapon of some kind and even his dummy bullet souvenirs were to be taken and destroyed… he was able to get them to not take away his medal (he had to mail it to himself at his destination). This caused a small scandal at the time.

Ditto. I need a steady paycheck. No one should put up with an employer who refuses to pay earned pay.

I am honestly still surprised that after decades upon decades of doing this, Trump still manages to get away with refusing to pay workers what they are owed. Somehow people just forget that or don’t think he won’t pay them.

In some cases there are some people who are wising up to him. The Kurds, for example, remember the sudden betrayal and withdrawal that Trump did in his first term and made it clear that they refuse to fight Iran or participate in his campaign in any way.

Yes! That one was a big fucking deal. But just look at how soldiers and sailors were treated before then. There is a joke about the UK that ‘the flavor of the food and the beauty of the women of England drove many men to sea’ implying that Britain became a maritime empire because their food sucked (not historically true) and their women were ugly. In reality it was proto-capitalism… they would press gang sailors and force them to join the navy or the merchant marine when they needed more sailors. They literally could just walk into a pub or any public place, see any man they liked, and take them. It was like an extreme draft board.

As for the pay those sailors got? Much of the time it was so incredibly pathetic AND the same sailors were charged for their own necessities, meaning they got even less than advertised (if anything at all, and in many cases they owed the navy/merchant marine money). Going back even farther to the middle ages and prior, what was the primary motivator for people to become soldiers and go to some far away place to fight someone who didn’t even know existed? Plunder. That was it. In Ancient Rome plunder was quite accepted for individual soldiers even if it was forbidden at times, and divvying up what was stolen was also critical to maintain morale. In Medieval Europe it was the same. Even in the Middle East and East Asia that was a very important motivator since many people who joined were just dirt poor and this was their best (if not only) shot at making some amount of money.

Switzerland today is a very rich country, but once upon a time it was one of the poorest places in Europe, and this is why Swiss mercenary armies became so common and so popular for a long time (the only extent Swiss Guard is the Vatican Swiss Guard, but many royals used to have Swiss Guards in the past). When the early Muslims were expanding in the 7th and 8th centuries, they would tell many people to come and join the conquest because it will enrich them in the world and let them go to heaven. The same thing happened in the Crusades when they were promised salvation in addition to plunder.

Historically soldiers were treated like shit and were poorly paid if at all, and after their service they were just forgotten and not cared for.

The generation that fought WW2 had it best of all but it was far from the norm.

I would take laxiatives so I can shit all day.

It is the third option. For a schizo conspiracy it makes a lot of sense.

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel should be made to light their own pyres.

Same here. Google pixel 10 with grapheneOS.