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[–] [email protected] 305 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Fuck wealthy assholes that think their opinion is more valuable than the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 5 months ago (4 children)

And fuck a system in which their opinion’s correct

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago

It's called a plutocracy .... a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is .... it isn't a democracy.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When people talk about the illegitimacy of democracy under capitalism, this scarecrow and her late husband are why.

How can democracy co-exist in an economic system where orgs are run like dictatorships from the top down, and individuals hold more wealth, power, and influence than entire nation states — despite those orgs employing, and being dependent on, thousands or millions of workers?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Citizen's United means it literally is

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, for all literal and realistic practical purposes, their opinion is absolutely more valuable than the rest of us. It's not that they "think" it is, it's a simple matter of fact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

and yet their necks are all roughly the same size as everyone else's.

How very curious.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why vote when you can just buy an entire candidate?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Seriously - how can any person be so brazenly and thoroughly warped?

I can only assume that, like so many of the fabulously wealthy, she's profoundly mentally ill, such that she really can't grasp the enormous human cost that fulfilling her petty, selfish and ultimately pointless desires would entail. It can only be the case that she genuinely can't grasp the fact that the millions of people who would be made to suffer or die for this are actual people - actual beings with lives and loved ones who are every bit as important to them as hers are to her.

It's either that or she's genuinely evil, in the purest sense of the word, and on a scale the world has rarely seen.

So which is it Ms. Adelson? Are you insane or simply evil? There's absolutely no doubt - none at all - that it's one or the other.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago

She's a billionaire. She's used to killing people for selfish interests.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

Psychopathy.

To get that rich, one needs to be able to think of other people as things. "Human Resources" as such.

If other people are things then there's no moral problem "decommissioning" them be it redundancy or killing.

What would make her evil is, if knowing this, she makes no effort to mitigate it. Given she's a billionaire: evil.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

She knows. They all know. They just don't care. Because they are evil shits.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

So which is it Ms. Adelson? Are you insane or simply evil? There's absolutely no doubt - none at all - that it's one or the other.

Both

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

Original title: Miriam Adelson’s Unfinished Business What does the eighth richest woman in the world want?

The article shows how aggressively anti-peace she is and her beliefs about the land to support the above claim

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Sheldon Adelson's widow. yeah, this all makes way too much sense. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in 2018, from #45. The wikipedia pic of her shows #45 solemnly placing the medal around her neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sheldon Gary Adelson (August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman,[2] investor, political donor, and philanthropist.[3][4][5] He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo and Convention Center before selling the properties in early 2022.[6] He owned the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, the Israeli weekly newspaper Makor Rishon, and the American daily newspaper the Las Vegas Review-Journal.[7][8]

Adelson created the Adelson Foundation in 2007, a private charity focusing on healthcare and support of Israel and the Jewish people. He was a major contributor to Republican Party candidates[9][10] and was often dubbed a "kingmaker" due to the size and frequency of his donations.[11][12] He and his wife Miriam Adelson were Donald Trump's largest donors, providing the largest donation to Trump's 2016 campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference, and the 2020 campaign.[13][14][15][16][17][18] He was also a major backer of Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[19]

In 2020, Forbes listed his net worth as US$29.8 billion.[20]

He died in 2021

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (10 children)

If anybody reading this is voting against Biden because of Palestine (effectively a vote for trump under fptp) these are trumps #1 fans and bill payers

Pro trump is not pro Palestine.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

do we have a punchable faces sub yet?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (17 children)

I'm no anthropologist or anything, but I'm pretty sure the annexation of the West Bank would guarantee a permanent guerilla terrorist force operating within Israel's borders for the foreseeable future. Israel would never know peace. In 200 years they'll probably still trying to snuff out terrorist cells constantly killing civilians.

Just with this war they have created thousands of fresh new volunteers for Hamas both within and outside the general area of the conflict.

The way out of this is more empathy for the Palestinians, not less.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He was always going to do that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Right, he literally said he'd crush protests and deport protestors. It's terrifying AF when someone with this much influence is this ill&informed.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

alternate headline: the adelson's give billions to republican candidate again like they did every cycle.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

She’s orange as fuck too

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

She's from Israel, she's 78 and she's got his (American, not relevant) husband's money. She already supported Trump, who gave her some medal once elected.
Bye bye Miriam, despite your (husband's) money, you will be forgotten

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

trumps top supporter in 2020 election has threatened to... support trump.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

A real eye opener for everyone (except Trump supporters) where some of the rich want the world to go to ... (or am i right?)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

i love it when these people get their names exposed in the media. i might not have even known who she was. now we can put her on a list. did you put her on a list? you should.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Stupid orange bitch.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

What a cutie. Looks like a lot lizard

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Invasion. It's an invasion. A clean sweep genocidal invasion.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Billionaires gonna bill ya for air

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You would think she could afford to go for a candidate who keeps their promises

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Best politicians that money can ~~buy~~ rent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This just in, Trump announces he supports a full Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

That was announced with the old peace deal he proposed during his presidency, which fell through

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