@SrRochardBunson
And don't forget there are Republicans TODAY who think "Child Labor" should be made legal again, actually arguing "it BENEFITS poor families having that extra income."

Of course, none of them considers for a microsecond how "not being in school" or "lower grades b/c a child is too tired to learn" condemns these same families into a cycle of poverty. 🤬

@MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

So many Republican policies can be seen through the lens of deliberate immiseration.

Keeping the poor as poor.
Thwarting social mobility.
Keeping people in their place.
Social stratification.
Class hierarchies.
Gender & racial isolationism.
Religious control.

Eroding the institutions that made the American middle class.
Homes. Public Education. College. Steady jobs. Living wages. Unions. Literacy. Public health. Libraries. Functional government. Voting.

@MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Oil industry billionaires are funding Republicans to conduct hostage negotiations over the debt ceiling.

The same billionaires frying the planet.

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/20/mccarthy-pushes-us-to-brink-of-default-to-appease-energy-donors--but-biden-has-an-ace-up-his-sleeve/

@Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson Because they think they'll have air conditioning after the apocalypse.

No, really.

Their brains are so fried by money, they think they will remain rich even if civilization collapses. If they ever understood that civilization is what makes them rich, that understanding is long gone. They believe they'll still own stuff when the fallout settles.

It's like thinking gravity doesn't apply to you because you have a private plane.

@jwcph @Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

My apologies, but you are thinking locally. They are global and can go anywhere. Their actions suggest they've already spent a tiny fraction of their wealth to ensure they can live out their lives - perhaps another 30 years - in comfort and power. After that, they really don't care what happens.

@jwcph @Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

I don't disagree, I just thing perhaps they have a different definition of, "come out on top".

@jwcph @Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

In a true post-apocalyptic world, they'll already be dead. They're like narcissists that way.

@jwcph @Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

I think that perhaps, for some of them, being protected, self sufficient, part of a self-built culture and knowing they have it better than 99.999% of humanity will be very emotionally satisfying.

@jwcph @Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

I think you might be amazed at what unlimited wealth can buy. We don't even know where most of their apocalypse compounds are, but of those that are known, they're like small villages, and are in very geographically isolated areas and appear to be resource independent. I don't think they are preparing to remain in power of a failed planet; I think these are just fallbacks *should* everything fall apart. So that they can live out their days in relative comfort. The ultimate golden parachute. It's kinda terrifying, really.

@Frances_Larina @jwcph @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Bunkers become targets for the desperate. They'll change hands a hundred times after a societal collapse.

Seige mentalities pin you down & it's an unsound military strategy to lose mobility.

Mobility limits the amount of supplies carried.

@Npars01 @jwcph @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Still not thinking big enough. These are people who influence nations. Those superyachts they've been buying lately can stay at sea for months. And I'd be amazed if they haven't bought their own islands and or simply bought thousands of desolate acres in which to put their compounds, complete with a private army, farm workers, doctors, etc.. They don't intend to be anywhere near the desperate masses.

But my point isn't whether they can pull it off. It's that they believe they can, so they don't care what happens to the rest of us, or the planet. They are capitalism's equivalent to the cults that are awaiting the Rapture.

@Frances_Larina @jwcph @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Republican billionaires seriously underestimate how long it takes a collapsed society to reconstitute.

The 1929 crash only ended with WW2.

The 2008 crash took 8 years to recover.

Many collapsed states never recover because they're invaded by an enemy.

Think that the Chinese Red Army will let Peter Thiel keep his bunker? Or Murdoch his Montana ranch land?

Most food supplies & medicines don't last beyond a decade, despite preservation

@Frances_Larina @jwcph @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Climate change will cause collapses that may last millennia.

The Permian extinction eradicated 80% of marine life & 70% of land species.

No matter how much a billionaire prepares, an unbreathable atmosphere isn't likely survivable.

Ditto for water supplies heavily contaminated with fossil fuel waste (most crude oil ports are at sea level and will be unusable as sea levels rise) or worst case scenario, radioactive ash in the atmosphere.

@fgbjr @Frances_Larina @jwcph @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

The globe would not survive an immortal Charles Koch.

Peter Thiel is using Palantir's access to public health records for his own eugenics immortality bid. He backs that one up with plans to be cryogenically frozen.

Both billionaires believe that a societal collapse will leave their immortality planning intact. A shared delusion.

@Npars01 @fgbjr @Frances_Larina @jwcph @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Not “Billionaires”….
“Ego-Maniacal Oligarchs”.

“Let’s call things by their proper names”…Oscar Wilde