Joel HanlonJul 29, 2023
Janel Comeau
not to sound like a huge communist but I don’t think millions of us should have to die hungry and in debt so a couple dudes with really really really big boats can have really really really really big boats
Jul 29, 2023 at 2:36amWeb
Show threadDopeGhotiJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama
Why is the idea of being pro-community so very much frowned upon anyhow?
Show threadArtemisAug 1, 2023

@DopeGhoti
Honestly, the history of how we got to this point is pretty fascinating.

Just ONE element of this history: corporations back in the mid-20th century engaged in all kinds of endeavors to sway popular opinion that unchecked capitalism is the only moral system (and godly too! Billy Graham et al loudly spread the Gospel of Capitalism with the backing of corporations like General Motors. No joke). Literally the Religious Right was created by automobile and oil companies.
@VeryBadLlama

Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama "Goddamn commies."

*bites into a can because that's all there is on a barren landscape sacrificed to the idols of greed and stupidity*

Show threadBleak FutureJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama sounds to me like someone who only has a really really big boat is jealous of our really really really big boats over here.
Show threadSaanichGuy 🇨🇦🇨🇦Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama so true but the seeds of this are everywhere. Seems the messaging is you need a bigger house, car, RV, etc.
Trying to live simply & limit our consumption!
Show threadfluids_guruJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama nah go nuts. We need more huge communist energy right now.
Show threadDaniil BaturinJul 29, 2023
@fluids_guru @VeryBadLlama I'm a huge communist.
Show threadcowboybanjobiker 🤠🪕🚴Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama I think they can have really big boats AND people don't have to die hungry.
Show threadFrankFrankFrankJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama @cowboyminer I mean, that’s not how it’s worked out so far
Show threadMichl-ErichJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama you need to take some money and change the views on socialism. GErmany is a socialstate. so somewhat we got socialism here. what is so bad in beeing social. I mean you DO call it socializing when you meet up and have fun. But in politics NOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD and I mean you actually do not have to raise taxes you just have to reduce warspending of oversized military
Show threadKyozouJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama I’m a boat person and I approve this message.
Show threadJustin AlexanderJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama But if we limit them to only having really really really big boats, how will the economy survive?!
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama Ah! Someone who *isn't* abusing the "yacht" word. (A "yacht" is a thing with mast(s) and sails.)
Show threadClaudia KPJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama

Or space rockets. Or social media platforms.

Show threadLaura Sykes #GreeneraliaJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama I agree that the wanton display of wealth is highly disagreeable, but we made the mega-millionaires so rich by buying their stuff, not at gunpoint. I have no relationship with Musk AFAIK but yes, I use Amazon & helped pay for Bezos's flotilla of yachts - regretfully on both counts.
Show threadWayne WernerJul 29, 2023

@greeneralia @VeryBadLlama no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Amazon is amazing for disabled folks getting things. But also so many swears.

Show threadLaura Sykes #GreeneraliaJul 29, 2023
@ketmorco @VeryBadLlama
We are all 'under capitalism' so does that mean that, say, a group of schoolchildren banding together to grow a small garden at school are not acting ethically when they buy the necessary tools?
In other words, I think it is unhelpful to make such sweeping statements as they make no room for calibration.
Show threadPeter BrettJul 29, 2023
@greeneralia @ketmorco @VeryBadLlama Unfortunately there actually is no ethical consumption under capitalism. No matter what you purchase, someone was exploited somewhere in the supply chain. 😟
Show threadLaura Sykes #GreeneraliaJul 29, 2023

@krans @ketmorco @VeryBadLlama

It's not just capitalism - I suggest every political system ever invented had 'someone exploited somewhere in the supply chain'.

Show threadJoan of Contention 😷Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama Hi (instant follow)
Show threadThe IdlerJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama On the subject of rich people and big boats and what should happen to them, I think you'd enjoy the movie Triangle Of Sadness.
Show threadErg0t4min3 Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama Oh I love this! Let me have a go;
Not to sound like a huge communist but I think we should improve society somewhat.
Show threadolderJul 30, 2023
@erg0 @VeryBadLlama That doesn't sound like a communist at all, thank you!
Show threadIris Richardson Fine Art 🇩🇪🇺🇸📷Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama That does not make you sound like a communist. There is plenty to go around and those who have find it not cost effective to feed and provide for all. It's greed and you expressed kindness to all living beings. Never apologize for that or give it negative implications. We need more of that.
Show threadB. A. BalackusJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama
😮
@JStatePost
Show threadThreeOfUsJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama you wanna be careful with those extremist views 🤣
Show threadRenoir BoulangerJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama

When we think about it. It's the same as with Kingdom and the likes from a thousand and a few hundred years ago. At the time, not everyone would be able to read, so the message was spread by word of mouth

The argument to let people accepting "dudes have really really really big castles" was because he was allowed to because he's been said by a magical being, and that magical being promising eternity of bliss for being compliant.

I might get hated for having said that

Show threadAutisticMumTo3Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama
Its now space ships the very richest are into- even more expensive than the boats
Show threadRoryJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama I totally agree, Janel.

PS: If believing in what you mentioned, makes you sound like a communist, then I'm a communist...

Show threadMarty PartyJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama what an utterly UNREASONABLE position to take. Those people EARNED the really really really big boats with OTHER PEOPLE'S hard labour.
Show threadA. RiveraJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama If that makes you a "communist," then I am a communist right along with you.

#BadEconomy

Show threadaudisho ☭Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama the only problem with this take is that you've accepted the idea that sounding like a "huge communist" is a bad thing. The #USSR was the first state founded upon the basis civil rights. #China has lifted over 800million out of extreme poverty. Let's stop with this type of language as it gives credit to the anti-communist propagandists.
#socialism #communism
Show threadTobiWanKenobiJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama

But taking back the money a robber stole and giving it back to those it belongs to doesn't make you a communist, does it? 🤔

Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama There's nothing necessarily communist or socialist about that sentiment.
Show threadWayne WernerJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama you're such a radical!
Show threadWayne WernerJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama you know, if we just ate a couple of billionaires we could kill two birds with one stone.
Show threadBob JamiesonJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama Sweetly put! I think you have just summed up capitalism in a sentence. You did miss out the bits about the patriarchy, misogyny, and the destruction of the planet, but good shot!
Show threadJohn Caveney woke is me🛠️Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama nothing wrong with being in a proper community……
Show threadPablo MartiniJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama
EAT billionaires alt you can feed them to Dog's & other meat eating animals it's just recycling!
Proper recycling!
Show thread𝓓 𝓑 𝓒𝓸𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻Jul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama

Sounds like socialism to me and is to be positively encouraged 😎

Show threadAtheist MomJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama - Preach!
Show threadMatty RosesJul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama it's dangerous to go Aline, take this!
Show threadSchafstelze 🎗🖤Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama i'm all for a really really really big submergible...
Show threadAnimystic 🪐Jul 29, 2023
@VeryBadLlama Is this the "red scare?"
Show threadFish HeadJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama

Starts small.
20 foot yacht owners feeling second rate around 24 foot yacht owners.
400 foot yacht owners feeling second rate around 440 foot yacht owners.
Eventually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_yachts_by_length

List of motor yachts by length - Wikipedia

Show threadSoyJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama As somebody who has sailed on normal sized sailboats, I think you are underselling how just how really uselessly big these things are.

Unrelated little detail about boats. You can all track them here. https://www.marinetraffic.com While I don't know the name of Bezos his really really (etc) big boat you can prob track it here.

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Show threadPappyJul 29, 2023

@VeryBadLlama

Sounds like someone hates America?

Show threadluddite 🇵🇸 computerJul 30, 2023
@VeryBadLlama wanting to look after your fellow citizens isn't very patriotic now, come on
Show threadAutistiCriticJul 30, 2023
@VeryBadLlama Sounds like common sense to me and I expect most people share your sentiment.
Show threadShrikant JoshiJul 30, 2023
@VeryBadLlama The fact that I felt it necessary to count the number of 'really's in both instances is a microcosm (nanocosm?) of everything that is wrong with the world, I think.
Show threadJohnny MuuJul 30, 2023
@VeryBadLlama Communism allways lead to poorer people and powerful elites.
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Aug 1, 2023
@VeryBadLlama ...was discussing earlier than its time to place limits on the stock market so the top 3% not be making the rest of the lower be paying them as have been left to do so...need some balance here ...
Show threadLonesomeDoveAug 1, 2023

@VeryBadLlama face it - we are a gluttonous society. We embrace disposable everything- dang, even the big boats are disposed of for bigger ones!

The issue- Male fixation on ‘size matters’ meets ‘I need viagra’.

It’s not capitalism, it’s exploitation.

As for the small boys with their big toys,,,

O no
O no

https://youtube.com/shorts/pukCut2tZDQ?feature=share

Sinking Mega Yacht😱😱😱

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