One of the most interesting changes of the last 15 years has been the global public realizing that most international issues and conflicts are a series of pump-and-dump or rug-pull schemes to the benefit of the kind of assholes who can afford superyachts.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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"Somehow" as if it's some great mystery and not because the 1% are siphoning off a bigger and bigger portion of the world's wealth. All to use for their own amusement while recklessly destroying the planet and sabotaging any attempts to do anything about it.
Don't forget using them to hide somewhere out of reach when the peasants finally revolt.
That's the real agenda.
If this happens, they better be damn sure the workers on the yacht have been paid and treated incredibly generously. It's not like these yachts are actually operated by the owners, and the crew are part of the working class.
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The suffering of millions is directly proportional to the wealth of the ultrawealthy. These things are not tangentially related. They are direct consequences of one another.
Yep. People can only be wealthy if the wealth is not distributed evenly.
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Anytime now the trickle down is gonna start, trust /s
Just start working in the super yacht business.
I live in Seattle. We have North America’s largest superyacht facility here: Delta Marine. Their starting pay ($22/hr) is less than the local burger place, Dick’s Drive In ($23/hr), and I swear to god I am not making any of this up.
This makes totally sense. Why should the workers in the field of work Which caters to people, who became rich by exploiting the working class, not also exploit the working class.
So clearly the solution is to ~~guillotine billionaires~~ become an exploiter yourself.
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I am tired of pretending I don't want to behead all billionaires.
Then stop. There's plenty of us that feel the same. Our community needs more people.
That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.
It's so interesting that people can pretty easily be sold on the idea of starting a war that will kills tens of thousands of people based on geography that won't really change much, but if you propose killing far fewer people in a move that will improve the quality of life for the majority of people on the planet suddenly you're a monster.
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How odd. Its almost as if the insanely wealthy are getting richer at the expense of everyone else. Not to worry, they earned and deserve it through knuckling down. It'll trickle down anyway. It's not their fault. If anything it's the brown people risking their lives on unseaworthy craft that are to blame for everything being so expensive.
Let's Tricke It Down by just taking it back.
It’s not “somehow” - the real economy is tanking precisely because the oligarchs have got so efficient at skimming the top off.
Skimming the top, yeah, but the "top" is 99.99%.
They'd probably quote that and portray it as you saying 99.99% of people are in the "top" now.
Tax their fucking wealth. We should be voting en masse for wealth taxes. They are just social parasites that extract wealth from the rest of the population while killing it. !twnw@fedia.io
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These things are terrible for the environment.
‘Megayachts’ are environmentally indefensible. The world must ban them: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/megayachts-environment-carbon-emissions-ban
We don’t need to ban them. They just need to be made to sink through a series of unfortunate events that are nobody’s fault at all.
And if the owners are aboard and are unable to escape the sinking, I’m sure that would be a tragedy, and absolutely nobody would be dancing in the streets over such an event.
Release the Orcas!
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I wish the yachts themselves were exploding.
Don't let our dreams be dreams
gabe newell the ceo of valve has an entire fleet of superyatchs
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php
At first I saw that among his fleet of 6 ships, that he has a research vessel and a hospital vessel. I thought, "Ok, funding research and a fucking full on floating hospital that he can send to disasters and places in need. That would actually be pretty fucking cool."
But, then I kept reading "a full-fledged hospital, serving as a safeguard for the cruising billionaire during the COVID-19 pandemic". 🤦
It's a "support" vessel that follows his main yacht around in case he needs medical care.
He's create a fleet that he, his family, and his friends can escape to when the revolution comes, and Sociopathic Oligarch families start losing their heads.
He's not the only one. When this is over, we will task a military outfit to hunt down superyachts, arrest the occupants, confiscate the yachts, or destroy them if they resist. With satellites, they shouldn't be too hard to find.
I know Lemmy loves him, but if he's got fleet of superyachts, he's part of the problem.
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It should be pointed out he actually now owns Oceanco, the megayacht building company mentioned throughout that article
I like to think he has an elite crew of engies and demo guys to keep his fleet safe.
And to think it's the Rainbow Warrior that got mined and sunk
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Missed the word “sales” the first time and thought “hell yeah”, then re-read it and was just disappointed.
Yeah, the fact that super-yachts aren't exploding just shows how fucked we are.
Paywalled article. Though I suppose that's an apt meta-Boring Dystopia detail.
"Somehow"
I don't know guys. Do you think we could get to the bottom of this?
Ukraine has gotten pretty good at flying drones. Anyway, what's this post about?
Unfortunately the weapons they develop there will be used against us here.
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Manufactured economic crisises are designed for the rich to get richer. its not a side effect, its by design
somehow
Enslave the wealthy, make them work for us.
This brings the same energy as "somehow Palpatine returned." Come on, we all know how.
People selling all of their stuff to go live permanently on the ocean?
I know of at least one person with that plan
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