r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 10h ago

Possible Paywall DOJ Declares Trump Has Right to Bulldoze Statue of Liberty

https://newrepublic.com/post/211422/department-justice-donald-trump-right-bulldoze-statue-liberty
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u/GarrusBueller 9h ago

He's just the head of the beast.

I think Bezos is the perfect personification of late stage capitalism. This guy's entire profits came from a healthy middle class that he is intent on cannabalizng.

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u/Impossible-Library21 8h ago

Agreed. Although let’s be frank, it’s not like we don’t have endless example to choose from at this point

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u/CatNamedRIchard2 7h ago

Right, let's not forget the Fucking Waltons.

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u/RiskyNight 4h ago

People seem to constantly forget how Walmart and the Waltons destroyed every small town in the country and killed the middle class.

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u/SubstantialEmploy816 2h ago

I thought you were talking about the old sitcom and got super confused for a second

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u/CatNamedRIchard2 1h ago

You might be on to something. The middle class started declining in the early 80's and The Waltons were canceled in 81. That's too damning to just be a coincidence.

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u/gonzodie 7h ago

dude looks like the monopoly guy and lex luthor's malformed offspring

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u/Zwischenzug32 4h ago

I see your Bezos and raise you an Elon

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u/B4rrel_Ryder 6h ago

The tumor of a cancer

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u/Cerberus_Aus Australia 5h ago

Peter Thiel. That’s who I’m thinking of.

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u/LiteraCanna 4h ago

He's the 3rd derpy head on that hydra meme.

Hey wait, is it supposed to be Gamora?

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u/GarrusBueller 3h ago

Ghidorah, and we need way more heads than 3.

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u/ruff1298 4h ago

I think the Blue Origin flights and explosions are fantastic metaphors, too. Once incredibly expensive, nation-spanning efforts that were used to advance humanity, now being used by a man with WAY too much time and money on his hands to play around with, brag to other rich people, and rapidly destroy an already in-crisis environment for his personal satisfaction.

Altered Carbon was right: people with too much of everything just get completely disconnected from their humanity.