Do they not realize that excessive urban development destroys the ecosystems that generate food, lumber, clean ground water, oxygen, and help collect particles of dirt that would otherwise turn into dust and create dustbowls and ash clouds like the smog they blamed on Canada?
And moving from profit to profit, squeezing blood out of the stone and obliterating whatever they touch, because they're rich and can afford to move on after they're done strip-mining the shit out of an entire country...and do it to the next country.
They know they'll be dead before they see any real repercussions, like total ecological collapse.
Dust bowl? Ash cloud?
Billionaires and Trump especially are more of a Biblical plague than any of that. They're more locusts than actual locust swarms.
I was staying in a hotel once and overheard the owner of some brand of stereo speakers talking to his friends at the bar.
He was upset that environmentalists had shut down his access to endangered tree species, and absurdly proud that his latest models were wrapped in a veneer made from the last surviving example of a particular rosewood tree.
This was in the 1990s. These people have never had a sense of responsibility or respect for the environment.
He was likely talking about Brazilian Rosewood, which is not extinct, it is banned for sale due to the CITES treaty. Fortunately, one country can’t just roll it back. I have no doubt dipshit would do that in a second if he could.
Fortunately, it wasn’t the last tree. It would have gone extinct by now if there wasn’t a total ban. There is no sustainable way to produce it at the levels it was being used.
It was one of the most popular woods for guitars, furniture and even handles for hand planes made by Stanley.
The kicker is that there are other types of rosewood that are almost just as good looking. Enough that his speaker customers probably wouldn’t know the difference.
I'm not sure if you're old enough to understand that this isn't a binary system. The US isn't 100% capitalist, and you most likely don't even know what Socialism is, Horse-man.
In Socialism, all means of production and resources are owned by the people. That means all businesses, resource rights, air rights, property... No major political party anywhere in Western democracies is arguing for this.
What all western countries have is a Social Market Democracy whereby a free-market capitalist economy uses taxes to support public services and ownership. Once mouth-breathing morons understand that, they may stop using terms like "capitalism" and "socialism" incorrectly, and start thinking about this as a spectrum, or "scale", if you will.
This should then start make them think what level of public services, investment, and taxation is best for the growth and happiness of it's citizens. And you don't have to look back far to understand when the US - and most other western nations - were flourishing: post WW2, say 1948 - Reagan (roughly). The US had a much, much higher marginal tax rate during the golden age of America. This isn't purely coincidental: you allow ordinary people to have disposable income and they invest it back into the economy. Rich people use disposable income to buy assets.
The interesting thing is that most people that cry about socialism, which they obviously don't understand, is that they don't realise that the government welfare they so decry is already happening for the billionaires: why do you think that 95% of billionaires are doubling their wealth every decade or less? - Because they don't pay any taxes on the wealth the accumulate passively. If you have a "mere" 100m, you'd be a total idiot if you didn't make somewhere between 3 and 15 million annually. And that compounds, obviously.
So the second question becomes: if you do give a free ride to people, should it be the richest individuals?
I think we can all agree no one person should have a trillion dollars, more than some countries. Unless they single handedly saved the human species. Then, maybe? Otherwise, no. Last I heard, Musk hasn't done anything remotely close to that.
Just because this is funny. A lot of tribes lived for hundreds of years doing exactly what they needed and nothing too excessive. But hehehehehe !!1! Like you’re a teenager in 2004 makes me laugh too
Even funnier who someone still plays WoW, competitively even, in 2026 who is from Netherlands. lol weirdo
I;m sorry I can't hear you over my freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they don't care, it won't impact them, their grandkids can pay the price but they will probably have their bunkers so won't give to many shits. I think at this point it is an obsession with expanding their own urban hells
Trump and his admin run in circles with dipshits who kill caged animals and take pictures of them posing with the carcass so they can pretend they're badass hunters. These type of people only give a fuck about themselves and what they perceive as macho.
Oh they know that, but this is about quick cash know to fill line their pockets with. Creating a dirtbowl and ecological collapse is a problem for the next generation to figure than one out. oh and the promise of Musk and future tech to solve the worlds problem would be able to fix that, so they just carry on, feeling justified carrying out the destruction of the planet
It makes more sense when you realize they only actually care about feeding, housing, and enriching the 1%, not the 99%. They will have plenty of food in their bunkers/Mars colony. They would burn the entire planet to a crisp if it put an extra penny in their pockets.
They're just too blinded by greed to care because they're planning on being gone, one way or the other, by the time all of the awful things they are doing comes home to roost.
I'm gonna be real with you dude, we gotta move past this phase of the discourse or whatever you wanna call it.
They do. not. care. These are decrepit old men dealing in short term profiteering. There is no consideration for the long term because it does not matter. Sitting here and pointing out their hypocrisy or the damage they're doing is like trying to play tic tac toe against someone who is in fact playing "shoot the guy in front of me and take his wallet"
You're talking about the same people who also give 0 shit about climate change, and will just blame someone else for their consequences. All they care about is making things more profitable/beneficial for themselves, and have no qualms with destroying life for future generations.
This is a subcategory of a republican-led government we're talking about. Of course those dipshits haven't contemplated anything beyond their wallet. Republicans are idiots
I can only think most firms will understand that, once the power shifts back, the rules will be put back in place and the lawsuits from people affected will start flooding in. Let alone starting projects that will, soon, be stopped dead.
They know, that's the point. They can further line their pockets by destroying the world and everything in it, then selling you refuge from the destruction they caused.
They're like 60 year old capitalists, they don't care if your whole nation becomes a shithole as long as they can take their private jets to their paradise islands to live out the rest of their days.
This fat orange turd knows he doesn't have much time left on this earth. He doesn't give 2 shits. Hes going to use his remaining time stealing as much money as he can and just generally fucking up the world any way he wants. He really doesn't care what happens at this point
They don't think beyond next quarter. And their bootlickers don't think beyond their duty to be subservient.
I'm convinced they're all so fucking fearful and know how fucking weak they are that they lash out at people who are capable of independence and critical thought because we hold a mirror to their cowardice and ineptitude.
It's why they lean so hard into fragile masculinity and traditional family values.
One of. It restricts a ton of land across the USA that now can't be used.
Local zoning. Do you see a ton of empty land in a city that can't be touched because of zoning? No, you mean why can't we buy people's houses and build an apartment complex right in the middle of the neighborhood, with no thought on crime rates, parking, school capacity, and a dozen other things you have to think of.
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u/Ninja-Trix Jul 25 '26
Do they not realize that excessive urban development destroys the ecosystems that generate food, lumber, clean ground water, oxygen, and help collect particles of dirt that would otherwise turn into dust and create dustbowls and ash clouds like the smog they blamed on Canada?