cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7730578
You know what's cheaper than building fucking castles and living in fucking fear all the fucking time?
Paying your taxes to fund a proper welfare state. Simple as.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Ah yes, that worked during previous revolts
Impenetrable
Lol. Keep thinking that.
This plays out on a less extreme level too, when an area attracts wealth the more wealthy residents will silo themselves behind security gates and kill any sense of community that the area previously had.
This is nothing new to the Mega Rich and absolutely an ad read from WSJ to the Middle Rich.
You need to be more alarmed about this.
Conservatives (and the rich tend to side with conservatives) have no imagination and project their own intentions on others.
I cannot possibly stress this enough:
IF THEY THINK WE'RE GOING TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK THEM, IT'S SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING TO ATTACK US THEMSELVES.
They have THOROUGHLY demonstrated that they can't imagine anyone wanting to do anything but that which they themselves want to do, are preparing to do, or are ALREADY DOING.
Mark my words:
The rich are preparing to exterminate us all.
They don't care about extermination. Lol. How do you exploit the dead?
They want you alive. And supple to their desires.
This is why they are absolutely shitting themselves over plummeting birth rates.
So it's not that they're going to exterminate you as and kill you. They are going to exterminate your way of life to supplement their own
No, not exterminate, just control with even further violence. The rich are stupid and useless, but they do know that they need bodies to do their work for them, even if they’ll never admit it.
This is, honestly, much worse because complacent people won’t fight back nearly as hard.
They can only store so much food in there.
Castles often weren't conquered by forcefully breaking through the walls but rather by keeping them under the siege until their inhabitants either surrender or die from hunger.
They are very small, and we have a LOT of raw sewage, and some very powerful pumps.
Won't take long.
This is proper problem solving for the task at hand.
Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.
How will drones ever cross the moat?
How will vigilantes ever be able to catch these oligarchs at their office if they have moats around their house.
Honestly, wouldnt it be cheaper to just not be evil?
I got a trebuchet for sale.
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The ultra rich have always done this, we just used to call them "castles".
I wonder if someday there will be guided tours of Jeff Bezos' mansion. A little museum too, all about his reign of terror.
What kind of life is that though. So now you're stuck in a fancy prison and can't trust anyone around you?
Unless you got a Black Agnes hiding in there it ain't gonna do much.
Read this as "black angus"
What's that, a Scottish 90yo version of Black Widow? 🤔
She was the lady of Dunbar during the second war of Scottish independence. She rather famously held the castle from pro-English forces through most of the war.
I know the signs of a aproaching class war if i see them.
You mean a sudden escalation.
The current class war has been going on for decades.
Guess who can swim!
They could just try being nice, but I guess that's too much work
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." -General George Patton
There is a very thin line between “Safe inside your bunker” and “Trapped inside your bunker”. The people on the outside dictate how that plays out.
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Society failed when it allowed people to start accruing this kind of wealth
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But can they really trust their guards? What guard wouldn't want to have the nickname the kingslayer?
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Drones with explosives go vrrrr.
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