A pandemic, like any other crisis, has a way of exposing the chasm between the haves and have-nots, and perhaps the deepest trench right now is the one between the one percenters self-quarantining in dramatic and expensive fashion—and the rest of humanity. While most of us scroll social media and stay glued to cable news, Peter Thiel has a New Zealand hideaway and Jeff Bezos reportedly rules over 300,000 acres in West Texas. We’ve all probably heard about them, but did we ever really think we’d see them put to use?
In 2017, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman told The New Yorker that he estimated over 50% of Silicon Valley billionaires already had purchased some kind of apocalypse insurance, like a safe room, bunker, or overseas escape […]
via Inside the Survivalist Bunker Where Some Wealthy People Hope to Ride Out Coronavirus | Vanity Fair
Hmmm. There may be hope yet. The rich and powerful will lock themselves in their shelters and then we lock them in their shelters from the outside.
Ok, doesn’t seem like kindness and brotherly love on Tubularsock’s part, now does it.
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Tube, what a brilliant idea. We’ll lock them in their bunkers, and capitalism will be over.
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If only t’were that simple and easy!
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So true, Sha’Tara. All Tubularsock can really see happening is just another group of power hungry “leaders” taking control even if they are from the “left” and we’ll all get back to business as usual!
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The “right” is so far to the right that it’s “left” and the “left is so far to the left that it’s “right” and what’s left is right and what’s right is left and it’s left, right, left, right, left, right, backward march!
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Of course Sha’Tara you are correct and Tubularsock agrees but some things have to change linguistically to cover this new dynamic.
Tubularsock will leave that to you.
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Reblogged this on AuntyUta and commented:
Can a virus be kept outside?
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I learned years ago not to waste anymore time watching network news.
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Me too, UberLyftDrives.com. The last time I watched network news was when Lyndon Johnson decided not to run for a second term.
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