Good. let's let the bodyguards earn their keep, too.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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American Execs be like...
And then we get another $50B on hyper policing for a "crime wave" that doesn't exist.
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But they don’t stop. “Are we the baddies?” is overwhelmed by “I’m making lots of money, fuck the little peasants.”
Only takes one.
We eat just ONE billionaire and they'll all take notice.
The slender Italian didn't even get a billionaire and it scared the ever living hell out of all of them.
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"Who do you trust, and who do you serve?"
Bet ya they are not paying their bodyguards enough... maybe we can outbid them
as they should. fuckheads being afraid for their lives is the highest form of satisfaction we can get.
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In my country a prime minister had once been killed by her own bodyguards, just saying
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There's a lot of "but why don't they stop if what they're doing is so unpopular?" comments and I've got one more explanation (on top of the obvious money and technofaschism points).
A bunch of these tech CEOs are part of the "Rationalist community" and possibly believe in Roko's Basilisk which is a thought experiment that an otherwise benevolent AGI would punish anyone who didn't actively work to bring it about. Someone want to link the BtB episodes about them? I know the Zizian episodes go into it but iirc they've got a dedicated series about these weirdos.
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Or you could, y'know, just stop.