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A lone multibillionaire in a society of impoverished people has a deeply boring and dangerous life.

This is why, among other things, our multibillionaire are buying their way into the highest levels of government and media distribution. In their boredom, they are playing kings and manufacturing consent.

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We've seen for centuries what bored oligarchs do - they lead crusades across nations states for one bullshit reason or another with an legion of people who need to work with them for money, entering into indebted servitude agreements. They get bored and go to war. Apparently building and inventing isn't another - I suppose because most of them are incabable of doing that due to a lack of talent. It's not so fulfilling being the moneybank with other people do the hard and interesting work. Probably why billionaires like Gates are midly normal compared to most - he's talented enough to do the building himself if needed. Same can't be same for Musk and Trump.

Trump is ostensibly attempting to end America's favorite ongoing wars. His methods are hotly debated, but his tack is not in alignment with your message.

Building hotels in Gaza and indebting Ukraine are the actions of somebody who is setting up America for future wars.

As well as sending big bombs to Israel instead of Ukraine.

His politics looks like done by mafia boss. Russia invaded Ukraine so Ukraine should pay reparations to USA. And forget about international documents like Budapest memorandum

bryanlarsen: that's speculation. Hard to agree or disagree without any basis in fact.

Whether he's doing it deliberately or not is speculation. I'm not sure what's worse -- whether he's too stupid to realize he's setting up the US for future wars or whether he's doing it deliberately.

With powers of clairvoyance like yours, you should trade the market!

I've made 7 figures trading Tesla stock. Currently I don't own any.

"Ostensibly" is doing a lot of work there. What the guy says and does are often very different, his claims about being a peaceful dove compared to his war hawk actions are no different: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-...

From the title > "Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb."

Yeah, I'm not so sure your linked article is a scholarly assessment of President 45's foreign policy. I don't need to read it, thanks though.

... by selling out our allies. China must be salivating over Taiwan and Japan.

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