just the cost of business

Remember when Bezos got exposed with the leaked texts and the infamous pic tied to MBS? That mess hinted at how deep kompromat runs among the elite. Power games built on blackmail, secrets, and leverage.
Then Elon randomly accusing that cave diver of being a pedo—no proof, just ego and impulse. That wasn’t just reckless, it exposed a rotten core. These billionaires aren’t just flawed. Some of them are deeply corrupted, masking decay behind fame and fortune.
- You just can't get that rich without being a metaphorical cannibal. It's like people forget that usury, a cornerstone of our entire financial system, is and remains a sin, and Jesus didn't say they'd have it almost impossible to enter Heaven for no reason. He wasn't talking about doctors and engineers there, he wasn't flipping their tables...
  
  is and remains a sin
  It’s kind of amazing that some aspect of Christian identity was tied for centuries to the opposition of loans/interests/usury, and that’s just vanished. The Christian Dominionists who want to create a fascist theocratic ethnostate just don’t read the parts about debt jubilees every 7 years, or leaving part of your field unharvested for the widows and orphans; while they salivate over all of the stoning passages.
  Just as amazing is the amount of apologia around the camel and the eye of the needle. There’s pseudo historical arguments that “eye of the needle” is a contrived way to describe a gate, or the one I saw here was “all things are possible through god, so the point is that god is powerful enough to save rich people.”
  Christ was pretty clear, but people like money. Mammon is an easier god to serve than the one that asks you to pick up your cross and follow him.
- I seem to remember Musk's defence on the paedo thing being that in South Africa, it's not meant to be taken literally and it's just a generic insult.
  Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase "pedo guy" was common in South Africa, where he grew up.
  So if a bunch of South Africans started calling Musk paedo-guy on Twitter and elsewhere, it's just bants and not defamation, right?
  
  Surprised he didn’t use that as a defense for the Nazi salute, considering that he was named after a character in a Von Braun novel.
  “I grew up in a community of violent racists mad about the end of apartheid. I couldn’t have known any better.”
  
  Everything musk says is more or less a lie. He said he didn't give a nazi salute. Of course he did.
  Our politics are a lot like Russia. They provide the most ridiculous counter argument that is absurd and then end the discussion. Or they blame or accuse others of doing Exsctlt what they're doing. I think they were during nuclear blackmail many times when they're the only country threatening everyone with nukes. Crap like that.

What has Jamal Khashoggi done for Bezos lately? This is about money. Let’s not get all emotional here.
- Billionaires putting money above basic human decency is actually a pretty reasonable thing to get emotional about, imo
  
  Oh, yeah, I’m just being incredibly sarcastic
- Exactly, its just business! Take the emotion out of it. /s
  
  Ayn Rand is leaking

USA is literally an evil genocidal empire. It has always installed and support disgusting tyrants. Anybody who thinks that one murdered journalist changes anything is really clueless. They've literally murdered hundreds of journalists in Palestine and nobody says shit. Hegemony completely supports this. Always has been.

if the journalist didn't want to get murdered, he shouldn't have been guilty of...... something. I'm sure he was guilty of something. What can we say he was guilty of? yeah, that. /s
- Shhh… don’t worry so much about it. Just take this nice check and it’ll all be okay.

Americans stopped caring about that murder within 24 hours when the news cycle told them to be mad at something else

The mask is fully off now. They’re seizing power and they no longer care what we think about anything.

Is there an extension I can use to know if a site uses AWS? Their not getting a penny from me.
- Good luck using 'the internet' without AWS.
  
  If youre mostly looking at the same 5 websites anyway (because information is centralized now, this isnt the 90s) theres a private frontend for almost ever one. Libredirect is an extension that I use that auto-redirects to those front ends, and the original companies never see a dime.
- Theres one for CloudFlare, never checked for AWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGMuSyjjcRY
[Verse 1] The old devils are at it again Who knows what they'll do And it's true right now like it was back then The old devils are at it again
[Verse 2] From behind these bars, the view don't change Desperation, death and despair From what little I hear of the outside world Well, it's not too different out there [Verse 3] And they tell me there's a war without no end The old devils are at it again They died by the millions, children, women, and men The old devils are at it again
[Verse 4] When I say "devils", you know who I mean These animals in the dark Malicious politicians with nefarious schemes Charlatans and crooked cops
[Verse 5] Well, moonshine still gets you five to ten The old devils are at it again Stripes on your back and a ball and chain The old devils are at it again
[Verse 6] Two men stare out of prison bars Wondering what got 'em here One saw mud but the other saw stars Praying that the end is near
[Verse 7] Well, the billboard outside says "Confess your sin" The old devils are at it again I guess I will confess that I've been suffering The old devils are at it again [Verse 8] I said the old devils are at it again Who knows what they'll do? And it's true right now like it was back then The old devils are at it again
[Outro] I said the old devils are at it again, oh ho

Rip Andy
- Bezos could have just fired the guy, but no, this is about sending a message

MBS also hacked Bezos phone and got his noodz