Investors of a purportedly "five-star" bunker in rural South Dakota, called Vivos xPoint, are already at each others' throats.
  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    6 days ago

    This shit is funny ngl, feel bad for the contractor who got shot tho. These fucking losers really think their money and their social standing is gonna keep them safe

    • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      56·
      6 days ago

      From this old article

      What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

      They are scared, they have no idea what they’re doing, their money can’t protect them from their own ignorance. We will win.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
        30·
        6 days ago

        Also the whole story about how some of them got a some professional opinions about keeping their mercs in line and when they came back with “just be friends with them” they collectively said no about asked about bomb collars.

        • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          42·
          6 days ago

          Yup, from that same old article (sorry if that’s what you already meant)

          The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

          I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.

          They are so high on their own supply of “the only realistic way to win is through sociopathy” that they don’t even consider not being ghouls, even when it’s logical and would save them

          • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            24·
            6 days ago

            “the only realistic way to win is through sociopathy”

            I don’t think these people are playing at sociopathy, I think they actually are sociopaths and have embraced it; I don’t make this as a dig at people suffering from sociopathy, I mean that these people are also sociopaths and rather than try to overcome it have embraced it instead as something that’s given them wealth and power.

            • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              16·
              6 days ago

              To be fair. It seems like a skill than can be developed. I have not partied with alot of upper class people. The ones i have treat exploitation and domination as a game or a virtue. They are brought up trained in it. The way we treat sharing as a virtue because it helps us survive, that helps them survive. Plus they do way too many drugs. So that has to help the process.

          • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
            11·
            6 days ago

            Yup that’s exactly it. Where brought him into like a compound’s round table. Douglas R.

            Edited the last initial cause I saw the other comment had the correct name.

  • Euergetes [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    34·
    6 days ago

    agony-soviet guess where they built their bunker-village. guess again because they didn’t build it, of course its a scam reselling cold-war fallout shelters. guess again because its not even old private bunkers.

    they’re literally on a deactivated military base. now, i’m no expert on int’l nuclear plans but if i’d even bothered removing bases that closed from my target list (which i really dont need to do if i have a huge heap of missiles), i’d probably put one back on when sat-photos show it’s in use again putin-wink

    nuclear survival tip doggirl-smart move to a place that is liable to get bombed, on purpose