let’s just forget for a second what he did or not in epstein’s island, being a billionaire is bad wether the person is an asshole or not. it means we live in a socio-economic system that enables someone to concentrate an insane amount of resources and decide solely out of his mind how to direct the spending of those resources. that they are not being used entirely to solve global warming or world hunger or disease issues is problematic and it’s not some token value spent on charity or point-based solutions that is going to change that. the fact that he doesn’t want to break the patents of covid vaccines is pretty much an example that, when pressed hard enough, he will act on the interest of his class, regardless of what he personally thinks.

the fact that he associated with epstein, independently of his reasons, is just the cherry on top of that shit sundae.

did you just noticed that you are literally defending that it’s ok for someone to go to a secret posh brothel which happens to have underage children as sex workers? that this isn’t a character statement on someone?

billionaires shouldn’t exist in the first place. there’s no way such amount of resources is going to efficiently be used by one single person.

nothing new. here in brazil many manufacturers, dell included, would ship laptops with linux and then people would shove a pirated windows copy on it.

many of the most emblematic coup d’états were sponsored by dems in power. brazil in 64 and 2016, bay of pigs invasion in cuba in 61, south vietnam in 63, greece in 67, dominican republic in 63 and 65, argentina in 66, bolivia in 79, south korea in 61 and 79, honduras in 2009, paraguay in 2012…

worse, they’ll say that he’s privileged for not being a gay in trump’s america, since that’s perhaps the worst thing that could happen to a human being.

tbf the democratic party isn’t a left party.

this.

adendum: in some “primitive” societies, there was no private property of the means of production. marx and engels studied that extensively.

for the rich? absolutely.

perhaps the greatest achievement (?) of trump and his cronies is making “they live” an obsolete movie. they’re saying in people’s faces now everything every past 'murican government (and their pervasive elites) tried to embelish and coat in self-righteousness. for anyone who lived outside the country, especially those outside global north, this is some sort of twisted vindication.

normally in brazil you have three alternatives:

• find someone who sponsors you: increasingly in disuse, since your sponsor needs to have property paid in full within municipality’s limits, metro regions or in neighbouring cities, and a monthly income that is at least 3 times the rent and other associated expenses;
• pay an insurance: generally it amounts for an increase of 10-25% on top of your rent. however, by the end of the contract you won’t have it back;
• traditional deposit: most tenants and real estate agents will charge you three rents in advance, since normally contracts have a standard 30-month length. after an year elapses and you decide to leave, you will receive your deposit in full with the inflation that incurred during that time. if you decide to leave before that year, you will have to pay a penalty of your rent multiplied by the number of months that are left in your contract divided by 10 (e.g. if you leave with about 24 months left, the penalty will be rent * 2.4). this penalty is usually waivered after 12 months. however, if you didn’t really trashed out your former house, they will charge you painting and cleaning expenses (sometimes even if you paint and clean yourself, depending on how much son-of-a-b*tch they are).

but many people say that they only still make gpu’s out of inertia and image issues. it’s no longer their main business.