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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by antiframe »

appplication wrote: post #30

This is off topic and I understand we’re not supposed to comment on such things, but was anyone else mystified by the decisions that went into the scroll progress bar up top (on mobile)? It seems to be two part, where part of it would accurately reflect your scroll state, while the other had some weird latency associated with it. And then it ended up hidden behind the top of page blur unless you scrolled very aggress…

It works for me. I didn't dismiss the first dickover, but did dismiss the second dickover. Scrolled all the way to the bottom smoothly (minus the pause for the second dickover).

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by esseph »

stevenpetryk wrote: post #11
water-data-dude wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If things ever get bad enough that the wealthy need underground nuclear bunkers, the underground nuclear bunkers aren't going to be enough to protect them. The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

automated war machines are plenty to stop an angry mob imo.

Now imagine an angry mob with automated war machines

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by everyone »

graphime wrote: post #26
water-data-dude wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If things ever get bad enough that the wealthy need underground nuclear bunkers, the underground nuclear bunkers aren't going to be enough to protect them. The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

> The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose. Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public. They will simply arrest you, or worse, just kill you. What’s your solution to that?

Have you thought this through fully? In that case who'se supposed to be doing the arresting and killing? -- more ordinary people.

Look at what happened to Ceaușescu for example. He went from being confident in his rule to dead 24 hours later.

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by everyone »

stevenpetryk wrote: post #11
water-data-dude wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If things ever get bad enough that the wealthy need underground nuclear bunkers, the underground nuclear bunkers aren't going to be enough to protect them. The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

automated war machines are plenty to stop an angry mob imo.

Yeah like the elites would have any clue how they operate, like any tech.

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by graphime »

everyone wrote: post #63
graphime wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose. Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public. They will simply arrest you, or worse, just kill you. What’s your solution to that?

Have you thought this through fully? In that case who'se supposed to be doing the arresting and killing? -- more ordinary people. Look at what happened to Ceaușescu for example. He went from being confident in his rule to dead 24 hours later.

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Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by kilroy123 »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #49

Some of the messaging around this by the people trying to build this out is so tone deaf. I think they know and that's why they're building bunkers.

Which is actually pretty shortsighted.

What if we just made a strong middle class? Made sure they had a LOT more money? Then they could just buy more stuff and services.

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by dominotw »

whatever1 wrote: post #58
annagio_ wrote: post #44

Half of Albania is butchered like this, beaches and green being destroyed to make resorts for the tourists to come. Go see Dermi or Vuno and then go see Borsh how clean it is, with no excavations at all or resorts being build.

Don't forget that resorts et al typically belong to international capital, and the tourists rarely leave the premises. So what does the local economy get out of it? A few maids salary to clean up the tourist's shit?

what about tax revenue ?

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Post by renegade-otter »

toasty228 wrote: post #60

The rich are getting too openly greedy and complacent again, they're slowly forgetting about history, can't wait to see how it pans out in the next decades. https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article1196

Which is ironic because Rae Kushner - his grandmother - is a legend. She has gone through some things.

Now her grandson is wrecking Europe.

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/560224531/trump-stories-kushn...

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