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Postby Auristania » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:27 pm

I am Poor, therefore, I hate the Rich, therefore if I were Rich, I would buy a guillotine and execute the Rich.

But what if I get executed? Milord, I have a cunning plan: for each execution there will be firework extravaganza and music and dancing and toffee apples and sausages. so by the time it is my turn to get executed, I will only have a reasonable amount of money.

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Postby Ghost Land » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:28 pm

I've actually been thinking a lot lately about the answer to a related question: what I'd do if I had infinite money, or at least so much it would never be an issue for me. I'd move onto a really cool RV/houseboat combo and just start cruising the world, probably never spending more than a week in the same place. I'd get it set up nicely with a bunch of records so I could listen to music, a collection of clothes that would probably be ever-expanding as I picked up cool T-shirts from around the globe, and a telephone so I could call up all of my friends I'd made in other countries (for example, keep in touch with my friends from Japan while island-hopping around India, or chat up the nifty chick I'd met in Brazil after a long day of hiking in Mongolia, et cetera). If I happened to find my true love while going from country to country in search of good scenery, good food, and a good time, she could live in my extremely-mobile home with me and we could continue trotting the globe forever, or until we mutually decided to settle down somewhere.
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Postby Great Algerstonia » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:34 pm

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Over times square on new years? If not the air national guard. NYPD would be taking that plane or chopper down.

I'm sure I can meet up with some people in shady alleys with a couple thousand dollars on me, and I'll be just fine. :P
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Postby Vetalia » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:40 pm

I'd found a city at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small!
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Postby Gun Manufacturers » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:42 pm

Auristania wrote:I am Poor, therefore, I hate the Rich, therefore if I were Rich, I would buy a guillotine and execute the Rich.

But what if I get executed? Milord, I have a cunning plan: for each execution there will be firework extravaganza and music and dancing and toffee apples and sausages. so by the time it is my turn to get executed, I will only have a reasonable amount of money.


I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get far with your "execute the rich" plan before you ended up in prison, or facing some other rich person's private security detail.
Gun control is like trying to solve drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.

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Postby Great Algerstonia » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:45 pm

Gun Manufacturers wrote:
Auristania wrote:I am Poor, therefore, I hate the Rich, therefore if I were Rich, I would buy a guillotine and execute the Rich.

But what if I get executed? Milord, I have a cunning plan: for each execution there will be firework extravaganza and music and dancing and toffee apples and sausages. so by the time it is my turn to get executed, I will only have a reasonable amount of money.


I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get far with your "execute the rich" plan before you ended up in prison, or facing some other rich person's private security detail.

Then just buy that rich person's private security detail. ;)

You are rich, after all... might as well abuse being rich while it lasts
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Postby Galloism » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:48 pm

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Have your people get in touch with my people.

Will do. Make sure they use our acronym.
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Postby Auristania » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:50 pm

Gun Manufacturers wrote:
Auristania wrote:I am Poor, therefore, I hate the Rich, therefore if I were Rich, I would buy a guillotine and execute the Rich.

But what if I get executed? Milord, I have a cunning plan: for each execution there will be firework extravaganza and music and dancing and toffee apples and sausages. so by the time it is my turn to get executed, I will only have a reasonable amount of money.


I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get far with your "execute the rich" plan before you ended up in prison, or facing some other rich person's private security detail.
So I ain't rich enough to do what I want??? What kind of genie are you? You promise I get my wish and then you cancel Breakfast.

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Postby Geneviev » Fri Sep 06, 2019 4:57 pm

I'd buy a Mendini MEP-N nickel plated B flat euphonium and donate the rest of the money to charity.
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Postby The Wasatch » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:00 pm

I would donate nearly all of my money to charities, art, and environmental causes. I would buy an apartment, new clothes, and nice bicycle with the rest.
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Postby Gun Manufacturers » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:24 pm

Auristania wrote:
Gun Manufacturers wrote:
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get far with your "execute the rich" plan before you ended up in prison, or facing some other rich person's private security detail.
So I ain't rich enough to do what I want??? What kind of genie are you? You promise I get my wish and then you cancel Breakfast.


Being rich doesn't mean you get to do whatever the fuck you want with no consequences.
Gun control is like trying to solve drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.

Any accident you can walk away from is one I can laugh at.

DOJ's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/fi ... -p0126.pdf

Natapoc wrote:...You should post more in here so I don't seem like the extremist...


Auraelius wrote:If you take the the TITANIC, and remove the letters T, T, and one of the I's, and add the letters C,O,S,P,R, and Y you get CONSPIRACY. oOooOooooOOOooooOOOOOOoooooooo


Maineiacs wrote:Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and get drunk all day.


Luw wrote:Politics is like having two handfuls of shit - one that smells bad and one that looks bad - and having to decide which one to put in your mouth.

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Postby Cekoviu » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:26 pm

Vetalia wrote:I'd found a city at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small!

And where the human would not be able to breathe!
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:27 pm

I would stay at home, play video games, watch movies, draw and RP all day

I’d go to the fine restaurants every meal

Get better gaming equipment

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Postby Cekoviu » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:27 pm

Gun Manufacturers wrote:
Auristania wrote:So I ain't rich enough to do what I want??? What kind of genie are you? You promise I get my wish and then you cancel Breakfast.


Being rich doesn't mean you get to do whatever the fuck you want with no consequences.

True; if you're a rich child molester, you might get in the general vicinity of a sentence.
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Postby New haven america » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:31 pm

Gun Manufacturers wrote:
Auristania wrote:So I ain't rich enough to do what I want??? What kind of genie are you? You promise I get my wish and then you cancel Breakfast.


Being rich doesn't mean you get to do whatever the fuck you want with no consequences.

That's right, as soon as your rich friends see no point in keeping you around, then you'll get booted and will be forced to follow the law.

And until that happens, you're basically allowed to do whatever you want without consequences.
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Postby New haven america » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:33 pm

Cekoviu wrote:
Gun Manufacturers wrote:
Being rich doesn't mean you get to do whatever the fuck you want with no consequences.

True; if you're a rich child molester, you might get in the general vicinity of a sentence.

Even then, it'll be pretty damn belated. (See: the very existence of R. Kelly)
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Postby Medwind » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:34 pm

I'd give money to my family, buy a nice house with a lot of land, establish a real estate business, get a good stock broker and invest, build a good portfolio, start up a large scale marijuana farm, maybe open up a couple restaurants, and then pursue my own varied personal interests, and manage my businesses. (learn to fly a plane/buy one, learn to para-glide, buy one, learn to sail, buy a sail boat, sail around the pacific, etc. etc.) I'd also possibly open up a homeless shelter and soup kitchen to feed and shelter the poor and homeless, but only if I were secure in my businesses and finance.
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Postby Rojava Free State » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:36 pm

Gun Manufacturers wrote:
Auristania wrote:So I ain't rich enough to do what I want??? What kind of genie are you? You promise I get my wish and then you cancel Breakfast.


Being rich doesn't mean you get to do whatever the fuck you want with no consequences.


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Postby Kowani » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:40 pm

Overthrow capitalism by investing heavily in automation.
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Postby Rojava Free State » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:41 pm

Kowani wrote:Overthrow capitalism by investing heavily in automation.


invest too heavily in automation and it might overthrow humanity
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.

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Postby Kowani » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:45 pm

Rojava Free State wrote:
Kowani wrote:Overthrow capitalism by investing heavily in automation.


invest too heavily in automation and it might overthrow humanity

Let me rebut that: no.
Abolitionism in the North has leagued itself with Radical Democracy, and so the Slave Power was forced to ally itself with the Money Power; that is the great fact of the age.




The triumph of the Democracy is essential to the struggle of popular liberty


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Postby The Black Forrest » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:06 pm

You have to define “rich”.

A couple million? I would retire and live a simple but secure life.

If more money then I know what to do with? I would set up a group to invest in local businesses that need help and I like the people running them. All of it with the impetus of me not being known. Control would not be a driving force; community improvement.....

Of course I would set up my mother and my parent-in-laws with a secure life.
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Postby Great Algerstonia » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:09 pm

Cekoviu wrote:
Gun Manufacturers wrote:
Being rich doesn't mean you get to do whatever the fuck you want with no consequences.

True; if you're a rich child molester, you might get in the general vicinity of a sentence.

Probably with a shorter. period at the end of the sentence
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Postby Marsonpax » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:10 pm

First off buy a nice property with a green tech smart home on the property, with a world-class design and amazing view (I know my favorite location,believe me),in with a nice electric car and bicycle for my self with the rest of my money being saved for myself and for my family to inherit it when I pass on.Mostly I would live simply on a healthier diet of fruits nuts,and vegetables,as I am proudly vegetarian,and would live a more vegan lifestyle if I was richer. A uniquely designed outside pool built into a rockface with a waterfall fed by natural springwater
flowing into a separate pool,warmed by geothermal heat or something.A truly historic firearms/melee weapon collection to impress upon my guests with and of course,a tank for Siamese Fighting Fish to impress upon my guest the power of my personal ambition and desire to succeed in life. Some investment would come later, and I like to see positive results and big changes my money brings to projects to create true change in the world,I would like to help develop more reliable green tech to phase out dependency for fossil fuels.I want a green healthy planet to pass on to my children and my brother’s children.

I would donate to charities and programs here at home to help the poor and working poor in the United States and Canada.It’s an issue I feel strongly for.I would also volunteer in soup kitchens and homeless shelters and on the ground where it makes the most impact in people’s lives.I just want to build a stable life for myself and build some self-sufficiency for the first time in my life,as I have been fairly poor for most of it. Adopt a child from the poorer parts of Africa would be great, from Liberia,South Sudan,or Botswana or something. I would love to change my adopted child’s life for the better.
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Postby Cekoviu » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:26 pm

Marsonpax wrote:First off buy a nice property with a green tech smart home on the property, with a world-class design and amazing view (I know my favorite location,believe me),in with a nice electric car and bicycle for my self with the rest of my money being saved for myself and for my family to inherit it when I pass on.Mostly I would live simply on a healthier diet of fruits nuts,and vegetables,as I am proudly vegetarian,and would live a more vegan lifestyle if I was richer. A uniquely designed outside pool built into a rockface with a waterfall fed by natural springwater
flowing into a separate pool,warmed by geothermal heat or something.A truly historic firearms/melee weapon collection to impress upon my guests with and of course,a tank for Siamese Fighting Fish to impress upon my guest the power of my personal ambition and desire to succeed in life. Some investment would come later, and I like to see positive results and big changes my money brings to projects to create true change in the world,I would like to help develop more reliable green tech to phase out dependency for fossil fuels.I want a green healthy planet to pass on to my children and my brother’s children.

I would donate to charities and programs here at home to help the poor and working poor in the United States and Canada.It’s an issue I feel strongly for.I would also volunteer in soup kitchens and homeless shelters and on the ground where it makes the most impact in people’s lives.I just want to build a stable life for myself and build some self-sufficiency for the first time in my life,as I have been fairly poor for most of it. Adopt a child from the poorer parts of Africa would be great, from Liberia,South Sudan,or Botswana or something. I would love to change my adopted child’s life for the better.

Liberia, South Sudan, or Botswana? Did you just try to think of three of the most different Sub-Saharan African countries?
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