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Trump backer Timothy Mellon identified as donor of $130m for US troop pay during government shutdown
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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Imagine paying $130M and enabling the destruction of democracy simply to avoid ever having to pay your fair share of taxes.
You can throw millions at an army, but you fight tooth and nail to avoid paying for any public services those soldiers might otherwise benefit from. Typical conservative bullshit. Humans are basically cattle to them.
Force them to be born. Completely hands off for 18 years. Ignore any and all obligations to help make sure that have access to affordable education or healthcare. Stack the deck against the ones that actually survive to adulthood, so that the military is the only option most people have. Then, once they're old enough to fight to help keep you rich, (this time on the streets of their own country), suddenly they're worthy of your investment.
See this is something I don't get about billionaires.
You already have enough money to literally buy ANYTHING you want. You might not be able to buy slaves but you can pay people to do shit for you, there's even people out there who'd be down for a whipping for a few thousand dollars... You're literally king of the world, without moving a pinkie.
And instead of using all that money, all that wealth to get new experiences, learn new things, discover new places, literally do things no-one has ever done before... what do you ask for?
More money.
It's not even greed anymore at that point, it's a psychological issue, akin to hoarding, except your hoarding ruins the entire planet.
Billionaires shouldn't exist, period.
100% this is it. Hoarding usually boils down to OCD and needing to feel a false sense of control.
You never know when you might need to possess all that money you will never be able to spend (even if you do somehow achieve immortality) just like you don't know when you might need that collection of old newspapers. But when that day comes, you're convinced you'll be ready. Then they'll see. They'll finally all see. Unless somebody steals or misplaces your "treasures."
This is literally from a recent article about Thiel and his Antichrist lectures:
Your fucking identity? Bro, you'll be worm food like the rest of us. That's why they call it the great equalizer. (And that is also probably exactly why you fear it more than anything else.)
Yes it’s a disease. Diseases should be.. elinated? Healed? Gullotined?
Healed. The issue is that the only way to heal these people that are literally greedier than dragons is to forcibly make them donate every single dollar over 10-100 million dollars to a "Sovereign Fund for Humanity's Poor" fund that will distribute their stolen wealth to the poorest of humanity. Said fund would have to be administered by like minded people, but the best would be two fiduciaries, and three data analysts from OxFam currently.
Its a form of psychosis, and is considered a mental illness in most countries. America is literally an example of addiction to money.
They are sick. Literally.
Excellently stated. Thank you for posting that comment.