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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by fallingfrog on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:02PM (#30569263)
Wish they’d start doing the same with our own oligarchs. Every superyacht is a crime against our children. The amount of resources those absorb that could have been spent combating global warming, on health care, on housing, is just absolutely disgusting. Not to mention the 10000 dollar bottles of champagne, the massive mansions.. so gross.

And if you don’t think we have oligarchs.. why do you think you pay 200 dollars for a vial of insulin? Where do you think all that money goes?

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by samstave on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:34PM (#30569686)
I have always been amazed that there is not an org that specifically seeks to scuttle super yachts.

Bezos $500 million dollar yacht is an example (dismantle a bridge to get the yacht through, where is the talk about re-mantleing said bridge, did it make it better? Stronger? Refresh components?)

Regardless, if youre issues' require actions against, mega yachts should be target #1.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by jotm on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:00PM (#30570706)
If one guy can severely damage a yacht (happened recently to a Russian oligarch), yeah an organization would do very well. Not sure how much it would help, but yeah.
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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by fallingfrog on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:52PM (#30573784)
Yeah it was very gratifying to see Nancy pelosi and others doing things like apologizing and kneeling in kente cloths during the blm uprisings. I knew it was all insincere, but still, they had the right attitude for once. They ought to be a lot more scared, and pretty much begging for forgiveness right now.
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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by jotm on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:59PM (#30570688)
They need to be properly taxed, but then again they are the ones making the rules, so that's hard...

However all the luxury shit is made by "normal" people, there's a lot of profit in selling $1000 bottles of wine and underpants to the idiots who would buy them.

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