one is billionaire technofuturist capitalist barons who want the cyberpunk future where they live as gods, immortal, and have secure pedophile islands.

one is blood and soil, white nationalist christofascist death cultists.

these wolves hate each other but have made common cause assuming that, once the mirage-like goal of victory is at hand, they will have the upper hand and silence the other.

this administration knows it must throw new meat to each of the wolves in turn and I suspect this is meant to soothe the death cultists and calm their rage at the now very public and obvious epstein cover up.... which is kind of a big deal.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

one is billionaire technofuturist capitalist barons who want the cyberpunk future where they live as gods, immortal, and have secure pedophile islands.

This is why Mars is so tantalizing, what better place to be a god and have your own child bride harem than a million miles from earth's pesky laws?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is essentially the entire point of colonization throughout history. Rich people escaping the laws of their homeland to exploit the people/resources they are colonizing and/or to bring poor people from their home country to exploit even harder than they were before.

Edit: and in some cases, kidnap and enslave people from a completely separate 3rd place and bring them to the new colony...