• emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Do you think he hires his bodyguards straight out of high school because he wants to bring in fresh brains to ‘disrupt’ the security space? Do you think he’s threatened if one of his bodyguards knows more about guns or can do more pushups than he can? Are yhey all just mindless yes men afraid to tell him ‘No’ if theres a security issue? Or does he value experience when it comes to his safety and can put his ego aside? Im actually curious about the dynamics given his track record with people working under him and his ludicrous hiring choices and process in the past.

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    Capitalist scumbags live in golden prisons of their own making.

    Meanwhile I can go almost anywhere on the planet alone without any major problems.

    “Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”

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      Yup.

      Being wealthy would be cool, but being a celebrity, a well known person. Nah dawg. Major pass on that shit.

      So many things you can’t do anymore. Including basically all my favorite things. Sounds like a curse to me.

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    It’s wild to me how Musk is proving (just like Trump is) how fundamentally weak and small he is.

    Fred Rogers never had to travel with a single bodyguard.

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    I mean, someone with a high capacity magazine could make short work of even 20 guys. And they aren’t gonna be able to do shit against any kind of explosives.

    If one of them can be turned, and someone from Musk’s own security team goes Luigi, they’d be a hero and every single authoritarian across the globe would suddenly come to fear their own security squad.

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      I mean, someone with a high capacity magazine could make short work of even 20 guys.

      If they were a wizard who could magically appear within firing range, sure. But by then you’re three layers deep into the Survivability Onion

      A big part of personal security is to never be somewhere that a guy who wants to kill you will also be. That means keeping your schedule unpredictable, your route clear, your mode of transportation discrete or otherwise unassailable, and your physical presence obscured to the outside world.

      Incidentally, in the last few years the FAA has made it much more difficult to track private aircraft.

      If one of them can be turned

      Strategically positioning all my guys

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        If you have a dominance-oriented worldview, being less shitty than your clout allows you to get away with is preemptively surrendering. Imposing your full shittiness on the world is dominance.

        The former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to have not changed his socks daily, seeing imposing his stench on underlings and those wishing to deal with him as a power flex.

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      Who would dare question his nobility? Guy has so much money not a person around him is going to want to risk telling money bags himself he’s not the greatest person on earth.

      The reason: they either depend on him for money or if they don’t then they know he’s emotionally unstable enough to turn this into a monetary problem with lawsuits or political fuckery.

      Most people have seen how things go when they talk to their insane MAGA uncle about reality. Now just imagine if he had all day to fuck around, was constantly taking drugs and was unimaginably wealthy.

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    Remember when UHC got shot, musk started using one of his children as a human shield. He would often hold the shield in front of him, Everytime he does a press release

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    Elon Musk, father of 14 children was basically never seen with his kids until a CEO was shot. Now he always travels with at least one portable meat shield.

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      Father of 14 known children. The down low is apparently he pays women one million dollars to bear his child and she has to sign a non-disclosure agreement that she won’t tell people it is his baby.

      He is on record saying he wants to make a legion. That is around five thousand babies. He is one of the richest men in the world so this is within his reach. I am going to go throw up now.

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        A million dollars? It’s sad those women don’t even realize what a paltry sum of money that is. You become a billionaires concubine, and all you get is enough money to pay for a house in a low cost area, and food/medical bills/clothes/school/activities for like maybe five years at most, then you get to find a job and become a single mother that works full time. And you better be careful with your choice of housing, taxes are due every year

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          How crazy expensive is america? One million is like thirty years of minimum wage salary before taxes in Spain. I bet I could manage to retire at 45 with that kind of money.

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            This person is greatly exaggerating. I bought a house in central Illinois with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms for $130k

            Also, just having a million dollars is a big step up

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            Highly depends on area. $1 million is about 16 years of the median wage. It can be hard to survive on the median in some cities, but can be OK in rural or extremely economically depressed cities/towns. I don’t think federal minimum wage is enough to survive anywhere without assistance.

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    Any history buffs?

    Is there any similarities to Praetorian Guard with the rise of private security for these rich?

    Like wasn’t Rome at some point actually controlled by Praetorian Guards in secret because they were so powerful that the emperors couldn’t defy them.