“We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!” Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.

“We’re just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city.”

The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.

  • Narri N.@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    tomato potato. and how do you know, hmm? do you divine the exact information on a case-by-case basis from animal bones and cryptic symbolism in your dreams for every non-socialist on whether they are stupid or willfully blind? i often find myself making such grand generalizations, while being myself willfully blind to the stupidity of such endevours.

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      6 hours ago

      Because they wouldn’t get to that position if they were just plain stupid. But it’s amazing what someone can fail to understand when their livelihood depends on it.

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        4 hours ago

        Because they wouldn’t get to that position if they were just plain stupid.

        Counterpoint: Trump

        The influence of money outweighs intelligence every time, which is precisely why your second statement holds true.

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          28 minutes ago

          You both seem to be right. Needless levels of empathy should also be avoided in some sense. i want to believe in aliens though