Tech Billionaires’ Shocking Plot for Rural America

[@billy3603]

You should not be able to sue someone for not selling. End of story. No is no.

[@ttopero]

Their not suing for not selling. Their suing for “collusion”, as if the land owners are refusing their offer because they want more money, not because they want to retain their land at any price-very different arguments!

[@karlrovey]

​@@ttoperoIn other words, they're using a legal loophole to sue them for not selling.

[@eh3477]

​@ttopero That's what the tech investors are claiming but that's not what happened. These farmers simply had no interest in selling their family property, as they said here. Also, the lawsuit against the farmers is for $$500k, and they know the farmers don't have the cash to fight a long lawsuit.

[@mcsmith732]

The Big Money Boyz are attempting to pull an "Eminent Domain" grift. That sort of thing certainly works in the corporate world. What do you think the "Hostile Takeover" is about? The Big Money Boyz have bought enough politicians and judges who create and enforce legislation that allows for this sort of thing. "Greed Is Good." Remember?

[@michaeld4861]

@@ttopero It's really the same argument though. No means no and it's their land they shouldn't be forced to sell it to some billionaire. And you cannot collude to keep your own stuff. This is pure bully/lawfare. It's oligarchy rule.

[@RoseyFuture]

The arrogance and entitlement of these billionaires is stratospheric .

[@Triplestardoubleloss]

They’re harvesting our planet and going to move on to the next when everything is gone. They do not care is correct and they brainwashed most of the world to not care either

[@sn5806]

Unfortunately, the socialist system we're laboring under has been allowed to become so burdensome that this option is actually better for anyone with any value. Sure, if you're an ugly woman that didn't graduate high school that has three crack babies with three different men this sounds awful, but if you're a contributing member of society your leverage is that you can simply leave if the community isn't being run well. Keep in mind that California is looking to tax people and businesses for leaving.

[@matthewbraman7202]

​@@sn5806Nice attempt. You hit the talking points, but too obvious to be believeable. 2/10 troll.

[@Jack-Pritchett]

Peasants in the past sometimes pitchforked people to death.

[@GabrielHellborne]

I mean, what's the next step up from being a billionaire? Being a feudal lord with a fiefdom. We've come full circle.

[@davidd6660]

As a solano resident, can confirm this video accurately represents the struggle in the county. Remember folks, they're not out to help you. They're out to own you.

[@ChelGriffith]

I’m so sorry your community is going through this! It’s surreal!

[@eddysgaming9868]

Well. Not you, so much, as the residents of their "new city."

[@Billiepippen]

yet people like you won't support initiatives to give money and restitution to those most hurt by being owned and you wonder why they are now about to enslave everyone else

[@davidd6660]

@@eddysgaming9868 also us id imagine

[@girardedward]

Reach out to the ACLU? Seems like it’s their type of battle.

[@bw3506]

So satisfying when billionaires find out not everything is for sale.

[@planetemilyjanet7582]

They'll just take it, they'll put up prices so you can't afford to live there, your house tax will rise. Resistance wjll be terrorism. What happened to Palestine will happen to us and our children.

[@arthurwintersight7868]

Where are people supposed to live, then? If you can't build denser housing in existing cities because of NIMBYs, and you can't build new cities because a couple dozen farmers are standing in the way, then where the hell are people supposed to live? The only thing you've convinced me is that we need Donald Trump in the White House, because as horrific as mass deportation sounds, at least younger Americans will have a place to live. Even if it means kicking someone else out of the housing first.

[@dickjohnson9582]

​@arthurwintersight7868 remember Detroit? It's still there. An entire abandoned city of wasted land. But yea let's just put ugly "luxury" housing in every untapped piece of land in this country. That's a good idea.

[@deehvi1608]

​@@arthurwintersight7868 Thank you for bringing up that point. You see, in most of the USA's cities there is something called zoning requirements and zoning laws. Those regulate the types of buildings that can be constructed on the land. Now those aren't fundamentally bad, for example you wouldn't want to have a coal powerplant right next a nursery school, that would be dangerous. The problem with american zoning laws for housing is that they are really strict and specific, so 75% of residential zoning areas are reserved to single-family homes which are really low density housing options. (This forces development to spread out to create the necessary amount of housing, which ends up costing more to the city in the long run because they have run services like water, the sewage system, electricity, etc.) After that you have big corporations and business people who buy up housing as investments and leave them empty or ridiculously overpriced, thus reducing the amount of available housing. And as an aside, deporting someone against their will to take their possessions is considered genocide, which, as I learned by having morals, is not a good thing. And soo, and I don't want to get into politics but there's no way around it, you as a moral person (I hope) should not support someone who openly advocates for genocide.

[@arthurwintersight7868]

@@deehvi1608 - Except illegal immigrants are settlers who came here against the laws of this nation. To quote Palestinian activists like Second Thought and Hasan Piker, "settlers are not civilians."

[@Gunderblinx]

Billionaires trying to claim regular people are price fixing because they wont sell there families land to them. All the while price fixing everything is disgusting

[@firebeardlongfellow5295]

Be sure to vote for Trump! Pretty sure he's super duper hard against billionaires! (Pay no attention to Trump french kissing Putin, and Elon Musk.)

[@MrJim5280]

@@firebeardlongfellow5295and the democrats are tougher on billionaires. Don’t forget about Oprah and Michell lecturing us about racism and income inequality 😂

[@TheJakecakes]

​@@firebeardlongfellow5295Peter Theil and Palmer Lucky. Palantir and the Digital border wall. People aren't getting it. There are no viable canindates on either "side".

[@nata7536]

@@TheJakecakes People need to rally behind Jill Stein. She's the only one who is TRULY pro labor, serious about climate change, sustainability, and ecology, who has a SERIOUS economic plan to reduce debt, and wants to reign in corporate corruption in the US.

[@CZPC]

​@@TheJakecakes Yes the Democrats aren't perfect for their part but they are superior to republicans

[@petiteange08]

The irony of big corporations suing small farmers for price fixing.

[@starzies]

Their sheer audacity of these companies is honestly disgusting.

[@Kevin-ne3tl]

Corporations have ruined this nation. Time to take it back from these axe-hats.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

While calling themselves libertarians. That word has been usurped and misused in the US more than any other. But hey, that's neo-liberal marketing for you. Ultra wealthy post-liberal neo-cons acting as if they have your best interest in mind and want to build a utopia for you... while suing you into bankruptcy so that you are forced to sell your land.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Ayn Rand famously hated the physically and mentally disenfranchised. If they really are trying to build a city in the image of her philosophy, then it's main theme is going to be eugenics.

[@who2u333]

The farmers aren't price fixing. That would imply that they wanted to sell. The lawsuits are because the the farmers WON'T sell. The farmers don't want the money, they want the land.

[@kenw4930]

How can they accuse the farmers of price fixing when there is no price? The farmers don’t want to sell 🤷‍♂️

[@chrisytblair]

The example the dude gave (gas companies ~ 4:20) is not an honest comparison. Farmers are not in business to sell their land the way gas companies sell gas. If that amounts to 'collusion' then every person who talks to a neighbor before selling their house is exposed to that charge.

[@ScarletAdhesive]

Well that has been used in the past. The ranchers are united in not wanting to sell. Which make investors offer more and more until the price is very high then they agree to sell. Sounds like free will America to me, however, you know how billionaires are when they can't get their way.

[@Minejc12]

Price fixing is when your actually selling, these people are not selling

[@ScarletAdhesive]

@@Minejc12 the billionaires are saying that the ranchers are united in not selling in order to get the selling price elevated. We don't know if that's true. That's what is being said.

[@aeroandspace]

They can argue that it's a negotiation tactic to drive the cost up. While the farmers legitimately don't want to sell, it can look the same as forcing them to offer more

[@Brasslite]

It's time for the federal government to tax these millionaires/ billionaires back to reality.

[@classyin-yahshua8287]

Dream on. Its not happening. No to the New World order

[@tonyhill5235]

The govt is part of it. They will help bankrupt the ppl.

[@OnlyOneTruth25]

That’s never going to happen because most politicians in any side are paid off. They aren’t working for us, it’s an illusion at this point.

[@1871corporationUSA]

Ok Bernie

[@elfrazier]

​@@1871corporationUSASo you're cool with BS like this?

[@kdavidsmith1]

Billionaires believe that their wealth means they are superior humans. They believe they are moral superior, intellectually superior, and physically superior and therefore should be allowed to force their will on everyone. I hope they not only take major defeat in court but are also required to pay the farmers' legal fees.

[@GenericUsername1100]

You are so right, they really do think like that. The media is partially to blame for creating these monsters, they constantly refer to them as "geniuses" and feature their opinions in their articles despite them not having any background in the subject matter. They gushed over these tech billionaires and inflated their already oversized egos.

[@RasalilaRose]

Social Darwinists

[@etienne8110]

Tbf, why would we allow them to amass so much money if we didn t thought so too? Because basically we are agreeing to give them full power there.

[@joelhunton7108]

They feel though they are a government unto themselves. This case may go to the supreme Court.

[@pauls5745]

It's so sad people don't have the money to fight a big corp. in court so in effect, billionaires have more rights than anyone else?

[@generaluse2878]

Billionaires did not get all that money by caring about their neighbors.

[@sams3533]

The real billionaire mindset is "If that random person has $100 in their wallet, how do I get my $20 out of it?"

[@zaloo]

@@sams3533 $20? ALL of it is where they start and will be tooth and nail and astronomic legal fees all the way down to $98. Like the guy quoting ayn rand, "it's not who will let me, it's who will stop me."

[@lbr88x30]

Tax the rich . Before they reinstate serfdom.

[@hyperreal]

They got it by being productive entrepreneurs, which includes providing product or service that thousands if people value and benefit from 🤦🏻‍♂️ Have you ever owned a business?

[@zaloo]

@@hyperreal you can own a business without trying to overthrow foreign government or control OURS to your own selfish liking whilst screwing the citizen, throwing around 10s of billions of dollars to fleece the middle and working classes AND the poor. but yes lets run our businesses!

[@TheeMuddman]

Red or Blue, billionaires are not your friends.

[@RealHomeRecording]

Yep because if they were then they would spread that wealth around a little bit more

[@ayoutubechannelname]

@@RealHomeRecording Neither are the NIMBYs who hypocritically want you to blame these billionaires for unaffordable housing.

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

It’s a rare billionaire that doesn’t shift eventually to the far right.

[@matthewingerson]

RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class politics. Vote RW-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road from Capitalist-enslavement to Fascist-enslavement. Vote moderate-RW Dems for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalist-enslavement to Fascist-enslavement.

[@matthewingerson]

All the problems in the world are caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.

[@WomenLoveBusiness]

Corporations should not be able to sue people.

[@BobbyHickey]

Our justice system is broken. These cases should be immediately dismissed against those that do not wish to sell.

[@shorgoth]

and they should be fined a % of their net worth each time as punishment for frivolous lawsuits.

[@joefox9765]

It's a money thing

[@jasons5916]

Assuming they are suing against the "price fixing" of farmers who are trying to get more money out of them, the court could also rule that the farmers can't get more money than was originally offered for their land. The farmers could then just decline the offer again. There is not law that says you have to sell your land because you were given a good offer for it.

[@wynelleu]

​@@jasons5916which is why each land owner needs to be reimbursed for ALL defense legal fees + loss of income + resonable damages as a percentage of those costs, by the initiator of the frivolous plaintiff.

[@jvcyt298]

@@joefox9765 ; That's how these corporate oligarchs win, by out spending you on lawyers and suing anybody that gets in their way. Citizens United was made to help the wealthy at the expense of everybody else.

[@Elena-rt9yu]

Problem is the judges not defending the citizens, but siding with bullies, as long as their hands are greased

[@ronmckay9037]

Didn't the late great George Carlin already say it best..."it's all one great big stroke job"

[@WWZenaDo]

Thank you Federalist Society for loading America's judicial system with your white Christian Nationalist toadies.

[@alibali672]

It's a big club but you ain't in it.

[@BuildNewTowns]

Unfortunate truth :/

[@mr.giggles4995]

That's because those judges were given power by these same billionaires.

[@JS-cs8gz]

Entitlement at the most elite level

[@alexlopez5800]

Elite level? More like no level 😂

[@ayoutubechannelname]

@@JS-cs8gz The NIMBYs despise these “elites”, yet they are precisely the reason why we got to the point where billionaires are now proposing “solutions” to the housing crisis. We don’t have a democracy as long we maintain deference to the interests of NIMBYs which are aligned with the petty bourgeoisie.

[@PlainGammer]

More like negative level

[@prodigalpriest]

The Powers That Be are trying to create food scarcity for their own profit and agenda.

[@matthewingerson]

It's an addiction -- many, if not most, people are addicted to their lifestyles. This addiction to lifestyle permeates all walks of life, in which the most-fortunate people are incapable and/or unwilling to show any regard for the least-fortunate people. All the problems in the world are caused by (a)the corrupt lifestyle-addicts from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the duped lifestyle-addicts from the working-class who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.

[@Hotlegz92]

The fact that this is even a thing is just insane and mind boggling

[@Search4Facts]

🎯 This.

[@justinfowler2857]

Because those lands get 90% of the water rights.

[@firstlastlastfirst7143]

Water rights to a dry river bed and an empty aquifer. They should be doing this in Great Lakes area where there will actually be water in 100 years. These people are the acme of stupidity.

[@pajeetsingh]

Water rights??

[@Wolfcamp555]

Land owners in Texas get 100% water rights, even in the cities.

[@Masterdebater-q5c]

Yep, and if I have it correct the water provisions in California were based off of farmers bidding over 100 years ago and those amounts of water have been given on the cheap and is binding forever, or until we run out of fresh water

[@Wolfcamp555]

@@justinfowler2857 it's called right of capture. When you buy land, the land owner buys the land all the way to the center of the earth, including the aquifer within the property lines. Right of capture has been the law since 1776 and cannot be changed. Anyone thinking that they have a right to someone else's water is not only wrong, but is an enemy to the land owner.

[@Gunderblinx]

Billionaires claim they will offer good paying jobs. But considers $10 an hour "good paying"

[@kdavidsmith1]

"its one banana, Micheal. How much could it cost, $10?" These Billionaires, Probably.

[@lioleigh9791]

Exactly! All service jobs at the restaurants and shops to serve their techie employee-residents. When mass tech layoffs happen, their employees will be out of housing and those service workers will be out of jobs. Doesn't sound sustainable. It just gives them more control over people.

[@aygwm]

These people don’t work “jobs”, so they don’t know what good paying job even means

[@usrIO30581l]

That’s why they need illegals for the Astro-turf movement. While chills help sneak them in getting tbacc to Gavin newsom bill act of giving 150k per illegal to create this “new city”.

[@Ehh.....]

Don't attribute malice as ignorance. They know dang well that 10 dollars an hour is a garbage wage.

[@rexpeterson5729]

Most folks here do not know that the rule of thumb for developing a city is it requires all the water from an IRRIGATED Farm of the same area, not a dryland farm. Somewhere there is a water grab going on also.

[@jacobkyle4573]

We need to stop anymore additional water rights from being claimed from the Colorado now and have a substantial amount removed. It's running dry and nobody has the luxury to demand more of it for anything less important than drinking, sewer systems and other hygienic purposes. I know we need farms but we have greatly overstepped our capabilities in the Colorado River region and everyone will need to play a part in saving the river before it is gone forever.

[@magicunicorn6535]

The Delta.

[@yourportlandlifestyle2907]

I think that water might be from Oregon... there is talk of it

[@Shineynsparkles]

Duh

[@leenonolee4629]

@@jacobkyle4573 The Farm land was there before the area became popular as a place to live. They should have had some forethought about water, rather than move in and take it from the farmers who create the food these people eat.

[@KyleGertner]

Im a 5th gen dairy farmer in MN. Still live on the family homestead. I wouldn't sell for any amount. No matter how much would be offered. Family land and heritage and memories are more valuable than money. Good for you for not selling and standing firm!

[@wannastayfree8115]

Yes you will when the billionaires send in the Mn Dept of Ag, epa or any other type of “government” organization and test your soil for PFAS and find high levels, which will be there due to the fertilizer and feeds you use and force you to destroy your herd and make your land non-agricultural usable and sue you out of existence. Everyone prays this doesn’t happen but it is happening in OUR Country. IF they want it they will get it. If you’re not familiar then research and be upset.

[@tias.6675]

Long before many of these grifters were even in the US.

[@lisareid7043]

This should be illegal for wealthy people to force people out if their homes and land. It’s robbing them by threat and force!! It’s wrongly using the court system!

[@drk.i.a.2969]

Its always been this way, indians, blacks, hispanics etc....but when done to them oh its a tragedy...most farm lands is owned by whites by farmers who got loans from government to the cattle, land, machinery etc...now they crying abt it...ot was on hold anyway. Oh well "around & around we go, where it stops nobody knows..".Ball of Confusion"....by THE TEMPTATIONS...a real classic..a must hear...

[@mcsmith732]

It's wrong, but legal. Remember the corporate "Hostile Takeover"? That's where a bank and a "Private Equity" firm buy out a business that the owners don't want to sell, take out a whole bunch of loans on the business that they stole, pocket the money, and let the business in which name they borrowed the money go bankrupt and taken over by the bank that loaned the money. It's a corrupt and legalized scam. Just ask Mitt Romney. It's how he made his $300,000,000. This shouldn't be legal. It's been known to not only kill thriving businesses, but entire towns that rely on those businesses. But, the Big Money Boyz bought up enough politicians and judges to MAKE that sort of thing perfectly legal. Look to the Reagan days, Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics for the Hostile Takeover of America by banksters, "Private Equity" firms and finance companies.

[@RoseanneSeason7]

I think you are right. Let's fight this corrupt system. Let's not fear these evil people. Let's get real men together and organize the great pay back

[@High_Rate136]

They won’t do anything because billionaires have politicians in their pockets. This thing only ends like the French Revolution

[@dozzer009]

@@RoseanneSeason7 Hilarious how you talk about corruption yet publicly post about scamming Dollar General stores 🙄

[@dilsadmeraler]

How amazing to create a city for themselves but using the roads, airports, bridges etc built by our tax money to get there 🤮

[@hashbrown4781]

While they pay almost no taxes already.

[@scottgrindrod]

This is the Libertarian fantasy: getting *all* of the benefits of society without paying anything for them.

[@ttopero]

They won’t live there. More like a neo-company town for the 21st century, but for an industry, not jut one company. But they will be paying for the infrastructure on their land and any connections to local utilities, before possibly turning it over to an HOA-type government to run it, defer maintenance and then tax the residents as repairs are needed but no billionaires are around to fund it. They could ask for the surrounding communities to pay for expansion of water processing facilities and transit infrastructure TO the development, but it’s not going to be developed with tax dollars in general-just more egregious long term.

[@MrApw2011]

If that's the case, why doesn't the community create toll roads to the community? However, everyone who pays gas taxes or property taxes pays for roads, airports, bridges, schools, etc.

[@fmcg5364]

@@ttopero great point

[@spectrumboss6696]

Tech Colonialism

[@dilsadmeraler]

Billionaires Colonialism 😢

[@nicholausbuthmann1421]

Actually Yes ! Normally I don't care for the Puns like this because there's usually more nuance in progress. NOT THIS TIME !

[@nicholausbuthmann1421]

​@@dilsadmeralerA.I. used by you likely nade by the above Villains, cut it out !

[@jadenamber8378]

... or Feudalism

[@spectrumboss6696]

@@jadenamber8378 Do you think they studied Medici?

[@Kobet971]

Greed! It’s awful and hurts everyone.

[@JohnHall]

They were not holding out to raise prices. They were holding out to NOT SELL.

[@chronometer9931]

So they claim...

[@davidgreenwood6029]

@@chronometer9931 Doesn't matter, holding out for more money isn't a crime, and neither is telling your neighbors that is what you're doing, unless you all get together to create a situation that will raise prices, it isn't any kind of market manipulation. They are all reacting to a situation created by someone else that threatens their lifestyle and income and financial security. No matter what amount of collective strategization they have done, it is in reaction to a threat, and in no way a proactive attempt to manipulate anyone else.

[@tomkemp962]

@@chronometer9931 Keep simping for your overlords, bootlicker.

[@proxyhuman]

@@chronometer9931 This is an obvious play that will inevitably force the land owners into bankruptcy so they HAVE to sell. You are either an idiot, or a troll, and I have my educated guess as to which it is.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

@@chronometer9931I guess you never just talked to your neighbors about situations happening in your area

[@thisisme64T]

They should be in jail for using lawfare and harassment against the property owners.

[@reesedaniel5835]

If govt didn't take bribes from them, they would be.

[@snapon666]

how ? when they OWN the govt and the courts ?

[@FirstLast-vr7es]

We have a two-tier justice system. They'd get a small fine, if anything. You or I would go to prison. I'm honestly done with this system. And it doesn't help my disposition that I have to tip toe around this on KZbin, lest I have my comment quietly deleted by them.

[@jeanettemoss1709]

Just like the IRS harassing Catholic taxpayers...

[@Phosfit]

I hope that community sticks together.

[@chronometer9931]

The community of super wealthy farmers owning mega farms which they acquired by forcing out the little farmers?

[@eric2500]

@@chronometer9931 Um, really? I would check your specific facts on that place before I start if I were you. That kind of land needs a lot of it to do the kind of production that it does without killing it in short order, a lot of families have had large tracts of land for generations. *I really do not know the history, but I am not flinging accusations!* The sort of land buyouts you describe happened decades ago if they happened at all, far more likely to have happened in the farms closer to places like L.A. when they grabbed the water from the mountains for the city, leaving only a few farmers - the ones who could afford irrigation.

[@wax_axiom479]

All the company has to do is wait 😂 microplastics and spray chemicals will take care of em and then the company comes into scoop up what's left

[@garycarder4363]

Might be time to break the power grid

[@ashrafal]

That would not help, Soon they would for greater good have check points, look at what happens in WEST BANK

[@servadei3510]

Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

[@winesap2]

These billionaires are absolutely evil. We need laws to stop these evil bullies. They need to be sued for this because there’s no way they could prove “price fixing”. What a joke. They don’t want to sell.

[@waffle8364]

The problem with that is they have money and a lot of power over law makers

[@fr4ctur71]

yet another argument for why no one should be able to amass this kind of wealth and power. its not about making laws to stop this because they will just use their money to overcome those laws. Its about changing the system so that this consolidation of money and power doesn't get to exist. All power, to all people

[@KOSAMAGAMES]

The US has been corporation first for YEARS, it's only a matter of time until your neighborhood looks profitable and then you're next. If you think for a second a party affiliation will help you, just ask Houston and Phoenix.

[@trashcatlinol]

​@@KOSAMAGAMESmostly since Reagan

[@Kevin-ne3tl]

@@KOSAMAGAMES Yeah, like in 2012 when Mittens Romney said on live TV, "Corporations are people", I was done with him for good.

[@stevanrozic4638]

Farmers stand your ground. Cheers from Canada.

[@NWinnVR]

Kinda hard to when the people you are going up against in court effectively have unlimited funding and multiple entire law firms to hold you in litigation hell indefinitely... It's not going to come down to whether or not they want to but if they can afford to long enough sadly.

[@tlflora]

when they gave human rights to corporations, people LOST thier own right

[@KZ-qg7bw]

Yes, that is mabe the biggest root of the problem great post.

[@maryeckel9682]

Biggest sellout ever by the Supreme Court.

[@mogznwaz]

I will NEVER understand how that was allowed to happen

[@walkingman8943]

Keep in mind that the Citizen’s United ruling was from a left leaning SCOTUS. And y’all wanna expand the court so there’s more left leaning justices ? 😬

[@MatsueMusic]

Would you be willing to elaborate? I am not sure I understand the history, context. Sounds like something I should know.

[@kerryscott3287]

Sounds like what is being forced on Hawaii after wildfires.

[@Miralee01]

This is horrifying. It is not "utopian" but dystopian! The reason those billionaires don't want to say the government type is because they want to rule, like mini kings. Yeah, no. Keep fighting Solano!❤

[@mbnhiphopmusik6429]

A rich man's utopia is a normal person's dystopia.

[@Miralee01]

@@mbnhiphopmusik6429 I cannot disagree. A very terrifying situation

[@wally1663]

I'm hearing people talk about this in Florida it's everywhere already.

[@wuzzy5894]

that way they can control us AlL by administering drugs into ALL foods....no one is safe.. unless you have your own private farm and only feeding your family and friends alone

[@RoseanneSeason7]

​@@wally1663no it isn't

[@vinrock3918]

Just another reason why we could do without billionaires.

[@bbpersonalpage1613]

Yep 💥

[@erikaarnold4780]

Can we eat them, yet?😂

[@longsleevethong1457]

Wow. Y’all are clowns.

[@GenericUsername1100]

They are a useless class of people. Better 1000 millionaires than one billionaire.

[@23erisx]

@@erikaarnold4780 I am working on a cookbook even as we speak. LOL PS there are already some cookbooks out there you can use until we get the latest edition out. Just do a search on Amazon, the greatest of book stores and our numero uno target for the Spicy Food section. Cheers!

[@dixiebrick]

Beware the billionaire criminal class

[@SK-po3ck]

They are called jews

[@longsleevethong1457]

Iol…..yeah way more dangerous than the proletariats on the south side of Chicongo huh?

[@Skidderoperator]

It is CLASS WARFARE

[@zaloo]

you mean billionaire

[@longsleevethong1457]

@@dixiebrick yeah cause the south side Chicongo proletariat is wayyyy safer huh??

[@ekrip8]

Wow, some actual journalism!! Congratulations, you are a breath of fresh air and a glimmer of hope for humanity.

[@rebeccaboudreau7589]

These farmers should have been reimbursed by this company for their legal fees. Never trust billionaires

[@j.pershing2197]

Lawyers are scum

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Watch Adam Conover on banning billionaires.

[@extropiantranshuman]

don't we wih the legal system worked that way

[@CL369-p9k]

They are suing the farmers who won't sell to them under the premise of price fixing ! Any judge that does not see through this BS is either blind or bought.

[@saythankyou111]

….the latter I’m sure🥺🇺🇸🕊

[@KingMinish]

Gotta pray that they don't pay off the judges. Sad times

[@swampsprite9]

Psychopathic billionaires are the most dangerous group on the planet.

[@07Flash11MRC]

The "psychopathic" part is redundant. Billionaires and trillionaires are by definition both psychopathic and sociopatic. Most are even narcissist. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn't be so rich.

[@1summerflower]

They need to speak out and should be on news! So sad !

[@CONSCIOUSCOMA]

for those who think life would be better controlled by corporations rather then government you are greatly mistaken. as flawed as government seems to be at least you still have a vote and the people still have some leverage.

[@Praisethesunson]

The first settlement in America by the English was a corporation. It did not end well. Turns out governments are always better at governing than corporations.

[@AceRa-i7n]

But the problem is, the government became a corporation. They sold out.

[@andrewtorrens7790]

There is a whole genre of sci-fi devoted to the corporate run society. Not one of them paints a positive picture.

[@howie5746]

You mean there's really a difference between corporations and government? Check your calendar this ain't 1963.

[@pajeetsingh]

They will have Taylor Swift and the snob class of NYC and LA would buy those city houses in a matter of seconds.

[@williamspach2322]

Creating wealth entails establishing positive routines. At 42, I had only $78k to my name when I first woke up to this reality. I chose the stock market as a medium for growth and got an excellent financial advisor. Financial management is a vital subject that many avoid, often leading to future regrets. It feels great to finally become financially free.

[@tcortez_70]

A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850K.

[@Mlanderos-t9e]

I would like to ask, how did you achieve it? I've been trying to stick with index funds. I feel these new interest rate hikes could crash the economy. I'm looking for a better investing strategy, as I have a lump sum that inflation is steadily eating up.

[@tcortez_70]

Certainly, there are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with ‘’Teresa L. Athas’’ for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive.She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.

[@Raniyanhunter]

She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran an online search on her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.

[@PanaMaJwaaRd]

Lol. Clowns

[@kimpeccable]

I live in CA, but no matter where people live, a threat like this is a HUGE concern for freedom lovers who don't want to live in a 15-minute city, with digital IDs, cbdcs, travel restrictions, and not being able to afford to own anything. These tech oligarchs--technocrats--want a new system of technofeudalism and the people have to stand up and say NO!

[@Julia29853]

That word perfectly describes it!

[@followtheciaence]

Digital id + digital wallet + geofencing is the endgame

[@deadpansanchez2947]

based

[@givemdabusiness]

Absolutely.

[@jennarare]

Totally agree, except for this being new. What do people think WW1, 2 and every financial, grubberment organised, working people rip off, fake inflation, illegal taxes, & criminal bank interest etc etc have been? Look up WEF agendas where they openly write of their NWO & depopulation aims in 1972.

[@DaronPeterJones]

My fellow residents, for 36 years I have lived and am a homeowner in Solano Co. I encourage us all to stay strong and diligent. They see us as "marks". Be mindful of who we vote for within our cities and county for they will look to implant their pawns. Stay Solano Strong!💪🏾

[@DaronPeterJones]

@hayleys-w5q Thank you for the referral. Surely will research it.

[@money-ay]

second amendment

[@streetsharkz]

FUCK EM

[@weirdarto]

Yes, please be careful. I'm so sorry this sleazy corporation is harassing your town.

[@zeekfranco509]

This is my plan we all take on our 2nd amendment and tell em to come and take it from us there’s 448,747 of us in Solano county and more of that are willing to come and help us if crap hits the fan Don’t be scared of this tyrants this is why our founding fathers left us the constitution

[@sumiland6445]

It's simple. Billionaires' goals are to create a owners and slaves society. It's happening in hyperdrive in Florida. I grew up in "silicon valley". It was orchards and corn and strawberry fields as far as the eye could see. It was lush, green and cool. I watched the orchards ripped out, the fields plowed under and the valley covered in asphalt and concrete.

[@mominthe209]

My husband’s family came to Los Altos in the early 1900s to farm the land. My husband finds old pictures of when he was a kid and it was Mayberry. The decade I lived there I saw tremendous change. Life is change though and change is usually tough.

[@matthewingerson]

They are addicts -- addicted to their lifestyles, social status, and cushy standard of living. All the problems in the world are caused by (a)the corrupt lifestyle-addicts from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the duped lifestyle-addicts from the working-class who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.

[@magicunicorn6535]

I came to the Bay Area just as that Silicon Valley takeover was picking up momentum. I still remember lots of orchards and open space. Amazing fruit stands along the highways. I remember going to Cali Bros. in Cupertino to buy horse feed. You could see their big silo in the distance long before you got there. It was so cool to be able to drive through that large building and have your purchase loaded onto your truck for you. Now that same intersection is covered with office buildings.

[@sumiland6445]

@@magicunicorn6535 i used to walk to Cali Bros. Ms Cali would have us kids over to pick plums after the harvestors had gone through. We sun-dried the plums not good enough to sell fresh. Then she'd have us all in her house, serve us cookies and milk and she'd show us her family photo albums. They truly were the pioneers of Santa Clara Valley.

[@GenericUsername1100]

Paving and building over the most fertile land is so many levels of stupid. They have done that in my area too.

[@newsjunkie8577]

It's time the people fight back on the corrupt tax laws that allowed these billionaires to exist in the first place.

[@anthonyraymundobarron1255]

Cant wait to live in a Tech Billionaires city where I pay $4,000 to live in a box of sardines, and get regulated like a HOA

[@Barbara-jn2gw]

🤣😢

[@darkwing3713]

And you'll have no rights at all.

[@LusyPicker-sm6su]

That's $400,000 to live in a box of sardines.

[@butterfish-g9f]

You forgot everything being a subscription service, including breathable air.

[@magicunicorn6535]

YOU NAILED IT!!!!

[@markfreeman4727]

this is literally reaching fairy tale level of absurdity i may be wrong, but i recall a blurb from Gulliver's travels, where he is explaining English law to someone hes met. He says basically that if his Neighbour covets his cow, they can hire a lawyer and sue to basically just take from him, and he must hire a lawyer to defend himself cause the system makes it impossible for him to defend himself at all other wise and that's literally what's happening here. "I want your stuff, but you won't give it to me, so i'm gonna sue you into the ground until you bend the knee"

[@andromedaspark2241]

Money is the only meaningful speech in this country, and everyone can see how every penny and then some is squeezed from most citizens. This is unstable, don't the haves remember when the have-nots give up the type of chaos that ensues?

[@LavenderSkyla]

Well the people rose up against France. Didn't end well for their billionaire elite

[@Ekolation]

Bingo. This has been happening for years to small businesses and wealthier working class people. This is one of the first times I've seen the tactic employed against blue collar farmers. Truly despicable.

[@ttopero]

@@EkolationIt’s certainly a very public contemporary example, but not the first. Usually it’s about resource development, such as water or mining, not subdivision developments.

[@gokaren420]

​@@andromedaspark2241well we should have been started CHAOS long time ago. Unelected tyrannical elitists are very powerful and our government does nothing to stop them and we citizens do nothing as well. Welcome to the United Snakes of Corporations. The UN should be ashamed of itself. America gets away with too much, not for long, this empire has crumbled

[@ceterumcenseo-b1l]

The most disgusting thing about billionaires is their insatiable greed - way, way more than enough is still not enough. Sick.

[@joehighsmith2951]

It's a disease with only one cure

[@ceterumcenseo-b1l]

@@MementoMori1000 Speak for yourself. Believe it or not, there are people who have better things to do with their lives than lust after wealth and power. So don't go projecting your own deficiencies onto others (and don't 'bro' me).

[@MementoMori1000]

@@ceterumcenseo-b1l okay bro whatever helps you sleep at night

[@ceterumcenseo-b1l]

@@MementoMori1000 Have you ever noticed that dumb and rude often go together?

[@sherrygillis]

And why allow people who have worked hard and made the right moves in life to live a comfortable life? They should have to share with those who chose to party every Friday and Saturday night, rather than work!

[@josephspencer9005]

We are becoming dominated by an oligarchy

[@dvdv8197]

Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.

[@TreeHairedGingerAle]

Well said!

[@SandraAnnEvans]

GREED = EVIL

[@matthewingerson]

That's RW-politics.

[@chronometer9931]

​@Beau-py4nbGluttony is specific to food, if you want to try to use the Bible then at least read it first...

[@Greenitthe]

@@chronometer9931 Gluttony is not specific to food, it is specific to consumption and hedonism, though who cares what you call it - it is still evil. ”If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it” ‭‭(Proverbs‬ ‭25‬:‭16‬ ESV)

[@IN-tm8mw]

Everyone is starting to see what I've been saying for years, America is a corporatocracy.

[@nwatson2773]

Owned by asshole billionaires

[@jjjackson5183]

That, my friend, is a 15 minute city. These farmers DON'T WANT TO SELL. They are not price-gouging. They are exercising their 4th Amendment Rights.

[@rickardstrom9305]

Eat zee bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and be happy they say.

[@jdelgren9927]

Actually I suspect something else may be at play here. It seems these billionaires are getting bad press because they ARENT on board with the agenda. I say that because they criticized "sustainability" meaning they aren't with the Agenda21 program or it's derivatives. This may be worth a closer look. I think if Klause approved of this project there wouldn't be negative media coverage of it 😅

[@JosiahK555]

ya the left is all worried about corporations but praise government for controlling their lives...

[@woa6227]

it's bill gates and he's evil. people have been saying this all along.

[@ProJudenNamer]

that sounds like something a NOTSEE would say! *COMMUNIST SCREECHING*

[@veritas2222]

It’s called Malicious Prosecution.

[@nevreiha]

the absolute gall to accuse farmers of price fixing and collusion in not selling to you whilst buying up all the land in the local area to have a monopoly is utterly stunning.

[@Hrrrrrrrrrreng]

“Noooo you can’t raise prices that’s my job” -these dunces.

[@traviscutler9912]

The system works.

[@brightpage1020]

Pretending to act on your behalf but actually destroying your way of life? And a known scammer is their front man? You don't say.

[@red---paulvanravenswaay2247]

RCC

[@MrCovi2955]

There are laws against companies getting together to set their prices. The farmers weren't setting prices, they were refusing to take any offer. That's the difference.

[@jelef001]

i’m horrified that the lawsuits were not dismissed as frivolous

[@curlyhairdudeify]

​@@jelef001 those billionaires have those politicians on their books

[@AcidxAnarchy]

Our elected officials are already not being held accountable.

[@rodneykeith2923]

That is our mayor and she is awesome and we will fight with her and we will end this travesty.

[@katherenewedic8076]

what is the strategy to have an ethical board?

[@nettewilson5926]

You can try.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

St Michael give her strength in this battle against Ahrimanic evil!

[@MahkyVmedia1]

@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 who?

[@Joesolo13]

I see you supporting your local current thing. Good for you for opposing the ruling class's efforts.

[@susannemorr]

These billionaires MUST BE STOPPED.

[@karenpeaden271]

How

[@CT-uv8os]

​@@karenpeaden271Revolution

[@practicalanachronist]

This is why consolidated wealth should be taxed and dark money taken out of politics. At this level of wealth, they lose their empathy and think their money means they can do whatever they want, with no regard to who they will harm in doing so.

[@Tapfoot]

Facts!

[@nancyblackledge2002]

Typical of the elites, they are better and smarter than you ordinary people, so we have the right to tell you what and how to live. "Off with their heads" says the queen of hearts! Any wonder why people are waking up to what has been going on in this country. Prepare yourself people, this will not stop them, they will simply change tactics! You are dealing with zealots! (noun 1. a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.) God save America!

[@debiheaton6812]

Super encouraging to see the folks of Solano County fight to save the county from these evil Corporations!!! Keep it up’

[@LisaRyanHealthyFit]

So what will California do to help these farmers? I love you farmers and good for you for saying NO.

[@ElementofKindness]

California government is leftist, and leftists hate farmers. You can figure out how this goes.

[@theresagomez2605]

California will do nothing for these farmers. The planned city will eventually move forward.

[@JoyPeace-ej2uv]

That governor of CA just banned memes what do you think?

[@felipeo8768]

We've allowed these 'tech' idiots to get away with so much over the last 20 years. It's time someone stands up and sets an example.

[@vannarooski8730]

Government: your comment has been…noted.

[@JohnZornAscended]

Nothing lasts forever. All men are grass..

[@matthewbraman7202]

I guess "move fast and break things" is not a good philosophy for building community. Who knew?

[@kl41256-p]

@@JohnZornAscendedand to get rid of grass, preferably the grass in your lawn, you use a lawnmower.

[@dvdv8197]

These lawsuits should be INSTANTLY THROWN OUT. NOT A SINGLE DOLLAR should be going towards fighting this! 😤😤 This is unacceptable!!

[@RoseanneSeason7]

The judges are paid off

[@timdykes6675]

Well, it should be on moral basis. But it won’t be because it’s Supreme Court has ruled corporations. Are people and money is free speech. If they can prove the town is violating their constitutional right to liberty and to do business in a free society, then the billionaires will win, they always do. our politics has changed at the highest levels for this is just the beginning

[@antodiyo7523]

they're twisting antitrust law the same antitrust law that break monopoly or price fixing (like when big corpo work together to rise their price or establish monopoly b4 antitrust law in the robber baron time the farmer work together to price fix their property so high that the corpo cant buy it or just dont sell it like in the segregation time when white dont want to sell to black)

[@antodiyo7523]

@@timdykes6675 i found this comment they're Suing for price collusion, not for not selling. Which makes it a strawman lawsuit, and that should be covered under the SLAPP laws since it so obvious the lawsuit is meant to bankrupt the landowners to force them into selling... They can fix this by selling their land to their spouse or children for $1 which will keep their land in their family, and negate any premise of price fixing and that would immediately destroy their lawsuits... they just have to trust that their spouse or children won't sell the land to the billionaires...

[@TQV_4013]

If anything the farmers should sue for emotional damage.

[@kathrynbowers5632]

This was an eye opening report and the reporting rocks!!!❤ love you ppl. DO NOT GIVE UP

[@scoobydoobers23]

I love that a libertarian is calling on the Government to forcibly take people's property for their benefit.

[@rustie115]

classic libertarianism tbh. billionaires are not your friends

[@zaloo]

also, of course

[@IusedtohaveausernameIliked]

The word "libertarian" is so misunderstood in the USA. Traditional conservatives want business freedom but do NOT want social freedoms. Libertarians want both kinds of freedom, but too many people think that libertarian means further right than the Republicans but it just isn't so. It's just shorthand for "I'm going to do whatever I want to do" but that isn't freedom. To maximize freedom one always has to include other people's freedom (and that all too often gets ignored).

[@scoobydoobers23]

@@IusedtohaveausernameIliked If it makes you feel better we also don't know what liberal means, or socialist.

[@IusedtohaveausernameIliked]

@@scoobydoobers23 True that. There's a lot of deliberate misinformation and demonization of others going on.

[@alexwixom4599]

4:38 Words of a true hero: "Good Neighbors don't sue their Neighbors!"

[@ttopero]

Their not neighbors! Their adjacent land owners. The owners will never be neighbors, at least not the full-time variety.

[@kathleenthrelfall314]

@@ttopero that's incorrect. They are my neighbors

[@alexwixom4599]

@ttopero Hyperbole is used to make a point. His point being, we are to work with the community to find solutions. Not sue them because they wouldn't comply with our own intentions.

[@vivalaleta]

Tax billionaires out of existence.

[@sdrc92126]

There are much more effective non-violent ways

[@vqinet3287]

Yes, taxation, an extremely violent way of dealing with billionaires

[@vivalaleta]

@@sdrc92126 I'm a big meany for wanting to tax the super rich properly? Okay, Elon.

[@sdrc92126]

@@vivalaleta Want all you want, but you can't

[@inuendo6365]

That's the problem, they have lobbyists and offshore accounts to get them out of paying any taxes. Rich get richer

[@marilynjackson5752]

Ah, someone hit the nail on the head, it’s about water. The court should throw out the cases!

[@Search4Facts]

Exactly. The cases shoulda been Thrown Out immediately. Bottom feeder bribed judges, anyone. Sheesh. No law n order for the judicial system nor for the soulless bullies with LDS What a joke they all are🤡 A clown show. [edited for spelling]

[@Search4Facts]

Yt deleting again. 🤡s. 😄😅😂😂😂

[@SpaceHorse-u1w]

I live near this project and have been following Solano Together for a while. This coverage is spot-on and I was impressed that they actually talked to the organizers and locals directly involved. I appreciate ya'll covering this topic, and the effort you put into your work. Putting real, quality journalism into this form factor can't be easy.

[@taylorbug9]

WHY HAS IT EVER BEEN LEGAL TO SUE SOMEONE FOR SAYING NO TO SELLING?????????? That's just ridiculous, and any judge worth anything should immediately throw the case out.

[@gwendolin1762]

They used fancy words and quite possibly bribes.

[@billyouka448]

Its not illegal but paying for your defence from being sued, whatever it might be for, will bankrupt you, which means, you lose everything. Billionaires are not our friends.

[@Dalton1994mon]

That judge definitely needs to investigated this is so suspicious

[@JeTTRod]

Suing for price collusion, not for not selling. Which makes it a strawman lawsuit, and that should be covered under the SLAPP laws since it so obvious the lawsuit is meant to bankrupt the landowners to force them into selling... They can fix this by selling their land to their spouse or children for $1 which will keep their land in their family, and negate any premise of price fixing and that would immediately destroy their lawsuits... they just have to trust that their spouse or children won't sell the land to the billionaires...

[@GenericUsername1100]

If it gets to the stage where the farmers get bankrupted, then the local community should quickly form a land trust and the farmer can sell to the community land trust for cheap instead of selling it to the billionaires. This is what some community in Puerto Rico have done to try and stop their shopfronts and houses being bought out by wealthy mainlanders

[@nebuler1]

Telling the people who've lived somewhere for generations that they aren't utilizing the land properly sounds disturbingly familiar.

[@josh_7569]

Those poor Natives and poor who die as well from collateral damages due to the conflicts and mass murders. Humans are evil, but billionaires are the worst because they directly affect millions of lives and using the number of millions is an understatement.

[@extropiantranshuman]

@@josh_7569 because they have the means

[@hope-cat4894]

It reminds me of nail houses.

[@ashleyvirgosflame21]

This country will never learn to stop stealing land

[@Julia29853]

I think communists in the Soviet Union tried this. Mass famines as a result.

[@kristen3944]

This is disturbing and has been happening for far too long now.

[@ikani1]

I live near this. The locals absolutely hate this plan. It's gotten me to start getting involved in local politics to keep them out, while keeping the actual housing construction we already have going.

[@eh3477]

🎯🎯🎯

[@longsleevethong1457]

Are you super happy with your local and state and federal government?? Are you sure you’re trying to stop the right thing?

[@23erisx]

Thank you for carrying the torch! are we to surmise that the Ca 4ever project is interfering in current housing projects??

[@longsleevethong1457]

@@23erisx not based on the video. In the video they showed us current housing being built. Almost seemed like a commercial for the builder. Kinda crazy how these folks do t want people to build their own neighborhood.

[@eh3477]

@longsleevethong1457 People are fairly happy with their local government here because they listen, take action, have a transparent planning process which resulted in the homes already built (shown here), and are aware of the bigger picture and environmental and economic constraints. Doubt that a small group of secretive, narcissistic ultra-rich tech bros, who have zero experience in land development, who would be accountable to NO ONE, would be a better form of government. Sounds like you work fot them...?

[@8GamingMonsters]

This is on the judges who didn't throw out every single case. And opened a path for a frivolous lawsuit countersuit.

[@josh_7569]

Maybe the judge was paid handsomely to allow the cases to wear down the locals?

[@Greenitthe]

@@josh_7569 Guaranteed (but don't forget the legal system today exists to protect the interests of capital above all else, regardless of a bad-apple taking bribes)

[@extropiantranshuman]

well the judge makes money that way - so they like it

[@Search4Facts]

@8Gaming... 🎯 Correct you are 💯

[@iggyboo]

The US "justice" system is money based. Those with more money get justice

[@Backinblackbunny009]

Or, in other words, lady justice is a w h o r e

[@richardhudson1243]

More than 80% of newly-built single-family homes sold in 2019/2022 belonged to an HOA. during the 2004 housing boom-home prices were significantly inflated, leaving people unable to sell later because they owed more on the house than it was worth. I know several people who bought during that time, thinking it was a good investment, but it wasn’t until the COVID housing boom that prices finally returned to those original levels.

[@JacobsErick-u8r]

To balance out your real estate holdings, I suggest investing in equities. If you're cautious, even the worst recessions can present fantastic buying opportunities. Additionally, volatility can produce fantastic short-term purchase and sell opportunities. This is not financial advise, but you should buy immediately away because money isn't king right now!

[@DerraKormino]

You're right. I was able to diversify my 550K portfolio across markets with the aid of an investment coach, and I was able to use high dividend yield stocks, ETFs, and bonds to generate a little over 960K in net profit.

[@LUCIASMITH-d1z]

Would you mind providing details on the advisor who helped you? saving for a pension through a corporate program since the age of 18. I hit greater tax along the road, so I increased my company pension with a SIPP (tax benefits). I'm now 50 and would love to expand my finances more aggressively; there are a few automobiles I still want to drive and a few mega-vacations that I still want to take.

[@DerraKormino]

Certainly, there are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with Melissa Terri Swayne for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive.She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.

[@jackson-z7o]

Thank you for this tip. It was easy to find your coach on the web. Did my due diligence on her before scheduling a phone call with her. She seems proficient considering her resume.

[@mapleleaf8948]

This needs to be top story country wide.

[@bathtubs]

If these people lose, this will happen all across the state and nation. Thank you all for fighting.

[@louisesumrell6331]

Billionaires are like the giants in children's stories, stomping around, oblivious to what they are trampling under their enormous feet.

[@mattc6147]

Oh they aren't oblivious. The claim of being Libertarian is hilarious as they are using the state to strip the rights of individuals in the process of trying to build a city that won't be run by the state. Absolute hypocrites, and the leaders of this country need to start doing their job to stop this type of nonsense.

[@Daestos]

They aren't oblivious at all, the just don't care. We aren't people to them -- it's foolish to believe otherwise.

[@MatthewBretton-cu2el]

​@@Daestos sounds familiar ? Amazing how cruel it seems when it happens to you, but great when you benefit from it lmao

[@AngelicaCline-i6d]

We all do it to some extent, they just do it next level. As a society we treat the disabled like the little match girl. Their just trying to get by but we ae so busy in our own lives we just pass by without noticing. The supper rich just need a good Ebenezer Scrooge, treatment. Some are not redeemable like serial killers we should take away their power. We do need to try to remember, we could fall to the same trap. As the say go's, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I love your analogy.

[@kl41256-p]

@@Daestos That is because we are numbers to them; numbers on profit margins that are expected to grow exponentially higher next year. And the year after that. These billionaires are chained by greed and zealous ambition to create a society where their disgusting kind are worshipped like Jesus Christ.

[@johnholmes3584]

This needs to go viral. Alternative media is needed more now than ever. Main stream media is owned by the same people creating the problem.

[@kakalukio]

How does this not immediately get thrown out as frivolous? Especially as they approached the farmers unprompted. Like, how can you claim price fixing when you approach random people who never indicated they wanted to sell their stuff to begin with?

[@aceous99]

money talks and the justice system is always listening

[@nicksurfs1]

Because the judge is corrupt.

[@RoseanneSeason7]

​@@nicksurfs1if you were a judge and someone gave you a duffel bag with a million dollars in it would you give it back? I sure a heck wouldn't

[@nicksurfs1]

@@RoseanneSeason7 I would for sure. I don't want or need that kind of money

[@TheGoldenpk]

​@@nicksurfs1I'm with you on this one. I'm not selling my soul for any amount

[@ElementofKindness]

A prime example of how completely heinous people with a little power can be.

[@MrIvanovich77]

These so-called "libertarians" are eugenists. They are sociopaths, a threat not only to this community in California but a threat to the world as well. This is what the US and the world is getting 5 decades after unleashing the financiers and promoting deregulations during the Reagan years at the US and during the Tatcher era at the UK. As a result, disparities between and in onside countries are increasing, but these bastards want everybody to blame immigrants or those who depend on food stamps. Robber barons worldwide will destroy us all if we don't unite all over the world. This is fascism.

[@phiksit]

I worked at a fab shop where we had an "interim" shop supervisor... basically an hourly guy they made management. Right after he was promoted to full time supervisor he turned into a little hitler and I was forced to quit. I could tell he was kind of an ahole to begin with but after he got that power... wow.

[@robwhite461]

All the best to the farmers. The world is watching. It has to be stopped. Watching in Australia.

[@bonniecline5014]

Solano County...STAY STRONG, youre western neighbors are solidly behind you!!!❤💙

[@CheezNrice4u]

She nailed it; “you can’t serve two masters”!

[@joeslowmama2048]

M6-24

[@ralphday4842]

And .....how about that wild -ass hair ? 😎

[@mbscar]

Who are these cities intended for? I doubt this freedom city will be for working class people, but for rich people to exploit working class people.

[@RasalilaRose]

possibly their MegaChurches congregations - Handmaid's Tale anyone?

[@michaelstevens3479]

Tied housing with company stores are part of the plan just like their great grand parents did.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

They're just reinventing corporate towns

[@josephang9927]

​@@RasalilaRose I'm sure most of these billionaires are gnostic or Jwish

[@KieraKA216]

@@randomtinypotatocried it's all just feudalism with extra steps

[@Vaan362]

This is just brazen. These Billionaires want to being back feudalism so bad.

[@AndyWarhole-w7q]

The whole world is going back to XIX century. All these empires on the rise, eternal rulers sitting on the thrones over decades. Now feudalism and middle class elimination.

[@sdrc92126]

A large porion of the population also. "Free will is over." --Noah Harari, Jiff peanut butter

[@RoseanneSeason7]

​@@sdrc92126jif not jiff I think

[@sdrc92126]

@@RoseanneSeason7 jef mabey, or something like that

[@mrcead]

​@@sdrc92126 back? It never left Europe. We forget that America is unique in having a revolution that actually changed things. In Europe, the same people run it now that ran it 100 years ago despite 2 world wars and endless treaties. People who never grew up in America honestly can't understand that bringing their bs with them will just make this America the same crap hole they left behind. It boggles the mind

[@annegarrett7290]

Hell is going to be sooo crowded! The horror that awaits !

[@martinsaunders7925]

The town I grew up in was a small,picturesque destination for visitors and tourists. It had 3,000 residents and was surrounded by farmland free from development. Money discovered it. From as far away as Saudi. By the time I graduated from high school I couldn't afford a mortgage. Twenty years later I couldn't afford property taxes. The town currently has north of 30,000 residents. It hasn't been home to anyone I grew up with for years. Many simply emmigrated.

[@madamerican7135]

They did before in coal mine towns in West Virginia of the early 1900’s. The company controlled everything including the money that was used inside the town limits. Read your history books for more information and be shocked and mad.

[@5400bowen]

The movie "The Molly McGuires" is on the same thing in Pennsylvania. The coal miners, my ancestors. With Sean Connery and Richard Harris.

[@billkgeorge]

First rule of billionaire lawsuits: Buy the judges. You've already bought the politicians, the legislators. Now buy the judiciary. That will buy you the judgements, then buy the land. When you have infinite money, you'll never run out of it. Just buy

[@atranimecs]

They don't really need to - they offer to buy the land just because it's faster - it's mostly cheaper when they go the legal route but now the Corp pays in time.

[@michaelp3680]

They should have bought enough media power and then buy the judges. These billionaires are making amateur mistakes...

[@nancyblackledge2002]

Make sure to add the mainstream media and the Hollywood actors

[@dont.ripfuller6587]

We gotta get that Epstein client list. That will see a whole bunch of meddlesome billionaires go away.

[@andybaldman]

Technofeudalism.

[@andrewcampbell7011]

The billionaire bugman cannot comprehend a connection to one’s land that is beyond price.

[@celieboo]

I'm speechless! This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.

[@chronometer9931]

We have a housing crisis, building homes for half a million people or more sounds like a good thing to me. It will bring in a lot of financial resources to the area and lower prices on homes etc as well

[@chronometer9931]

Also because of all the new people moving I to the state there will be a ton of new jobs created and it would help balance the power dynamic back for workers in the region as there will be more jobs competing for workers...

[@Michael39158]

@@chronometer9931you’re such a tool.

[@Greenitthe]

@@chronometer9931 Because company towns worked so well the first time... Seriously though, who thinks 'you know what would make government great? even more corruption'. What's better than a terrible boss? A terrible boss that also owns your home, every shop in town, and the courthouse lmao

[@pj-light-glass]

Very concerning development with these LLC land grabs. 😡

[@valv5993]

Colonization within our own country. What a trip. Thank you for making and sharing this story.

[@chronometer9931]

What an absurd thing to say lol

[@LykeArgy]

@@chronometer9931 yeah , it's absurd that it's true in 2024. you're correct

[@KimberlyWestbrook]

Thank you for speaking the truth!!!

[@aldenbobalden]

this country is built on colonization. is it really that surprising?

[@yunglynda1326]

that part!

[@corriemathiowetz2135]

Omg, have these billionaires not read a wrinkle in time. These utopia's are such 6th grade thinking... They clearly have no mature thinking. This is awful

[@HyuLilium]

It's really about more money and more power

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

One of my favorite books of all time!

[@WinterAyars]

They know they're building hell on earth for 99% of humanity. They don't care because they, personally, will benefit. No one should have this much power and influence over society and the world, but least of all the people who want it.

[@Gala-yp8nx]

This is EVIL. Pure unadulterated EVIL.

[@ayoutubechannelname]

It’s a natural consequence of NIMBYs (upper middle class boomers) who spend their free time blocking new housing. They want you to blame billionaires so they can feel righteous in their obstinate opposition to housing development. They do this while doing precisely the thing (i.e. aiding and abetting housing scarcity) which creates a ripe opportunity for billionaires with a savior complex to profit off of the situation.

[@tonetell9956]

That judge is in their pockets