cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7730578
They can only store so much food in there.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Unless you got a Black Agnes hiding in there it ain't gonna do much.
What's that, a Scottish 90yo version of Black Widow? 🤔
She was the lady of Dunbar during the second war of Scottish independence. She rather famously held the castle from pro-English forces through most of the war.
How will drones ever cross the moat?
How will vigilantes ever be able to catch these oligarchs at their office if they have moats around their house.
Honestly, wouldnt it be cheaper to just not be evil?
I got a trebuchet for sale.
I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.
Both of those sound more expensive than drones.
You need to be more alarmed about this.
Conservatives (and the rich tend to side with conservatives) have no imagination and project their own intentions on others.
I cannot possibly stress this enough:
IF THEY THINK WE'RE GOING TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK THEM, IT'S SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING TO ATTACK US THEMSELVES.
They have THOROUGHLY demonstrated that they can't imagine anyone wanting to do anything but that which they themselves want to do, are preparing to do, or are ALREADY DOING.
Mark my words:
The rich are preparing to exterminate us all.
They don't care about extermination. Lol. How do you exploit the dead?
They want you alive. And supple to their desires.
No, not exterminate, just control with even further violence. The rich are stupid and useless, but they do know that they need bodies to do their work for them, even if they’ll never admit it.
This is, honestly, much worse because complacent people won’t fight back nearly as hard.
So they're working really hard to make impossible to enter their houses. How hard would it be to modify them to make it impossible to leave?
Pretty sure that getting close enough without being murdered by hired goons would be the hardest part.
After solving that, anyone creative and/or competent enough should have no problem sealing the would be pharaohs in their pyramids of hubris 🤷
So, 'Under the dome' but with the very rich instead of a random city, then.
Guess who can swim!
The ultra rich have always done this, we just used to call them "castles".
I wonder if someday there will be guided tours of Jeff Bezos' mansion. A little museum too, all about his reign of terror.
I know the signs of a aproaching class war if i see them.
You mean a sudden escalation.
The current class war has been going on for decades.
What kind of life is that though. So now you're stuck in a fancy prison and can't trust anyone around you?
They could just try being nice, but I guess that's too much work
wow we're really in end game huh
Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.
Castles often weren't conquered by forcefully breaking through the walls but rather by keeping them under the siege until their inhabitants either surrender or die from hunger.
They are very small, and we have a LOT of raw sewage, and some very powerful pumps.
Won't take long.
This is proper problem solving for the task at hand.
Good luck, shit birds.
Drones with explosives go vrrrr.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." -General George Patton
eventually those with money and power could have AI controlled, shoot on site, robot and drone security systems wherever they want. all legalised by the corrupt government.
To partially quote a certain movie which holds startlingly true right now:
No. What they have are bullets and the hope that when those guns are empty we no longer will be standing....
Seems a lot simpler to just not be a greedy POS.
Power corrupts. Absolute power...
Well, contrary to their self-perception, they're not always the sharpest spoons in the forest.
You don't have to be when you can afford to pay more competent people to take care of literally everything for you 🤷
if only, and stay with me here, if only there was some contraption invented since we last had moats around castle, i don't know, something that can fly in the air and carry, oh i don't know, bags of shit over these moats and into the castles, maybe even more of it at the same time like swarms of bees, maybe we could even name it after them like bee, or worker, or drone, or something. that would be something, I tell ya!
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Society failed when it allowed people to start accruing this kind of wealth
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