"when people accumulate mass wealth and power, they begin to believe the rules no longer apply to them, and their

[applegrove]

“ when people accumulate mass wealth and power, they begin to believe the rules no longer apply to them, and their behavior often drifts toward domination, exploitation, cruelty, violence, and the outright most vile and abhor.”

— Taracas (@taracas.bsky.social) 2026-01-18T14:00:08.472Z

A thing I put up the other day about nihilism went into how believing in nothing allows the nihilists to absolve themselves of responsibility for anyone or anything and this is the key to MAGA I believe: they are giddy with their lack of responsibility. I would send this link below to the MAGAs in your lives:

https://suliqyre.substack.com/p/nihilism-is-nothing-etc?triedRedirect=true

[debsy]

1. Nobody will ever convince me...

… that Epstein and Trump weren’t working together. IMO, they both kept kompromat on each other as well as on all their “clients”. Donnie dumpster probably learned his lesson on kompromat after his first visit to Russia in 1987. From there, the sex trafficking and blackmail business took off. Since then, dumpster (and before his death, Epstein) have used it to bully everyone he/they have kompromat on into doing his/their bidding.

Of course, this is just my opinion but - to me - it is also the simplest explanation for how he got where he is today.

[msfiddlestix]

2. They're not beginning to think it, they already know it! It's how they got wealthy in the first place, because the rules

Do not apply to them and never will.

[Boomerproud]

3. Look at the smug, entitled faces in that picture.

[applegrove]

4. I'm so sick of that picture. I'm getting tired of being grossed out.

[UTUSN]

5. We've relearned the age-old truth of that. We didn't give it enough weight in the p-grabbing tape,

where he said that richies/celebs like him could grab and had plenty throwing themselves at him. Back then I said to a wingnut that it was backwards, that those dudes thought they could have anything, had a right to anything, not the throwing themselves at them.

EPSTEIN, COMBS, Krasnov? Think any and all of them - the populist revoluntionaries who take power with promises of equality and reform, hah! Just saw a YouTube about CASTRO's secret island that would make EPSTEIN drool - completely isolated, buildings plain on the outside but anti-bomb secure with inside temperature control and a causeway connecting to another island and head-of-state security forces and fresh water pool and sauna and everything built with public money. Off limits to everybody except some few dozens, even excluding most relatives - but BahBwah WAHWAH was welcomed. Plus he had (billions?) in certain banks. His predecessor BATISTA took hundreds of millions with him when he skeedaddled out of the country. Oh, and CASTRO's army had a daily task of cruising the beaches for pretty young things for his daily Noon dessert.

We think the ancients Tiberius, Nero, Caligula over-indulged themselves? Hah, silly naive us! It's happened, *IS* happening. Still can't get rid of the image of DERSHOWITZ in his underwear.

[chowder66]

6. And this has to change. No more kids gloves for any of them.