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True Dough

(27,637 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 05:21 PM Jun 13

Agreed?

𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
@OrevaZSN

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

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Agreed? (Original Post) True Dough Jun 13 OP
True dat Easterncedar Jun 13 #1
Agreed! Nittersing Jun 13 #2
But how will corporations and billionaires make obscene amounts of money senseandsensibility Jun 13 #3
The problem is that the people who do want these things... ananda Jun 13 #4
I do want a city on Mars and Flying Cars tho... Happy Hoosier Jun 13 #5
Agreed. calimary Jun 13 #17
Flying car yes, city on Mars not so much. Morbius Jun 14 #35
I once heard someone say dweller Jun 13 #6
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jun 13 #7
Also agree with this: True Dough Jun 13 #8
Agree! bluestarone Jun 13 #9
Yup SuzyandPuffpuff Jun 13 #10
Is it too much to ask? 2MuchNoise Jun 13 #11
I love that song. House of Roberts Jun 14 #33
Me too. 2MuchNoise Jun 14 #36
Agree; except I do want a mission, or two to Mars electric_blue68 Jun 13 #12
Except relogic Jun 14 #23
Oh I should have been specific NASA s3nds astros to Mars; not... electric_blue68 Jun 14 #25
IMO they took control of politicians through "Citizen United" Justice matters. Jun 14 #29
Got it. electric_blue68 Jun 14 #38
Does owning relogic Jun 14 #34
Ok, you meant -that- way. electric_blue68 Jun 14 #39
Apologies, electric_blue68 relogic Jun 14 #40
I'm particularly concerned about the bees. I used to see a lot in my lawn since it's full of clover. patphil Jun 13 #13
And without bees, no food. Not even for the billionaires. Bumbles Jun 13 #14
billionaires don't think of these things. They think they can always buy their way out of anything. patphil Jun 13 #21
It is worth noting... GiqueCee Jun 13 #15
I agree. LoisB Jun 13 #16
Kick. N/T Upthevibe Jun 13 #18
A habitable planet??? Cirsium Jun 13 #19
Well, maybe a robot butler... JoseBalow Jun 13 #20
You know it relogic Jun 14 #22
Yes, I agree. OLDMDDEM Jun 14 #24
Yes Yes Yes 👍👍 TommieMommy Jun 14 #26
I'd kind of like a robot butler, but I can do without the rest of it. Ocelot II Jun 14 #27
Totally! hermetic Jun 14 #28
AGREED...KNR... MiHale Jun 14 #30
a robot butler , maybe. rampartd Jun 14 #31
But, but, but, how will the billionaires make trillions if they don't have all those things???? Fla Dem Jun 14 #32
Nobody? Polybius Jun 14 #37

ananda

(35,792 posts)
4. The problem is that the people who do want these things...
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 05:33 PM
Jun 13

have more money than god and
want to force them down our throats.

Happy Hoosier

(9,718 posts)
5. I do want a city on Mars and Flying Cars tho...
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 05:34 PM
Jun 13

… but I also want clean water and a habitable planet. It’s not either/or.

calimary

(91,427 posts)
17. Agreed.
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 08:06 PM
Jun 13

Besides, considering what we've already done to injure and defile our precious Earth, and the wasteful, thoughtless habits we've already built, a city on Mars may not be such a bad idea for the future. What we've already done to our planet is gonna take quite a cleanup, along with some serious reeducation and wiser long-range habit-forming. The "use once/throw away" mentality has got to go the way of the dinosaurs.

dweller

(28,904 posts)
6. I once heard someone say
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 05:36 PM
Jun 13

The 🌎 is just a private resort for 3,000 people .
The rest of us are the servants and slaves that serve them . . .




😐


✌🏻

True Dough

(27,637 posts)
8. Also agree with this:
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 05:43 PM
Jun 13

Anonymous
@YourAnonNews

Imagine waking up tomorrow and every billionaire vanished.
Most people would still go to work.
Food would still be grown.
Roads would still be built.
Hospitals would still operate.
Now imagine every worker vanished.
That's the difference between wealth and value.

2MuchNoise

(957 posts)
11. Is it too much to ask?
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 06:19 PM
Jun 13

I want a comfortable bed
That won't hurt my back
Food to fill me up
And warm clothes and all that stuff.

electric_blue68

(27,886 posts)
12. Agree; except I do want a mission, or two to Mars
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 06:27 PM
Jun 13

And while having some class differences: erase poverty; and maybe limits to only multimillionaires ( raise the Social Security cap, too), and further clean up our air, land & waters.

relogic

(366 posts)
23. Except
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 12:56 PM
Jun 14

the enterprises that would put us on Mars, supply flying, autonomous, congested airspace, give us water and millions of products/services seem to own the rights to these things before we can even “bid” (in a sense) on them. Recent example (Space X). They’ve managed to steal the rights of control one way or another and use our government against us to accomplish this.

electric_blue68

(27,886 posts)
25. Oh I should have been specific NASA s3nds astros to Mars; not...
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:03 PM
Jun 14

Space Z, Blue Origin whatever!

Please clarify what have these companies taken control of?

Justice matters.

(10,221 posts)
29. IMO they took control of politicians through "Citizen United"
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 02:24 PM
Jun 14

Simple:

- Apply for public-sponsored subsidies (BILLIONS).
- Take big chunks of those public-funded subsidies to "donate" to politicians of all sides.
- Issue clear warnings to elected politicians that if they don't keep that scam going they can say goodbye to that public-funded money for their next campaign.

Bingo.

relogic

(366 posts)
34. Does owning
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 08:23 PM
Jun 14

our 3 Branches count and that is control on steroids. If I further clarified I’d find the redundancy almost tragically comical.

relogic

(366 posts)
40. Apologies, electric_blue68
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 10:35 PM
Jun 14

I thought you were giving the DOGE and corporate tax evaders at our expense a pass. (scratch my snark)

patphil

(9,327 posts)
13. I'm particularly concerned about the bees. I used to see a lot in my lawn since it's full of clover.
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 07:20 PM
Jun 13

I don't want to say there aren't any, but they're precious few compared to what it used to be.

patphil

(9,327 posts)
21. billionaires don't think of these things. They think they can always buy their way out of anything.
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 08:33 PM
Jun 13

Maybe Musk will actually make it to Mars some day. A one way trip would be ideal.

GiqueCee

(5,042 posts)
15. It is worth noting...
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 07:25 PM
Jun 13

... that Bayer, primary producer of neonicitinoid insecticides, that are the biggest killer of honey bees, refuses to terminate production of that deadly product. If it kills honeybees, it's probably not too good for humans, either. But since when has that ever mattered to corporatists?

relogic

(366 posts)
22. You know it
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 12:39 PM
Jun 14

I wholeheartedly agree. More attention to life and less on the strife compounded by those endeavors.

Ocelot II

(131,779 posts)
27. I'd kind of like a robot butler, but I can do without the rest of it.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:34 PM
Jun 14

Especially fucking AI in every app and every website.

rampartd

(5,461 posts)
31. a robot butler , maybe.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 02:36 PM
Jun 14

but the sucker will be a tattle tale

and the robot malware (yes, coming soon) might just turn your sex bot into a relentless killer.

Fla Dem

(27,858 posts)
32. But, but, but, how will the billionaires make trillions if they don't have all those things????
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 03:29 PM
Jun 14

They clearly don't care about us.

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