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As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

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[–] Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

The Apartheid-Pedo shall eat shit.

[–] DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Go look at a recent photo of the top 10 richest men in the world and tell me if any of them look like they are having a good life. I mean, Bezos is the only one of them who has any type of emotional reaction to things resembling a normal human reaction. Not a good human, but still, human. The rest of them just look like soulless husks most of the time. I wouldn't wanna trade places with any of them for even a millisecond. I imagine that the overwhelming feeling of loneliness and detachment from humanity would scar me for life.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh boo fucking hoo. You could have taken your daddy's stolen blood money and done a whole lot of good on the world. Instead you made yourself a fat rich old hated piece of shit who creeps about trying to sell his jizz to his mates. Money can't buy you a sense of fucking shame.

"I shat in the pool and now the pool is all full of my shit and everyone else at the pool party hates me waaaaa!"

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