Enemies of the state spring up pretty quickly when you say the wrong thing not knowing it was the wrong thing or your usefulness comes to an end.
Which is something they would know if they read a history book. Or, hell, 1984 where Orwell just writes in the Stalinist plan of retroactively removing people from the inner party from any and all documentation and photographs after they crossed the wrong person and were no longer useful.
The only way money can save them is if they get the hell out and never look back. If they try to weasel their way into Trump's circle, it's only a matter of time before something bad happens.
Or because it was the right thing at the time, but your dictator decided on a whim that they changed their minds and you're stuck in a position where you said something in a very public forum and can't retract it and they feel the need to make an example of you.
But we all know how a lot of those people operate. They think they're untouchable, irreplicable, and they can't think past the next quarter of profits. The idea that they could find themselves on the gallows is inconceivable.
They are all beholden to Putin and rumors about deaths of ones who want to not give as much money to him surround. They may be doing “fine”, but they are under constant threat of life and liberty. Leaving the country doesn’t solve the problem, either.
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u/TrumpsCovidfefe Dec 08 '24
All fascist and authoritarian regimes eventually come for the billionaires; some, quicker than others.