jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 day agoRepublicans aim to generate support for selling off America's public landswww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1338arrow-down12cross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
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minus-squareGoofSchmoofer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 hours agoI think nothing would elevate the hatred of billionaires more than if they buy up the national parks for their own private estates. Great Smokey national park is now the walton’s family compound Rocky Mountain National park is now the gates compound Yosemite becomes musk’s outdoor playground The grand canyon is bezo’s now Just writing that elevated my blood pressure
minus-squareGrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoThey’ll turn the grand canyon into a garbage dump.
minus-squarePotatoLibre@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoDon’t forget Russian and Chinese oligarchs. First the golden ticket, later the Yosemite.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 hours agoDon’t worry, no one is thinking that. But wouldn’t it be so much more productive to have oil wells and strip mines there? Otherwise that land is just fraud, waste, and abuse
I think nothing would elevate the hatred of billionaires more than if they buy up the national parks for their own private estates.
Great Smokey national park is now the walton’s family compound
Rocky Mountain National park is now the gates compound
Yosemite becomes musk’s outdoor playground
The grand canyon is bezo’s now
Just writing that elevated my blood pressure
They’ll turn the grand canyon into a garbage dump.
Don’t forget Russian and Chinese oligarchs.
First the golden ticket, later the Yosemite.
Don’t worry, no one is thinking that. But wouldn’t it be so much more productive to have oil wells and strip mines there? Otherwise that land is just fraud, waste, and abuse