A recent skirmish over the 1 percent’s feces is currently being worked out by the Florida state legislature.

One of the places that Jeff Bezos lives is a man-made island off the coast of Florida called Indian Creek Village. The island is predominantly populated by other billionaires and is colloquially known as the “Billionaire Bunker.” In fact, if you’re not a billionaire, it’s quite difficult to get in. The bridge from the mainland to the island is closed to the public and protected by armed guards and a sophisticated security system.

However, if the island is almost entirely cut off from the rest of humanity, the island’s inhabitants still seem intent on sharing one thing with members of the outside world: their piss and shit.

Indian Creek doesn’t have the underground infrastructure to deal with its own poop, so the solution it came up with was to funnel it through Surfside into a wider regional sewage system. Unfortunately, Surfside didn’t want the poop unless Indian Creek was willing to contribute $10 million to the community for future sewer system improvements. Indian Creek has referred to this request as “extortion.”

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    Didn’t know we had so many in one place. Why the fuck can’t we get somebody to take it out.

    Fucking mass shooters and terrorists bombing and they always target schools and, churches, etc. Why not for once target a place like that?

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      According to the quote they have taken precautions, the peasantry is not allowed on the island. And to make sure they dont try, they have armed guards and security systems in place.

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        Didn’t say be easy, but I doubt its not has hard as they won’t you to believe. All one has to do is either infiltrate the place, or pay a few guards off. Doubt they are getting paid all that well.

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          From having heard stories from people in the area, it is worse than just guards. Guys in speedboats in full tactical gear, cameras and sonar sensors and all sorts of shit that can tell how close you are, where you are, from a mile out from the shore, and dispatch people there in minutes. It is legitimately a cyberpunk gated community.

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              If the Ukrainians can do it to russian airbases, it should be doable to the island. But it costs money. And the type of people who have that kind of money see themselves living on that island some day.

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                Well then us poors should pool our money and start fighting back. Where rhe fuck are the anarchist and far left people at? I’m sure we can do this.

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                  Actually I googled it. The most expensive was listed at $30k. I thought I had read a much higher number previously. And the less expensive are $1k. But you do need pilots, and you need overwhelming numbers. That said, far more doable than I thought.

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                    Do you need pilots? Can’t you just program the coordinates in? 25,8761060, -80,1358367

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          Not paying your enforcers well enough to make sure they are loyal would probably be the dumbest mistake anyone with wealth and/or power can make.

          Not saying it cant be done of course, but it seems a bit more involved than climbing over a fence after giving the guard some cigarettes.

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            Seeing how they are throwing a fit paying such small fund to take care of their own shit, I have no doubt those guards are paid the bare minimum. They live in such another world that they just expect loyalty. I like to know what they are paid? Second just how much they care really about protecting bunch of billionaires that don’t give two shits about them.

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        Roads typically go two ways. They may have one side of the road but eventually the billionaires have to come out the other.

        We can easily mine the side just past the guards.