Tech Billionaires’ Shocking Plot for Rural America

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Tech billionaires are waging a hostile takeover of rural Northern California. They want to build their own private city in Solano County, and they’re crushing farmers with lawsuits to do it. Local activists delayed them last month, but the fight has just begun.
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@davidd6660 24 дня назад

As a solano resident, can confirm this video accurately represents the struggle in the county. Remember folks, they're not out to help you. They're out to own you.

@ChelGriffith 21 день назад

I’m so sorry your community is going through this! It’s surreal!

@eddysgaming9868 19 дней назад

Well. Not you, so much, as the residents of their "new city."

@Billiepippen 19 дней назад

yet people like you won't support initiatives to give money and restitution to those most hurt by being owned and you wonder why they are now about to enslave everyone else

@davidd6660 19 дней назад

@@eddysgaming9868 also us id imagine

@girardedward 19 дней назад

Reach out to the ACLU? Seems like it’s their type of battle.

@nevreiha 26 дней назад

the absolute gall to accuse farmers of price fixing and collusion in not selling to you whilst buying up all the land in the local area to have a monopoly is utterly stunning.

@Hrrrrrrrrrreng 22 дня назад

“Noooo you can’t raise prices that’s my job” -these dunces.

@johnkelly7217 8 дней назад

Report on corporate welfare in America. Subsidies and tax breaks for the wealthy.

@josephang9927 12 дней назад

This hurts small businesses, small towns and will hurt food prizes in cities.

@jodyleopold520 10 дней назад

EVIL

@mikestanmore2614 7 дней назад

Until you get rid of lobbyists in every level of politics, this will continue. What fool gave corporations human rights?

@bearbait7405 8 дней назад

Treat people like serfs.

@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 8 дней назад

It's just for them they're trying to do that in Dubai as well. The arabs in Dubai are trying to do the same thing. They said newly died topia, where one guy rules all over everybody else. I don't want to live in a world like that. That's why I live all time to me away from everybody else.

@brittatspoonfulofspirit 24 дня назад

For tech titans who built products on understanding customer needs, they really are screwing this one up. The people don’t want your city built within their own.

@RasalilaRose 19 дней назад

I think they're going to move their MegaChurch congregations into them

@grooveathon917 25 дней назад

In addition to the threat to Travis AFB that California Forever poses, the development will destroy sensitive habitat used by tens of thousands of migratory waterfowl and other birds and animals who use the prairies for food and shelter over the seasons. This cannot be mitigated.

@harr7959 7 дней назад

Holy crap, this video has successfully made me support the billionaires. There will be no societal progress if these local Karens are able to cock block all attempts.

@kenw4930 24 дня назад

How can they accuse the farmers of price fixing when there is no price? The farmers don’t want to sell 🤷‍♂️

@chrisytblair 24 дня назад

The example the dude gave (gas companies ~ 4:20) is not an honest comparison. Farmers are not in business to sell their land the way gas companies sell gas. If that amounts to 'collusion' then every person who talks to a neighbor before selling their house is exposed to that charge.

@ScarletAdhesive 21 день назад

Well that has been used in the past. The ranchers are united in not wanting to sell. Which make investors offer more and more until the price is very high then they agree to sell. Sounds like free will America to me, however, you know how billionaires are when they can't get their way.

@Minejc12 21 день назад

Price fixing is when your actually selling, these people are not selling

@ScarletAdhesive 21 день назад

@@Minejc12 the billionaires are saying that the ranchers are united in not selling in order to get the selling price elevated. We don't know if that's true. That's what is being said.

@aeroandspace 21 день назад

They can argue that it's a negotiation tactic to drive the cost up. While the farmers legitimately don't want to sell, it can look the same as forcing them to offer more

@RoseyFuture 17 дней назад

The arrogance and entitlement of these billionaires is stratospheric .

@yessyynoica 15 дней назад

They’re harvesting our planet and going to move on to the next when everything is gone. They do not care is correct and they brainwashed most of the world to not care either

@sn5806 13 дней назад

Unfortunately, the socialist system we're laboring under has been allowed to become so burdensome that this option is actually better for anyone with any value. Sure, if you're an ugly woman that didn't graduate high school that has three crack babies with three different men this sounds awful, but if you're a contributing member of society your leverage is that you can simply leave if the community isn't being run well. Keep in mind that California is looking to tax people and businesses for leaving.

@matthewbraman7202 13 дней назад

@@sn5806Nice attempt. You hit the talking points, but too obvious to be believeable. 2/10 troll.

@Jack-Pritchett 13 дней назад

Peasants in the past sometimes pitchforked people to death.

@GabrielHellborne 13 дней назад

I mean, what's the next step up from being a billionaire? Being a feudal lord with a fiefdom. We've come full circle.

@tlflora 9 дней назад

when they gave human rights to corporations, people LOST thier own right

@KZ-qg7bw 9 дней назад

Yes, that is mabe the biggest root of the problem great post.

@maryeckel9682 8 дней назад

Biggest sellout ever by the Supreme Court.

@mogznwaz 8 дней назад

I will NEVER understand how that was allowed to happen

@walkingman8943 6 дней назад

Keep in mind that the Citizen’s United ruling was from a left leaning SCOTUS. And y’all wanna expand the court so there’s more left leaning justices ? 😬

@MatsueMusic 6 дней назад

Would you be willing to elaborate? I am not sure I understand the history, context. Sounds like something I should know.

@Gunderblinx 25 дней назад

Billionaires trying to claim regular people are price fixing because they wont sell there families land to them. All the while price fixing everything is disgusting

@firebeardlongfellow5295 25 дней назад

Be sure to vote for Trump! Pretty sure he's super duper hard against billionaires! (Pay no attention to Trump french kissing Putin, and Elon Musk.)

@MrJim5280 24 дня назад

@@firebeardlongfellow5295and the democrats are tougher on billionaires. Don’t forget about Oprah and Michell lecturing us about racism and income inequality 😂

@TheJakecakes 24 дня назад

@@firebeardlongfellow5295Peter Theil and Palmer Lucky. Palantir and the Digital border wall. People aren't getting it. There are no viable canindates on either "side".

@nata7536 24 дня назад

@@TheJakecakes People need to rally behind Jill Stein. She's the only one who is TRULY pro labor, serious about climate change, sustainability, and ecology, who has a SERIOUS economic plan to reduce debt, and wants to reign in corporate corruption in the US.

@CZPC 22 дня назад

@@TheJakecakes Yes the Democrats aren't perfect for their part but they are superior to republicans

@billy3603 26 дней назад

You should not be able to sue someone for not selling. End of story. No is no.

@ttopero 26 дней назад

Their not suing for not selling. Their suing for “collusion”, as if the land owners are refusing their offer because they want more money, not because they want to retain their land at any price-very different arguments!

@karlrovey 25 дней назад

@@ttoperoIn other words, they're using a legal loophole to sue them for not selling.

@eh3477 25 дней назад

@ttopero That's what the tech investors are claiming but that's not what happened. These farmers simply had no interest in selling their family property, as they said here. Also, the lawsuit against the farmers is for $$500k, and they know the farmers don't have the cash to fight a long lawsuit.

@mcsmith732 25 дней назад

The Big Money Boyz are attempting to pull an "Eminent Domain" grift. That sort of thing certainly works in the corporate world. What do you think the "Hostile Takeover" is about? The Big Money Boyz have bought enough politicians and judges who create and enforce legislation that allows for this sort of thing. "Greed Is Good." Remember?

@michaeld4861 25 дней назад

@@ttopero It's really the same argument though. No means no and it's their land they shouldn't be forced to sell it to some billionaire. And you cannot collude to keep your own stuff. This is pure bully/lawfare. It's oligarchy rule.

@petiteange08 26 дней назад

The irony of big corporations suing small farmers for price fixing.

@starzies 26 дней назад

Their sheer audacity of these companies is honestly disgusting.

@Kevin-ne3tl 26 дней назад

Corporations have ruined this nation. Time to take it back from these axe-hats.

@Robert_McGarry_Poems 26 дней назад

While calling themselves libertarians. That word has been usurped and misused in the US more than any other. But hey, that's neo-liberal marketing for you. Ultra wealthy post-liberal neo-cons acting as if they have your best interest in mind and want to build a utopia for you... while suing you into bankruptcy so that you are forced to sell your land.

@Robert_McGarry_Poems 26 дней назад

Ayn Rand famously hated the physically and mentally disenfranchised. If they really are trying to build a city in the image of her philosophy, then it's main theme is going to be eugenics.

@who2u333 26 дней назад

The farmers aren't price fixing. That would imply that they wanted to sell. The lawsuits are because the the farmers WON'T sell. The farmers don't want the money, they want the land.

@stevanrozic4638 9 дней назад

Farmers stand your ground. Cheers from Canada.

@Elena-rt9yu 22 дня назад

Problem is the judges not defending the citizens, but siding with bullies, as long as their hands are greased

@ronmckay9037 17 дней назад

Didn't the late great George Carlin already say it best..."it's all one great big stroke job"

@WWZenaDo 13 дней назад

Thank you Federalist Society for loading America's judicial system with your white Christian Nationalist toadies.

@alibali672 12 дней назад

It's a big club but you ain't in it.

@BuildNewTowns 12 дней назад

Unfortunate truth :/

@mr.giggles4995 11 дней назад

That's because those judges were given power by these same billionaires.

@generaluse2878 21 день назад

Billionaires did not get all that money by caring about their neighbors.

@sams3533 20 дней назад

The real billionaire mindset is "If that random person has $100 in their wallet, how do I get my $20 out of it?"

@zaloo 20 дней назад

@@sams3533 $20? ALL of it is where they start and will be tooth and nail and astronomic legal fees all the way down to $98. Like the guy quoting ayn rand, "it's not who will let me, it's who will stop me."

@lbr88x30 19 дней назад

Tax the rich . Before they reinstate serfdom.

@hyperreal 19 дней назад

They got it by being productive entrepreneurs, which includes providing product or service that thousands if people value and benefit from 🤦🏻‍♂️ Have you ever owned a business?

@zaloo 19 дней назад

@@hyperreal you can own a business without trying to overthrow foreign government or control OURS to your own selfish liking whilst screwing the citizen, throwing around 10s of billions of dollars to fleece the middle and working classes AND the poor. but yes lets run our businesses!

@kdavidsmith1 25 дней назад

Billionaires believe that their wealth means they are superior humans. They believe they are moral superior, intellectually superior, and physically superior and therefore should be allowed to force their will on everyone. I hope they not only take major defeat in court but are also required to pay the farmers' legal fees.

@GenericUsername1100 21 день назад

You are so right, they really do think like that. The media is partially to blame for creating these monsters, they constantly refer to them as "geniuses" and feature their opinions in their articles despite them not having any background in the subject matter. They gushed over these tech billionaires and inflated their already oversized egos.

@RasalilaRose 19 дней назад

Social Darwinists

@etienne8110 13 дней назад

Tbf, why would we allow them to amass so much money if we didn t thought so too? Because basically we are agreeing to give them full power there.

@joelhunton7108 12 дней назад

They feel though they are a government unto themselves. This case may go to the supreme Court.

@pauls5745 12 дней назад

It's so sad people don't have the money to fight a big corp. in court so in effect, billionaires have more rights than anyone else?

@ceterumcenseo-b1l 8 дней назад

The most disgusting thing about billionaires is their insatiable greed - way, way more than enough is still not enough. Sick.

@joehighsmith2951 4 дня назад

It's a disease with only one cure

@ceterumcenseo-b1l 11 часов назад

@@MementoMori1000 Speak for yourself. Believe it or not, there are people who have better things to do with their lives than lust after wealth and power. So don't go projecting your own deficiencies onto others (and don't 'bro' me).

@MementoMori1000 6 часов назад

@@ceterumcenseo-b1l okay bro whatever helps you sleep at night

@ceterumcenseo-b1l 6 часов назад

@@MementoMori1000 Have you ever noticed that dumb and rude often go together?

@Gunderblinx 25 дней назад

Billionaires claim they will offer good paying jobs. But considers $10 an hour "good paying"

@kdavidsmith1 25 дней назад

"its one banana, Micheal. How much could it cost, $10?" These Billionaires, Probably.

@lioleigh9791 25 дней назад

Exactly! All service jobs at the restaurants and shops to serve their techie employee-residents. When mass tech layoffs happen, their employees will be out of housing and those service workers will be out of jobs. Doesn't sound sustainable. It just gives them more control over people.

@aygwm 25 дней назад

These people don’t work “jobs”, so they don’t know what good paying job even means

@usrIO30581l 25 дней назад

That’s why they need illegals for the Astro-turf movement. While chills help sneak them in getting tbacc to Gavin newsom bill act of giving 150k per illegal to create this “new city”.

@Ehh..... 24 дня назад

Don't attribute malice as ignorance. They know dang well that 10 dollars an hour is a garbage wage.

@BobbyHickey 26 дней назад

Our justice system is broken. These cases should be immediately dismissed against those that do not wish to sell.

@shorgoth 26 дней назад

and they should be fined a % of their net worth each time as punishment for frivolous lawsuits.

@joefox9765 26 дней назад

It's a money thing

@jasons5916 26 дней назад

Assuming they are suing against the "price fixing" of farmers who are trying to get more money out of them, the court could also rule that the farmers can't get more money than was originally offered for their land. The farmers could then just decline the offer again. There is not law that says you have to sell your land because you were given a good offer for it.

@wynelleu 26 дней назад

@@jasons5916which is why each land owner needs to be reimbursed for ALL defense legal fees + loss of income + resonable damages as a percentage of those costs, by the initiator of the frivolous plaintiff.

@jvcyt298 26 дней назад

@@joefox9765 ; That's how these corporate oligarchs win, by out spending you on lawyers and suing anybody that gets in their way. Citizens United was made to help the wealthy at the expense of everybody else.

@JS-cs8gz 26 дней назад

Entitlement at the most elite level

@alexlopez5800 26 дней назад

Elite level? More like no level 😂

@ayoutubechannelname 25 дней назад

@@JS-cs8gz The NIMBYs despise these “elites”, yet they are precisely the reason why we got to the point where billionaires are now proposing “solutions” to the housing crisis. We don’t have a democracy as long we maintain deference to the interests of NIMBYs which are aligned with the petty bourgeoisie.

@PlainGammer 25 дней назад

More like negative level

@prodigalpriest 25 дней назад

The Powers That Be are trying to create food scarcity for their own profit and agenda.

@matthewingerson 24 дня назад

It's an addiction -- many, if not most, people are addicted to their lifestyles. This addiction to lifestyle permeates all walks of life, in which the most-fortunate people are incapable and/or unwilling to show any regard for the least-fortunate people. All the problems in the world are caused by (a)the corrupt lifestyle-addicts from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the duped lifestyle-addicts from the working-class who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.

@zammmerjammer 10 дней назад

This is why billionaires should not exist. No one individual should have that much money and influence with zero accountability.

@brettpeeloff2120 6 дней назад

It's really a lack of Yeshua , elites think they are bigger and know better then jesus

@girumzemichael704 4 дня назад

@zammerjammer You can’t prevent anyone from existing. Let whoever wants to be billionaire trillionaire or becomes one without necessarily wanting to (inheritance) be it. People who are not, someONE who is not that should never allow the former to bully him/ her. Anyone who has a tiny bit of power, financial or political, will try to rule over people, it’s for us not to allow that under any kind of pressure.

@Oceangrace90 4 дня назад

@@girumzemichael704 are you drunk? Unregulated and unchecked authority will trick/oppress you into obedience/submission for the benefit of their agenda. The system is not made to nurture human soul, but to make zombies out it. The system of billionaires existing, when half of the human civilization is either at war, poor, or corrupt, needs a reset or a revolution!

@godandfamilyalways8149 3 дня назад

@@girumzemichael704if the government was responsible and caring toward the common folk, it would be reflected in tax policy... at least for starters.... but alas, the government and the fed reserve are run by the same club...

@rexpeterson5729 25 дней назад

Most folks here do not know that the rule of thumb for developing a city is it requires all the water from an IRRIGATED Farm of the same area, not a dryland farm. Somewhere there is a water grab going on also.

@jacobkyle4573 24 дня назад

We need to stop anymore additional water rights from being claimed from the Colorado now and have a substantial amount removed. It's running dry and nobody has the luxury to demand more of it for anything less important than drinking, sewer systems and other hygienic purposes. I know we need farms but we have greatly overstepped our capabilities in the Colorado River region and everyone will need to play a part in saving the river before it is gone forever.

@magicunicorn6535 22 дня назад

The Delta.

@yourportlandlifestyle2907 21 день назад

I think that water might be from Oregon... there is talk of it

@Shineynsparkles 21 день назад

Duh

@leenonolee4629 21 день назад

@@jacobkyle4573 The Farm land was there before the area became popular as a place to live. They should have had some forethought about water, rather than move in and take it from the farmers who create the food these people eat.

@dixiebrick 26 дней назад

Beware the billionaire criminal class

@SK-po3ck 21 день назад

They are called jews

@longsleevethong1457 21 день назад

Iol…..yeah way more dangerous than the proletariats on the south side of Chicongo huh?

@Skidderoperator 21 день назад

It is CLASS WARFARE

@zaloo 20 дней назад

you mean billionaire

@longsleevethong1457 19 дней назад

@@dixiebrick yeah cause the south side Chicongo proletariat is wayyyy safer huh??

@TheeMuddman 25 дней назад

Red or Blue, billionaires are not your friends.

@RealHomeRecording 25 дней назад

Yep because if they were then they would spread that wealth around a little bit more

@ayoutubechannelname 25 дней назад

@@RealHomeRecording Neither are the NIMBYs who hypocritically want you to blame these billionaires for unaffordable housing.

@aliannarodriguez1581 25 дней назад

It’s a rare billionaire that doesn’t shift eventually to the far right.

@matthewingerson 24 дня назад

RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class politics. Vote RW-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road from Capitalist-enslavement to Fascist-enslavement. Vote moderate-RW Dems for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalist-enslavement to Fascist-enslavement.

@matthewingerson 24 дня назад

All the problems in the world are caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.

@thisisme64T 8 дней назад

They should be in jail for using lawfare and harassment against the property owners.

@reesedaniel5835 3 дня назад

If govt didn't take bribes from them, they would be.

@sumiland6445 26 дней назад

It's simple. Billionaires' goals are to create a owners and slaves society. It's happening in hyperdrive in Florida. I grew up in "silicon valley". It was orchards and corn and strawberry fields as far as the eye could see. It was lush, green and cool. I watched the orchards ripped out, the fields plowed under and the valley covered in asphalt and concrete.

@mominthe209 25 дней назад

My husband’s family came to Los Altos in the early 1900s to farm the land. My husband finds old pictures of when he was a kid and it was Mayberry. The decade I lived there I saw tremendous change. Life is change though and change is usually tough.

@matthewingerson 24 дня назад

They are addicts -- addicted to their lifestyles, social status, and cushy standard of living. All the problems in the world are caused by (a)the corrupt lifestyle-addicts from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the duped lifestyle-addicts from the working-class who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.

@magicunicorn6535 22 дня назад

I came to the Bay Area just as that Silicon Valley takeover was picking up momentum. I still remember lots of orchards and open space. Amazing fruit stands along the highways. I remember going to Cali Bros. in Cupertino to buy horse feed. You could see their big silo in the distance long before you got there. It was so cool to be able to drive through that large building and have your purchase loaded onto your truck for you. Now that same intersection is covered with office buildings.

@sumiland6445 22 дня назад

@@magicunicorn6535 i used to walk to Cali Bros. Ms Cali would have us kids over to pick plums after the harvestors had gone through. We sun-dried the plums not good enough to sell fresh. Then she'd have us all in her house, serve us cookies and milk and she'd show us her family photo albums. They truly were the pioneers of Santa Clara Valley.

@GenericUsername1100 21 день назад

Paving and building over the most fertile land is so many levels of stupid. They have done that in my area too.

@justinfowler2857 26 дней назад

Because those lands get 90% of the water rights.

@timguillory6339 26 дней назад

Bingo

@firstlastlastfirst7143 26 дней назад

Water rights to a dry river bed and an empty aquifer. They should be doing this in Great Lakes area where there will actually be water in 100 years. These people are the acme of stupidity.

@pajeetsingh 26 дней назад

Water rights??

@Wolfcamp555 26 дней назад

Land owners in Texas get 100% water rights, even in the cities.

@Masterdebater-q5c 26 дней назад

Yep, and if I have it correct the water provisions in California were based off of farmers bidding over 100 years ago and those amounts of water have been given on the cheap and is binding forever, or until we run out of fresh water

@dtrahn1218 9 дней назад

Can you imagine living in these cities? You think dealing with your internet provider, cable company or health care provider is bad... imagine dealing with a city "government" built for profit.

@dilsadmeraler 26 дней назад

How amazing to create a city for themselves but using the roads, airports, bridges etc built by our tax money to get there 🤮

@hashbrown4781 26 дней назад

While they pay almost no taxes already.

@scottgrindrod 26 дней назад

This is the Libertarian fantasy: getting *all* of the benefits of society without paying anything for them.

@ttopero 26 дней назад

They won’t live there. More like a neo-company town for the 21st century, but for an industry, not jut one company. But they will be paying for the infrastructure on their land and any connections to local utilities, before possibly turning it over to an HOA-type government to run it, defer maintenance and then tax the residents as repairs are needed but no billionaires are around to fund it. They could ask for the surrounding communities to pay for expansion of water processing facilities and transit infrastructure TO the development, but it’s not going to be developed with tax dollars in general-just more egregious long term.

@MrApw2011 26 дней назад

If that's the case, why doesn't the community create toll roads to the community? However, everyone who pays gas taxes or property taxes pays for roads, airports, bridges, schools, etc.

@fmcg5364 25 дней назад

@@ttopero great point

@lisareid7043 26 дней назад

This should be illegal for wealthy people to force people out if their homes and land. It’s robbing them by threat and force!! It’s wrongly using the court system!

@drk.i.a.2969 25 дней назад

Its always been this way, indians, blacks, hispanics etc....but when done to them oh its a tragedy...most farm lands is owned by whites by farmers who got loans from government to the cattle, land, machinery etc...now they crying abt it...ot was on hold anyway. Oh well "around & around we go, where it stops nobody knows..".Ball of Confusion"....by THE TEMPTATIONS...a real classic..a must hear...

@mcsmith732 25 дней назад

It's wrong, but legal. Remember the corporate "Hostile Takeover"? That's where a bank and a "Private Equity" firm buy out a business that the owners don't want to sell, take out a whole bunch of loans on the business that they stole, pocket the money, and let the business in which name they borrowed the money go bankrupt and taken over by the bank that loaned the money. It's a corrupt and legalized scam. Just ask Mitt Romney. It's how he made his $300,000,000. This shouldn't be legal. It's been known to not only kill thriving businesses, but entire towns that rely on those businesses. But, the Big Money Boyz bought up enough politicians and judges to MAKE that sort of thing perfectly legal. Look to the Reagan days, Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics for the Hostile Takeover of America by banksters, "Private Equity" firms and finance companies.

@RoseanneSeason7 25 дней назад

I think you are right. Let's fight this corrupt system. Let's not fear these evil people. Let's get real men together and organize the great pay back

@High_Rate136 25 дней назад

They won’t do anything because billionaires have politicians in their pockets. This thing only ends like the French Revolution

@dozzer009 25 дней назад

@@RoseanneSeason7 Hilarious how you talk about corruption yet publicly post about scamming Dollar General stores 🙄

@winesap2 26 дней назад

These billionaires are absolutely evil. We need laws to stop these evil bullies. They need to be sued for this because there’s no way they could prove “price fixing”. What a joke. They don’t want to sell.

@waffle8364 26 дней назад

The problem with that is they have money and a lot of power over law makers

@fr4ctur71 26 дней назад

yet another argument for why no one should be able to amass this kind of wealth and power. its not about making laws to stop this because they will just use their money to overcome those laws. Its about changing the system so that this consolidation of money and power doesn't get to exist. All power, to all people

@KOSAMAGAMES 26 дней назад

The US has been corporation first for YEARS, it's only a matter of time until your neighborhood looks profitable and then you're next. If you think for a second a party affiliation will help you, just ask Houston and Phoenix.

@trashcatlinol 26 дней назад

@@KOSAMAGAMESmostly since Reagan

@Kevin-ne3tl 26 дней назад

@@KOSAMAGAMES Yeah, like in 2012 when Mittens Romney said on live TV, "Corporations are people", I was done with him for good.

@anthonyraymundobarron1255 26 дней назад

Cant wait to live in a Tech Billionaires city where I pay $4,000 to live in a box of sardines, and get regulated like a HOA

@Barbara-jn2gw 26 дней назад

🤣😢

@darkwing3713 25 дней назад

And you'll have no rights at all.

@LusyPicker-sm6su 23 дня назад

That's $400,000 to live in a box of sardines.

@butterfish-g9f 23 дня назад

You forgot everything being a subscription service, including breathable air.

@magicunicorn6535 22 дня назад

YOU NAILED IT!!!!

@spectrumboss6696 26 дней назад

Tech Colonialism

@dilsadmeraler 26 дней назад

Billionaires Colonialism 😢

@nicholausbuthmann1421 26 дней назад

Actually Yes ! Normally I don't care for the Puns like this because there's usually more nuance in progress. NOT THIS TIME !

@nicholausbuthmann1421 26 дней назад

@@dilsadmeralerA.I. used by you likely nade by the above Villains, cut it out !

@jadenamber8378 26 дней назад

... or Feudalism

@spectrumboss6696 26 дней назад

@@jadenamber8378 Do you think they studied Medici?

@Phosfit 26 дней назад

I hope that community sticks together.

@chronometer9931 21 день назад

The community of super wealthy farmers owning mega farms which they acquired by forcing out the little farmers?

@eric2500 21 день назад

@@chronometer9931 Um, really? I would check your specific facts on that place before I start if I were you. That kind of land needs a lot of it to do the kind of production that it does without killing it in short order, a lot of families have had large tracts of land for generations. *I really do not know the history, but I am not flinging accusations!* The sort of land buyouts you describe happened decades ago if they happened at all, far more likely to have happened in the farms closer to places like L.A. when they grabbed the water from the mountains for the city, leaving only a few farmers - the ones who could afford irrigation.

@wax_axiom479 20 дней назад

All the company has to do is wait 😂 microplastics and spray chemicals will take care of em and then the company comes into scoop up what's left

@garycarder4363 19 дней назад

Might be time to break the power grid

@ashrafal 18 дней назад

That would not help, Soon they would for greater good have check points, look at what happens in WEST BANK

@joehooper1145 8 дней назад

Imagine being the government of Cali and just letting this happen, oh wait…. They are the ones promoting it

@JohnHall 22 дня назад

They were not holding out to raise prices. They were holding out to NOT SELL.

@chronometer9931 21 день назад

So they claim...

@davidgreenwood6029 19 дней назад

@@chronometer9931 Doesn't matter, holding out for more money isn't a crime, and neither is telling your neighbors that is what you're doing, unless you all get together to create a situation that will raise prices, it isn't any kind of market manipulation. They are all reacting to a situation created by someone else that threatens their lifestyle and income and financial security. No matter what amount of collective strategization they have done, it is in reaction to a threat, and in no way a proactive attempt to manipulate anyone else.

@tomkemp962 19 дней назад

@@chronometer9931 Keep simping for your overlords, bootlicker.

@proxyhuman 17 дней назад

@@chronometer9931 This is an obvious play that will inevitably force the land owners into bankruptcy so they HAVE to sell. You are either an idiot, or a troll, and I have my educated guess as to which it is.

@randomtinypotatocried 14 дней назад

@@chronometer9931I guess you never just talked to your neighbors about situations happening in your area

@DaronPeterJones 15 дней назад

My fellow residents, for 36 years I have lived and am a homeowner in Solano Co. I encourage us all to stay strong and diligent. They see us as "marks". Be mindful of who we vote for within our cities and county for they will look to implant their pawns. Stay Solano Strong!💪🏾

@hayleys-w5q 14 дней назад

There may be important lessons for this situation in what was going on in Northern Ireland in the 70's and 80's.

@DaronPeterJones 13 дней назад

@@hayleys-w5q Thank you for the referral. Surely will research it.

@money-ay 13 дней назад

second amendment

@streetsharkz 12 дней назад

FUCK EM

@weirdarto 12 дней назад

Yes, please be careful. I'm so sorry this sleazy corporation is harassing your town.

@CONSCIOUSCOMA 26 дней назад

for those who think life would be better controlled by corporations rather then government you are greatly mistaken. as flawed as government seems to be at least you still have a vote and the people still have some leverage.

@Praisethesunson 26 дней назад

The first settlement in America by the English was a corporation. It did not end well. Turns out governments are always better at governing than corporations.

@AceRa-i7n 26 дней назад

But the problem is, the government became a corporation. They sold out.

@andrewtorrens7790 26 дней назад

There is a whole genre of sci-fi devoted to the corporate run society. Not one of them paints a positive picture.

@howie5746 26 дней назад

You mean there's really a difference between corporations and government? Check your calendar this ain't 1963.

@pajeetsingh 26 дней назад

They will have Taylor Swift and the snob class of NYC and LA would buy those city houses in a matter of seconds.

@GoldenLife-uq2ms 8 дней назад

The Currency of Caring. Folks coming together real time despite politics. KEEP GOING.

@markfreeman4727 26 дней назад

this is literally reaching fairy tale level of absurdity i may be wrong, but i recall a blurb from Gulliver's travels, where he is explaining English law to someone hes met. He says basically that if his Neighbour covets his cow, they can hire a lawyer and sue to basically just take from him, and he must hire a lawyer to defend himself cause the system makes it impossible for him to defend himself at all other wise and that's literally what's happening here. "I want your stuff, but you won't give it to me, so i'm gonna sue you into the ground until you bend the knee"

@andromedaspark2241 26 дней назад

Money is the only meaningful speech in this country, and everyone can see how every penny and then some is squeezed from most citizens. This is unstable, don't the haves remember when the have-nots give up the type of chaos that ensues?

@LavenderSkyla 26 дней назад

Well the people rose up against France. Didn't end well for their billionaire elite

@Ekolation 26 дней назад

Bingo. This has been happening for years to small businesses and wealthier working class people. This is one of the first times I've seen the tactic employed against blue collar farmers. Truly despicable.

@ttopero 26 дней назад

@@EkolationIt’s certainly a very public contemporary example, but not the first. Usually it’s about resource development, such as water or mining, not subdivision developments.

@gokaren420 26 дней назад

@@andromedaspark2241well we should have been started CHAOS long time ago. Unelected tyrannical elitists are very powerful and our government does nothing to stop them and we citizens do nothing as well. Welcome to the United Snakes of Corporations. The UN should be ashamed of itself. America gets away with too much, not for long, this empire has crumbled

@rebeccaboudreau7589 25 дней назад

These farmers should have been reimbursed by this company for their legal fees. Never trust billionaires

@j.pershing2197 21 день назад

Lawyers are scum

@user-gu9yq5sj7c 18 дней назад

Watch Adam Conover on banning billionaires.

@extropiantranshuman 17 дней назад

don't we wih the legal system worked that way

@brightpage1020 26 дней назад

Pretending to act on your behalf but actually destroying your way of life? And a known scammer is their front man? You don't say.

@red---paulvanravenswaay2247 14 дней назад

RCC

@michellereed3272 9 дней назад

I hope those residents successfully file a class action lawsuit, and counter sue for harassment.

@c.h.5998 11 часов назад

Under a trump presidency..there will be no recourse .

@Miralee01 26 дней назад

This is horrifying. It is not "utopian" but dystopian! The reason those billionaires don't want to say the government type is because they want to rule, like mini kings. Yeah, no. Keep fighting Solano!❤

@mbnhiphopmusik6429 26 дней назад

A rich man's utopia is a normal person's dystopia.

@Miralee01 26 дней назад

@@mbnhiphopmusik6429 I cannot disagree. A very terrifying situation

@wally1663 26 дней назад

I'm hearing people talk about this in Florida it's everywhere already.

@wuzzy5894 25 дней назад

that way they can control us AlL by administering drugs into ALL foods....no one is safe.. unless you have your own private farm and only feeding your family and friends alone

@RoseanneSeason7 25 дней назад

@@wally1663no it isn't

@vinrock3918 26 дней назад

Just another reason why we could do without billionaires.

@bbpersonalpage1613 25 дней назад

Yep 💥

@erikaarnold4780 23 дня назад

Can we eat them, yet?😂

@longsleevethong1457 21 день назад

Wow. Y’all are clowns.

@GenericUsername1100 21 день назад

They are a useless class of people. Better 1000 millionaires than one billionaire.

@23erisx 21 день назад

@@erikaarnold4780 I am working on a cookbook even as we speak. LOL PS there are already some cookbooks out there you can use until we get the latest edition out. Just do a search on Amazon, the greatest of book stores and our numero uno target for the Spicy Food section. Cheers!

@MrCovi2955 13 дней назад

There are laws against companies getting together to set their prices. The farmers weren't setting prices, they were refusing to take any offer. That's the difference.

@jelef001 8 дней назад

i’m horrified that the lawsuits were not dismissed as frivolous

@curlyhairdudeify 8 дней назад

@@jelef001 those billionaires have those politicians on their books

@everlastinglife5978 9 дней назад

These people need to be stopped

@CL369-p9k 25 дней назад

They are suing the farmers who won't sell to them under the premise of price fixing ! Any judge that does not see through this BS is either blind or bought.

@saythankyou111 22 дня назад

….the latter I’m sure🥺🇺🇸🕊

@KingMinish 22 дня назад

Gotta pray that they don't pay off the judges. Sad times

@jsmith8147 21 день назад

They are funding studies showing land is unfit for farming. If they cant buy it they are trying to legally get the farms shut down.

@swampsprite9 20 дней назад

Psychopathic billionaires are the most dangerous group on the planet.

@07Flash11MRC 6 дней назад

The "psychopathic" part is redundant. Billionaires and trillionaires are by definition both psychopathic and sociopatic. Most are even narcissist. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn't be so rich.

@scoobydoobers23 21 день назад

I love that a libertarian is calling on the Government to forcibly take people's property for their benefit.

@rustie115 20 дней назад

classic libertarianism tbh. billionaires are not your friends

@zaloo 20 дней назад

also, of course

@IusedtohaveausernameIliked 20 дней назад

The word "libertarian" is so misunderstood in the USA. Traditional conservatives want business freedom but do NOT want social freedoms. Libertarians want both kinds of freedom, but too many people think that libertarian means further right than the Republicans but it just isn't so. It's just shorthand for "I'm going to do whatever I want to do" but that isn't freedom. To maximize freedom one always has to include other people's freedom (and that all too often gets ignored).

@scoobydoobers23 20 дней назад

@@IusedtohaveausernameIliked If it makes you feel better we also don't know what liberal means, or socialist.

@IusedtohaveausernameIliked 20 дней назад

@@scoobydoobers23 True that. There's a lot of deliberate misinformation and demonization of others going on.

@jjjackson5183 13 дней назад

That, my friend, is a 15 minute city. These farmers DON'T WANT TO SELL. They are not price-gouging. They are exercising their 4th Amendment Rights.

@rickardstrom9305 10 дней назад

Eat zee bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and be happy they say.

@jdelgren9927 10 дней назад

Actually I suspect something else may be at play here. It seems these billionaires are getting bad press because they ARENT on board with the agenda. I say that because they criticized "sustainability" meaning they aren't with the Agenda21 program or it's derivatives. This may be worth a closer look. I think if Klause approved of this project there wouldn't be negative media coverage of it 😅

@JosiahK555 10 дней назад

ya the left is all worried about corporations but praise government for controlling their lives...

@woa6227 9 дней назад

it's bill gates and he's evil. people have been saying this all along.

@ProJudenNamer 9 дней назад

that sounds like something a NOTSEE would say! *COMMUNIST SCREECHING*

@JamesBrown-js3lm 10 дней назад

If the land is your land and you own it, I’m confused as to how you can be sued because you don’t want to sell it. It’s pure ridiculousness that any judge would even consider it.

@rodneykeith2923 18 дней назад

That is our mayor and she is awesome and we will fight with her and we will end this travesty.

@katherenewedic8076 15 дней назад

what is the strategy to have an ethical board?

@nettewilson5926 14 дней назад

You can try.

@claesvanoldenphatt9972 14 дней назад

St Michael give her strength in this battle against Ahrimanic evil!

@MahkyVmedia1 14 дней назад

@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 who?

@Joesolo13 13 дней назад

I see you supporting your local current thing. Good for you for opposing the ruling class's efforts.

@vivalaleta 26 дней назад

Tax billionaires out of existence.

@sdrc92126 26 дней назад

There are much more effective non-violent ways

@vqinet3287 25 дней назад

Yes, taxation, an extremely violent way of dealing with billionaires

@vivalaleta 25 дней назад

@@sdrc92126 I'm a big meany for wanting to tax the super rich properly? Okay, Elon.

@sdrc92126 25 дней назад

@@vivalaleta Want all you want, but you can't

@inuendo6365 25 дней назад

That's the problem, they have lobbyists and offshore accounts to get them out of paying any taxes. Rich get richer

@susannemorr 14 дней назад

These billionaires MUST BE STOPPED.

@karenpeaden271 10 дней назад

How

@andrewcampbell7011 8 дней назад

The billionaire bugman cannot comprehend a connection to one’s land that is beyond price.

@IN-tm8mw 22 дня назад

Everyone is starting to see what I've been saying for years, America is a corporatocracy.

@nwatson2773 14 дней назад

Owned by asshole billionaires

@felipeo8768 20 дней назад

We've allowed these 'tech' idiots to get away with so much over the last 20 years. It's time someone stands up and sets an example.

@vannarooski8730 14 дней назад

Government: your comment has been…noted.

@JohnZornAscended 14 дней назад

Nothing lasts forever. All men are grass..

@matthewbraman7202 13 дней назад

I guess "move fast and break things" is not a good philosophy for building community. Who knew?

@kevinle1083 11 дней назад

@@JohnZornAscendedand to get rid of grass, preferably the grass in your lawn, you use a lawnmower.

@louisesumrell6331 26 дней назад

Billionaires are like the giants in children's stories, stomping around, oblivious to what they are trampling under their enormous feet.

@mattc6147 26 дней назад

Oh they aren't oblivious. The claim of being Libertarian is hilarious as they are using the state to strip the rights of individuals in the process of trying to build a city that won't be run by the state. Absolute hypocrites, and the leaders of this country need to start doing their job to stop this type of nonsense.

@Daestos 25 дней назад

They aren't oblivious at all, the just don't care. We aren't people to them -- it's foolish to believe otherwise.

@MatthewBretton-cu2el 25 дней назад

@@Daestos sounds familiar ? Amazing how cruel it seems when it happens to you, but great when you benefit from it lmao

@AngelicaCline-i6d 25 дней назад

We all do it to some extent, they just do it next level. As a society we treat the disabled like the little match girl. Their just trying to get by but we ae so busy in our own lives we just pass by without noticing. The supper rich just need a good Ebenezer Scrooge, treatment. Some are not redeemable like serial killers we should take away their power. We do need to try to remember, we could fall to the same trap. As the say go's, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I love your analogy.

@kevinle1083 11 дней назад

@@Daestos That is because we are numbers to them; numbers on profit margins that are expected to grow exponentially higher next year. And the year after that. These billionaires are chained by greed and zealous ambition to create a society where their disgusting kind are worshipped like Jesus Christ.

@crazyforcanada 8 дней назад

You should crowdfund your legal defense. Do a gofundme or something.

@dvdv8197 26 дней назад

Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.

@TreeHairedGingerAle 26 дней назад

Well said!

@SandraAnnEvans 25 дней назад

GREED = EVIL

@matthewingerson 24 дня назад

That's RW-politics.

@Beau-py4nb 21 день назад

Actually it is just the desire for more. Gluttony is the desire for more at the expense of others and is a more egregious sin.

@chronometer9931 21 день назад

@@Beau-py4nbGluttony is specific to food, if you want to try to use the Bible then at least read it first...

@8GamingMonsters 22 дня назад

This is on the judges who didn't throw out every single case. And opened a path for a frivolous lawsuit countersuit.

@josh_7569 18 дней назад

Maybe the judge was paid handsomely to allow the cases to wear down the locals?

@Greenitthe 17 дней назад

@@josh_7569 Guaranteed (but don't forget the legal system today exists to protect the interests of capital above all else, regardless of a bad-apple taking bribes)

@extropiantranshuman 17 дней назад

well the judge makes money that way - so they like it

@skytrip5273 7 дней назад

When Americans finally have enough. It won't go well for these power hungry monsters.

@joehighsmith2951 4 дня назад

That's the only way to stop it

@dvdv8197 26 дней назад

These lawsuits should be INSTANTLY THROWN OUT. NOT A SINGLE DOLLAR should be going towards fighting this! 😤😤 This is unacceptable!!

@RoseanneSeason7 25 дней назад

The judges are paid off

@timdykes6675 22 дня назад

Well, it should be on moral basis. But it won’t be because it’s Supreme Court has ruled corporations. Are people and money is free speech. If they can prove the town is violating their constitutional right to liberty and to do business in a free society, then the billionaires will win, they always do. our politics has changed at the highest levels for this is just the beginning

@antodiyo7523 21 день назад

they're twisting antitrust law the same antitrust law that break monopoly or price fixing (like when big corpo work together to rise their price or establish monopoly b4 antitrust law in the robber baron time the farmer work together to price fix their property so high that the corpo cant buy it or just dont sell it like in the segregation time when white dont want to sell to black)

@antodiyo7523 21 день назад

@@timdykes6675 i found this comment they're Suing for price collusion, not for not selling. Which makes it a strawman lawsuit, and that should be covered under the SLAPP laws since it so obvious the lawsuit is meant to bankrupt the landowners to force them into selling... They can fix this by selling their land to their spouse or children for $1 which will keep their land in their family, and negate any premise of price fixing and that would immediately destroy their lawsuits... they just have to trust that their spouse or children won't sell the land to the billionaires...

@TQV_4013 5 дней назад

If anything the farmers should sue for emotional damage.

@ikani1 25 дней назад

I live near this. The locals absolutely hate this plan. It's gotten me to start getting involved in local politics to keep them out, while keeping the actual housing construction we already have going.

@eh3477 25 дней назад

🎯🎯🎯

@longsleevethong1457 21 день назад

Are you super happy with your local and state and federal government?? Are you sure you’re trying to stop the right thing?

@23erisx 21 день назад

Thank you for carrying the torch! are we to surmise that the Ca 4ever project is interfering in current housing projects??

@longsleevethong1457 21 день назад

@@23erisx not based on the video. In the video they showed us current housing being built. Almost seemed like a commercial for the builder. Kinda crazy how these folks do t want people to build their own neighborhood.

@eh3477 21 день назад

@longsleevethong1457 People are fairly happy with their local government here because they listen, take action, have a transparent planning process which resulted in the homes already built (shown here), and are aware of the bigger picture and environmental and economic constraints. Doubt that a small group of secretive, narcissistic ultra-rich tech bros, who have zero experience in land development, who would be accountable to NO ONE, would be a better form of government. Sounds like you work fot them...?

@alexwixom4599 26 дней назад

4:38 Words of a true hero: "Good Neighbors don't sue their Neighbors!"

@ttopero 26 дней назад

Their not neighbors! Their adjacent land owners. The owners will never be neighbors, at least not the full-time variety.

@kathleenthrelfall314 25 дней назад

@@ttopero that's incorrect. They are my neighbors

@alexwixom4599 25 дней назад

@ttopero Hyperbole is used to make a point. His point being, we are to work with the community to find solutions. Not sue them because they wouldn't comply with our own intentions.

@isldgrl2008 9 дней назад

The lawsuits are harassment of the farmers that don't want to sell, with the intention to ruin them financially. The egos of these narcistic wealthy people, how much is enough? Disgusting.

@mapleleaf8948 16 дней назад

This needs to be top story country wide.

@LisaRyanHealthyFit 14 дней назад

So what will California do to help these farmers? I love you farmers and good for you for saying NO.

@ElementofKindness 13 дней назад

California government is leftist, and leftists hate farmers. You can figure out how this goes.

@theresagomez2605 12 дней назад

California will do nothing for these farmers. The planned city will eventually move forward.

@JoyPeace-ej2uv 11 дней назад

That governor of CA just banned memes what do you think?

@Vaan362 26 дней назад

This is just brazen. These Billionaires want to being back feudalism so bad.

@AndyWarhole-w7q 26 дней назад

The whole world is going back to XIX century. All these empires on the rise, eternal rulers sitting on the thrones over decades. Now feudalism and middle class elimination.

@sdrc92126 26 дней назад

A large porion of the population also. "Free will is over." --Noah Harari, Jiff peanut butter

@RoseanneSeason7 25 дней назад

@@sdrc92126jif not jiff I think

@sdrc92126 25 дней назад

@@RoseanneSeason7 jef mabey, or something like that

@mrcead 25 дней назад

@@sdrc92126 back? It never left Europe. We forget that America is unique in having a revolution that actually changed things. In Europe, the same people run it now that ran it 100 years ago despite 2 world wars and endless treaties. People who never grew up in America honestly can't understand that bringing their bs with them will just make this America the same crap hole they left behind. It boggles the mind

@nebuler1 22 дня назад

Telling the people who've lived somewhere for generations that they aren't utilizing the land properly sounds disturbingly familiar.

@josh_7569 18 дней назад

Those poor Natives and poor who die as well from collateral damages due to the conflicts and mass murders. Humans are evil, but billionaires are the worst because they directly affect millions of lives and using the number of millions is an understatement.

@extropiantranshuman 17 дней назад

@@josh_7569 because they have the means

@hope-cat4894 6 дней назад

It reminds me of nail houses.

@madamerican7135 20 дней назад

They did before in coal mine towns in West Virginia of the early 1900’s. The company controlled everything including the money that was used inside the town limits. Read your history books for more information and be shocked and mad.

@5400bowen 12 дней назад

The movie "The Molly McGuires" is on the same thing in Pennsylvania. The coal miners, my ancestors. With Sean Connery and Richard Harris.

@ElementofKindness 13 дней назад

A prime example of how completely heinous people with a little power can be.

@MrIvanovich77 8 дней назад

These so-called "libertarians" are eugenists. They are sociopaths, a threat not only to this community in California but a threat to the world as well. This is what the US and the world is getting 5 decades after unleashing the financiers and promoting deregulations during the Reagan years at the US and during the Tatcher era at the UK. As a result, disparities between and in onside countries are increasing, but these bastards want everybody to blame immigrants or those who depend on food stamps. Robber barons worldwide will destroy us all if we don't unite all over the world. This is fascism.

@phiksit 8 дней назад

I worked at a fab shop where we had an "interim" shop supervisor... basically an hourly guy they made management. Right after he was promoted to full time supervisor he turned into a little hitler and I was forced to quit. I could tell he was kind of an ahole to begin with but after he got that power... wow.

@practicalanachronist 26 дней назад

This is why consolidated wealth should be taxed and dark money taken out of politics. At this level of wealth, they lose their empathy and think their money means they can do whatever they want, with no regard to who they will harm in doing so.

@Tapfoot 25 дней назад

Facts!

@melissakey2483 12 дней назад

Nah. They had no empathy to begin with. That's how they were able to amass the wealth.

@nancyblackledge2002 12 дней назад

Typical of the elites, they are better and smarter than you ordinary people, so we have the right to tell you what and how to live. "Off with their heads" says the queen of hearts! Any wonder why people are waking up to what has been going on in this country. Prepare yourself people, this will not stop them, they will simply change tactics! You are dealing with zealots! (noun 1. a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.) God save America!

@martinsaunders7925 13 дней назад

The town I grew up in was a small,picturesque destination for visitors and tourists. It had 3,000 residents and was surrounded by farmland free from development. Money discovered it. From as far away as Saudi. By the time I graduated from high school I couldn't afford a mortgage. Twenty years later I couldn't afford property taxes. The town currently has north of 30,000 residents. It hasn't been home to anyone I grew up with for years. Many simply emmigrated.

@mbscar 21 день назад

Who are these cities intended for? I doubt this freedom city will be for working class people, but for rich people to exploit working class people.

@RasalilaRose 19 дней назад

possibly their MegaChurches congregations - Handmaid's Tale anyone?

@michaelstevens3479 15 дней назад

Tied housing with company stores are part of the plan just like their great grand parents did.

@randomtinypotatocried 14 дней назад

They're just reinventing corporate towns

@josephang9927 12 дней назад

@@RasalilaRose I'm sure most of these billionaires are gnostic or Jwish

@KieraKA216 10 дней назад

@@randomtinypotatocried it's all just feudalism with extra steps

@robwhite461 11 дней назад

All the best to the farmers. The world is watching. It has to be stopped. Watching in Australia.

@iggyboo 26 дней назад

The US "justice" system is money based. Those with more money get justice

@Backinblackbunny009 25 дней назад

Or, in other words, lady justice is a w h o r e

@andybaldman 26 дней назад

Technofeudalism.

@AppleJack76 9 дней назад

Farmers need "help" from the Hell's Angels.

@SpaceHorse-u1w 16 дней назад

I live near this project and have been following Solano Together for a while. This coverage is spot-on and I was impressed that they actually talked to the organizers and locals directly involved. I appreciate ya'll covering this topic, and the effort you put into your work. Putting real, quality journalism into this form factor can't be easy.

@taylorbug9 25 дней назад

WHY HAS IT EVER BEEN LEGAL TO SUE SOMEONE FOR SAYING NO TO SELLING?????????? That's just ridiculous, and any judge worth anything should immediately throw the case out.

@gwendolin1762 22 дня назад

They used fancy words and quite possibly bribes.

@billyouka448 22 дня назад

Its not illegal but paying for your defence from being sued, whatever it might be for, will bankrupt you, which means, you lose everything. Billionaires are not our friends.

@Dalton1994mon 22 дня назад

That judge definitely needs to investigated this is so suspicious

@JeTTRod 22 дня назад

Suing for price collusion, not for not selling. Which makes it a strawman lawsuit, and that should be covered under the SLAPP laws since it so obvious the lawsuit is meant to bankrupt the landowners to force them into selling... They can fix this by selling their land to their spouse or children for $1 which will keep their land in their family, and negate any premise of price fixing and that would immediately destroy their lawsuits... they just have to trust that their spouse or children won't sell the land to the billionaires...

@GenericUsername1100 21 день назад

If it gets to the stage where the farmers get bankrupted, then the local community should quickly form a land trust and the farmer can sell to the community land trust for cheap instead of selling it to the billionaires. This is what some community in Puerto Rico have done to try and stop their shopfronts and houses being bought out by wealthy mainlanders

@benclemens8370 26 дней назад

I just read Neal Stephenson’s sci-Fi novel“Snow Crash”. The parallels are STUNNING. Each “burbclave” is a franchised, independent government, requiring a passport.

@ericsteele3520 26 дней назад

Every year for the last decade I’ve thought we’re just one step closer.

@sdrc92126 26 дней назад

Read history. The parallels are STUNNING.

@bjdefilippo447 24 дня назад

Great book. Haven't reread it in 15 years or so. I appreciate the reminder of how good it is.

@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 9 дней назад

I've recently read that. Great book. The main character lives in a storage unit.

@okayalright178 8 дней назад

‘Sustainability’ was a term Hitler used.

@kakalukio 26 дней назад

How does this not immediately get thrown out as frivolous? Especially as they approached the farmers unprompted. Like, how can you claim price fixing when you approach random people who never indicated they wanted to sell their stuff to begin with?

@aceous99 25 дней назад

money talks and the justice system is always listening

@nicksurfs1 25 дней назад

Because the judge is corrupt.

@RoseanneSeason7 25 дней назад

@@nicksurfs1if you were a judge and someone gave you a duffel bag with a million dollars in it would you give it back? I sure a heck wouldn't

@nicksurfs1 25 дней назад

@@RoseanneSeason7 I would for sure. I don't want or need that kind of money

@TheGoldenpk 24 дня назад

@@nicksurfs1I'm with you on this one. I'm not selling my soul for any amount

@corriemathiowetz2135 26 дней назад

Omg, have these billionaires not read a wrinkle in time. These utopia's are such 6th grade thinking... They clearly have no mature thinking. This is awful

@HyuLilium 26 дней назад

It's really about more money and more power

@down-to-earth-mystery-school 25 дней назад

One of my favorite books of all time!

@WinterAyars 15 дней назад

They know they're building hell on earth for 99% of humanity. They don't care because they, personally, will benefit. No one should have this much power and influence over society and the world, but least of all the people who want it.

@Gala-yp8nx 26 дней назад

This is EVIL. Pure unadulterated EVIL.

@ayoutubechannelname 25 дней назад

It’s a natural consequence of NIMBYs (upper middle class boomers) who spend their free time blocking new housing. They want you to blame billionaires so they can feel righteous in their obstinate opposition to housing development. They do this while doing precisely the thing (i.e. aiding and abetting housing scarcity) which creates a ripe opportunity for billionaires with a savior complex to profit off of the situation.

@kimpeccable 7 дней назад

I live in CA, but no matter where people live, a threat like this is a HUGE concern for freedom lovers who don't want to live in a 15-minute city, with digital IDs, cbdcs, travel restrictions, and not being able to afford to own anything. These tech oligarchs--technocrats--want a new system of technofeudalism and the people have to stand up and say NO!

@celieboo 25 дней назад

I'm speechless! This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.

@chronometer9931 21 день назад

We have a housing crisis, building homes for half a million people or more sounds like a good thing to me. It will bring in a lot of financial resources to the area and lower prices on homes etc as well

@chronometer9931 21 день назад

Also because of all the new people moving I to the state there will be a ton of new jobs created and it would help balance the power dynamic back for workers in the region as there will be more jobs competing for workers...

@Michael39158 20 дней назад

@@chronometer9931you’re such a tool.

@Greenitthe 17 дней назад

@@chronometer9931 Because company towns worked so well the first time... Seriously though, who thinks 'you know what would make government great? even more corruption'. What's better than a terrible boss? A terrible boss that also owns your home, every shop in town, and the courthouse lmao

@satevo462 20 дней назад

This is why you tax billionaires out of existence and never let anyone accumulate that kind of money because once they do, the system cannot stop them from overthrowing it.

@alicianieto2822 16 дней назад

Oh! But then they won't have an incentive to...to...what do they do again?

@randomtinypotatocried 14 дней назад

@@alicianieto2822reinvent the same thing over and over again, but claim they invented it on their own?

@alexpope4642 13 дней назад

Todd Howard is the quintessential billionaire.

@valv5993 25 дней назад

Colonization within our own country. What a trip. Thank you for making and sharing this story.

@chronometer9931 21 день назад

What an absurd thing to say lol

@LykeArgy 20 дней назад

@@chronometer9931 yeah , it's absurd that it's true in 2024. you're correct

@KimberlyWestbrook 20 дней назад

Thank you for speaking the truth!!!

@aldenbobalden 19 дней назад

this country is built on colonization. is it really that surprising?

@yunglynda1326 19 дней назад

that part!

@CheezNrice4u 16 дней назад

She nailed it; “you can’t serve two masters”!

@joeslowmama2048 14 дней назад

M6-24

@ralphday4842 11 дней назад

And .....how about that wild -ass hair ? 😎

@billkgeorge 21 день назад

First rule of billionaire lawsuits: Buy the judges. You've already bought the politicians, the legislators. Now buy the judiciary. That will buy you the judgements, then buy the land. When you have infinite money, you'll never run out of it. Just buy

@atranimecs 18 дней назад

They don't really need to - they offer to buy the land just because it's faster - it's mostly cheaper when they go the legal route but now the Corp pays in time.

@michaelp3680 14 дней назад

They should have bought enough media power and then buy the judges. These billionaires are making amateur mistakes...

@nancyblackledge2002 12 дней назад

Make sure to add the mainstream media and the Hollywood actors

@bathtubs 14 дней назад

If these people lose, this will happen all across the state and nation. Thank you all for fighting.

@wrecklessfilmsofficial 10 дней назад

Always question why people are libertarians guys... it's usually people who will get tremendous personal gains from a society with limited collective accountability against people who abuse power.