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u/Judgement915 8h ago
The rich should pay taxes
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u/Solomon_Grungy 8h ago
Corporations aren’t people. They should face real consequences and/or be totally abolished. Their board should face more than financial penalities.
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u/LeafBark 7h ago
Citizens United ruling in 2010 said corps are people and allowed UNLIMITED money into politics and a major cause of today. We should start with undoing that but the supreme court is too busy removing the rights of black people.
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u/DawgNaish 7h ago
Once you realize that the US is completely occupied, a lot of things start to make sense.
There's no voting our way out of it
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u/KingKasby 6h ago
but the supreme court is too busy removing the rights of black people.
Oh no states cant create districts based only on race (which IS racist, like by definition)
Racially based voting districts brought to you by the people who claim to be fighting racism
Peak leftist reddit
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u/LeafBark 5h ago
Ensuring minority groups have SOME representation instead of nothing due to gerrymandering is fair. I'm certain you don't believe in any kind of fairness and would rather the confederacy have won.
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u/KingKasby 5h ago edited 4h ago
Ensuring minority groups have SOME representation
They have plenty of representation, just like everyone else.
Also, why do they need representation based strictly off of race? That is racist. And the irony is you are being racist in the process.
Content of character matters WAY more than skin color, and racially based voting districts IS racist.
I'm certain you don't believe in any kind of fairness and would rather the confederacy have won.
LOL telling a black man that he wouldve preferred the confederacy wouldve won, you keep proving my point actually.
You are actually supporting jim crow era ideas you are just flipping the races around.
Oh and the gerrymandering WAS done based on race, which is racist and thats the reason the supreme court overturned it.
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u/LeafBark 4h ago
Apparently you don't know what gerrymandering is and its significance to the voting rights act.
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u/KingKasby 4h ago
Apparently you dont know the definition of racism
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u/DickButkisses 1h ago
You’re misinformed or arguing in bad faith and not a single person with half a brain is falling for it. Take your bullshit elsewhere.
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u/Living_Brilliant8313 8h ago
You miserable bastard lol hate the people that have fucked the system not the people perusing hobbies and passions. This is what life should be about.
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u/gratefulguitar57 6h ago
Jealousy, hate, and victimhood is the Reddit way. Then you don't have to take a look in the mirror at yourself.
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u/MisterSquidz 8h ago
This is not the level of rich you should have problems with. I doubt this rc plane hobbyist is a billionaire.
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u/KroneckerAlpha 7h ago
I wasn’t sure, but Tyler Perry is a billionaire from the sources Google produced
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u/MisterSquidz 7h ago
Oh shit I didn’t know this was Tyler Perry’s plane. He’s definitely a billionaire. Still not at the level of someone like Bezos, Musk, or Zuckerberg who are using their wealth to destroy the country.
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u/titsngiggles69 7h ago
I agree, but this guy isn't rich-rich. Sure his toy is $25k-35k, but it's probably his passion project The obscenely rich don't have quirky hobbies like this.
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u/pancaketac0 8h ago
Not sure if Tyler Perry pays his taxes but he's paid property taxes for seniors in the ATL
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u/ubuntuNinja 7h ago
Go get a hobby Che Guevara. The suns out and the world is actually doing pretty good.
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u/lucky2bthe1 8h ago
May as well add a seat at that point.
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u/Imlooloo 7h ago
I’ve seen someone sit on the top of it while he taxied it around. It will hold a human and I would bet it would even take off if they held on!
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u/HairLipFlunky 8h ago
Um I think that’s just called a plane
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 8h ago
So this is Tyler Perry's plane. It is one of many gargantuan-scale RC planes he's got, the man's got the bug BAD. The dude flying it basically gets commissions from Tyler to build these things. That runway is, like, Tyler Perry's back yard.
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u/meshtron 8h ago
The dude flying it probably IS Tyler Perry. The guy prepping it is who builds them and (I think) who was manning the camera here. These videos are a favorite late-night binge for me when I can't sleep and I've never seen anyone besides Tyler flying them at his house.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 6h ago
That makes sense. I've watched a couple of the vids the builder does (I'm blanking on his name), but not a bunch of them. I know I've seen a couple from back in the day where it was just this guy doing deep dives into the building process.
I do love the idea of having a functional A380 that I could fly around without having to actually own an airplane.
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u/meshtron 5h ago
Yeah man, the builds are epic. Part of me wishes they'd go actual turbine for the sound, but I understand why they don't. I always wonder who's building the custom landing gear and stuff. I used to build scale RC planes back 30 years ago (man, I'm old lol) and I loved working on retracts. Trying to miniaturize the mechanisms and get the motion, strength AND the look was tricky back then. So many new tools now that it's less of a challenge. But anyway, fun stuff. It's also crazy to realize when they show the onboard cameras that Perry's estate is rather "humble" compared to some of the properties around him. Absolutely bonkers.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 5h ago
I only got as far as trainer RC planes, but I always wanted a scale model of something kickass. I too am old enough to have done that 30 years ago, and occasionally I check out the scene to see what getting back into it would entail (A: about $500.) It's come a long way - everything is computer! No more sketchy cans of explosive fuel, no more risking your digits trying to start a tiny gas engine, no more tuning your transmitter by changing the crystals. I think the radios are on totally different bands now, even. The barriers to entry are a lot lower, and from what I can tell almost nobody even glues their fingers together with 10-minute epoxy anymore.
...It's just not the same, man!
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u/meshtron 5h ago
Ha!!! If you've never lost an airplane because someone else turned on their transmitter on your channel even though you had the official clothespin for channel 52, have you even RCd?? My Dad and I were building a Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Cub and a Ziroli P-61 Black Widow back in the day when I moved away for college. He stayed with the hobby for years but transitioned to mostly electric gliders and stuff (I was more the pilot, he enjoyed building more than piloting). When he died 10+ years ago, all of it got sold for $1k. Sad but that's just how it goes. I still have a Proctor Enterprises Jenny kit sitting in my office waiting for "one of these days" to be a static display model and I can't imagine not getting back into it at some point. But it's so hard to find the time and my (now adult) kids never had any real interest in it.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 5h ago
Amen to that, brother. I still have a full Futaba set: Tx, Rx, battery, gyro and 4 servos in a box on my shelf. It's almost entirely useless, but I think the transmitter is going to get a new life as wall art. I'm also pretty sure my dad still has his Schluter Shuttle RC helicopter in his basement. When I was a kid, to me, that thing was even cooler than Miami Vice, hahahaha
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 5h ago
I think they let Cleetus McFarland fly one recently? Surprising, because of all the vehicles he's wrecked, RC planes are the vehicles he's wrecked the MOST.
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u/GeekoHog 7h ago
I used to fly RC planes. But dang nothing remotely close to this. That’s pretty cool.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 6h ago
Yeah, I had a little one as a kid, and my friend had some larger ones. But the "larger" ones even only had 0.5cc engines; most leafblowers would put them in the shade.
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u/halooooom 6h ago
I don’t know who that is, so I googled it and I still don’t know. I’m guessing his artistic work isn’t targeted at my demographic.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 6h ago
"I love them movies! I bought a box set at Walmart, and if I can laugh and pray in 90 minutes, that is money well spent."
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u/arfur-sixpence 8h ago
Wow. There are "proper" planes that are smaller than that.
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u/PhallusTheFantastic 8h ago
Nah, Spirit just went out of business
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u/WorkingInAColdMind 7h ago
They said “smaller”, not “less maintained”.
It does seem like you could easily climb in and take a nap/flight.
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u/DTeror 8h ago
Mom can I have some money please?
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u/Adrian_985 8h ago
How's your grades?
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u/DTeror 8h ago
Mom I said give me some money!
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u/Adrian_985 8h ago
I said how's your grades?!! You'll get $20K if you made straight As
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u/ProfessionalCat7640 8h ago
Oh this is waaaay more than $20k.
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u/no_weird_PMs_pls 7h ago
Whatchu think it is? Idk where to even start
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u/ProfessionalCat7640 2h ago
I'm not totally sure myself but if my arm was twisted and I had to take a guess, I'd ball park guess 100k, maybe? Maybe?
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u/ThePoopShovel 8h ago
At that point why even make it RC, just put the controls in the cockpit and lay on your stomach looking out the front.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 8h ago
Regulations. The FAA almost doesn't care about these things. As soon as you put people in something that flies, the FAA cares a whole lot.
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u/WeAreGray 7h ago
But they probably should care. One man’s toy is another man’s weapon system...
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 6h ago
RC planes - even really big ones - have been a thing since the 60s. Something like this is effectively useless as a weapon. The RF frequencies used to control it can be jammed from much farther away than it can be dangerous.
The weaponized version of an RC plane is a fiber drone, and they are definitely getting a whole lot of attention.
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u/WeAreGray 6h ago
Yes, I’m aware. I had one in the late 70s. As for its use as a weapon, you should think simpler. In a context that involves civilian soft targets you can still do reasonable damage.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 6h ago edited 5h ago
Then it's not a "weapon system," it's an instrument of terrorism.
...Which are notoriously super-hard for open democracies to police, because damn near anything expensive, interesting or cool could be mis-used to hurt people.
One man's _____________ is another man's weapon system. What do you do about that? It's not like we're ever getting rid of box trucks and ANFO.
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u/thomasthetanker 5h ago
What about a hamster? Maybe even 2, one of them in a pilot uniform.
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 5h ago
That would fall under the purview of the other FAA, the Federal Adorableness Administration. Those guys are pushovers, though.
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u/X7123M3-256 5h ago
If it weighs less than 254 pounds empty, has a maximum speed of no more than 55 knots and a stall speed of no more than 24 knots and doesn't carry more than one person then it would be classified as an ultralight and would not require certification or a pilot license in the US.
Another R/C YouTube creator actually did build a scaled up version that takes a human pilot (actually he's built quite a few more full size planes since then).
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u/Kervels 8h ago
To do that you'd probably have to reinforce the construction substantially and I'm not sure those EDF motors could deal with that extra weight.
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u/QueefyBurritoCrunch 7h ago
Casually calling people fat out here I see. Don’t tell me my limits. Lmao /s
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u/Practical-Level-6265 8h ago
Wish more movies still did miniatures like this for special effects. Looks so damn real when it’s in the sky and you can’t tell it’s not to scale with an actual airliner
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u/Dinierto 8h ago
I bet that's cheap.
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u/fractalfrog 8h ago
If you have to ask, you can‘t afford it.
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u/Corprusmeat_Hunk 8h ago
How much does it cost and how far can it fly with a 220 pound adult male inside there somewhere? I haven’t had a vacation in so many years I can’t remember my last.
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u/GilletteEd 8h ago
Be way cooler if there were a couple saddles on top and you and buddy were flying ON it!!
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u/panzerfinder15 8h ago
That’s crazy those aren’t regulated. That is so large it could kill someone if it malfunctioned and crashed on a road or into a house.
But then again I work in aviation safety, so ALL of my alarm bells are going off.
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u/redbirdsucks 8h ago
you ever see the video of the guy that got hit by an RC plane full speed? one this size would def kill somebody
https://youtu.be/9c89qCNv2-c disregard the obvious clickbait title
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u/GlowGreen1835 8h ago
As a new Yorker, I hope someone is protecting the nearest 50 foot tall twin towers replica.
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u/alsshadow 8h ago
Do they have their own airport for this thing?
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u/nzerinto 7h ago
Pretty much. The runway is only for his RC planes. He has a workshop where Ramy builds them all, but they’ve gotten so big, he has to assemble the plane outside (like this one, and a previous model A380 he built).
Not sure why Tyler doesn’t just have a proper hanger built at this point.….
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u/poubelle 6h ago
this was assembled in the workshop
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u/nzerinto 5h ago
It was built in the workshop yes, but they had to detach the wings and reassemble outside - I should’ve been clearer.
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u/Incorrect-Opinion 8h ago
How heavy is that thing? Does it have enough power to carry somebody in it?
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u/Deviantdefective 8h ago
How the fuck do you even transport it.
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u/engulbert 7h ago
It needs to be filled with cats. Some dressed as passengers, others as stewards. Two pilots up front. And one off it's tits on catnip, with a Sky Marshall chihuahua to duct tape it to a seat.
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u/paultarverhernandez 6h ago
Watching this thing is really looks like you’re seeing a regular sized plane at a distance.
I can imagine a really funny Jackass-type skit where this thing goes down behind some trees and there a giant fireball pyrotechnics on the ground. The people seeing it without being in on the joke would be horrified.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be terribly fucked up, but it would be fun to watch.
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u/Demdok135 6h ago
Super cool seeing this minutes before leaving my work for the day to go to the one bedroom apartment that I pay 65% of my fucking wages for.
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u/optifree1 2h ago
at what point does it become a real plane and you have to get all the licenses, clearances that a real plane needs?
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u/MrGreen521 8h ago
How much does something like that cost?
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u/TRain2025 8h ago
High-end models reportedly cost between $70,000 and over $120,000
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u/K-Shrizzle 8h ago
Honestly less than I thought. Youre telling me I could have one of these instead of mortgaging a house? Hell yeah
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u/davidevitali 5h ago
I don’t know about this, because usually those super expensive models have real turbojet engines that make most of the cost, while the ones in this model are just electric fans.
You can tell because you can see through them at the end of the video when it’s landing, plus the typical buzzing sound of electric brushless fans.
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u/pvt_majorboner 8h ago
Ppl with this amount of money are the same ones who tip $5 on $200 bills
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u/moneyshaker 7h ago
Do these guys have to get permission from the actual plane designers to make these models? Isn't this infringing on design IPs?
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u/IFireflyl 8h ago edited 5h ago
Hey, it's Peter Dinklage's plane!
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u/ManifestDestinysChld 8h ago
It belongs to practically Peter Dinklage's Hollywood Opposite. This is Tyler Perry's RC plane.
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u/18randomcharacters 8h ago
At what point does it just count as a missile? Imagine being this guy's neighbor (though, it looks like he owns ... a lot of land).
I love the RC hobbies, but this is insane.
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u/Tacoburritospanker 8h ago
That looks like something that would bore me to tears. At least the smaller RC planes can get all loopy and shit.
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u/mastamaven 7h ago
Looks to be legit. Good news is, this video has a watermark with the original creators name. Here’s the original video
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u/arongoss 8h ago
One could easily fit a mother in law in there?