"It really feels like the people in power want to be kings. Historically, that doesn't work out for kings..."
  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    6 天前

    Good. Parasites should be afraid.

    (Not a call for violence. Just saying people who destroy lives should live in fear.)

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    6 天前

    Everybody hates me. Am I really so out of touch?

    No. It’s the children general populace who are wrong.

    • jdf038@mander.xyzEnglish
      8·
      6 天前

      I’ve ignored an unspoken social contract to help my communities and actively try to get all the wealth.

      Must be those damn commies who made me do it.

  • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    7 天前

    What is the answer when the wealthy murder countless people but hide it by doing it indirectly?

    How are people supposed to make them stop?

    Because the murder that the wealthy are doing needs to stop.

    Everyone who is not them needs it to stop.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 天前

        When does it stop being murder and become social justice? One does not become a billionaire without exploiting others in some way unfairly

        • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 天前

          when you get enough people to agree to actually pack up their squeamishness concerning homicide to go through with calling it “manslaughter in self defence.” At that point it becomes one of three things depending on who leads the charge: A civil war if the sycophants to the system have enough firepower to empower “loyalists” to fight for them, A Revolt if the people elevate one of their own, (most likely a leader in some grassroots org) or a Revolution if there are enough people already in power to rally the troops so-to-speak. It can morph to one of others others at any point though. Of the three, Revolutions tend to be the fastest if conducted surgically with some sort of Coup-d’etat scenario.

    • SethW@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 天前

      This is a well understood phenomenon well explored in many books with both nuanced and obvious answers, please ask your local librarian to direct you. In the mean time I’ve heard the new movie I Love Boosters is really good…

  • busted_Anoose@aussie.zoneEnglish
    282·
    6 天前

    Hey Execs, do you think maybe if you need to hide behind armed security, that you might just be going down the wrong path by doing evil shit? Also armed guards won’t help you if you make the public mad enough and destroy enough lives to where it doesn’t matter if they live or not to them. Just a thought

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 天前

      No.

      It’s everyone else who is wrong. You ignorant fools just can’t see how they are going to make life better for everyone.

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 天前

      He’s mostly using them as spare organ storage. Sort of a DIY Parts: The Clonus Horror.

    • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      6 天前

      Has there ever actually been a crime wave?

      All I could imagine is economic turmoil that forces people to either not have enough money or not have a job, or both.

      Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 天前

        Has there ever actually been a crime wave?

        70-90 was a real serious rise and fall of assaults, burglaries, car thefts, etc.

        We’ve had some minor waves during the opium epidemic and the big unemployment waves of '01, '08, '14, and '21.

        Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy

        Lead exposure, the different drug epidemics, big spikes in unemployment. They all contribute.

        That said, we also had White Collar crime waves. And these tended to predate the street level crime waves, as the crimes contributed to the conditions of the later.

        Nobody in political leadership really talks about the White Collar waves, though.

        • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          2·
          5 天前

          It just always feels like a Boogeyman phrase to me. But you’re right.

          White collar crime is, to me at least, the real crime. People being victimized on an individual level is cruel and awful but leaving hundreds scammed and destitute is disgusting and abhorrent

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 天前

            It’s been flogged as an existential crisis for decades past relevance. So it has become a Boogeyman, in the same way Terrorism lost any semblance of relevancy by the '10s, but keeps getting flogged into the modern day.

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    6 天前

    Only takes one.

    We eat just ONE billionaire and they’ll all take notice.