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[+] -83 points 3 months ago (28 children)
  • [–] 56 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    For most billionaire CEOs, it would be closer to killing a serial killer. Still technically a crime, but most people wouldn't be upset about it. Especially considering that their decisions often kill more people than the average serial killer.

    And no one would want to do that if the billionaires weren't on a quest to destroy society and the planet for a bigger high score.

    There just isn't a way to amass that much wealth without harming a lot of people in the process.

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  • [+] -22 points 3 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Do billionaires ever get punished for crimes? Apart from Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who managed a chidren raping ring apparently consisting of only 3 people: himself, his partner, and Prince Andrew, and no one else, based on current investigations and due process...

    Wilhoit's law:

    Conservatism consists of only one proposition:
    "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does lot bind alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is like expecting the king to persecute themselves in medieval times.

    It's not even conjecture but actually proven - multiple times, even including through a scientific journal - that the ultra wealthy are the ones writing the law in the USA. Americans wouldn't see justice through the legal system. Heck their president has violated the law multiple times and gotten virtually nothing. That's not counting all the others who have broken the law and received no or virtually no punishment, like Elon Musk.

    I'm not the person you're responding to, but if I did still live in the USA, my parents would completely understand, since they're from El Salvador originally and had to leave when the government there started the civil war and called the USA for backup in murdering people who just wanted to be paid enough to eat or be worked to death in the fields like one of my uncle's.

    So good for you that you've lived such a cushy pampered life that you can even think the way you do. And pray that the building anger there, or wherever you may be, never boils over because of rising injustice. Because asshats like you will be included in the fires that break out. And unlike those who've suffered, you're nothing more than a weak sapling when hard times come, and your survival then will have been by chance if you are so lucky.

    So go ahead, egg those people on. They're the ones more likely to be just fine when hell breaks loose. You only encourage your own misery when you try to push them further. Even places like Russia are starting to see their dues come in, so not even being a paid troll will be safe for long. Righteous fury is slow to build but impossible to stop once it explodes.

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  • [–] 59 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Billionaires aren't people, doesn't count as murder

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    They're scum

    They nave no human traits

    No empathy

    No common sense

    No sense of community

    No basic, barebones social skills

    No sense of justice

    No desire to make the world a better place

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    They are not a racial, religious or cultural minority. They can absolutely change their "group" anytime they wish.
    They are people who continuously decide to harm others for their own benefit, and at their stage, the only benefit they can imagine is hoarding more and more wealth and use it to get more and more power.

    And power they have, and they use against the rest of people.

    No one became fascist by dehumanizing the fascists.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I do want to see his head rolling. As history has taught us death of evil doers is good for society in general.

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  • [+] -10 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Few thousand years.

    Dear, it still happens. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." is not even a point of discussion but a statement of a fact. Your so called thousands of years is less than a year from revolution in Nepal and around 40 years of fall of USSR in Europe; not to mention the regression is caused by oligarchs who have transformed US into a competitive authoritarianism. They must learn fear before civil war becomes the only remaining option.

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