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[–] 202 points 4 months ago (3 children)

“Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy corporate executives,” the fusion center memo says.

God, they’re soooo close…

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    That's the executives job, is to be the public face you blame when in reality they're just the generals and colonels appointed by the shareholders.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago

    Yes. They’re already disposable by design. CEOs with controlling stake are rare precisely because appointing majority stakeholders to run the company forfeits the advantage of liability encapsulation.

    There are exceptions, of course, such as founders retained for their institutional knowledge and track record, but these are generally exclusive to younger corporations.

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  • [–] 74 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Cops warn CEO bodyguards that Luigi Mangione Fever corporate f*cking greed could spark class war.

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  • [–] 49 points 4 months ago

    Cops admit we have a classist system

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  • [–] 122 points 4 months ago (20 children)

    We're already in a class war. They're winning.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

    This might seem tangentially unrelatied, but I remember a conversation from earlier this week where a group of coworkers started talking about Taylor Swift and her upcoming marriage

    Steeped in internet culture, I thought it was common knowledge that she is a narcissistic piece of shit, and that her marriage is at best a cynical ploy to stay relevant and at worst a sincere emotional attempt to conform to the standards of feminity. The consensus in my community is also that Kelsey is absolutely not into her at all, is probably cheating on her already, and the marriage is doomed, and G*d have mercy on the soul of whatever child is born from that union if it ever receives one.

    So I blurt out, "I wonder what the odds are on her divorcing?"

    And everyone stopped talking to stare at me, like, "What an awful thing to say," before continuing to talk, unaware that the conversation they were having was the result of millions of dollars worth of PR, and very much like Taylor Swift is a highly relatable human being and not a scarecrow stuffed with currency.

    So it's not a class war yet, more like an unresisted occupation of zombieland.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    I'd look at you weird too.

    One, you sound far more invested in it than they are and they are probably just passing time talking about it.

    Two, you're making a lot of assumptions about a relationship you're not in and have zero intimate knowledge of. Even if that were true it sounds like you are again, way too invested in it.

    You can be against capitalism and all that as it is without looking cynically on absolutely everything, especially something so fundamentally unimportant as a celebrity marriage. Jmho.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

    Talking about the phony lives of billionaires like they're your friends: normal

    Pointing out that the rich are not normal: weird

    This is exactly the problem I'm talking about.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (9 children)
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    A corrupt system operates with the consent of the oppressed. We are all each other's jailers.

    Free your mind, coppertop.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    Or stop acting like a weirdo obsessed with something nonsensical.

    How about how we don't have proper healthcare because of billionaires, continued subsistence of Israel, etc? Who gives a flying fuck about some dumb wedding?

    You'd get further with your goals if you learned to talk like a rational person. I would bet you feel great though about how smart you are and how dumb everyone else is though which might be the more important thing to you.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    You're not seeing the whole war.

    We don't tax billionaires because they are Wise and Good People, otherwise they wouldn't be rich!

    Until billionaires are seen as the mentally ill individuals they are, they will continue to take over governments, benefit themselves, and send us to early deaths to grow their wealth.

    And yet here you are arguing with someone on your side so the Taylor Swift can continue to be America's Sweetheart unmolested. Doesn't that make you a little bit curious about underlying social and psycological gears that run the machine?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    No....not at all.

    Believe it or not, I can carry on a conversation about something trivial without having to interject politics about it all. Again- it's a dumb non-story and I, someone who is online enough, saw maybe 1-2 articles about it in my feed and went on by. It's not a big deal and regular people won't see it as a big deal either. Ie. this wedding is not something that at all is affecting their day to day life because it's a one off and will be forgotten in a week's time.

    You'd have better luck convincing people that she is bad because her private jet burns so much fuel and releases so much CO2 into the air which is causing this insane heat and rapid weather changes, more tornadoes in areas they previously weren't in, etc. etc. Not downtalking and making up fantasies about a wedding (which, most people are far more likely to have a wedding of their own and attend many so maybe attacking the institution of marriage and the fun of a wedding is not the play.) You'd also have more luck saying we shouldn't be reliant on billionaire's generosity (like her donating to whatever cause, maybe wiping out medical debt or whatever she did) if we just taxed all billionaires so this was done all the time.

    See what I mean? Catch more flies with honey.

    I honestly equate this to some trekkie going up to a random person that goes on and on about how it's the best TV series ever- no one asked and they certainly aren't going to be super receptive. Talking to people and slowly convincing them of your position and the righteousness of it is a skill and a necessity, not some nice add-on.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Surely we will win the class war with diligent and assiduous tone policing.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    You're really intent on being right. Maybe go touch some grass and get off the internet for a while. Not everything is worth arguing about.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Nah, my life is boring and miserable and making everything a manichean struggle between freedom and slavery is sort of the only thing keeping me going right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hobbies really help with that sort of thing. Nobody has to stay miserable. You'll feel better just making friends and going outside, even if it's just for a walk around the block.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I want to laugh, but I'm afraid it would be translated as cruelty when it is really just astonishment. "Just" making friends, as if making a single real friend hasn't been my main life goal for the past 5 years, that always founders on the rocks of people's casual indifference to platonic frienship as a concept.

    But I am looking for a new job, which will help a little bit, and I found a good place to share my guitar playing with other poeple.

    And today I'm sitting by the screen door as the dog looks out into the rain for squirrels and bunnies and learning a song off an LP on clarinet. I haven't pulled out my clarinet since I had some teeth removed several months ago, and I didn't play it for very long before that. Today's song is Buttermilk Skies by Hoagy Carmichael from the Columbia House collection, "Songs of Long Ago and Far Away". I think it's in Gb, which so far has taken me about 20 minutes to remember. Don't have much hope for getting much above the center of that middle octave today.

    Consider my nervous system regulated for now.

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  • [+] 42 points 4 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    The police later told me the pilot light might have gone out letting out a little bit of gas. That gas could have slowly filled the condo. 1700 square feet with high ceilings. for days and days.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Can't believe I never saw that as anything other than something to move to the plot along. Great movie.

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    [–] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    “Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy corporate executives,” the fusion center memo says.

    Because a lot of them are caused by the influence of wealthy corporate executives. They're legally bound to bring in profits for shareholders, but that doesn't mean they have to do it by being scumbag human beings, lesser than insects.

    By warning corporate security outfits of the danger posed by average Americans who blame their problems on the actions of corporate executives, the report effectively dedicates public resources to securing a private system that has made the few extremely wealthy at the expense of the many.

    What do they mean "effectively"??

    This IS dedicating public resources to ensuring the safety of the wealthy view, and is metaphorically and literally at the expense of the many.

    The “Quarterly Executive Threat Watch” bulletin warned corporate bodyguards to switch up the daily routines of execs, limit information on public engagements, and remove bosses’ personal information from the web. The report says bosses should “remain vigilant of lone offenders with personal grievances.”

    “Following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the current political climate, there is a heightened threat environment surrounding corporate executives,” the report says. “Online glorification of the murder of Brian Thompson and calls for violence are still apparent and further create a risk for a lone offender attack.”

    Honestly, I don't think it's wrong to let these scumbags who chose money over humanity live in constant paranoia that the one of the many they've screwed over will eventually come out to get them.

    If they wanted to live normal lives, they could have chosen a different, more ethical path.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How dare those unwashed plebes fight back in the class war we've been fighting against them since forever?

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    It’s not Luigi Mangione fever it’s the consequences of the rampant legalization of political corruption and pedophile parasite classes criminal behavior. It’s called accountability

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The struggle has always been and will always be vertical, between the haves and the have-nots. Do not let them divide us horizontally based on political affiliation, identity, race, or religion, it is a trap. While people are busy infighting, they fail to look up. Divide and conquer remains the oldest trick in the book.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    “challenges faced by the middle and lower classes”

    Who's creating these challenges? Maybe don't start shit if you don't want to deal with the consequences.

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    Sounds like a ceo problem, not a problem with the public at large.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Citizens united ruling was over 20 years ago. Luigi was on the front lines of an ongoing conflict.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If CEO's are allowed to bleed poor people dry, why not the other way around? If you bring pain and misery, illness and death onto others, maybe you deserve the same.

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    [–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Surprising that the plebs refuse to just lay down and starve.

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  • [+] 29 points 4 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    The cops would do it. They would go shoot health care CEOs

    Cops will never be on the people's side in any situation. The one cop who entered Uvalde did it because his wife and kid were there. And the cops let him go in while holding back the parents of all the other kids, many of which were killed. Thats US cops in a nutshell-- every time, every situation.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    its why police and fire fighters have pay and pensions like its the 70's still while teachers do not. its funny to watch old shows and movies that talk about. on a police mans salary. back in the day when their pay was typical of workers pay.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    That’s why they get cushy six figure jobs with Cadillac benefits, untouchable union representation and paid training with no education and often through nepotism. It keeps them divorced from the reality of the majority

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    Don't worry about it, you'll be fine. Feel free to lower your guard and relax. Especially in public. You'll be totally safe.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    Fingers crossed

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The billionaires squeezing the populous tighter and tighter caused the class war. Luigi is just one of the matches that will light the flame, if they continue to squeeze tighter.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    One can hope.

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    1789 France? The folks that are not in the upper class, should remove their stupid thin blue line flag BS, because the police are going to take it out on the middle and lower classes. US history offers plenty of examples.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    So much that they stopped reporting on warehouse fires. They are still happening.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    https://warehousefire.watch/

    Edit: some are ruled accidental, but you can see some are done by arsonists.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    There's basically no activity for the last month and a half or so. Either this was also a bit of a fad or the site's being manually maintained and its creator has things happening in their personal life that's keeping them away from it.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Love how these public servants who have no obligation protect us yet are writing up reports for these particular individuals.

    Abolish the police.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Abolish the police Rewrite western society. Because that’s really what it comes down to if we’re gonna go that route. It’s like an endgame Jenga tower that no one wants to make the next move on and yet everyone wants to complain about how it ended up.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    We should be so lucky.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    This is the police trying to suck up to CEOs for a lucrative collaboration. The good old "you protect us we protect you" deal.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Good news ?

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

    Spoiler.The CEO bodyguards will turn

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Americans don't have the stones for it. They are like caged chickens, boasting about descending from mighty dinosaurs.

    There is no safer country for CEO than USA.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Wild to think a class war was started by the green guy 2nd player was always stuck as.

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  • [+] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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