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[–] 62 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Billions are going to die because of only 4,000 people with names and addresses.

We need more Luigi’s.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (18 children)

    Killing the billionaires will solve most of the world’s human created problems overnight.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I don't know about that, the reason these billionaires exist is because they're at the top of the pyramid of a fucked system, if they all died overnight they'd just be replaced by the next one in line, cheap plastic shit and toxic food would still get produced, pollution would still keep happening etc. I mean there's a chance that the event might work some sense into the rest of them, or scare them into enacting actual change but it's not a given.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You see, when they are replaced, you kill the next. I say we do it and then see how it goes. 4000 dead assholes is a small price to pay in war.

    The problem is, they control the system… so you cannot use the system to beat them. The only thing left is deleting them from the system and restructuring it without their involvement.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The system that made them will still be there. And people surrounding them, while not billionaires themselves can take over and keep the machine going

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The system can change once 4000 billionaires are gone. And if it doesn’t, keep lowering the bar.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    The SRs did this for nearly a century in czarist Russia and it didn't bring them any closer to revolution. By the 1910s they made being a minister for the Czar a legitimately dangerous profession, if anything it made the regime more reactionary and made them beef up the police state.

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

    A thing that didn’t work in the past doesn’t mean it won’t work in the future by learning from the mistakes of the past.

    But go on, keep telling me how much you love billionaires, and capitalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Never said I love billionaires and capitalism, just saying there are better ways to fight them then assassinations. It's trying to solve a systemic problem with an individualistic solution.

    We need to organize and unite to defeat the capitalists, if people rally around a dead oligarch then that can be good, but if it alienates people due to the inevitable collateral damage then that's bad for the cause.

    Either way though the main challenge is building solidarity and there are safer ways to do this with more mass appeal, albeit less drama, then assassinations.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Look, I’m gonna stop you with that “organize” bullshit. It is very clear you’re a fucking fed who wants to lead everyone on with hopes and dreams and thoughts and prayers. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself. I don’t know how you sleep at night. I hope your children never find out that disgusting things you’re doing in support of capitalism.

    Organizing. Solidarity. What fucking jokes. It is immensely clear what side you’re on and it is not mine.

    Kindly fuck off and die. Kisses.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Idk if this is sarcasm but you clearly don't know the FBI if you think they'd be discouraging assassinations. They'd track your IP and gas you up as much as they could to build incriminating evidence to show that they caught a dangerous left wing terrorist.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Didn't bring them any closer to revolution? It brought them closer to three.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    The main cause for the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 was the governments failure to handle the war. No one was striking or in the streets because an SR killed another minister

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Main cause perhaps in 1917. But not only cause. You cant pretend that SR activity didn't have an impact.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The SRs did help to organize the country side and rally them for the revolution, but the peasants weren't rallying because of there assassinations, they were joining because of there promise to expropriate the rich landlords and redistribute the land to the peasants. If another party came along promising land redistribution, but without the history of assassinations, the peasents would join it just as enthusiastically. As seen with Makhno and the anarchists.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago
    [–] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    the fact that we know there will be 4000 of them implies there is a list of them somewhere.

    where is the list?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Forbes publishes a lost of the wealthiest 400 every year, can start there

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    It's a great start. Though the truly wealthiest people on that list are mostly just the ones that are able to inflate their net worths with stocks. The wealthiest people in the world make sure much of their finances aren't public

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Better start subtracting before they multiply.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Since we aren’t just printing enough extra money to cover this, guess where it’s coming from.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Trillionaire will be the new billionaire. Broke is still broke.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I have predicted through my life that one day I would be a millionaire but it would suck. So far it has not happened and now I think I won't be a millionaire but being one will still suck its just being a thousandaire will suck more.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    If these people are so amazing to earn that much money, we should ship them all to mars and we'd have a thriving colony in a few years.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    We gotta get those numbers down

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Well, there was a time in history when nearly everyone in Zimbabwe were billionaires.... in Zimbabwe dollars... which apocalyptically inflated in value...

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    funny how when you put the number of billionaires next to the number of people killed by billionaires you suddenly have a luigi hat on

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    That's a lot of people we have to eat!!!

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    We need to at the very least thin the herd drastically.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, does this mean we'll eventually all be billionaires? Is my math right on this one?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Yes if the system stays the same then eventually, after enough inflation, we would all be billionaires (well, our descendants). In the same way everyone in Zimbabwe was a billionaire.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, but how many will still have heads?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of people want to ger rid of billionaires, but very few people actually want to get rid of the system that creates billionaires

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    That reminds me to buy more ammo

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    No. No, I'm sorry, but this will not do. The hoarding of that much money is unacceptable. Eatings must be made.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    and how many thousandaires?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    So much wealth stored in so few people. Imagine how much money will be unlocked from each billionaire eaten. It will pay for healthcare, childcare, housing, education, and nice towns to enjoy it all in.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    You can just look up where a lot of these guys live, fyi.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Mmmmm. Tasty, tasty billionaires...

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    At least there's some sustenance security

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    We need a clone army of Luigi’s. Let the clone wars begin.

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