Comment on Yes, yes they are

• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those in power want to maintain power which is much easier if the people are divided, particularly on subjects not involving the people in power.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They didn’t become billionaires by not being ass holes

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• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you ever seen the movie Se7en with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t do what Brad Pitt did at the end of that movie. Not a single person. And I wouldn’t blame them either.

  Just the other day someone posted on here that their uncle died from covid after getting sucked into the alt-right pseudo-medicine rabbit hole. And the comments were all just vile shit like “I’m glad your dumbass uncle died” and “1 down only like 20 million to go”, “good riddance he deserved it” etc. And when I point out shit talking this guy for losing someone he loved is fucked up I get downvoted lol. We can’t even come together online, let alone in person.

  Whoever is running things know that we simply cannot get along, we cannot forgive each other, we cannot unite. It’s their greatest tool honestly. Could you forgive maga?

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  • Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmmm…

    people and children in cages the bombing of civilians poisioning of natural ecosystems abject torture and abuse of the innocent

    nope. I’d think about it, though.

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think I’d do what Brad Pitt did at the end of that movie, one-shot kill is far too kind and reasonable for the state of mind I’d be in.

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  • Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t forgive, but you could always give the veneer of forgiveness in order to get them on your side. It sounds machiavellian, but sometimes using cult tactics like love bombing against people who are susceptible to such tactics, as magats have shown to be susceptible to, is necessary for a better world. You don’t have to forgive them in your heart.

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• SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but they can create the conditions where altruism is a non beneficial trait that ultimately leads to your untimely end. The goal isn’t for them to personally intervene in people’s lives, just to create the conditions that are most desirable to maintain their own position.

    That’s why they’ve spent decades attacking the kindness of the working class. Turning the idea of charity into an insult, Christianity into prosperity Gospel, and being neighborly into an immigrant sympathizer. They want the lower class to idolize the same kind of disregard for empathy that made them rich to begin with.

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    • SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I feel the same way, it’s just an uphill battle that seems to be getting harder by the decade.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t fuck billionaires. There needs to be an embargo on sex for billionaires.

    Imagine how drastically the world could change if they need to give away enough of their wealth to put them below $1B net worth before they can get laid again!

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    • Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I often wonder if our broken and fucked up capitalistic world wouldn’t do a complete backflip into the dirt once all that wealth poured out into the hands of common folk.

      Like, it only “""works""” if the system itself is corrupt. The utilities, medicines and food the currency pays for are just as they are, there isn’t more because people have more money to buy it.

      I’m not justifying billionares, hell no, just making sure all the people who want the dam to break know what to do with the water.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t the result be everything inflating in price to insane heights?

        I don’t think so. That’s a rationalization mainstream economists use for not fixing the system. They’ll say shit like “low unemployment rates are bad for the economy because if everyone has a job then they can all afford to spend money and that will cause inflation.” It’s complete bullshit based in a flawed idea of what makes an economy “healthy.”

        “Supply and Demand” is more dogma than science. We’ve seen time and again that it only holds true when the wealthy want it to hold true, when it benefits them. Otherwise they manipulate numbers and make them do whatever else they want to do.

        Would a total wealth redistribution cause some turbulence? Maybe at first, but not to the degree you fear. It would break through the corporate capture that allows them to keep prices artificially high

        More likely though, it will take a time of great turbulence and upheaval for that redistribution to occur; such as the coming bursting of the AI bubble compounded with the failure of the US dollar, the insolvency of the US government, and all the second- and third- order effects of that and bad governance…

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