Comment on Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians.

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• yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they can do anything, and we know humans are corrupted easily when given so much power, is there any other option to stop them, other than death?

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  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You say this as if that weren’t the desirable option…

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We should have a rule where you don’t get to talk tough until you have actual blood on your hands. It is so fucking tedious to have to read your coping, identical to that of an army of impotent keyboard warriors.

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      • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Are you ok? Because you don’t seem to be ok.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not so much a lone assassin kinda guy as an angry mob kinda guy.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    we know humans are corrupted easily when given so much power

    Are people corrupted by power?

    Or is corruption a means by which people accrue power?

    is there any other option to stop them, other than death?

    Mass opposition movements can quickly defang a corrupt official.

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