Comment on Che Mangione

nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean… Luigi achieved his goal. That CEO is definitely no longer alive.

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  • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t know if that accomplishes anything for people who are suffering from unfair healthcare policies

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Okay so that’s a different point.

      Ignorance isn’t a form of evidence. You “not knowing” something has no external meaning.

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      • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Haha, I’ll ping you again in two years and follow up on the results 🤷‍♀️

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hypothetically, is there a specific number of billionaires that would have to be executed to have some sort of impact? IMO, even if the rich have just a little incentive not to be the most egregious profiteers, it’ll make some impact.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Allow me to tell you the story of the starfish and the beach…

        A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.

        She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”

        The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,

        “Well, I made a difference for that one!”

        IF you can only do one push-up, thats enough. IF you can only walk around the block, its a start. An avalanche begins with the movement of a single pebble.

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      • L7HM77@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Just 3 IMO, because 1 is only an anomaly, 2 is just coincidence.

        But 3 is a pattern, then behavior will adjust.

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      • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Isn’t that just what we say when we imprison people?

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    • TheFrirish@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re right but I am not allowed to post the quickest solution on here

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Had me until the end boss.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Tell me you don’t understand the class war without telling me you don’t understand the class war.

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  • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe I am being a little harsh, but that’s because I just think it’s terrible waste of someone who gave a shit and could have made a difference

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You will never be saved by a billionaire. There are no Lenins who can save you who won’t be replaced with Stalins when the time comes.

      Real change comes from the bottom up, not the top down, and if you fail to see the can of worms this guy opened with his single act, you’re just oblivious.

      It would be like acting like the assassination of Franz Ferdinand didn’t impact the beginning of World War I.

      All throughout history you can find single instances which, in the end, inspire society to respond and react. We may be in one of those moments and you’re busy telling us there’s nothing changing while we’re busy watching Wanted posters of various healthcare CEOs popping up all over NYC.

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      • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Okay fair points, perhaps! But I think literally two days ago there was front page post about a billionaire who gave away his fortune and died with something like 200M. I mean, if he made sure his money was being spent wisely then he did a net good for humanity.

        Secondly, I don’t mean to antagonize with these posts, so if anyone’s feelings were hurt, I feel bad.

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Look I’m not going to say I don’t think musk could be swayed by some head pats and calling him a good boy when he actually does something right bit every effective movement has both the face and a bit of violence

  The civil rights movement wasn’t completely non-violent but would have gotten no where without smart and charismatic people explaining why things are so bad others might resolt to violence

  I’m sorry so say but the longer words fail on their own to change things the more “necessary”/inevitable violence becomes

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    MLK also was very honest about the fact that the non-violence would only work if enough people committed to it.

    A national strike would do a lot more, but the issue is getting everyone on the same page.

    Which is why you had people like Malcolm X and Fred Hampton waiting in the wings, and why the FBI thought it was important to murder Fred Hampton.

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• mamotromico@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This comment was a wild ride

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Got you tagged as a corpo shill. You are about as useful to democratic thought as sandpaper napkins.

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  • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    lol 😂

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Trolololo

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