Submitted 11 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Because the most well-armed portion of the populace has convinced themselves that the lifestyle of the rich is within their reach and identifies more with them than with their actual peers.
I know we’re having a laugh, but the time when this sort of action is even plausible is quickly running out.
Well that, and the wealthy have seized control of the MSM to propagandize the working class into believing that the rich alone can save them. Since the money holder always, “need a little more”, they gravitate to fascism which promises them “a little more”.
By “the most well-armed portion of the populace” I assume you mean law enforcement? It’s an odd way of putting it, but it’s the only interpretation that makes sense because Bubba and his fellow militia members sure as fuck aren’t coming to the defense of the one percent.
I mean Republicans.
because the rich have convinced one segment of the working class that the other segment of the working class sucks
Not just that they suck, that the other side are monsters wanting to corrupt them.
It’s actually fairly evident they’ve convinced both halves of the middle/working class that the other half has it out for them.
So true.
Ranger fan, but I’d follow Gritty into the war against the rich.
Bruins fan, so would I. Hell I even own a Flyers jersey, there’re just too cool, and I’ll wear it into battle with him.
Not a hockey fan at all and so would I 🫡✊️
Because everyone is just hoping to someday becoming rich and joining the upper class.
What? No lol
There are entire societies and movements based on not letting this happen. Sounds like projection
There are PLENTY of dumb Muricans who make less than 30k a year who think their big break is coming.
Television and radio have been fueling American “exceptionalism” for so many decades that many DO believe that they will join the ranks of the billionaire class.
They would taste horribly. Let’s just decapitate them and use as compost. Then they would be of some actual use.
The French did that just fine. Look at where they are today.
The wealth inequality in America today is worse than France pre-revolution.
We are long overdue, bring out the guillotines
I bet the gold tickets make them taste horrible
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it
George Orwell: Hey Karl can I copy your homework?
Karl Marx: Sure just change it enough so it doesn’t look like you copied it.
George Orwell writing 1984:
I didn’t know that Karl Marx invented the concept of revolution, neat!
I think you need to read 1984 a little more carefully. There’re a few critical details you appear to have missed, but don’t feel bad; a lot of readers make similar mistakes.
You go first, we’ll follow yeah?
… Surely, sooner or later, it will occur to me to do it?
Literally the point of the quote…
Alright look, I hate the 1% too but can we start using new terms besides “eat the rich” and “haha guillotine go BRRRRRR”?
It gets kinda old when everyone says it.
Sir, this is the shitposting community.
Are you sure? Aren’t those supposed to be funny?
If this is a shitposting community then why are you circlejerking.
In this instance, this quote parody wouldn’t make any sense if you didn’t use “eat the rich.”
“Why doesn’t Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?”
I’m extremely well aware that it wouldn’t work in this quote.
I once again ask why this specific “joke” has to be made?
eat this guy yoo
We filled up on bread.
And circus!
And when that runs out, you will surely eat cake!
Unironically, equating anything left wing with Marxist socialism even though there could be other forms.
left wing ideas tend to be heavily coupled with progressive social issues that most of the population only agrees with to an extent.
I think we’re going to see a non socialist populist uprising though with multiple different groups. The elites will no doubt try to claim anyone remotely on the right of it is a raging white supremacist as they’re already doing with populist uprisings.
Because cannibalism is wrong
I think they left off the letter B at the beginning. It makes much more sense to me that way.
Best argument so far!
Because you, dear reader, probably can’t even pull together the motivation to make a sandwich most of the time, let alone take up arms and put yourself in harm’s way.
Peasant uprisings are so much work though 😩
Because they can’t organize in the right way
Because the owning class works tirelessly to keep segments of the working class fighting against each other, in America our important arguments are over whether a green m&m is sexy or why does the potato head toy have to have a gender.
It’s absolutely ridiculous…
Because the organizer most of the time will themselves be the elite class. And if not them, the next generation will
I remember in the 80s how often the FBI got in shit by sending in agents under cover to flirt and bang all the chicks. Many got pregnant. The goal was to get information at the start. But eventually turned into subterfuge of the groups to direct them to do such radical shit they couldn’t grow and become actual threats. I can’t imagine the shit they get up to now. I assume any group big enough to get attention isn’t natural
Because the people who want to eat the rich, usually are the same group that wants to disarm everyone but the gov and rich…
Who said they don’t want to disarm the government and the rich?
Lol you’ve gotta be either dumb or naive as fuck to think that.
We tried that, but money seems to prefer the company of other money, and is better at organizing than people.
Sounds like the money should be eaten first
Because when that happens, we just find a new rich class, slightly below the ones we just ate. So they go too… now there is a newest rich class, just below the previous.
And so on, until you’re the new rich class.
In 2020, it took about 25 seconds for Bezos’ net worth to increase by the national annual median income - whether he was working, sleeping, shitting, fucking, or butt-chugging the tears of the employees he’s working to death.
He eared all that for what? Owning shit and stealing the value of peoples’ work. That’s not a job, that’s not of value.
We’re a looooooooooooong way from having to worry about eating regular people.
Meanwhile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates the cost of ending homelessness in the US is $20bn/year. We place more value on Bezos alone having a Scrooge McDuckian money pit than we do on ending homelessness for almost a decade.
Fuck right off with your slippery slope bullshit.
Hmm, sounds like some sort of game theory puzzle now.
But isn’t that the whole point. The working class becomes the new rich class. That sounds like equal distribution of wealth.
La Boetie wrote the “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” in 1577. It’s almost 500 years old now. There is no hope.
“You first. (then I’ll see if it snowballs).”
Hollup, let him cook
Agenda posts in my shitposting community? Why didn’t I think of that?!
Maybe they’re saving it for sweeps.
Because few break the conditioning imposed upon them to act. Those that do rarely are able to unite others.
It always bothers me on labor day when I see stores open. I work at a desk 4 out of 5 days a week that is the extent of my “labor” and yet I get a day off.
Love a good shit post, lol. And it actually gets me thinking how something like 70% the world’s wealth is held in the top 10% 🍽️ 🤤
Of course you need to make a monumental amount of money compared to the rest of the world, so we’re willing to make that sacrifice! Just 10% of people in the world! 😂 I think it’s $32k USD a year salary to be in the global top 10% of earners. And oh… $60k USD to be in the top 1%
So I’m kinda curious, OP, you on the menu?
Note this calculator is from 2019, so “deinflate” accordingly
Instead of subtly advocating for violence, maybe we should advocate for the election of persons who will make laws that will protect those who labor, as well as advocate for stronger unions.
I think the world has enough violence going on right now, that we don’t need to advocate for more.
Why don’t women stop buying clothes until they get decent fitting shit with pockets?
Why haven’t women just… gotten rid of men entirely? as they say, women need men like fish need a bicycle
I swear these repots do better than anything I can come up with. Which I guess says more about my creative ability than anything.
For the same reason that some foreign workers are able to immigrate to a country and are so successful they end up in the 0.1%
Because tHeY hAvE dRoNeZ!!!1!1!!1
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Because most of us dislike violence, even when it’s necessary and justified.
Meanwhile, the rich have no problem using violence against us to protect their hoarded wealth or if they can profit from it in the slightest.
Gork@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It sounds like we need to crowdfund the creation of a Private Military Company. We’ll need a good name for it.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Citizens United”
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why not crowd fund your own lobbyist and think tank. Do what the rich do.
Think tanks create a strategy. They create bills that interest your interest. They tell you what politician to target.
Hand the package to lobbyist who target those politician and start pushing change they it ia supposed to occur. Keep your issue in front of the politician. Show them through your research that if they pass and fight for (x) that they will stay in power or gain popularity and it will benefit the country.
Or call them Nazis and throw food at works of art. Not sure the best route.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s how you actually get assassinated.
ieightpi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People need to remember that the Western culture rewards people with mental illness. Ultra wealthy are sociopaths to the core. This is why they can have no empathy for people. We all were scratching our heads how the Studio Heads in Hollywood couldn’t wrap their heads around fair treatment of their worker’s.
These people aren’t evil, they are inherently broken. Normal people don’t aspire to do whatever it takes to trampled over others for gains.
We need to stop rewarding the mentally ill with more money and instead put them in psychiatric wards.
F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sociopathy is not a mental illness.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have meet plenty of poor sociopaths. It isnt some super power. Maybe you just hear of the combination of rich and sociopath because no one cares that the guy who makes 20k a year towing cars lacks empathy.
Komatik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They do as well, the difference being they have enough money too disassociate themselves and have someone else deal with the mental, social and financial repercussions.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The whole “eat the rich” thing is pretty offensive to survivors of the Cultural Revolution, where there are several actual examples of political torture-cannibalism documented by the CCP. Though, in this case, the “rich” were just teachers and lawyers and other people deemed uppity.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Okay, but context is important. No one is talking about the CR. We’re talking about French Revolution era inequality.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Who’s talking about the CCP? Looks like you’re going out of your way to be offended.
Or maybe the capitalist brainwashing got you bad.