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It's a big club, and YOU ain't in it. (lemmy.world)

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[–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 points 4 minutes ago

This is not about defending billionaires, this is about condemning murder as a matter of principle!

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

As a photographer I'm wondering why would billionaires give autofocus about poor people...

/s obviously

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

For the amount of references to people defending CEOS and billionaires, I never actually see any unless I walk by a TV blaring Fox News.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 58 minutes ago

I've seen plenty of corpo bootlicking even on Lemmy.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's silly, a shocking amount of media sources are in cover their ass mode not just fox. LinkedIn has posts. Twitter has posts. Even SNL, shockingly, is a little bit "can we not be cheering a killer on air?"

So..I call bs, this is everywhere.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Cheering for a Killer and defending a CEO are not the only two stances. You can do neither.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world -1 points 31 minutes ago

the CEO who killed millions via denying healthcare was the true working class hero

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Nobody I work with is on the same page as me about this subject, but they also don't know enough about it to feel comfortable disagreeing with me. I think a lot of people relate more to a CEO than Luigi for the simple fact that they think or feel that it's more likely for them to be in the CEOs position than a shooter. As delusional as that is, it's a factor that has always put the working class against themselves.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, that guy looks like his hands are probably grimey. I wouldn't want to touch them either.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Also, maybe the players are tired and grumpy after the match.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The fans are why they make millions dribbling a ball though. A simple high five is not a lot to ask.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago

True. But athletes are still people and they are allowed to be themselves.

[–] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My dogg ur gonna make me upvote this twice

Which is twice what homie got

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

2x0 is still 0, bro woulda got more than twice what homie got.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Closing bell at the guard rail factory.

[+] Engywuck@lemm.ee -14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Opposing capital punishment without a trial != defending millionaires.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

so what crime would Thompson be charged with?

oh? no crimes were committed you say?

preposterous! his executive actions were costing thousands of American's their lives!

that's not illegal? ...because his support group in the DOJ won't ever make corporations take responsibility for killing people?

well...what do you get when you oppress citizens and ensure they have no legal way to stop you?

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Democracy can't tolerate arbitrary homicide, but hey, whatever. I'm not the one in charge.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Democracy can't tolerate a lot of things that are actively happening. Most of these things are legal, and frankly, with all of the suffering and murderous actions, concern trolling over the single time the shoe is on the other foot in class warfare is about as dumb as Trump supporters thinking that because Trump was indicted that they're coming for them next. I felt safer with the murderer abroad. Everyone without gobs of money or perfect health should have.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I find it a bit hypocritical to complain about murders while advocating murder. No problem on my part. It's not that I care. It's something that everyone has to debate with their own conscience.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I don't think it's hypocritical to want someone committing a 9/11 scale murder yearly while a legal system nods in approval to stop murdering, but from a low power perspective there's not much to be done about that. The system has been changed from a justice seeking system into a class warfare tool by the elite. Change would be better, but in this system, change comes from above. If the powers within the system are scared, some of them will flee to the moral position to spare themselves the risk. Power that's brokered through fear is still power, it's peak liberal to say fear must remain untapped. They would and literally do kill people like us every day, empathy is precious in late stage capitalism, I'll reserve mine for people who's suffering isn't karmic.

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Someone died. Even if that's a billionaire from health insurance, someone dying is usually not a good thing. What is good about this situation is how it has put class consciousness in the public eye in a way that it wasn't before.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 45 minutes ago

Thing is, his death means he cannot kill anymore.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 1 day ago

I'm glad he's dead and I know he's burning in hell.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I agree about the gained consciousness, that's a good thing. On the other hand, being I'm firmly against death sentence (even with a trial), what I don't agree with is homicide. That's not justice. It's just vengeance. And it's a very dangerous slippery slope.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So how do you suggest to solve the situation when there are a lot of people who should be in jail or worse but they are rich so the government justice system does not work for them? In the lifetime of one person who's life was destroyed by the said evil person.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Killing them, of course. /s

Go head, buy a rifle and start your vengeance. Don't wait for others to do it, if you're so brave (spoiler: you're not and you're just talking out of your ass).

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget you wouldn't even be privileged to have this conversation with the billionaires who conspire to rob and then kill us every single day. The coward talking out of their ass is the one who looks at a broken power structure and can only muster a meek, "not like this." Save your speeches for those doing the real killing.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, man, whatever. This conversation is not interesting anymore.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 31 minutes ago

People like you are dangerous to those of us actually trying to make a positive change. You’d sell out your fellow man to the elites if push came to shove and we can sense that cowardice in you. Don’t expect us to be stoked about traitors. If you don’t want to help then at least get out of the fucking way.

[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Homicide is wrong and it can be a slippery slope.

However, the system for dealing with monopolies/oligopolies is broken. Regulatory capture has occurred. The rich shifted taxes to the poor. And a Fortune 8 company continues to kill thousands of Americans and make massive profits from doing so.

The Paradox of Intolerance tells us that letting this continue will only result in the deaths of thousands more Americans. Tolerating this behavior results in more 1000x more American deaths and inspires others to profit off the pain, misery, and death of our fellow citizens.