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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (6 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.

[–] sockenklaus 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Come to Germany. We had a wealth tax until 1996 and whenever it's revival is publicly discussed you can see that the majority is against it even when the majority of our people would never have to pay it and would profit from it. It's mind boggling that the people are still willing to defend our current "don't tax the rich" policy...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the whole AfD situation is extremely worrying to me.

[–] sockenklaus 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's not even the AfD. Most of the politic parties don't or at least didn't want to touch wealth tax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Rather than "it's not even the AfD" it should say "It's not only the AfD".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's because most of the parties here suck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A CEO was "murdering" with debts before and after, call me when something actually changes.

To be clear, Brian Thompson was a terrible person and deserved to die, but we as individuals are not his judge. For his execution there should be trial.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nobody will actually change anything for you, unless you work on it. All of you, all of us collectively. I'm calling you now, do something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And I will vote for change. And I ask you to do the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's good, commendable, and necessary. But it might not be enough. I don't think we are at the point of murder yet, but we are definitely past the point of just voting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it's not enough then there are no solutions, period.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure there is. History is littered with examples. Though a more full explanation of the solution is probably a violation of the TOS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

History is littered with failed states that turned a democracy into dictatorships.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That's not mutually exclusive with my point. So what?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can see some in this very thread

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So they're in the room with us right now? Can you describe them to us?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Threads on Lemmy are open for everyone to see, isn't that neat?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Fascinating. Are they there all the time or only when you think about them? Is there a specific trigger that causes you to see them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

You don't have to pick a side. You could just say Brian Thompson deserved to die and that Luigi Mangione should see trial and possibly imprisonment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

My younger brother. He is entirely sold on billionaire philanthropy and believes Elon is a visionary genius that constantly finds ways to upturn the status quo.

He also thinks Jeff Bezos is a nice guy because he's so nice in interviews.