Especially with the Caesar-ish garb, it conflates boomers with owners
Most owners are boomers, but few boomers are owners.
The owners are our enemy.
It’s important to maintain focus on who the enemy is. This is subtle but derails entire movements.
The owner’s bread and butter is sowing division between the peasants. They are very efficient at it. Kind of their signature move.
If they escalate, so do those they oppress.
The alternative is… this.
Oligarch’s AI deciding if your children are worth healing or if they’ve already been exploited too much to make it worth it to them.
The violence is happening now. I reject the notion that we should continue to just take it because the slaughter is quiet and according to plan.
This is quiet, not peace. Have you been to our tent cities? Do those victims of our economy look like they’re at peace?
If you think we’ll ever get universal healthcare without prying the capitalist’s claws out of their well bribed government first, you haven’t been paying attention.
Their bribe checks > any quaint peaceful protest that can be mustered.
I mean, would you prefer the symbol of a revolution against entrenched power be this?
What did you expect?
We’ve been told for years that herp derp the economy is doing amazing! If you don’t agree there’s something wrong with you! if you got laid off or your corpo landlord raised your rent and you’re now dying in the street well then… look everybody! An evil homeless person lowering your property values with their continued existence! Git em!
PLEASE stop this.
It’s not left or right
It’s not this generation or that generation
It’s not black or white
It’s not men or women
These are distractions amplified through for profit media and captured education to keep us undermining one another, can you not see that?
As ever, it Owners vs Laborers. I don’t mean your 3.111110 shares of apple in your 401k BTW.
The owners leverage all of the above to keep us at each other’s throats instead of looking up.
Don’t hate the class traitors like McDonald’s lady, pity her. She was made into a self hating beaten dog by guess who?
We. Have. A. Common. Blight. The ones killing us and our planet for short term profit.
The one’s perpetually encouraging the poors tear eachother apart over every petty difference to maintain their class occupation and subjugation of us.
Omfg, we were founded on vigilante justice and murdering soldiers of the British state we were under the laws of.
FOUNDED
Herp derp that’s illegal and therefore wrong!
I want the owners to feel uncomfortable.
Im all for this.
Put Luigi everywhere.
Even they look out their limo windows at the plebs walking by.
Let them see Luigi, let them see DENY DEFEND DEPOSE
Make the owner’s guard gated world feel like a gilded cage.
Make them feel explicitly unwelcome on every sidewalk they too have to walk down to get to the resturaunt/show/etc they want to go to. Everywhere their exploited congregate.
They destroyed the Commons, send the message they can get the fuck out of them.
You might think it won’t matter, but these are the types that lose their fucking minds being denied anything.
The allies murdered a lot of Nazis.
Whats the bfd?
War is mass murder, we just feel uncomfortable saying that so we’re bullshitted into saying “it’s not murder… It’s war!” War being that thing where old men send young men to murder one another to either increase or retain their power.
Historically, murder solves shit, sorry. If the long arm of history truly does bend towards justice, thank murder, because the times passivism effected significant change are few and far between historically speaking. Sometimes the powerful goes too far in their decadence, they have, they limit the peasant’s non-violent options, they have, and the alternative to violence is subjecting your kids and their kids to the very same cruelty.
Sometimes enough is enough. Peasants were murdered yesterday, are today, will be tomorrow in the name of profit.
It being sanctioned by our captured state doesn’t make it not murder. Moreover it’s not just murder, it’s a one sided, ongoing slaughter for profit.
Luigi’s single murder merely put a new spotlight on what some of us already knew for the rest. May all of us be judged by how we react to that spotlight. The ones calling it wrong and evil end of story responding “turn off that spotlight so we can go back to pretending our society isn’t fucked right now.”
Our economy was most fair when Unions had some power. From the 50s to the 70s, there was a corrupt equilibrium when Conservatives were bribed by business and liberals were bribed by unions, until they were convinced to take the larger corporate bribe checks and joined the owner movement to undermine unions. Today’s neoliberals. That is when, at least on economic policy, we effectively lost our vote. Then we lost our protest with designated protest zones out of the eyelines and profit operations of those being protested, which is effectively masturbation.
I think it’s inevitable when you don’t inflict close to 100% enforced taxation above ludicrous levels of wealth accumulation. Because wealth at a certain level beyond material desires becomes power. Society warping levels of power, power to warp public opinion through media and captured education, power to neuter your own regulators through bribed politicians passing legislation written by the owners themselves(see ALEC), and no one should have such unelected power.
No one.
Part of the reason we know it’s gotten this bad, closer to a return to the 1920s with child labor on the rise, is because there were some less unfair decades, and it’s no surprise those decades came in the wake of the owner class created great depression.
Now people watch wealthy people like the Kardashians as role models, when they should spit onto the street in disgust when such people walk by. Greed hurts people. Greed is a blight, a personal failing we’ve been propagandized to nurture.
If you can’t be happy only making enough for 2 big houses and 1 regular yacht and to indulge your hobbies for the century give or take you’ll be alive, you’re broken inside, and need mental healthcare, not enablers for your God complex.
What sub would be the most effective you think?
When you take away people’s reason to live, their time, their hobbies, their ability to raise a family, their loved ones, you make those people very desperate…
…you might not be glad that you did.
glares in Nick Fury
When all of your reasonable material desires are met (other people live here too), and your family’s material future secure, if you still need, demand and pursue mooaaaar, you have a disease.
A disease our toxic culture nurtures. A socially destructive disease.
That’s enough internet for one day, soldier.
Sweet dreams.
I want the owners to feel uncomfortable.
Im all for this.
Put Luigi everywhere.
Even they look out their limo windows at the plebs walking by.
Let them see Luigi, let them see DENY DEFEND DEPOSE
Make the owner’s guard gated world feel like a gilded cage.
Make them feel explicitly unwelcome on every sidewalk they too have to walk down to get to the resturaunt/show/etc they want to go to. Everywhere their exploited congregate.
They destroyed the Commons, send the message they can get the fuck out of them.
You might think it won’t matter, but these are the types that lose their fucking minds being denied anything.
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Reminder that MLK was silenced because he was getting further into advocating economic equity, a bridge too far.
I think the FBI killed him. It’s an objective matter of historical record they tried to blackmail him into committing suicide.
Imho, as painful as it is, avoiding an economic civil war at this point does more harm than good over time. It kicks the can down the road until their side exclusively can use humanoid robots to fight their battles for them, and that just means get in line and die until collapse.
The alternative is even darker, our non-wealthy children being judged by AI as to whether the potential profit/loss of healing them is greater or less than their remaining projected exploitation value to the owners.
And that’s just in Healthcare. Our entire economy has become this sociopathic.
This is silent slaughter. No one should confuse quiet with peace. We haven’t had peace for a long time.
They don’t care if only the top 5% is free on the backs of the 95%, they don’t see the bottom 95% as human at all. I don’t think society should continue under that bargain. It isn’t worth it. No one is free until everyone is.
Im glad we agree on the problem, Im sorry we can’t on the only possible solution.
You can’t organize a mass labor movement or major party under the current power structure for one important reason, one of the reasons Unions have been all but defeated from their height, the owners simply have a bigger pulpit, the biggest pulpit, the for profit media pulpit. They also have the pulpits of almost all elected officials. They don’t need to use this pulpit to win any argument, merely divide this new renewed labor movement over petty divisions as they’ve done repeatedly over the last 60 years.
They own the means of production, they own the means of state violence, and they own the bully pulpit. All that is left is direct action or acceptance of the futility of the situation until climate change induced collapse.
Because before that climate change induced collapse, they’ll also soon have virtually unlimited bipedal robots they can use to fight their battles for them, which will also eliminate direct action, which will effectively make the only possible agency anyone can exercise suicide.
This is last call for even a slim hope. If it requires generational struggle, it’s already over. This isn’t ebbs and flows of history, our technology and greed enabling are very well set to put a period on that in our lifetimes.