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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 145 points 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 32 points 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 30 points 11 months ago
[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Guillotines are speech

[-] Cyanity@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Citizens' United Military makes for a nice acronym

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[-] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why not crowd fund your own lobbyist and think tank. Do what the rich do.

Think tanks create a strategy. They suggest/create bills in your interest. They tell you what politicians to target. Think tanks are filled with statistician and lawyers who build portfolios for how to accomplish what you want. Its polls and research and statistics that show why your goal is good.

Hand the package to lobbyist who target those politician and start pushing change the way it is 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.

Its crazy to me people think they can more easily convince people to burn their work days up protesting in streets than just donating $50 to the fight

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Where do we donate that $50 right now?

I think that's part of the problem too. No one knows an effective method to follow through with, or if they do find one it's more often than not, not the same one "I" chose.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

That's how you actually get assassinated.

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 15 points 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.

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[-] Komatik@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They do as well, the difference being they have enough money too disassociate themselves from their own actions and have someone else deal with the mental, social and financial repercussions.

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[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 84 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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".

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[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago

because the rich have convinced one segment of the working class that the other segment of the working class sucks

[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Not just that they suck, that the other side are monsters wanting to corrupt them.

[-] jrbaconcheese@yall.theatl.social 9 points 11 months ago

It’s actually fairly evident they’ve convinced both halves of the middle/working class that the other half has it out for them.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago
[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Ranger fan, but I'd follow Gritty into the war against the rich.

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

They would taste horribly. Let's just decapitate them and use as compost. Then they would be of some actual use.

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[-] erranto@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Because everyone is just hoping to someday becoming rich and joining the upper class.

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[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 11 months ago
[-] upandatom@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

And circus!

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[-] azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com 14 points 11 months ago

Because cannibalism is wrong

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[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Because they're too busy hating each other over whose great grandparents oppressed who or who the other voted for.

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[-] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Because they can't organize in the right way

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 25 points 11 months ago

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...

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[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TheHolyChecksum@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago

La Boetie wrote the "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" in 1577. It's almost 500 years old now. There is no hope.

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

"You first. (then I'll see if it snowballs)."

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Maybe they're saving it for sweeps.

[-] havokdj@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

Sir, this is the shitposting community.

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[-] DannyMac@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

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?"

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