• DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 minutes ago

    Anyone feeling sympathy for the wealthy should spend a few minutes and read about the insane wealth disparity in America just within our own lifetimes.

    You will come away murderously angry.

    We should all be much more safe and comfortable, and we were back in the 40-60s when we taxed the fuck out of rich people. The lower, and especially middle classes, have lost so much power in the last 40 years. Our government is 100% owned by the ultra wealthy. Which means we probably can’t fix it via legislation because they control that.

    Eat the rich.

    • Juice@midwest.social
      22·
      3 hours ago

      There are a lot of good reasons to have murderous intent, but there’s never any need for rudeness

      • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah I know, but I would still like to see him and his Tesla croney both crash and burn in a very violent fashion

        • Juice@midwest.social
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Well then once he has finished you can politely thank him for doing one of the only things he could do to make the world a better place: taking himself and his cronies out of it

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    23·
    4 hours ago

    I sincerely hope they startle in fear every time they hear a loud noise nearby every day for the rest of their lives. I hope it turns their bowels to water.

  • SpikedPunchVictim@lemmy.world
    43·
    8 hours ago

    Maybe if more terminally ill were committing the crimes, insurance companies would be less likely to turn away patients, and a lifetime sentence wouldn’t be so bad.

    Also, jurors have power too.

    • pookie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      221·
      4 hours ago

      Jury nullification is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury’s reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust, that the prosecutor has misapplied the law in the defendant’s case, that the punishment for breaking the law is too harsh, or general frustrations with the criminal justice system. Some juries have also refused to convict due to their own prejudices in favor of the defendant. Such verdicts are possible because a jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses. Nullification is not an official part of criminal procedure, but is the logical consequence of two rules governing the systems in which it exists:

      1. Jurors cannot be punished for passing an incorrect verdict.

      2. In many jurisdictions, a defendant who is acquitted cannot be tried a second time for the same offense.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
    831·
    10 hours ago

    Class warfare in all its glory, going from the cold war phase to a more active phase.

    Sure, there were warnings. Remember Occupy Wall Street? Peaceful protest forcibly removed? Well, they’re back and less peaceful.

    edit: ’

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        3310·
        13 hours ago

        I mean, congress negotiated insulin priced down by over 90% average, so you’re wrong actually.

        The systems still fucked, but it’s a bit early to start erasing all the good things from the DNC majority and Biden Admin.

        • Kroxx@lemm.ee
          61·
          4 hours ago

          Man that’s 1 issue in a sea of healthcare problems, I’m extremely glad that insulin was capped because that shit was insane but it’s a pyrrhic victory in the scope of things.

          It’s like if I was to plug a deep wound I was bleeding out from with my finger. Yes it stops me from dying in the moment and that is cause for some celebration, but I’m still dying just not as quickly.

          • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
            93·
            12 hours ago

            I expect enough turmoil within the republican party to make 2026 a viable turnover. Right now they can’t even agree on who their speaker should be and are heading straight into government shutdown.

            If not, it’ll at least be difficult to pass everything they want with only a 53 seat majority in the senate.

            • P00ptart@lemmy.world
              15·
              12 hours ago

              Don’t forget that these people exist because of the propaganda that they take in. They buy into it. They’re not yet aware that it’s a class war, not a culture war.

        • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
          19·
          10 hours ago

          Can you explain to me in a non condescending way what this comment means? Like genuinely I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say here. A person on the internet posts a link to a website to buy a silly sticker and that is somehow political tribalism? Consumerism is somewhat arguably understandable, considering you have to be a consumer to make a purchase. Although you could always just steal the design and print your own. What makes the post political tribalism though? Is there some sort of echo chamber in the fact that 99.99% of the American population would rather see exploitative CEOs die rather than their own children? Is that an unrealistic platform? What details am I missing here?

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      333·
      13 hours ago

      Oh god, I thought gas station clerks were finished cleaning dumbass’ stickers off and now you assholes are here just in time.

    • P00ptart@lemmy.world
      271·
      12 hours ago

      Not a lot of people are willing to put themselves between a CEO and a mass riot for $14/hr.

      • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
        192·
        12 hours ago

        Lol where have you been? People doing monumentally stupid, dangerous and violent things for insultingly small sums of money for rich assholes is kind of our thing. If you offer silver for violence there will always be takers.

        • P00ptart@lemmy.world
          10·
          11 hours ago

          Disagree. People do things for profit to a point. As a veteran who’s done security work, soldiers and veterans start because of a faith in doing the right thing. Security work doesn’t have that ideology. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather go home to my family over fighting off 500 people angry about their lives. It’s an entirely different motivation, with entirely different standards to be covered. Money doesn’t buy values or standards. And when you buy security, that security can be bought. Nobody is untouchable.

    • metaStatic@kbin.earth
      141·
      15 hours ago

      I’ve stated previously that my next career move would be into security because there isn’t a single American who wouldn’t step out of the way at the first available opportunity and they fucking know it, so foreign security is the only real option … and I don’t need to tell them it isn’t any better just because they didn’t personally screw us.