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[–] SeaSgt@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Oh Luigi, oh Luigi, where art thou?

[–] jeniferariza@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

It’s less about the number and more about how that wealth gets built and used.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I hope this art was made by a human instead of by paying a billionaire to generate it

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It looks like Cuphead rip-off (which in turn was inspired by early 20th century cartoons, so who knows).

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] psoul@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Reminder that moderates and conservatives can be “radicals of means” as well.

The tools of radicalism can be used for conservative ends, so gotta be careful what you wish for.

[–] Arcadeep@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Quick tip: the rag does NOT go into the mouth of the bottle. It goes wrapped or tied to a CLOSED bottle. If the bottle is open and the rag in the opening, you risk splashing the liquid on yourself and your friends when throwing

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Finns perfected this shit during the Winter War - skip the rag altogether. Put the lid on and tie stormproof matches to the outside.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm skeptical of this, I bet they had really good/particular matches, no? Some store-bought matches can suck ass.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

You know that storm proof matches have a layer of oxidizer on the stick so that they can burn in any conditions, even under water, right? It’s not your regular matches

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

are store bought matches typically stormproof?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Not from the supermarket, but from the camping dept. Come in a waterproof cylinder to store them. Coghlins makes them, probably the easiest to find, Walmart or any outdoors store.

https://amzn.to/3PnViyE

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

This guy molotovs!

[–] cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here's an interesting article on why the guillotine may not be a very good symbol of resistance. The TL;DR is that it's always been used as a tool of state violence, and that you can't get rid of billionaires by just killing them all.

https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Guillotine is well reknowned globally as a symbol of antiauthoritarianism

One article wont change that

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the idea is that the guillotine is for the current ones.

you can get rid of billionaires altogether by taxing 100% of every dollar above ten million, for example.

[–] mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Problem with that is it just transfers the money to the government, which is an own-goal for the people - look how it’s being used now, that’s how it’ll be used with any added tax. Trusting the government is just as foolish as trusting corporations or billionaires - and that goes for any government, honest people don’t become politicians. Going about it by way of tax just transfers power to the political system even more.

For the people to have any power the government needs to have reduced power. The best way to address billionaires is to address the system that creates them - by constraining capitalism enough to prevent monopolies and concentration of executive power in any one person or small group.

All corporations over 1,000 employees should be required to be employee owned co-ops with executive compensation approved by 70% employee vote.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

no, trusting the government is not as foolish as trusting billionaires. I won't take this Reagan crap. the government is about a million times more useful than all billionaires have ever been combined. and it has to answer to the people. billionaires don't. unless you start making them answer.

[–] mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I take it you’re ok with $200bn to another pointless war in the Middle East? Countless billions wasted? Politicians answer to the people in theory, but not practice.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

yes because that's what i said. sorry to burst your bubble but they do answer to the people. this is literally what the people voted for. the fact that they didn't think about it much doesn't change this.

[–] mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Cute, you still think that lobbyists don’t have the most control, along with other interest groups, which are all controlled by billionaires - who also shape public opinion of gullible people through the media.

Why was the big healthcare bill that was so “controversial” essentially a gift wrapped present to the health insurance companies? The only benefit of Obamacare for most people was the elimination of denials for pre-existing conditions. Lobbyists ensured that and billionaires even fought that via republicans. Both parties are bought and paid for by corporate America.

DNC panders to minorities and pretends to give a single shit about the poor (but nothing more than a pittance of concern) while lining their pockets with bribe money from corporations while RNC thinks we should be happy if we even have a job that pays us sustenance and should suck billionaires’ cocks for being so generous with us lesser than people by paying us $11.25/hr to do all the real work in their corporate slavery.

Government is the enemy. Corporations are the enemy. Billionaires are the enemy. The only ones that can be trusted are those close enough to you to have earned trust. The only real solution forward is to tear this shitty system down and begin anew without the billionaires or existing political class.

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

you're literally talking about moneyed interests having too much control over the government. so yeah, billionaires and corporations are worse than the government in general. if you get rid of billionaires and shackle corporations, the DNC wouldn't need to care about them over their constituents. same with the media. remove billionaires and chop up media conglomerates.

[–] mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

Name a government of any significant nation (ie not Luxembourg) and I’ll list the atrocities where they’ve wrongfully arrested and killed their citizens. The DNC doesn’t give a solid fuck about you, they like all politicians seek power and will do whatever they feel gives them the best odds of acquiring it. DNC panders to identity politics for the useful idiots that want to pat themselves on the back for accepting everyone’s fetishes, while the RNC wants to make every dumbass think they’re gonna be the next billionaire.

Go far enough left and you get Communists who murdered millions for wrongthink, go far enough right and you get Nazis who murdered millions for being the wrong race. Governments exist to abuse and enslave, that’s it. The more power you give them in either direction the further they take it towards one direction or the other.

[–] cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Have you considered that the people were only given two options, bad and worse? The bad option wasn't working out for people, so they decided to try the worse one, and now we're here.

There are countless examples of the government ignoring popular demand. Extensive polling shows that most Americans support a wealth tax. It's not going to happen because almost every politician is paid for by billionaires. Have you heard of super PACs?

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

this is just more argument for billionaires being worse than the government. remove moneyed interests and you'll have a functioning government beholden to the people.

[–] cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 minutes ago

Government never has and never will be beholden to the people. When we put someone in a position of power, we become beholden to them. The whole idea that the people consent to being governed is ridiculous because we're never given the option to vote against having a government.

[–] Aarkon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 23 hours ago

Want to upvote and downvote this at the same time

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I mean killing all the billionaires would technically get rid of them all, I think

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Its not about the guillotine, its about sending a message.

Sure, theoretically, if you "guilloize" the first round of billionaires a second round will pop up, but if you "guilloize" that second round then each successive round that you "guilloize" will get smaller and smaller ... that is my theory at least.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fun fact, billionaires are full of candy!

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can we hang and beat them even if they aren't?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Its the only way to know for sure they aren't full of candy.

[–] Una@europe.pub 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Billionaires are full of protein

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[–] basket@pie.gravitywell.xyz 27 points 2 days ago (11 children)

give them a "you won capitalism" certificate and then tax their wealth above 999 million by 100%

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

They would find a way to use that certificate as a commodity and resell it, lend it, borrow against it for extra gains haha

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

we need to abolish capitalism - capitalism inevitably leads to fascism

Basically, the issue with capitalism is that the more wealth you have, the easier it is for you to make more money. And since money can be used to buy goods, services and influence, there is always a way to use money to gain more political and social power. With that political and social power, you can push society and the legal system in the direction you want to go. So you can use your wealth to gain power, and then you can use your power to change laws and society so that you can make even more wealth and power. It’s a positive feedback loop.

Obviously, though, if the billionaires and ruling class are accumulating more and more of our society’s wealth, that inevitably means that there’s less for everyone else to go around - therefore, working class people feel poorer and poorer. Meanwhile, the economy is going absolutely great for rich people, so inflation continues to go up - everything gets more expensive, but wages don’t increase. The wealthy just keep more and more of the wealth for themselves. To accumulate more and more wealth, they change the laws so that they can avoid paying taxes, so public services collapse. Politicians are lobbied to ensure that public funds are diverted away from where it is most needed - housing, healthcare, transportation, infrastructure - and instead into industries where their class interests most benefit from it, such as weapons manufacturing and extractive industries such as fossil fuels and mining.

The working class are bound to notice that their lives are getting shittier and shittier, and if that situation is left unchecked, the working class would realize that the ruling class are fucking them over, rise up, and overthrow their rulers. Obviously, the ruling class need to do something about this, but there’s no solution that the ruling class can offer. They’re causing all of the problems, to fix them they’d have to give up some of their wealth and power - and that’s not something they’re going to do. So they need to find someone else to blame the problems we have in society on. Unfortunately, though, no matter who they blame the problems on, and no matter what they do to “fix” it, the issue will continue to persist, because the material conditions underlying the issues are, very intentionally, never addressed.

So, the conundrum returns: The ruling class said that minority A caused all of the problems, minority A is persecuted and oppressed, but society doesn’t actually get any better. Either the problem wasn’t minority A, or minority A just hasn’t been oppressed enough yet. So the ruling class can either escalate the oppression, or they can shift the focus to another minority group. The division continues to escalate in terms of how vitriolic and extreme it is, and it also continues to divide the working class into smaller and smaller groups.

To get the working class to buy into this hateful message, they need to take advantage of our worst instincts, and one of those instincts is the in-group bias. The majority are manipulated into being suspicious, then intolerant, then hateful, then violent, then genocidal, towards whatever the targeted minority of the day is. Anything that can be used to divide the working class - sexuality, nationality, immigration status, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, age, all of these will be used as wedges to keep the working class split apart and not working together, because they know that if the working class actually unite against them, they are completely and truly fucked.

That’s exactly how fascism manifests. It’s because it’s possible for people to accumulate power through wealth. This is why capitalism must be abolished. If we do not abolish capitalism, fascism will always return. It’s just a matter of time.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Until we get rid of money altogether nothing will change

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Yes even that one

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This could be a children's cartoon. Guillermo & Molly. Give Guillermo a red moustache, though. 

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why is my first thought "i'd buy this as a shirt"...

Fuck me and my apparently still consoomer fried brain

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can paint it on a shirt yourself ;)

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

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