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Oh Luigi, oh Luigi, where art thou?
It’s less about the number and more about how that wealth gets built and used.
I hope this art was made by a human instead of by paying a billionaire to generate it
It looks like Cuphead rip-off (which in turn was inspired by early 20th century cartoons, so who knows).
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.
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
The Finns perfected this shit during the Winter War - skip the rag altogether. Put the lid on and tie stormproof matches to the outside.
I’m skeptical of this, I bet they had really good/particular matches, no? Some store-bought matches can suck ass.
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
are store bought matches typically stormproof?
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.
This guy molotovs!
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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.
Guillotine is well reknowned globally as a symbol of antiauthoritarianism
One article wont change that
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I mean killing all the billionaires would technically get rid of them all, I think
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.
Fun fact, billionaires are full of candy!
Can we hang and beat them even if they aren’t?
Its the only way to know for sure they aren’t full of candy.
Billionaires are full of protein
Mmmmmmm prions!
Full of coins
Yes even that one
This could be a children’s cartoon. Guillermo & Molly. Give Guillermo a red moustache, though.
To symbolise Communism?
No, because the hole for the neck is where is nose would be on a human’s face. His mustache would be stained with blood. A reddish brown.
Damn… That’s more brutal!
Ty!
Blood, and/or Guillermo is a ginger… and bloody. Hell, give him a beard, too!
His “pants” could be the head basket.
Why is my first thought “i’d buy this as a shirt”…
Fuck me and my apparently still consoomer fried brain
You can paint it on a shirt yourself ;)
Too difficult. Better to ask someone who’s good at painting to do it for you. Then you can give them something, as a sign of respect, to compensate them for their time.
Paying artists a small fee for their work through a necessary middleman isn’t perpetuating the system in any meaningful way.
It’s the unneccesary trillion dollar middlemen that have bribed the regulators and positioned themselves as the only authority in a market that are doing the most harm.
Further, they’re getting subsidized by taxpayer money to do so.
TL;DR: buy beer from the back of a van, it does not matter
Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.
I don’t know if you saw this posted earlier. Really demoralizing to see only 18% of Americans think being really rich* is immoral.
* Full response: “Being extremely rich (for example, having billions of dollars)."
4 out of 5 Americans are fine with billionaires. This country is so fucked.
I understand why you’d feel so much despair over that, but there’s some hope - the truth is that the majority of the population don’t really develop their own value systems to decide what is right and wrong, instead, they just follow the mainstream, which is often determined by the media and by their leaders.
To change the world, we don’t need to get a majority of the population on our side, we just need enough of a critical mass to be able to defeat the ruling class and create a new society.
