“Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy corporate executives,” the fusion center memo says.
God, they’re soooo close…
That’s the executives job, is to be the public face you blame when in reality they’re just the generals and colonels appointed by the shareholders.
Yes. They’re already disposable by design. CEOs with controlling stake are rare precisely because appointing majority stakeholders to run the company forfeits the advantage of liability encapsulation.
There are exceptions, of course, such as founders retained for their institutional knowledge and track record, but these are generally exclusive to younger corporations.
In general, it would be a massive win for any military to take out their opponent’s generals or other command structure personnel
We’re already in a class war. They’re winning.
They only call it a class war when poor people fight back.
Without fighting back its just oppression
This might seem tangentially unrelatied, but I remember a conversation from earlier this week where a group of coworkers started talking about Taylor Swift and her upcoming marriage
Steeped in internet culture, I thought it was common knowledge that she is a narcissistic piece of shit, and that her marriage is at best a cynical ploy to stay relevant and at worst a sincere emotional attempt to conform to the standards of feminity. The consensus in my community is also that Kelsey is absolutely not into her at all, is probably cheating on her already, and the marriage is doomed, and G*d have mercy on the soul of whatever child is born from that union if it ever receives one.
So I blurt out, “I wonder what the odds are on her divorcing?”
And everyone stopped talking to stare at me, like, “What an awful thing to say,” before continuing to talk, unaware that the conversation they were having was the result of millions of dollars worth of PR, and very much like Taylor Swift is a highly relatable human being and not a scarecrow stuffed with currency.
So it’s not a class war yet, more like an unresisted occupation of zombieland.
I’d look at you weird too.
One, you sound far more invested in it than they are and they are probably just passing time talking about it.
Two, you’re making a lot of assumptions about a relationship you’re not in and have zero intimate knowledge of. Even if that were true it sounds like you are again, way too invested in it.
You can be against capitalism and all that as it is without looking cynically on absolutely everything, especially something so fundamentally unimportant as a celebrity marriage. Jmho.
Talking about the phony lives of billionaires like they’re your friends: normal
Pointing out that the rich are not normal: weird
This is exactly the problem I’m talking about.
OK man.
A corrupt system operates with the consent of the oppressed. We are all each other’s jailers.
Free your mind, coppertop.
Or stop acting like a weirdo obsessed with something nonsensical.
How about how we don’t have proper healthcare because of billionaires, continued subsistence of Israel, etc? Who gives a flying fuck about some dumb wedding?
You’d get further with your goals if you learned to talk like a rational person. I would bet you feel great though about how smart you are and how dumb everyone else is though which might be the more important thing to you.
You’re not seeing the whole war.
We don’t tax billionaires because they are Wise and Good People, otherwise they wouldn’t be rich!
Until billionaires are seen as the mentally ill individuals they are, they will continue to take over governments, benefit themselves, and send us to early deaths to grow their wealth.
And yet here you are arguing with someone on your side so the Taylor Swift can continue to be America’s Sweetheart unmolested. Doesn’t that make you a little bit curious about underlying social and psycological gears that run the machine?
If you’re crazy and rich, you’re called, “eccentric”. I hope some lifelong schizophrenic homeless guy wins the biggest lottery ever known to man. From crazy to eccentric overnight
I’ve lost so many “left leaning” friends talking about politics instead of “insert show name here”. We are going to hurtle ourselves into another Holocaust
Its not a war until both sides fight. When only one side fights, its called other things, or nothing at all, once the deed is done.
Warren Buffett even said that the rich were waging war on the poor back in 2013. Even then he said the rich were already winning
Cops warn CEO bodyguards that
Luigi Mangione Fevercorporate f*cking greed could spark class war.And politicians legalizing their own corruption while working for lobbyists and against the best interests of their constituents
“Spark” class war?
Some people exploiting and killing the less fortunate among us for decades is not an already ongoing class war then. Alright, probably because no one fights back. It has been a massacre from one side so far.That is such an a astute observation and point
Spark?
Pretty sure he’s a symptom of something that’s been ongoing for a very long time now.
The police later told me the pilot light might have gone out letting out a little bit of gas. That gas could have slowly filled the condo. 1700 square feet with high ceilings. for days and days.
Can’t believe I never saw that as anything other than something to move to the plot along. Great movie.
Which movie?
Club Fight
I love that analogy.
Yeah? And?
How dare those unwashed plebes fight back in the class war we’ve been fighting against them since forever?
Tirelessly and without scruples or shame we might add
To be fair, when a pig is disobedient, the farmer is mad too. That’s just how the elite class sees working people.
“Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy corporate executives,” the fusion center memo says.
Because a lot of them are caused by the influence of wealthy corporate executives. They’re legally bound to bring in profits for shareholders, but that doesn’t mean they have to do it by being scumbag human beings, lesser than insects.
By warning corporate security outfits of the danger posed by average Americans who blame their problems on the actions of corporate executives, the report effectively dedicates public resources to securing a private system that has made the few extremely wealthy at the expense of the many.
What do they mean “effectively”??
This IS dedicating public resources to ensuring the safety of the wealthy view, and is metaphorically and literally at the expense of the many.
The “Quarterly Executive Threat Watch” bulletin warned corporate bodyguards to switch up the daily routines of execs, limit information on public engagements, and remove bosses’ personal information from the web. The report says bosses should “remain vigilant of lone offenders with personal grievances.”
“Following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the current political climate, there is a heightened threat environment surrounding corporate executives,” the report says. “Online glorification of the murder of Brian Thompson and calls for violence are still apparent and further create a risk for a lone offender attack.”
Honestly, I don’t think it’s wrong to let these scumbags who chose money over humanity live in constant paranoia that the one of the many they’ve screwed over will eventually come out to get them.
If they wanted to live normal lives, they could have chosen a different, more ethical path.
I think its wrong to let them continue living like that. Living in fear is never the answer💘
REPEAL DODGE VS FORD
Love how these public servants who have no obligation protect us yet are writing up reports for these particular individuals.
Abolish the police.
Abolish the policeRewrite western society. Because that’s really what it comes down to if we’re gonna go that route. It’s like an endgame Jenga tower that no one wants to make the next move on and yet everyone wants to complain about how it ended up.
As they say, every accusation is a confession. The cops would do it. They would go shoot health care CEOs if they got fucked the way many Americans get fucked every day.
They know the health care CEOs are evil pieces of shit, but they don’t give a fuck as long as they don’t get fucked over personally… Otherwise, the advice would be, “Tell your bosses to stop being evil pieces of shit, FFS.”
The cops would do it. They would go shoot health care CEOs
Cops will never be on the people’s side in any situation. The one cop who entered Uvalde did it because his wife and kid were there. And the cops let him go in while holding back the parents of all the other kids, many of which were killed. Thats US cops in a nutshell-- every time, every situation.
That’s why they get cushy six figure jobs with Cadillac benefits, untouchable union representation and paid training with no education and often through nepotism. It keeps them divorced from the reality of the majority
It’s not Luigi Mangione fever it’s the consequences of the rampant legalization of political corruption and pedophile parasite classes criminal behavior. It’s called accountability
Repeal Dodge vs Ford
The struggle has always been and will always be vertical, between the haves and the have-nots. Do not let them divide us horizontally based on political affiliation, identity, race, or religion, it is a trap. While people are busy infighting, they fail to look up. Divide and conquer remains the oldest trick in the book.
United we stand Divided we fall
good. i hope every millionaire-billionaire-trillionaire is kept awake at night out of fear.
Eh, you can “earn” a million dollars ethically. Let’s keep anger focussed on the correct class’
no
I can’t believe I have to come out here defending the wealthy, but literally no one is talking about eating millionaires; you lowered the bar too low.
i dont care
You think we should keep Epstein–a millionaire–out of it when talking about the Epstein class?
No, don’t be dense. Black and white thinking all around. Yet again needing to teach some of you about spectrums and some bonus content on intersection analysis.
Idk much about Epstein’s net worth, but let’s assume you are correct that he was just a millionaire (I don’t know any millionaires that cold afford private islands, jets, massive ranches, etc… So if he was a “millionaire” I assume that figure was closer to one billion than it was to 999k). On the wealth scale of whether he would be an entree at the proverbial eat the rich cafe, he may have only been an appetizer, but when you also consider how he weilded power and influence he very quickly moves towards the main course.
To prove my point that you are already looking at these people on a spectrum and considering their whole of existence, let’s look at Valves Gabe Newell. He is a billionaire, owns private yachts, the works, on the wealth scale, for sure he qualifies but when you do other intersection analysis you find you kind of need a different category to put him in. It just doesn’t intuitively feel right to put him in the same basket as bezos and the rest.
To make my initial point fair, there are certainly some millionaires that deserve to be on the shit list, your example about Epstein if literally true is a good one, but the blanket, all millionaires is a non starter. There are entirely too many people that can make that kind of money without sacrificing any sense of their morals.
Epstein was a millionaire too rather than a billionaire.
millions possibly, but billions are never ethical.
They can sleep when they’re dead :)
Promise?
“challenges faced by the middle and lower classes”
Who’s creating these challenges? Maybe don’t start shit if you don’t want to deal with the consequences.
Warren Buffett said in 2013 that he rich were waging a war on the poor in the US and that the rich were winning
