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Everybody hates me. Am I really so out of touch?
No. It’s the
childrengeneral populace who are wrong.I’ve ignored an unspoken social contract to help my communities and actively try to get all the wealth.
Must be those damn commies who made me do it.
Good. Parasites should be afraid.
(Not a call for violence. Just saying people who destroy lives should live in fear.)
Self defense is not violence, it’s intelligence.
Good. Parasites should be afraid.
What’s the matter colonel Sanders, chicken?
Good. let’s let the bodyguards earn their keep, too.
Do the body guards not realize that they are also expendable nothings to these pricks?
They do, but they have guns, which makes sure they get paid.
This has actually been happening since Luigi. Especially tech CEOs. The companies actually started paying for them.
I first ran into it in a class a couple years ago, the dude running was talking about how our group was the first group of normies he’d seen. It was all silicon Valley C staff before, every one had a dude standing directly behind them who wouldn’t talk. We’re only hearing about it now, but they’ve been creating a new personal guard industry since the united Healthcare ceo got it.
Huh that guy has armed guards. He must be important. Seems like a good target.
The companies actually started paying for them.
Why am I not surprised.
Hot take: I believe most CEOs are secretely excited by having their own, paid-for bodyguards now.
Tech Execs only have to be unlucky once.
Yeah, and for the type of thing that Luigi did, the deed would already be done and the CEO would still catch a couple. Unless the guards act like human shields lol
Armed bodyguards for billionaires are now pariahs. If you know one, isolate them, tell everyone who they are, and the boot they lick. More hated than the glassholes.
Or persuade them…
i’ve never been terrified of anything, except a fox. i watched that episode of x-files that featured the chupacabra and then encountered a fox out in the wild–you can imagine this loss of suburban innocence if you think hard about it and use your imagination. now, a typical fox looks nothing like a mexican goatsucker (maybe if it was bulked up with cans of goya black beans and had bigger teeth) but it put the scare into me because i had only encountered the occasional groundhog and stray cat at night; back then you didn’t see too many bums around.
one of those stray cats used to come around a lot and i named it ‘sugar’ because it was stark white and that song fly was on the radio a lot, the one by that band sugar ray. and after it hung around for awhile (i would leave out bush’s baked beans in a tupperware container because i felt bad) it became part of the family. i renamed it ‘yeti’ because i thought sugar was too homoerotic but that’s for another post.
No, they aren’t terrified. These people think they are demigods. I’ve seen it in plent of senior vice presidents even. It’s almost a job requirement at this point. Body guards make them feel even more important, and the company pays for it. Plus… that other tech bro has it, so I should too. That’s just the type of people we are dealing with.
I met Thiel once. He was every bit the cunt you’d think he was.
I met Thiel once.
Tell us more!
It’s in my post history somewhere. Long story short, I was driving a limo for a company that transported his VC firm’s people. I was assigned to drive his luggage from the Private Jet to his home. He got off and went with my colleague who was transporting him. I was standing next to the other driver and tried to shake his hand and introduce myself and he walked right past my outstretched hand and got in the car without a word. The only luggage I was asked to transport was a single backpack. So he bought a whole separate car to transport a fucking backpack that he couldn’t be seen carrying. I really wonder if there was something illegal in there, but who knows? I never peeked. When I arrived at the home, I followed Thiel and the other driver into the home, and got scolded by the staff (likely illegal immigrants btw) because I didn’t use the service entrance. At the time, he wasn’t known as a mask off fascist and I had visions of grandeur about parlaying this into a job at his company since I was fresh out of college. Instead I got a cold shoulder and a scolding. Fun times
Thanks! Sounds fully on character…
Why did you let him live? You had a chance!
Trust me, it’s crossed my mind.
“tech executive here, did you guys know i named my company after lord of the rings? i read it in high school…”
redditor: "holy shit guys, did you know tech executives were this smart? i was never into cuck porn before this post but now i’m a true believer.’
what is that from?
In Time starring Justin Timberlake
Why do people go after the execs when the board of directors is the ones making the shitty decisions?
Many executives are also board members.
Because the majority of share holders making those decisions are executives in their own right.
many execs are either on, heavily influence, or will become a part of the board.
when killing a snake you can’t just cut off the head, you have to bury it as well.
Cut the head, burn the neck. Just like what Old Man Herc did.
Because the executives are carrying them out (or instructing others in carrying them out) and thus complicit. By rights, they should be objecting to those decisions and refusing to do (or order) unethical or unconscionable things.
Ok, let’s say a ceo objects to the boards instructions. They’ll fire that CEO and hire another one that’ll listen. The problem persists.
The news never talks about boards, so it’s not really in most people’s minds. The majority of people probably think of the CEO as the king.
You mean they are just following orders?
Yes, and lest you present that as some kind of “gotcha,” the Gestapo didn’t disappear until the Nazis were removed from power, because they were the ones giving the orders. This isn’t about guilt, it’s about actually achieving something.
1.CEOs are not “just following orders”. They propose a strategy and some goals that the board decides are achievable and acceptable. The CEOs define the strategy. That’s their job. They’re fully responsible for what the company does and doesn’t do.
2.If Gestapo had been dying one after the other at an alarming rate, chances are not much less people would have taken the job.
It’s hard to quantify the backlash against companies using online social media. That’s why I created highly structured boycott social media app, so we can see how much people are costing these companies.
Whatever could you mean?
Oh, well I’m talking about actual numbers. There’s a lack of numeric data surrounding what pressure companies actually face from public backlash. My product would solve that if anyone were interested in putting together real campaigns against companies on my product.
Hmm, I understand. I had to go through your profile to understand you were talking about wecott.com. I then thought it was some paid shilling but it seems to be an MIT hackathon product.
I applaud the motivation here, but I’d have to read more about this product. How is it governed?
It’s user-governed. I have no say in anything… it’s literally a tool that I put over 10 years of conceptual design into. lol. (with receipts). This took a LOT of time to build, and the rich would never fund it. Anyway, particularly on governance – the boycotts are democratic – the users themselves guide everything from the goal to the victory. It was very challenging to build.
Good. Be scared.
