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  • EnsignWashout@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    About fucking time.

    Citizen’s United (and similar corruption) took away our ability to regulate tech billionaires, but we still out number them.

    If they want to stop being scared, they can curb their parasitic behaviors and return the billions they have extracted.

    • Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Exactly. They have the means to change their behavior. If they don’t, they will suffer the consequences. Just like mussolini and Gaddafi

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    To use their own words against them…

    We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind investors that the workers have the power, not the other way around.

    • moustachio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They really have been just screaming for capitalism to be dismantled, haven’t they?

      It’s kind of embarrassing we’ve gone along with this system as long as we have.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Somehow I think AI execs missed the part that if there is money, land, fuel and water enough to build hundreds of data centers the size of towns, then there should be the same available to house & feed the people of the nation. If there is far more capital to be thrown in the garbage to try to get top billing on a product that doesn’t yet work and may never work, it is impossible to believe that the problems assailing 50%0or more of the population cannot be addressed.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Greedy pigs who stomp on the citizenry live in fear of the citizenry, their customers. Who woulda thunk? Big problems with the economy under capitalism greed in the old usa.

  • MushuChupacabra@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you’re going to be intentionally evil, you should probably do a lot of checking over your shoulder.

    On the other hand, I wouldn’t want to be a bodyguard for someone with crowd-sourced enemies.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The bodyguard thing makes me wonder.

      More and more of these guys will want protection. They will likely hire this protection. And as more protection is needed, vetting the people that provide that protection will become less strict.

      And sooner or later, you have someone with a gun and a motive walking right beside Bob the Billionaire.

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Paywall, but going by the headline: good

    The world is burning and these assholes are making it worse.