Musk claims there have been people trying to kill him, so perhaps at least a few of us have their priorities in order.
Here’s hoping they succeed.
They’ll succeed somehow. Even the awful people who die a ‘natural’ death tend to die a terrible death because literally nobody wants to treat them properly.
Always makes me laugh that musk is so surprised people want him dead, He was using his child as a human meat shield and there is even video proof of him abandoning his child when he fell down some stairs.
Dunno about you, but I wanted him dead when he started throwing Nazi salutes.
pretty much around the same time, if I’m honest.
I can’t think of a billionaire I haven’t harboured a deep disdain for in the last decade, about since I’ve been old enough to form a coherent viewpoint.
While us poor saps blame each other and tell the other to use paper straws.
This is why I’m honestly done taking any blame for the environment. I can conserve and become the Greta Thumberg of environmental causes and a billionaire will undo my work with one weekend getaway trip.
You want to help the environment? Start building gallows for billionaires
This is why I’m honestly done taking any blame for the environment.
Why were you ever “taking blame” for the environment and what does it mean to “stop” doing so?
Serious question, because this sounds like the excuse my hick neighbor used to use for dumping used motor oil directly onto the ground so I wave fingers at this kind of rhetoric.
Just because corporations are the primary offenders, doesn’t mean you don’t have responsibility or accountability for at least the most basic measures. And more so, the accountability for allowing corporations is squarely on us as people who feed them massive amounts of money and then complain there’s no alternatives.
My suggestion for both helping the environment and ending billionaires is the one nobody wants to hear: stop spending so much money. Especially if you live in the EU or America, your money is the most valuable currency in the world, and every time you buy the latest model of iPhone or order Doordash, you’re harming the world and paying for the next CEO’s weekend getaway trip. Every time you pay for the newest game or go watch the latest movie, every time you pay for convenience, you’re feeding the system in a massive way.
It’s far to much to expect any kind of actual “revolution” to take place. We could literally cripple capitalism overnight with a general strike, but nobody wants the inconvenience. So the next best thing is we start hoarding money away from the grips of these liches and undead dragons.
No you’re supposed to thank them for it
By giving them all your money.
That handful of people also know how to make an uprising difficult, they realised tiktok was dangerous because people could (and were) using it to inform people about stuff behind the veil they’ve constructed using their media monopolisation. People were showing war zones atrocities in real time, conflicting with the handfuls narrative, so they hostile takovered it, like the do everything else they want to use to serve their narrative and further their interests. There’s power in boycotting, and block lists, but when they monopolise and cause manufactured high cost of living to force you to give them your money (serve them in slavery) it’s pretty hard to boycott. I often switch between two daydreams, one where I Thanos them out of existence, and the other where us 8 billion people combine to form “people of the earth” Chuck in a dollar each and systematically buy up all our politicians so they serve us again. Then we all collectively buy everything and share it, so everyone has the basics to be able to live comfortably. Every billionaire is unethical. They’re the ones causing destruction of our planet. We kinda need that! If it’s not prolonging fossil fuel use and mining, it’s creating “ai” that burns triple the power of the whole UK in one data centre. Like fuck!
Side note ai is tripping me out, a little. There doesn’t seem to be the costs associated with the levels of usage costs it generates, it’s also super not capable of what they’re trying to use it for, are they all just super fucking stupid, or is there some nefarious under plot going on?
AI seems to be the only thing propping up the American economy which is essentially one giant pump-and-dump scheme right now.
It’s not actually supposed to lead anywhere, just make a few people a ton of money on the road to enshitification.
Matrix films: The machines turn humans into batteries.
More realistic: The rich humans turn the poor humans into batteries for the machines.
We’ve been doing that for quite some time now (beginning from industrialization? Early knowledge about the environmental impact)
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You don’t have to convince all 8 billion people to put a stop to it. It’s just a few thousand evil people. Even a fraction of a percent of the people would be enough to put a stop to it.
So about 280,000,000 people, about the population of Indonesia.
Be the change you want to see. Make sure you’re legally armed and be ready to defend yourself and friends from neo nazis.
There are many places you can’t be legally armed. In Canada for example firearms are legal for hunting purposes, but even using one for genuine self defense will lead to lengthy legal battles at best.
one gets attacked, one uses what one has to defend themselves . That way one lives long enough to see court.
Yes it is better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Then sit there, do nothing, and be a forced bottom.
There are plenty of ways to defend yourself without guns and explosives.
No need for that talk. You have no idea what youll do until it happens. Donf act like you’ve seen this happen. You haven’t. So hold your judgment until your sure that you can back up your bravado
Like I always say if you eat enough rich people the other rich people might think the money isn’t worth their lives anymore and we could get back on track in the progression.
Because of climate change? That’s not even on the ballpark when it comes to the worst case scenario estimates of the excess deaths because of it. No wonder young people are so stressed out…
There are some people working on fixing that, but most people don’t take them very seriously for some reason.
Isn’t that what usually happens with humanity?
the current god pantheon does something that kills billions. Everyone cheers and worships the gods.
Repeat and profit
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Ribbit…ribbit, ribbit
“A handful of people”?!
Come on, about 10% of greenhouse gas emissions come from flying. Amd that’s done almost exclusively by the common folks, not the tiny minority. A kilometre by train causes 99 % less (electric) or about 70 % less (diesel) emissions per kilometre than an airplane does, and is a viable way to travel, but people still fly. Because they prefer being assholes and kil their own children if not doing.so would inconvenience them evem just a little.
Similarly, feeding one person with red mean causes about as much greenhouse gas emissions as feeding 10 vegetarians. No need to go full vegan, but decreasing consumption of meat would make another 10 to 20 %. And then there are the private cars, something in the ballpark of 5 %.
About a quarter of oyr greenhouse gas emissions are caused.by things that.are completely unnecessary. Yeah, at the moment all of those three would be inconveniences, but only because others don’t do the same. High-speed railways take less resources to operate per passenger and reach about half the speed of an airplane (if you take time spent at airports into account), but the service is unusably.bad because everyone flies. And all the nice ready-made food is meat-based, because the other stuff doesn’t have enough markets and is therefore too expensive, thus staying on the shelves And also, public transit is not comfortable because it isn’t used by the rich, so there’s no motivation to.keep it at the level it has in Switzerland, where even the richest typically commute by train.
The greenhouse gas emissions.don’t need to be brought to zero fot us to.survive. We common.folk have the capacity to lower them by almost a fifth, which makes a huge difference in pur future Yeah, the remaining 80-ish % is in the hands of the few, but in this case even our 20 % is relevant enough that your excuse is appalling.
So because we can account for 20% of emissions ourselves we shouldn’t bother going after those responsible for the other 80%?
I find it hard to believe that emissions would drop by 80% just by getting rid of all the billionaires. Or did you mean all of Western civilization when you said “those responsible for the other 80%”?
Guess who, in the end, owns all the factories, the powerplants, the cargo ships, the mines, and who lobbies in favor of them.
Who buys and uses all the stuff produced by those factories and delivered by those cargo ships?
Why do you think we shouldn’t? (Or, alternatively, how do you come to a conclusion that someone thinks we shouldn’t go after those responsible for the majority of emissions)
Your thinking is extremely foreign to me and I would be interested in hearing your reasoning!
You’re right, it’s actually the poors fault! Lol /s what a stupid fucking take. Thanks for adding the same thing to the conversation that oil lobbyists were saying in the 70s
The oil lobbyists have been saying since the 70’s that they are responsible to the biggest share of greenhouse gas emissions?! Please show me even one place where they’ve made that claim.
