Musk claims there have been people trying to kill him, so perhaps at least a few of us have their priorities in order.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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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.
He's apparently started his own security company so odds are improving.
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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
start building gallows
Just no. Join an org, get involved, learn to organize. During the French revolution the guillotine didn't overthrow the aristocracy, they were mostly used on other peasants. What actually worked, was taking their shit.
You are right to want justice, but building gallows is what they will do, its their twisted justice. "When education isn't liberating it is the dream of the oppressed to become the oppressor." We have the ability together, although difficult, to create a more just world. Destroying the material basis for their class, the ownership of the means of production, is the only thing that will can make this possible.
Join an org, salt a union, get involved. Its messaging like this that makes the left completely unpalatable. Wanting justice is good, but we can only have it if we come together as a class to defeat the rich as a class.
Time to take it to the next stage. "Building gallows" won't do shit, might as well eat pudding about it. There is only one thing that has ever worked against them, and that is organization and withholding our labor power. In 1935, after the national strike wave that brought the US to its knees, we got our new deal. Next time, there will be no deal. We are taking the power and we will never give it back. And we will use it to build a better world.
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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.
"You have to respect the democratic process, otherwise you're literally a terrorist!"
While ignoring that fact that the American democratic process was started by terrorists.
No, they were freedom fighters because we agreed with them.
You are not expected to sit and let it happen, that's what the handful wants you to do.
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
~Utah Phillips
Inb4 pedant quibbles that “the planet itself is not dying.” Yeah, but we and our fellow creatures are. It should be understood that is what Mr. Phillips meant.
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 get the shitty version which is just an unreliable shortcut to wikipedia. Meanwhile, they get the real stuff making military plans in the background
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No you're supposed to thank them for it
By giving them all your money.
Well, sad reality is a good percentage of 8 billion people are cheering. They dont understand it or are in so deep in whatever propaganda they believe in, have made they apathatic and or just defeatist.
‘Cuz they all think they can win the lottery too. Or if someone sets up barriers to prevent wealth from being absurd that somehow the regular person doesn’t get any money or has to live in Soviet Block housing or something.
Yes please, but not before we perfected humanoid servants and the trillionaires are done with the preparations of their lairs.
We've been doing that for quite some time now (beginning from industrialization? Early knowledge about the environmental impact)
You're only expected to "sit idly" by the people who want you to stay out of the way. Ideally, you should be expected by society to organize and speak out against it. But getting a bunch of people to organize and fight back is difficult.
The system has trained the peonies to push down any peon that voices any complaints. They all believe that they have a plan and their plan will take them to retirement and anything else isn't their problem.
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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.
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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.
Exactly. Billionaires should fear for their lives every day.
Hopefully we will see a new word in the English language that ends in -icide and means killing someone solely because they have too much wealth.
If someone stopped them, it would be self defense IMO
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..
thats why you should have the rick and morty version of the PURGE planet.
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