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[–] 207 points 3 months ago (3 children)

“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…

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 125 points 3 months ago (20 children)

    We're already in a class war. They're winning.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    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.

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    [–] 74 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Cops warn CEO bodyguards that Luigi Mangione Fever corporate f*cking greed could spark class war.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "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.

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    [–] 49 points 3 months ago

    Cops admit we have a classist system

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  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Spark?

    Pretty sure he's a symptom of something that's been ongoing for a very long time now.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    How dare those unwashed plebes fight back in the class war we've been fighting against them since forever?

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    [–] 39 points 3 months ago
    [–] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    “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.

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    [–] 34 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Love how these public servants who have no obligation protect us yet are writing up reports for these particular individuals.

    Abolish the police.

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    [–] 30 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    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."

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    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.

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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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    [–] 26 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 21 points 3 months ago
    [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    “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.

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Oh please, class war started a long time ago, and it had nothing to do with weegee.

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    good. i hope every millionaire-billionaire-trillionaire is kept awake at night out of fear.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago
    [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Citizens united ruling was over 20 years ago. Luigi was on the front lines of an ongoing conflict.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Sounds like a ceo problem, not a problem with the public at large.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If CEO's are allowed to bleed poor people dry, why not the other way around? If you bring pain and misery, illness and death onto others, maybe you deserve the same.

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    [–] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Surprising that the plebs refuse to just lay down and starve.

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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The billionaires squeezing the populous tighter and tighter caused the class war. Luigi is just one of the matches that will light the flame, if they continue to squeeze tighter.

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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Don't worry about it, you'll be fine. Feel free to lower your guard and relax. Especially in public. You'll be totally safe.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Fingers crossed

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    One can hope.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago
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    1789 France? The folks that are not in the upper class, should remove their stupid thin blue line flag BS, because the police are going to take it out on the middle and lower classes. US history offers plenty of examples.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    So much that they stopped reporting on warehouse fires. They are still happening.

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    [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    We should be so lucky.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    This is the police trying to suck up to CEOs for a lucrative collaboration. The good old "you protect us we protect you" deal.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Spoiler.The CEO bodyguards will turn

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Good news ?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Americans don't have the stones for it. They are like caged chickens, boasting about descending from mighty dinosaurs.

    There is no safer country for CEO than USA.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Wild to think a class war was started by the green guy 2nd player was always stuck as.

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