the amount of cope in that post.
Which 175 reps?
Isn’t clear, but also will include law enforcement of assorted varieties.
There’s more than one variety of class traitor?
It’s like Baskin Robins, there are multiple flavours of class traitors.
But do they have mint chocolate chip and can I get it in a sugar cone with rainbow sprinkles please
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Why are CEOs getting special treatment? don’t they already get paid enough to afford personal security?
Think of the CEOs. Think about them when buying a gun. Think about them when sharpening a hatchet. Think of them, when building a guillotine…
How stupid can they get? All of this is reinforcing the perception (read “fact”) that violence against corporate executives has significant impact and instantly makes you famous (or infamous). Is what they are doing really the best course of action given the oversupply of people in America with easy access to guns that also feel powerless and disenfranchised? Anyone can see how this has the makings of becoming a recurring thing.
I am not weeping over it, but it is a little shocking to see how poorly they are handling all of it.
And yet nothing is really going to come of it. I guarantee you this will be swept under the rug as soon as they can get kids back in school and schedule the next shooting. The fuckers at the top won’t see another real threat.
“Demonization of corporate executives is not new.”
I wonder why that is.
Reminds me of a great way to put it I read somewhere on Lemmy the other day:
Nobody is vilifying billionaires. It’s just not possible. You can’t vilify someone when they’re already a villain
“Demonization of corporate executives is not new”
Right - they’ve been demons for a long time, and we literally had to invent the FTC to curb these robber barons’ lust for power over 100 years ago. They’ve been working steadily ever since to erode that protection and exploit us even further. Demons, the lot of ‘em.
They’ll socialize their security but they won’t socialize medicine.
Free market for thee, but not for me.
@Lettuceeatlettuce @Schmoo “everyone needs protection” apparently not people on health insurance
“We protect everybody on the streets of New York, not just CEOs,” Hochul said. “Everybody deserves the protection of our law enforcement.”
New York City averages over 1 murder per day. Weird how the CEO seems to be the only one getting any attention whatsoever, since everyone is getting equal protection.
Besides that, law enforcement doesn’t protect anyone. Didn’t protect Brian Thompson, did it?
Law enforcement is reactive. They show up after the crime has been committed to take notes (incorrectly) and maybe arrest the wrong person. Oh, except when patrol officers are running speed traps so they can intimidate the undesirables and shake them down for fines (which are regressive), maybe abuse some authority (or just make shit up) in order to provoke an unnecessary arrest.
So can we drop gun control now?
We cant afford for every American to have secret service protection. So we should just get rid of the secret service entirely. Big money wastage. TSA also needs to go. They never did anything to start with.
What? I haven’t fallen into a toilet once since they created the TSA. Those seatbelts are a life saver.
Corporate executives convince themselves they only do their job. Their action are evil but they are rewarded for it, so much so that “evil has become banal”.
Recently reminded of the truth, they consider that “demonization”. Why should people leave you alone if you’re killing us & the planet?
Even if “you’re just doing your job”, it still affect us personally and the law will either not be upholded or defend the right of the people. The only way then is steel.
I’m dumb: I don’t see the complexity in Luigi’s action. I only see the truth: the only action that changed something after decades of non-violent political activism was bullets in a CEO.
What did it change? Perhaps more people are becoming aware of the scope of the problem but from a practical perspective I don’t think any difference has been made up to this point.
Blue Cross backpedaled real fuckin’ hard on the whole “we won’t pay for your surgeries anesthesia” things right after.
Funny how it’s all about protecting people when a rich guy gets shot but not when any of us gets shot.
Class solidarity for the elites; rugged individualism for the little people.
