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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Let me copy pasta myself here to save time and just say - they are already murdering us in the millions, any harm that might come to them is an act of self defence.

Look around - the violence is already here, it has been inflicted on to the working class for centuries, killing hundreds of millions (at least, in all that time) for profit in war, with hunger and restricted access to water, with homelessness and poverty, with preventable disease, with climate change, with immoral laws and entire systems designed to keep large segments of the population as slave labour, which is what they used to gain their power and wealth to be in the position to impose all of this in the first place. And all that just off the top of my head, there is so much more violence that is inflicted on us daily, they've just got most people convinced that's just life, when it really really isn't. And those who actually benefit are never just going to give all of that up.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I kind of envy the mindset where one has empathy for someone who is so out of touch with reality given their status. I like to think I'm a good, just person that wants to do the right thing but when I think of what the billionaire's perspective is: someone with so much power and influence that most people are just objects or playthings to them, it's frustrating to think about. They think they're bigger than people, the earth, maybe even the universe.

I'm not saying I could be the triggerman, I'm not that kind of person, but yeah, fuck 'em.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Exactly. These people are downright evil. They at least accept that their actions kill thousands of people. Why would I has sympathy with a psychopathic murderer?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Every billionaire has enough power and influence to change the world on a whim. And every morning, every single one of them wakes up and chooses to be evil.

Imagine having so much money that you could never spend it all your entire life and your first concern is to hoard even more of it.

The more savy billionaires at least try to hide behind their "philanthropy", but it doesn't take too much digging to find out that those ventures are actually run for profit/propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

It's a war. It's just that one side has been convinced it wasn't a war so they should be peaceful and nice. Propaganda...

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[–] Poob 103 points 2 years ago (25 children)

I want them to give up their wealth and power for the benefit of society. But they aren't going to do that, are they?

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago (6 children)

They can live, but it has to be on 60k a year, with all of their initial assets liquidated and used to support people in need.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

60k a year is probably already too generous in most cases, make them live off of the equivalent salary of their lowest paid employee

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

yeah i'm fine with that but not murder like a lot of people here say they want

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I think most of us start with the assumption that they'll never give up their stranglehold willingly, and move on to more practical solutions.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They need to make the choice: pay a lot more taxes, or take the second option. I'm not threatening violence, but as our society gets more desperate the targets on their backs get larger.

There are 756 billionaires in the US and 330 million of us. Once that becomes clear to people things might change, one way or the other. All other "culture wars" are noise generated to distract from this one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Shameless displays of excess wealth is increasingly being met with more and more cultural hostility, especially amongst younger people. Gen Zers are highly likely to view people who flaunt their wealth or indulge heavily in luxury goods as being tacky or just generally negatively. The hostility as the climate crisis increases will only increase as well.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Billionaires is a weird group of people to choose to speak up for.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

...And?

Murder can be just without being legal.

The murder of billionaires, and CEOs of oil companies (along with all other oil executives) is morally justified, even if it's not legal.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes. Your a naive fool.

Unironically choosing the lives of some of the most vile despicable people to have ever lived over the lives of 50,000x as many completely normal people.

I want to eradicate their genomes.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I personally am a pacifist, but the billionaires will not be missed if the general public decides to

I don't advocate for it, I just won't miss them

Keanu can stay though

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Murdering people is wrong.

People work together to build a society that helps those who cannot help themselves.

By this metric, billionaires aren't people.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

It's them or us

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

My tummy has the rumblies that only billionaires can satisfy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Killing insects isn't murder. It's pest control.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

I don’t want to murder them specifically, but I doubt they will let us take all their stolen wealth without a fight.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's only murder if you subscribe to the "meat is murder" mantra...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Yes.

In Minecraft, of course.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

murder is murder... but some murders are definitely less... crime-y than others

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So OP, I'm unsure how to ask this, but you wouldn't happen to be... Say... A billionaire would you?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me it's a case of where the end justifies the means. While murder is terrible and I'd personally feel bad if I had to take another life, it'd be for the greater good of our species (as well as every other lifeform on this planet) if the world was suddenly ridded of a billionaire or two... or more...

I do recognise that this is a slippery slope in justifying homicide, but what is the alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let the free market decide.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the free market is rigged by the billionaires

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Shamelessly, yes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Proof that people from off of Blahaj zone are weak

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I'm just hangry. Lab grown billionare meat just doesn't have the same kick.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not only murder, also torture.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

..do you not?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Yes I do, even if there was a better way.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I am a starving child and this is the last post I will see before I die. Goodbye

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, but this point of view is so brain-dead to me. What do you think happens when a billionaire dies? The money magically disappears? It’s redistributed to the masses? No, it’s inherited by relatives. Killing billionaires only creates different billionaires. How about we use our brains and come up with actual solutions rather than parroting brain-dead bullshit?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (10 children)

You're taking the argument at it's most basic level, assuming that we would kill the billionaires and then sit around twiddling out thumbs. I don't think it's much of a leap to assume we'd change how the system works as well lol.

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