• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    If they’re being paid off you can’t stop them. You have to stop the billionaires first, then the payoff money stops flowing and all of a sudden the arrogant and petty petit bourgeoisie are on their own desperately trying to convince you that they were on your side all along.

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    2 months ago

    Ruthless mockery.

    Probably won’t work, but at least you’ll get a laugh out of it.

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      2 months ago

      Could work tbh. If you show ppl the mirror of reality of them living in dirt conditions while their favourite billionaire buys their dog a 3rd 100 sqm house, they may wake up.

      Havent seen alot about musks, gates, etc spending sprees. Bezos had that wedding. Zuckerberg is buying up Hawaii. This needs to be way more prominent.

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    You can’t because you can’t fix stupid! The people that do are beyond ignorant and don’t want to be informed of the truth!

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    Platforms like twitter and facebook (and many “news” companies) brainwash their users, mostly by providing multiple different lies. Users pick whichever lie appeals to them the most, and they pretend they have found the truth.

    To combat this, we need to emphasize the importance of thinking critically and verifying claims.

    State the facts. Correct their misconceptions. Emphasize that billionaires are intentionally killing us all; lazy thinkers might reconsider if there is a possibility their life is at stake. I’m not saying threaten them, but we are all threatened by human greed.

    The people you’re talking to might not listen, but someone else might. Sometimes it just takes repetition to get through to someone, hearing the same clear message from multiple different sources.

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      2 months ago

      Any shareholder group like memestocks, even crypto lately is all about defending Blackrock.

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        2 months ago

        I would group them in the same group. shady. like probably popular in buy gold and increase your testosterone crowd.

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        2 months ago

        that like sounds like trump talk. I don’t pay taxes cuz im smartz. Many have talent to some degree or another but no man is worth 1000x the least of men.

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          I’m just saying your social experience doesn’t map onto the rest of society. If rich people are dumb, that means poor people can be smart, and that would mean that we do not live in a fair world. So for this to be a just world, rich people have to be smart and if they’re really rich they have to be super geniuses. Keep an eye out for articles about rich people giving their opinion about shit they know nothing about; the undergirding assumption is that we should listen to what they have to say because they must be smart if they’re rich.

          This is how we got Elon Musk, who, as far as I can tell, is good at some aspects of business, but really masterful at pretending to be smart before extremely guillible audiences.

          I know you don’t watch new media, but Angela Collier has more than one video complaining about rich people who claim they could have been physicists. “What’s stopping you? You have the money. You can take time off and even run your own research lab and hire the best professors in the world to teach you.”

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    2 months ago

    Education. But you can clearly see the defects of the last 40 years of defunding and deriding education.

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    2 months ago

    Guns and ammo. Voting isn’t sufficient. Peaceful protest isn’t sufficient unless you can organize a national strike - which won’t happen.

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      While technically this solves the problem it doesn’t prevent new idiots from being made. That takes much harder, structural changes including education and new policy guard rails.

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        That takes much harder, structural changes including education and new policy guard rails.

        Tell me how we get there when the people who support Trump are required to go along with this? (Or pick your country’s far-right equivalent of Trump)

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            Or something similar to apartheid.

            The options here aren’t good. When you’ve got half of the population being taught to never trust anything the ‘bad guys’ say and those ‘bad guys’ happen to be the educated folks - what options are you left with other than varying degrees of force?

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        Oh I think you could get conservatives to inject just about anything if a liberal tells them not to do it.