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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

its like the guy that want a pro-rape rally, but cancelled later on because it pussied out.

[–] baller_w@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 hours ago

Luigi intensifies…

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

I stopped reading after "AI startup".Everything these clowns do is a publicity stunt aimed at sucking up VC money and splitting before the jig is up.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Surely millions of people will protest on their behalf. It's not like they're going to get their fat asses out there.

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

Nuke them all from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

You're saying you're going to get them all in the same place huh? Excellent.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

The march will be online of ai generative clones of 1 million Eric’s!

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Beat him to death, with hammers.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 31 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

We should schedule a march for guillotines that same day

[–] art@lemmy.world 24 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I'm here for the march, where do I park my Cybertruck?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

the cybertruck doubles as a charcuterie cutter, might be useful.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

In the middle of their march, if you could.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 25 points 14 hours ago

Just leave it in that bicycle lane over there. There’s room on the crosswalk.

[–] vpol@feddit.uk 122 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

I see a bunch of billionaires in one place as an opportunity.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

9 out of 10 who claim to be billionaires at that march, won't be billionaires.

And the other one is lying, too.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Doesn't matter to the hammer.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

I think that's exactly why they probably won't have any showing up.

Or else they send proxies. If I was some assistant for one of these fuckers and they asked me to go, I think I'd call in sick that day. No way I'd want to be a meat shield for one of these dickheads.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Like the guy wouldn't just pay a bunch of people to show up

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

Actually came here to say this. This will be like those "supporters" that showed up to watch Pedonald come down that escalator. Paid actors.

[–] atropa@piefed.social 9 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

We need eggs ,lots and lots off them ,NOW

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

You mean for the batter? Sure but we also need a lot of flour and frying oil. Maybe some seasoning too, we're not monsters.

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[–] vpol@feddit.uk 10 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Eggs? You guys need drones. Lots and lots of them. Now.

[–] atropa@piefed.social 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

🤔 good idea drones dropping eggs on billionaires ,then we have a breakfast with bacon and eggs ,sounds great

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 144 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I assume they just hire people to march on their behalf.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 81 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

And then stiff them on their pay.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 54 points 19 hours ago

You laugh but here in Australia when the Labor government was pushing for a Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) the big miners made their staff go attend a "protest" on Perth Foreshore during business hours.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

It's not going to happen and we all know it, it's funny as fuck to imagine and on some deeply repressed level they know it, that's why they knew it would get publicity.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 61 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I'll bring the guillotine.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Someone should have one pre-built and waiting at the end point of their march route.

[–] coalie@piefed.zip 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Why wait for the end? Corral them in at the start and funnel them into a wood chipper.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

LOL, this is going to be hilarious.

I seem to remember some group would dress up in top hats and monocles with satirical signs supporting the parasitic elite.

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 8 points 14 hours ago

The one march that wont have any threats of violence against it, because the people that do that are bootlickers

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I'll eat my car is there is a single Billionaire spends any amount of time at these protests

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I agree. I'd be surprised if even some centimillionaires would be there...I imagine seeing counterprotesters up close and personal would be a frightening prospect for them.

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[–] MOARbid1@piefed.social 34 points 19 hours ago

Yes, get them all in one place…

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 30 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

“Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive.”

If this isn't a Honeypot it is absolutely hilarious that think that billionaires being "lost" is them leaving the country/state

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They've been huffing their own farts for so long, they don't know what clean air smells like.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

and having sycophants telling that they dont smell anything, or it smells good.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It sounds like yet another dumbass that had their brain scrambled by the horrible sci-fi writer named Ayn Rand, who was even worse at philosophy than she was at writing prose. Surprised they aren't just outright saying they are threatening to "go Galt". 🙄

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Atlas Shrugged is insufferably pretentious trash.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I could not agree more. At one point, I was Libertarian and was always told what great lit it was and it would explain so much, etc. Some time later I was no longer Libertarian and doing lots and lots of reading due to a layoff and trying to find something positive (and free, thanks to good libraries) to fill my time with in between responding to recruiters and job interviews, etc.

I decided I'd finally read Atlas Shrugged. The magnum opus. The book so many Libertarians point to. I had the time and the library had the book, so why not?

And....oh gawd. What drivel. What a shitty philosophical system. I had to force myself to finish reading it. LOL. And then shortly after, I started seeing all these "who's John Galt?" and "gone Galt" stickers on cars.

Gag.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wow.

Turns out, if you try hard enough, you can find a protest that you want your police state to crack down on.

If only one more rally ever gets tear-gassed, I hope it's this one.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago

It won't. But the counter protesters will.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

So what, there’d be dozens at best, and the rest hired? Fuck billionaire thieves. They shouldn’t exist.

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 20 hours ago

The stupidity is palpable.

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