Fun fact, billionaires are full of candy!
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Submitted 2 months ago by bearboiblake@pawb.social to [deleted]
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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Una@europe.pub 2 months ago
Billionaires are full of protein
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Mmmmmmm prions!
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 months ago
Full of coins
basket@pie.gravitywell.xyz 2 months ago
give them a “you won capitalism” certificate and then tax their wealth above 999 million by 100%
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
we need to abolish capitalism - capitalism inevitably leads to fascism
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Until we get rid of money altogether nothing will change
rotateabull@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Incredible write up, did you come up with that or is it a quote? I’d be quite interested in reading more if it’s available.
redsand@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The idealistic kill capitalism but I don’t have a replacement. So common, so boring, so never going to happen. The systems collapse ball is already rolling, survive and you can attempt whatever half thought through anarchist dream you have in mind. I swear this place goes full college freshmen some days.
psoul@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They would find a way to use that certificate as a commodity and resell it, lend it, borrow against it for extra gains haha
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Why is my first thought “i’d buy this as a shirt”…
Fuck me and my apparently still consoomer fried brain
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You can paint it on a shirt yourself ;)
moakley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Too difficult. Better to ask someone who’s good at painting to do it for you. Then you can give them something, as a sign of respect, to compensate them for their time.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Paying artists a small fee for their work through a necessary middleman isn’t perpetuating the system in any meaningful way.
It’s the unneccesary trillion dollar middlemen that have bribed the regulators and positioned themselves as the only authority in a market that are doing the most harm.
Further, they’re getting subsidized by taxpayet money to do so.
TL;DR: buy beer from the back of a van, it does not matter
ClownStatue@piefed.social 2 months ago
This could be a children’s cartoon. Guillermo & Molly. Give Guillermo a red moustache, though.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To symbolise Communism?
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No, because the hole for the neck is where is nose would be on a human’s face. His mustache would be stained with blood. A reddish brown.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Here’s an interesting article on why the guillotine may not be a very good symbol of resistance. The TL;DR is that it’s always been used as a tool of state violence, and that you can’t get rid of billionaires by just killing them all.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the idea is that the guillotine is for the current ones.
you can get rid of billionaires altogether by taxing 100% of every dollar above ten million, for example.
mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Problem with that is it just transfers the money to the government, which is an own-goal for the people - look how it’s being used now, that’s how it’ll be used with any added tax. Trusting the government is just as foolish as trusting corporations or billionaires - and that goes for any government, honest people don’t become politicians. Going about it by way of tax just transfers power to the political system even more.
For the people to have any power the government needs to have reduced power. The best way to address billionaires is to address the system that creates them - by constraining capitalism enough to prevent monopolies and concentration of executive power in any one person or small group.
All corporations over 1,000 employees should be required to be employee owned co-ops with executive compensation approved by 70% employee vote.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Guillotine is well reknowned globally as a symbol of antiauthoritarianism
One article wont change that
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean killing all the billionaires would technically get rid of them all, I think
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Its not about the guillotine, its about sending a message.
Sure, theoretically, if you “guilloize” the first round of billionaires a second round will pop up, but if you “guilloize” that second round then each successive round that you “guilloize” will get smaller and smaller … that is my theory at least.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes even that one
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I don’t know if you saw this posted earlier. Really demoralizing to see only 18% of Americans think being really rich^*^ is immoral.
^*^ Full response: “Being extremely rich (for example, having billions of dollars)."
4 out of 5 Americans are fine with billionaires. This country is so fucked.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
I understand why you’d feel so much despair over that, but there’s some hope - the truth is that the majority of the population don’t really develop their own value systems to decide what is right and wrong, instead, they just follow the mainstream, which is often determined by the media and by their leaders.
To change the world, we don’t need to get a majority of the population on our side, we just need enough of a critical mass to be able to defeat the ruling class and create a new society.
jeniferariza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s less about the number and more about how that wealth gets built and used.
percent@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I hope this art was made by a human instead of by paying a billionaire to generate it
kamen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It looks like Cuphead rip-off.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Any idea who the original artist is?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These two remind me of Randy Milholland’s character Rippy the Razor
icedaemon0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. We are living way worse than what’s possible just for them seeing “000,000,000” on their bank accounts. They dont use the money either.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m starting to look sideways at multi-millionaires as well.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Most are closer to your wealth than they are to billionaires.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Everything is relative. Closer, but still really far away.
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The one thing tankies and anarchists can agree on
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
Tankies and anarchists broadly agree on the end goal – but not the best pathway to achieve it.
SeaSgt@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Oh Luigi, oh Luigi, where art thou?
Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 months ago
psoul@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reminder that moderates and conservatives can be “radicals of means” as well.
The tools of radicalism can be used for conservative ends, so gotta be careful what you wish for.
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Not even in Iran?
1€ ~ 1 500 000 irr
chris@l.roofo.cc 2 months ago
The assumption is a billionaire in USD. Euros might work as well.
Arcadeep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Quick tip: the rag does NOT go into the mouth of the bottle. It goes wrapped or tied to a CLOSED bottle. If the bottle is open and the rag in the opening, you risk splashing the liquid on yourself and your friends when throwing
hoch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Finns perfected this shit during the Winter War - skip the rag altogether. Put the lid on and tie stormproof matches to the outside.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m skeptical of this, I bet they had really good/particular matches, no? Some store-bought matches can suck ass.
spirinolas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This guy molotovs!