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    It’s not Luigi Mangione fever it’s the consequences of the rampant legalization of political corruption and pedophile parasite classes criminal behavior. It’s called accountability

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    Cops warn CEO bodyguards that Luigi Mangione Fever corporate f*cking greed could spark class war.

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      And politicians legalizing their own corruption while working for lobbyists and against the best interests of their constituents

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    “Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy corporate executives,” the fusion center memo says.

    God, they’re soooo close…

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      That’s the executives job, is to be the public face you blame when in reality they’re just the generals and colonels appointed by the shareholders.

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        Yes. They’re already disposable by design. CEOs with controlling stake are rare precisely because appointing majority stakeholders to run the company forfeits the advantage of liability encapsulation.

        There are exceptions, of course, such as founders retained for their institutional knowledge and track record, but these are generally exclusive to younger corporations.

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        In general, it would be a massive win for any military to take out their opponent’s generals or other command structure personnel

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    “challenges faced by the middle and lower classes”

    Who’s creating these challenges? Maybe don’t start shit if you don’t want to deal with the consequences.

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      Warren Buffett said in 2013 that he rich were waging a war on the poor in the US and that the rich were winning

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      This might seem tangentially unrelatied, but I remember a conversation from earlier this week where a group of coworkers started talking about Taylor Swift and her upcoming marriage

      Steeped in internet culture, I thought it was common knowledge that she is a narcissistic piece of shit, and that her marriage is at best a cynical ploy to stay relevant and at worst a sincere emotional attempt to conform to the standards of feminity. The consensus in my community is also that Kelsey is absolutely not into her at all, is probably cheating on her already, and the marriage is doomed, and G*d have mercy on the soul of whatever child is born from that union if it ever receives one.

      So I blurt out, “I wonder what the odds are on her divorcing?”

      And everyone stopped talking to stare at me, like, “What an awful thing to say,” before continuing to talk, unaware that the conversation they were having was the result of millions of dollars worth of PR, and very much like Taylor Swift is a highly relatable human being and not a scarecrow stuffed with currency.

      So it’s not a class war yet, more like an unresisted occupation of zombieland.

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        I’d look at you weird too.

        One, you sound far more invested in it than they are and they are probably just passing time talking about it.

        Two, you’re making a lot of assumptions about a relationship you’re not in and have zero intimate knowledge of. Even if that were true it sounds like you are again, way too invested in it.

        You can be against capitalism and all that as it is without looking cynically on absolutely everything, especially something so fundamentally unimportant as a celebrity marriage. Jmho.

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          Talking about the phony lives of billionaires like they’re your friends: normal

          Pointing out that the rich are not normal: weird

          This is exactly the problem I’m talking about.

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            If you’re crazy and rich, you’re called, “eccentric”. I hope some lifelong schizophrenic homeless guy wins the biggest lottery ever known to man. From crazy to eccentric overnight

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              A corrupt system operates with the consent of the oppressed. We are all each other’s jailers.

              Free your mind, coppertop.

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                Or stop acting like a weirdo obsessed with something nonsensical.

                How about how we don’t have proper healthcare because of billionaires, continued subsistence of Israel, etc? Who gives a flying fuck about some dumb wedding?

                You’d get further with your goals if you learned to talk like a rational person. I would bet you feel great though about how smart you are and how dumb everyone else is though which might be the more important thing to you.

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                  You’re not seeing the whole war.

                  We don’t tax billionaires because they are Wise and Good People, otherwise they wouldn’t be rich!

                  Until billionaires are seen as the mentally ill individuals they are, they will continue to take over governments, benefit themselves, and send us to early deaths to grow their wealth.

                  And yet here you are arguing with someone on your side so the Taylor Swift can continue to be America’s Sweetheart unmolested. Doesn’t that make you a little bit curious about underlying social and psycological gears that run the machine?

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        I’ve lost so many “left leaning” friends talking about politics instead of “insert show name here”. We are going to hurtle ourselves into another Holocaust

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      Warren Buffett even said that the rich were waging war on the poor back in 2013. Even then he said the rich were already winning

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    If CEO’s are allowed to bleed poor people dry, why not the other way around? If you bring pain and misery, illness and death onto others, maybe you deserve the same.

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    Spark?

    Pretty sure he’s a symptom of something that’s been ongoing for a very long time now.

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    Don’t worry about it, you’ll be fine. Feel free to lower your guard and relax. Especially in public. You’ll be totally safe.

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    This is the police trying to suck up to CEOs for a lucrative collaboration. The good old “you protect us we protect you” deal.

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    Love how these public servants who have no obligation protect us yet are writing up reports for these particular individuals.

    Abolish the police.

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      Abolish the police Rewrite western society. Because that’s really what it comes down to if we’re gonna go that route. It’s like an endgame Jenga tower that no one wants to make the next move on and yet everyone wants to complain about how it ended up.

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    Americans don’t have the stones for it. They are like caged chickens, boasting about descending from mighty dinosaurs.

    There is no safer country for CEO than USA.

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    “Spark” class war?
    Some people exploiting and killing the less fortunate among us for decades is not an already ongoing class war then. Alright, probably because no one fights back. It has been a massacre from one side so far.

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    The struggle has always been and will always be vertical, between the haves and the have-nots. Do not let them divide us horizontally based on political affiliation, identity, race, or religion, it is a trap. While people are busy infighting, they fail to look up. Divide and conquer remains the oldest trick in the book.