Sweet unmerciful fuck. This has blown up way beyond what it should have. A few things to shut up the pearl clutches:
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Generally speaking people don’t have problems with business OWNERS. Sure you’re technically a CEO but that’s like asking why a tomato isn’t in a fruit salad.
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No one is really operating under the MO of offing all CEOs everywhere just because they took the job.
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You’re absolutely right, not all CEOs are bad. Some still look at their employees and see valued assets that they invest in and grow. And they’ll never make the news.
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If you oversaw your company creating an algorithm that literally put weighted values to people’s lives and then denied them coverage that they were confirmed to be eligible for through the programs that they pay you money for while also when being pointed out that this algorithm inaccurately denies people their coverage and has caused actual documented deaths…then if you’re going to play at that table with people’s lives don’t look shocked when it’s your turn to ante up.
The picture says “CEO” not “CEO of a billion dollar corporation” Nobody has explicitly said it’s about billion dollar corporations. Atleast not in this thread except for you right now.
I think maybe you need to understand nuance.
Are you even reading the replies to you?
“You’re not big enough to warrant…”
“Your cute little business…”
What part of these replies do you not comprehend?
You’re the one who said explicitly - I think you meant implicitly.
Jesus you must be insufferable as a boss.
“Well acccctuaallllly…”
If you can’t put two and two together with a meme posted online and what’s going on in the world you are living under a rock my dude and I question your IQ to run a business.
I’ve been nothing but polite and asked a simple, reasonable question. You, on the other hand, showed up with hostility, personal insults, and zero interest in an actual conversation. If calmly pointing out inconsistencies makes me “insufferable,” maybe that says more about you than it does about me.
And I told you. I showed you replies where people said you are not the problem, then you diverted to that pedantic BS. My “hostility” is because you are an obvious troll. When people respond to your comment you pivot somewhere else. But since it needs to be spelled out for you.
The public discourse for a while, seriously like 8 months now you are under a rock, has been an opposition to large corporations that are monopolies in their industries. They leave consumers with no options and force decisions on people ultimately harming them for greed, whether it be draining their paychecks or actually killing them. People believe, and this is a hot take, murder is bad. But there are no consequences for their actions. You can’t go somewhere else. They own everything. You can’t arrest them. They spend their money on buying the law aka lobbying. So people have resorted to the eye for an eye mentality. These memes are a play on that.
Now the meme itself is talking about a target season. And since you like everything to be explicit so much. Acccctuaallllly there is no mention of hurting anyone in this meme. A target could also be “egging their house, launching a protest on their front lawn”. Am I stupid enough to think that? Nah. But you’re the one who hates assuming things.
I’m not a troll - I’m a provocateur. There’s a subtle difference.
I know it’s meant to not be about small businesses, but it also doesn’t explicitly say that. Like I mentioned in another comment, I’ve similarly asked people whether “ACAB” actually refers to literally all cops or if there are exceptions, and the answers I’ve gotten have been pretty clear: no exceptions. So forgive me for not extending a charitable interpretation to other sweeping generalizations I see here.
People here are quite openly advocating for CEOs, billionaires, rich people, or even conservatives to be “Luigi’d” and it’s honestly rare to see anyone caveat those statements by clarifying which ones they’re actually talking about.
Because the second you target someone it becomes a specific threat of violence. A vague meme is different because it has ambiguity for the reasons I said. It’s a dog whistle. It can mean different things to different people. Me personally I see it as attacking them at their wallets and reputation and freedom. I don’t want people gunned down in the streets. I want prison. Others might mean actual violence. How you interpret it is up to you. If you need to ask every individual person what they mean, you do you, but that’s a waste of time and who cares.
My stance of ACAB is if you aren’t reporting the bad ones you’re bad too. I’m sure there’s good cops out there but you don’t see them as much. Until they have consequences for their actions by removing immunity they are all potentially the enemy and you need to watch your back.