• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Generally, I am anti-doxxing… but the billionaire class at the very least deserves loud protests outside their little enclaves.

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      4 days ago

      Considering they are actively doxxing everyone en masse: it’s direct karma.

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      10 days ago

      Generally, I am anti death-penalty… But the billionaire class, at the very least, deserve guillotines, gallows, and their heads on spikes outsider their little enclaves

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      10 days ago

      They have blood on their hands. Indirectly maybe, but there is a LOT of blood. They deserve much worse than protests

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      Most of them are wealthy because they effectively mass scale doxx everyone to advertisers anyway.

      They hate shit like VPNs and places not using any linked ID info and online handles and shit. Anything providing any later of anonymity.

      Fuck these people.

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        4 days ago

        Perfectly said, I didn’t even take the time to say the same. I would say the advertising money is just a happy side effect.

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      At least in this case “doxxing” could restore an asymmetry: Billionaires own the major internet platforms, they already know a good portion about a big number of people. It’s just not called doxxing.

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    10 days ago

    Didn’t Musk post his own phone number on the site formerly known as Twitter recently?

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    A lot of stuff what billionaires are doing shouldn’t be swept under personal privacy.

    “Don’t bug me, it’s my own business how I spend my money”, some would say. For random people, that’s true. But when you command absurd amounts of wealth, maybe all of that stuff has consequences to the rest of the society.

    We demand transparency from people who have power over our lives, and oligarchs shouldn’t be an exception to that rule.

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      10 days ago

      A good quote I remember hearing from somewhere is “when you vote with your wallet, the people with more money get more votes.”

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    I will get banned for this, perhaps: I seriously think we should be setting their houses on fire. Show them they are not welcome on this planet. Just fucking revolt against them.

    I simply do not see another way. They have all the money in the world to change public opinion and manipulate everything to their gain. We have to not play the game, ignore everything and just get rid of them without going trough the “proper means”. The proper means do not work.

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      I don’t think this is particularly crass. They are free to just not hoard all the wealth and do the worst things. Then people wouldn’t blame them for the things they cause.

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      I think someone should build a simple, relatively cheap drone with a bomb and open source the design. Make it so anyone with a 3d printer and some basic supplies can hit their property from a reasonable distance away. Make them afraid to have that wealth.

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      Who do you think pays for the daily show or Last Week Tonight? The billionaires you like?

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          People around here love those shows. But they exist to influence you and are paid for by billionaires. I hope when people on here demand violence against billionaires, they understand it will be against the entertainers they so adore.

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            I can confidently say that anyone who would support an armed working class uprising could not care less if it would result in the cancelation of a few shows, and certainly not the shows you mentioned. I think you have created a mental image of some stereotypical “liberal/leftist” that does not actually exist in reality, and certainly does not represent the person whose comment you replied to.

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              The minute your favorite celebrities kindly asked you to stop, your movement would die. Billionaires have control. Just imagine John Oliver pleading for the killings to come to an end, you really think people wouldn’t lose their will? Who could resist those puppy eyes?

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                  I am being serious. You lot hate the people you’re supposed to hate and you love the people you’re supposed to love. You aren’t revolutionaries, you’re tools. You can’t even organize a business, much less have any hope in political change. And just as the slander machine can turn you on any politician, it can be used to turn others against you.

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    10 days ago

    Dont just issue a press release saying you are planning it, just do it for effs sake.

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    This is vigilantism. When the official authorities don’t seek justice, vigilantes often pop up. I may disagree with their methods, but I think the fault lies with these oligarchs for courting the injustice.

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      It’s encouraging vigilantism, but I wouldn’t call it vigilante work directly. I agree with the overall sentiment though: When we consider the Four Boxes of Liberty, the billionaires have already done everything they can to nullify the soap box, ballot box, and jury box. All that’s left after that is the ammo box.

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      Courting injustice? They’re literally bribing and propagandizing to the tune of billions of dollars a year to prop up injustice in this society. In favor of the wealthy class of course.

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    If the democrat victory carries over into action, watch Delon Husk (and google, amazon, openAI etc) become a progressive faster than the blink of an eye.

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      I wonder what they’re gonna do now, between a rock and a hard place.

      They need to remain Trump sycophants while also accounting for Democratic Congress.

      If the latter really push forward, billionaires will get into some very precarious position.

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        I am sure they are having their people draft plans for re-implementing dei (that they removed soon after Trump’s second term started) in case this takes hold.

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    Short sighted goals by people who don’t understand billionaires. What do they plan to accomplish with this? A billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day. That’s $680,000 in a single day which would only be 0.06% of their wealth. Dox them all you want. They will alight about it when they exchange stories.

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      You sound like you’re jumping on a grenade for billionaires.

      Palantir, Flock, etc. For us, and here’s you mooing about letting billionaires have their privacy and space.

      Ya, we’re just gonna go ahead and sweep aside your nonsense.

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      What do they plan to accomplish with this?

      Remind them that we can burn their house down with them inside or shoot them in the face. They’re just sacks of meat like anyone else.

      I feel like the implication here is obvious so I’m not sure what’s confusing to you about it.

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        This is actually why I think we should bring back the old tradition of pieing corrupt politicians and public figures. The humiliation is only half of the message. The other half of the message is “this could have been a weapon, and you only continue to live because I chose a pie instead. Your security needs to win every time, but we only need to touch you once.”

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      billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day

      They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.

      If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.

      But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.

      Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.

      You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

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        They got the jubilee movement that was buying people’s medical debt for pennies on the dollar, then forgiving it legally banned.

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      “think of the children!!!”

      Really… Everyone, including those children, are suffering because of these people. A gentle “doxxing” (what is public available information for every other individual) as a warning is nothing compared to the harms they inflict daily.