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[-] flabberjabber@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

What im trying to get through to you is that corporations are made up of real human beings, they're not alien invisible beings that can exculpate humanity, they're created and organized by humans for humans. Every sin that a corporation is guilty of, there are many humans equally guilty, the corporate charter is just a piece of paper humans created to organize for profit.

Ah so finally you've climbed down and we agree. You've just literally argued against your first point there. Not just boomers, lots of different kinds of humans. Good. Exactly. We agree.

Most don't have any say in how that corporate greed occurs btw. That's down to c-suite and shareholders. Most employed or involved with those corporations are being used and abused by one degree or another.

A small number are middle men who implement awful things on behalf of shareholders, on a smallish scale. They implement the shit sliding downhill from senior management and shareholders. How culpable are these guys? Do they deserve prison? Or to be executed?

There's a tiny section of the population that has any power to do meaningful change, and they're the owners of said corporations and the political elites. They are the only ones actively abusing their power on a large scale for their immediate and long-term benefit. They are the ones that apply the pressure downwards, they're the ones making most people's lives miserable.

Again not boomers. Just people, and most of the blame is on rich and wealthy people at that.

The fuck are you talking who said anything about violence???

Or prison? You missed that part of my comment. I gave you options to choose from.

But I also gave you the option of violence because that's where the hate you express leads us. To violent revolution, widespread death, and executions of anyone deemed to have in any way benefitted from the previous regime, even slightly. If you can't display compassion and allow your anger to blind you to nuanced thinking where people can be both victims and complicit, where division along most lines are useless, we are doomed to repeat history's most awful sagas.

History shows us this in great detail. Using the measures you have mentioned, Trump, Brexit, etc over half the population of western countries like the USA or the UK would be up for retribution. That invariably leads to violence if you can't see the nuance or show where the buck stops. If you instead divide people by meaningless categories and throw your anger at people undeserving, when the time for change comes, when does the pain stop?

Would you put those who voted for Brexit or Trump or who are just middle class, in prison? Please answer the question.

Would you put Gertrude in prison for virtue of being a boomer? Please answer the question.

Dividing us by age category is a pointless endeavour. It's based on generational jealousy and an assumption that ignorant boomers know what they're doing - most really don't. They're stupid as fuck.

Boomers were born in a time before the wealth class had gamed the system to their benefit, before they had rigged it to squeeze every last penny out of the rest of us. They're also largely brain damaged by lead poisoning and age related cognitive decline.

How many more times do I need to argue you into a logical corner before you admit division based on age is relatively useless?

Not just boomers, lots of different kinds of human

But mostly boomers, sure some older millenials in the mix too.

They’re also largely brain damaged by lead poisoning and age related cognitive decline.

And then the very next sentence you ask me to admit division based on age is useless . . .

Would you put Gertrude in prison for virtue of being a boomer? Please answer the question. No of course not again nobody implied that in this whole thread you're making a lot of stuff up in your head about what I'm sayin

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