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[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 169 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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"Ivy, you know who I am at this point. Let me attest that most of these people don't actually do shit. There are layers of layers of management and shareholders that allow the average generational wealth billionaire to extract extreme amounts of wealth without doing shit. That's honestly a good thing in your case, because anyone who actually has the ability to make obscene money in this universe is either a superhero or supervillain, and you would have just walked into their secret hideout.

If you do kill him, the best case scenario is a collection of hedge funds you never heard of divy up his controlling shares and keep business as usual flowing. The worst case is Luthor buys the company and makes everything a million times worse as step one in a convoluted plan to kill superman via kryptonite laced micro plastics. The most likely thing is one of those technically secret society orgs seizing control because at this point they just need some win. My money is on the Owls. They've been humiliated so many times they've been officially downgraded to "community advisory committee".

I honestly don't even understand where this is coming from. You and Freeze both have blank checks from both WayneTech and Star Labs to continue your research. Either of you alone could reverse large portions of climate change. If you really wanted to go the vigilante route, you could have just mind controlled him. Darksied is planning an invasion, there are no less than three evil AIs rolling around, I'm dealing with two separate split personalities, and I haven't heard from the Joker in a while which means we're all probably fucked. Even if I did notice, it would take me literal years to get around to actually fixing it. It feels like you are doing this because on some level you want to fail, because that's easier than doing the hard work required to fix the systemic abuses of our system "

"...So I take it the Therapy's working, huh Bruce?"

"Sort of. It's Batman".

"Actually technically right now you're Nightwing. Care to explain that?"

"It's a long story. The short of it is that I'm pulling double duty because Dick somehow forgot how to fucking Jump and Jason took Damien out for "Beer and Cigarettes", which I can only hope is literal because anything it would be a metaphor for would involve no less than two dozen corpses.".

"Jesus Christ and Harley said I was carrying too much stress. I'll come back next week, get some rest Bruce"

"Batman"

"Nightwing "

"...."

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 47 points 11 months ago
[-] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 11 months ago

If Lemmy had the feature to tip with gold, instance operators would pop out of the ground like weeds and do anything to grow. It could lead to a flourishing of the fediverse.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

And the enshittification would start.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago

Exactly that.
There is a reason we don't have any direct rewards to donating, and there is a reason we aren't aiming to grow as big as possible come what may.

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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 105 points 11 months ago
[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago

The trust fund billionaire with suit nipples.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

People who are too dumb to understand comic books are rooting for nuclear winter.

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[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 67 points 11 months ago

Batman is the bad guy and I will die on that hill.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Batman won't let you die. He'll just tie you up and send you to Arkham.

[-] Chakravanti@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Joker is the good guy too.

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[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

7 years? That's a pretty old meme. We have already done irreparable damage and we could only mitigate it at this point.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

The great thing about the earth is that it has a seemingly boundless capacity to renew itself.

The bad thing is that renewal takes time and often results in a radically different biosphere with organisms best suited to predate on prior iterations of life.

I'm less worried about how the earth will look in 10,000 years than I am worried about how humans will survive in the next 100.

[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

You are absolutely right, I meant more for us humans. The earth will recover. With or without humans.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

Killing the billionaire doesn't change anything. Someone else will take his place and continue the destruction.

Bruce Wayne has pushed for good environmental changes using his influence.

I'm tired of these idiotic memes made by people who have no idea about Batman.

Only fine thing about this meme is Poison Ivy 🥵

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

I add an asterisk to your comment.

If enough executives get killed by eco-terrorists then people will reconsider wanting to be an executive at those companies.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Nah. More hazard pay, more security, lobby for carte blanche against eco-terrorists.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

...which increases the cost of doing business for those companies.

And if eco-terrorists are successfully killing their directors, then they are probably also setting fire to their offices, mailing poison to managers, sending death threats and hate mail to employees, vandalising company property, calling in bomb threats to their refineries, executing those threats...

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[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

The peoples true power has and always will be the threat of violence.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That's why you got to keep killing them.

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

If some one else takes his place they will also be killed.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Killing the billionaire doesn’t change anything. Someone else will take his place and continue the destruction.

Ivy: "Yeah, but it will be fun!"

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago

She says "let me kill that billionaire" but it doesn't look like he's in a position to prevent her.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

She was just being polite.

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

These stats about the 100 largest companies get posted a lot, and once again, it's not meaningful because those companies exist to provide goods for other people. It's like saying just 100 entities (who all happen to be water utilities) consume 90% of the world's water so individual attempts to reduce water usage are meaningless.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

People aren't going to like the reality that we need BOTH people to change their habits AND we need companies to follow suite.

I mean, needed. Past-tense. We're in it now, it's too late to stop, maybe we can still prevent the worst case if people all get over themselves really fast and are willing to change the way they do things.

lol.

[-] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

People aren’t going to like the reality that we need BOTH people to change their habits AND we need companies to follow suite.

Jon Stewart said it best.

"The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail **** job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart, and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues till they get a positive result. And even then, have to stay on to make sure that result holds."

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[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

ACAB includes batman. Pretty much all masked vigilantes are worse, in fact. Batman is at no risk of losing his job over police brutality. Batman brutality is just... Expected. And the police just let him do it!

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

The most interesting, likeable, intelligent, philosophical and relatable characters in the Batman universe are the supposed villains.

I never really enjoyed Batman.... I always liked everyone else that were his enemies.

[-] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

How much does the other guy in the room own?

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[-] Bruhh@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I'm with Ivy all the way but at the end of the day, the CEO position will just be replaced by another suit.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And here we are buying all their shit. Another dress, yes sure, why not? Another gadget with rounded corners at a premium price, yes of course, take my money! More chocolate harvested by children won't hurt me, GIVE IT TO ME! You mean to say this waste of material will make me popular? I want 10 of them! I can buy 100 of these and waste them in a video for clout, well that's right up my alley. I'll take 1000!

BTW, don't forget, I can't help out here, it's the billionaires to blame for providing me access to all this.

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