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[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago
[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago

The honest answer? We've been taught that it's wrong since birth. If you go read some (not really) edgy takes on 'honor' codes from the middle ages, you'll find a theme that the codes really just made it hard for peasants to go after nobility types without breaking the codes. Think about stuff like fighting one-on-one rather than mob rushing, using poison, not stabbing someone in the back... All things that would allow a peasant, or 20 peasants with knives, to kill an armored man. Also all things that were consistently done between noble people, but conveniently ignored unless useful politically.

Meanwhile, most things that we would consider moral are completely left out of such codes. And even back then, many of those morals were around, they just weren't important to said codes of honor.

Nowadays, the same propaganda is used against us. You can't hold a person working for a company responsible for the company's policies/actions... unless they're below a certain pay-grade, then it's all their fault. You can't get angry about your health being impacted by pollution, because how dare you try to change someone else's life that uses that pollution! How dare you feel frustrated because someone can afford multiple giant boats and staff and multiple estates and their staff... while you struggle to afford rent and food and others languish on the street without any help at all.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago
[-] arguablytheworst@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Turn them into Effluent!

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Don’t eat shit.

Mulch the rich.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Chum the rich?

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why fight the military and not the 100 elderly dudes running it all?

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Because the guys with guns stand between you and the elderly dudes?

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really doubt every rich person and politician is walking around with a personal security detail. They still rely on contact with 'common people' in many facets of life.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Private security industry has been booming in the wake of Luigi. Sure, not as powerful as all the stuff my pictures represent but plenty to slow things down. If Luigi-style attacks became a popular sport then we’d soon see martial law enacted.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Because McDonald's, NFL and Taylor Swift.

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They have hired lots and lots of armed people

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago

Brian Thompson testified otherwise.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

And look how the system came crashing down on the chosen example suspect.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago

Doing the right thing isn't always easy.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Personally I think he’s a national hero, and I like to think that if I had nothing to lose, I would jump on this train immediately. I also hope that I could plan it better so I didn’t get caught.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

All out war and violence .... that's what's stopping us.

If we ever attempted that, we would be easily manipulated into thinking that it was a war for other reasons and generally break down into a general war.

And at the end of the fighting, the rich and powerful would take over the narrative of why the war started.

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