Quick tip: the rag does NOT go into the mouth of the bottle. It goes wrapped or tied to a CLOSED bottle. If the bottle is open and the rag in the opening, you risk splashing the liquid on yourself and your friends when throwing
The Finns perfected this shit during the Winter War - skip the rag altogether. Put the lid on and tie stormproof matches to the outside.
I'm skeptical of this, I bet they had really good/particular matches, no? Some store-bought matches can suck ass.
are store bought matches typically stormproof?
Not from the supermarket, but from the camping dept. Come in a waterproof cylinder to store them. Coghlins makes them, probably the easiest to find, Walmart or any outdoors store.
You know that storm proof matches have a layer of oxidizer on the stick so that they can burn in any conditions, even under water, right? It’s not your regular matches
This guy molotovs!
Fun fact, billionaires are full of candy!
Can we hang and beat them even if they aren't?
Its the only way to know for sure they aren't full of candy.
Billionaires are full of protein
Mmmmmmm prions!
Full of coins
give them a "you won capitalism" certificate and then tax their wealth above 999 million by 100%
we need to abolish capitalism - capitalism inevitably leads to fascism
Basically, the issue with capitalism is that the more wealth you have, the easier it is for you to make more money. And since money can be used to buy goods, services and influence, there is always a way to use money to gain more political and social power. With that political and social power, you can push society and the legal system in the direction you want to go. So you can use your wealth to gain power, and then you can use your power to change laws and society so that you can make even more wealth and power. It’s a positive feedback loop.
Obviously, though, if the billionaires and ruling class are accumulating more and more of our society’s wealth, that inevitably means that there’s less for everyone else to go around - therefore, working class people feel poorer and poorer. Meanwhile, the economy is going absolutely great for rich people, so inflation continues to go up - everything gets more expensive, but wages don’t increase. The wealthy just keep more and more of the wealth for themselves. To accumulate more and more wealth, they change the laws so that they can avoid paying taxes, so public services collapse. Politicians are lobbied to ensure that public funds are diverted away from where it is most needed - housing, healthcare, transportation, infrastructure - and instead into industries where their class interests most benefit from it, such as weapons manufacturing and extractive industries such as fossil fuels and mining.
The working class are bound to notice that their lives are getting shittier and shittier, and if that situation is left unchecked, the working class would realize that the ruling class are fucking them over, rise up, and overthrow their rulers. Obviously, the ruling class need to do something about this, but there’s no solution that the ruling class can offer. They’re causing all of the problems, to fix them they’d have to give up some of their wealth and power - and that’s not something they’re going to do. So they need to find someone else to blame the problems we have in society on. Unfortunately, though, no matter who they blame the problems on, and no matter what they do to “fix” it, the issue will continue to persist, because the material conditions underlying the issues are, very intentionally, never addressed.
So, the conundrum returns: The ruling class said that minority A caused all of the problems, minority A is persecuted and oppressed, but society doesn’t actually get any better. Either the problem wasn’t minority A, or minority A just hasn’t been oppressed enough yet. So the ruling class can either escalate the oppression, or they can shift the focus to another minority group. The division continues to escalate in terms of how vitriolic and extreme it is, and it also continues to divide the working class into smaller and smaller groups.
To get the working class to buy into this hateful message, they need to take advantage of our worst instincts, and one of those instincts is the in-group bias. The majority are manipulated into being suspicious, then intolerant, then hateful, then violent, then genocidal, towards whatever the targeted minority of the day is. Anything that can be used to divide the working class - sexuality, nationality, immigration status, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, age, all of these will be used as wedges to keep the working class split apart and not working together, because they know that if the working class actually unite against them, they are completely and truly fucked.
That’s exactly how fascism manifests. It’s because it’s possible for people to accumulate power through wealth. This is why capitalism must be abolished. If we do not abolish capitalism, fascism will always return. It’s just a matter of time.
Until we get rid of money altogether nothing will change
Incredible write up, did you come up with that or is it a quote? I'd be quite interested in reading more if it's available.
Thank you! I wrote it a while back and copy/pasted it from another comment of mine, and sadly I don't have a corpus of writing to share with you, but I'm an anarchist, so I'd encourage you to check out an Anarchist FAQ to learn more about my world view.
Much appreciated! I'll do some research on there.
Half a bil is way more than enough.
This could be a children's cartoon. Guillermo & Molly. Give Guillermo a red moustache, though.
Yes even that one
Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.
Here's an interesting article on why the guillotine may not be a very good symbol of resistance. The TL;DR is that it's always been used as a tool of state violence, and that you can't get rid of billionaires by just killing them all.
the idea is that the guillotine is for the current ones.
you can get rid of billionaires altogether by taxing 100% of every dollar above ten million, for example.
Problem with that is it just transfers the money to the government, which is an own-goal for the people - look how it’s being used now, that’s how it’ll be used with any added tax. Trusting the government is just as foolish as trusting corporations or billionaires - and that goes for any government, honest people don’t become politicians. Going about it by way of tax just transfers power to the political system even more.
For the people to have any power the government needs to have reduced power. The best way to address billionaires is to address the system that creates them - by constraining capitalism enough to prevent monopolies and concentration of executive power in any one person or small group.
All corporations over 1,000 employees should be required to be employee owned co-ops with executive compensation approved by 70% employee vote.
Want to upvote and downvote this at the same time
Guillotine is well reknowned globally as a symbol of antiauthoritarianism
One article wont change that
It’s less about the number and more about how that wealth gets built and used.
I hope this art was made by a human instead of by paying a billionaire to generate it
These two remind me of Randy Milholland's character Rippy the Razor
Yes. We are living way worse than what's possible just for them seeing "000,000,000" on their bank accounts. They dont use the money either.
I'm starting to look sideways at multi-millionaires as well.
Most are closer to your wealth than they are to billionaires.
Everything is relative. Closer, but still really far away.
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