• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    No, this belongs more to a collapse or civil war thread than it does here.

    This is not an endorsement, this is observation of basic, predictable human behavior. The working class is squeezed financially to the nth degree. There IS a breaking point. That sense of impending “something” many people have been feeling since well before the election has not gone away, and the squeeze is a source.

    And here it is. What is probably the first shot fired on someone in charge of that ongoing financial hardship, that squeeze.

    The scariest thing here is that there’s social contagion to these behaviors, especially those squeezed hard enough they feel they’ve little to nothing left to lose.

    This is a domino.

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          22 days ago

          Considering the Archduke was the heir of the austro-hungarian throne and the HRE having been defunct for over 100 years, this is basically on the level of someone assassinating the VP

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            22 days ago

            Lol I wasn’t trying to elevate him but say that he was no more than an oligarch (CEO) today. Didn’t realize he was the heir to the successor state, just being silly… Guess I was wrong!

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        22 days ago

        People should quit while ahead and stop looking up to wealth and titles if they don’t want to run into a Gavrilo Princip

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      22 days ago

      The scariest thing here is that there’s social contagion to these behaviors, especially those squeezed hard enough they feel they’ve little to nothing left to lose.

      This is a domino.

      Here’s hoping. We’re WAY overdue for guillotine day.

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      22 days ago

      We’ve been seeing ‘first dominoes’ fall for over a decade now. I’m at the point where I don’t think it’s going to be as big and flashy as people hope. If electing a genocidal rapist as president TWICE didn’t stir the world into action, I don’t think the pitiful death of some no-name ceo is going to do it. Things like this will keep happening, but in the grand scheme, nothing is going to change.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        Especially because we don’t even know what the motive was. For all we know, it could have been a competitor that wants his job, or a board member who was displeased by his decisions. The people running these companies have shown a million times over that life means nothing to them.

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      22 days ago

      As a person past that breaking point, I gotta say that I do endorse this. Whatever his motives may be, the shooter is a hero. America is desperate for justice, we need so much more of this.

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        22 days ago

        I wouldn’t call the shooter a hero (not that they don’t deserve a positive title), they are a victim unfortunately and I wouldn’t want people to start calling me a hero if I had to go through that (killing can’t be easy mentally or emotionally).

        I’m just waiting for the whatever (individual/group/notsurewhatthefuckwouldwork) that fixes the problem on a more permanent basis (they’re just gonna pay the next CEO more now). If this actually becomes a trend I could see it being effective (fear is a powerful motivator), but even with things like school shootings it doesn’t actually change anything. The richer CEO’s and others of that class will just laugh at the poorer CEO’s who actually have to go out in public like that.

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          21 days ago

          Nobody who acts like a hero does it without having incurred massive personal suffering to drive them

    • Alex@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Yea the tariffs will probably be seen as some sort of breaking point together with this some years from now.