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Chang Chokaski's avatar

I disagree completely!

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

The "Power Elite" brought this upon themselves. They suppress, oppress, and exploit OTHERS (through their systems or directly through their decisions and actions). The systems are designed so that the "ordinary people" can't fight back (in any realistic or fair way). It seems that ordinary people have no other recourse. So should people just sit back and face the abuses of the systems of the "oligarchs, global corporations, masters of the global financial system, etc." or should they resort to whatever means they have at their disposal? Should people just QUIETLY DIE due to the abuses of UNJUST SYSTEMS so as to not perturb/disturb the status quo of these "Power Elite" or should people fight back against them?

History is replete with events and examples of "ordinary people" fighting back against POWER. What we're witnessing now is nothing new. It has happened thousands of time before in human history.

LUIGI MANGIONE IS A HERO (whether he intended to be one or not), just like AARON BUSHNELL IS A HERO (whether he intended to be one or not).

Billionaires are a curse/virus/disease to humanity AND the planet. Any SYSTEMS that allow the creation of "such obcene wealth" based on the exploitation and suffering of others (as we are already witnessing in Gaza and Palestine) should be OBLITERATED.

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Good on you Chang.

Maybe Luige Mangione and Aaron Bushnell have started a Revolution.

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Jo Waller's avatar

In which we buy lots of guns, randomly lash out at people richer than ourselves or set ourselves on fire. Super.

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gypsy33's avatar

Luckily, we already have lots of guns. Chairman Mao: Revolution can only come through the barrel of a gun.

Oh, and I have several pitchforks if anyone need borrow one.

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Jo Waller's avatar

It’s great how well Mao’s ideas worked out for the Chinese people.

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gypsy33's avatar

Or we could employ guillotines like the French did, Jo. That might actually be more fun.

I volunteer to hold the basket.

If you could explain the last peaceful revolution to me, I’d be all ears.

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Jo Waller's avatar

I think you’ll find that’s feminism and women in all areas of the work place. Same sex marriage. Acceptance of mental health and learning disabilities. The rise of veganism until it was successfully squashed by ‘covid’.

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gypsy33's avatar

Right-fuckin’-ON, Chang!

👍👍👍

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