this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
105 points (100.0% liked)

World News

32353 readers
200 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
top 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 22 hours ago

the rich are the only dangerous minority

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

only if you don't believe in guillotines.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

Is the guillotine in the room with us right now?

To be clear, I support an "Eat The Rich" global policy.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can Earth Support a Human Future? Maybe, If the Rich ~~Consume Less~~ gets consumed

FTFY

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Given their diet. Pretty sure that would increase methane production.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Socialism is the only answer.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

we need to consume the rich. There's no other way

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago

I reckon Earth probably can support an ant future for quite a bit longer than apes.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dragonfucker 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can Earth support a human future? Maybe, if we kill more rich people.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to redistribute that wealth with socialism, killing the people who currently possess it will just create new billionaires, it won't solve the problem.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

You can have redistribution without socialism. There was a modest amount of redistribution even under Eisenhower.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

Bring back sumptuary laws!

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Earth only can survive with Humans with Humanity, it's not only the rich, it's ignorance, stupidity, fanatism and greed the problem. It's all the stupid people which vote for those which give power to the rich (MAGA rednecks, fascists, flat earther, anti-vax, influencers "Climate change is a Hoax", buyed media fom these people with fake news, etc.).

The bottom line is not that someone is rich, but what he do with the wealth and how he earned it..

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Society developed the tools to manipulate humans based on common errs we make, and so of course the logical end-point is the continued control of those already in power. We've also deprived the vast majority of people from the tools for counteracting common mistakes, behind paywalls, time theft, and esoteric elitist language. By this, we've kept the means of inoculating ourselves against control out of reach.

The rich directly define how this world by who they lobby, what charities they fund or deprive, and what they make their news outlets pedal. They are the reason for ignorance, stupidity, and fanaticism.

First we must educate others in order to inoculate them. Then we must organize to wrench our power back to ourselves and away from the elite.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

It is clear that in a cultured and informed people these policies cannot subsist, which is why they do everything in their power, helped for centuries by the church and today by related information media, study plans, etc. to keep the people ignorant, obedient and submissive. But this only shows that it cannot be solved with "eat the rich", this would be simplifying this too much, it is this whole system that puts people in a spiral that is already very difficult to undo, until a bad awakening occurs, but then it's late.