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East Tennessee commissioner says Flock CEO should be hanged
(eu.knoxnews.com)
A lot of CEOs should be hanged.
Most, even
All perhaps
All billionaires but not all CEOs
Edit: I have my own LLC but I don't have any employees. I could, technically, call myself a CEO and that would be valid. Should I be hanged?
Should I be hanged?
Only if you really want to be. Maybe you're into that? You should probably use a buddy system, though.
Yeah, my second friend to die went out via autoerotic asphyxiation. Be careful with it.
Maybe just choked a little bit. Like, medium-choked at most.
Same for me, I'm with you
No idea, why I should be hanged, because the only person I'm abusing is myself...
This is easy.
Do you call yourself a CEO? If yes, then yes. If no, then no. 👍
I hope you don't actually believe that.
Not that it matters but I don't. My parents got me a little plaque for my desk that says "ramenshamen, , CEO" which is kinda fun but I'm just a guy. I don't walk around introducing myself as a CEO of a company where I'm the only employee.
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I could MAYBE be talked into sparing all folks on social media claiming to be the CEOs of the side hustle. And I guess Gaben but he has to get rid of his yacht(s?) first
Personally I don't care how many yacts you have, but meddle in my government, behave like an aristocrat, try to surveil and manipulate all the proles, and I am not a happy camper. Very salty.
I think there ought to be a hard cap on wealth from 30mil net worth to somewhere around 250mil. Per person. Double that per family. The actual net worth number should be INDEXED to median (not average) wealth and income, cost of living, etc. And it should be determined democratically.
If we catch someone speeding, first offence just surrender all the wealth over the max wealth limit. Second offence? Capital punishment without the possibility of a pardon, and limited chances to appeal. This can't be treated like any other crime. Going over the wealth limit shound be considered treason.
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Free my homie Luigi!!
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There's actually a lot of political solidarity about mass surveillance. Go to the grimiest YouTube comment section and you'll see the same kind of vitriol against Palantir et al that you would here.
They just think it serves the globalhomo socialist cabal trying to take over the US and not the fascist coup that already has taken over the US.
We can't make them not suck as people but we can turn Frankenstein's monster back aginst them
i would even say with enough time and deprogramming we can make them suck a lot less than they do. perhaps it's true though that there can never be full recovery. but i think part of achieving class consciousness is having the faith to put in the effort in believing that better things are possible and that humans are neither inherently good nor inherently evil, but rather products of their environment
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Whatever wakes them and their guns up is fine with me
I dream of a hack that puts Fock's CEO whereabout at all time using Flock cameras.
They REALLY like their privacy
We could purchase an easement from his neighbor for a camera pointed at his house. That would be funny...
Become a utility. They have easement rights.
This is the town that put up a speed camera on the highway around 2012 and someone took a shotgun to it. The authorities fixed the camera and someone shot it again.
For fucks sake... don't scapegoat this 1 person.
Every township, every county, and every state government is enabling it. Flock just doesn't go around putting up cameras for charity. They are doing it because your governments are paying them for it.
Don't scapegoat them, but also don't let them off the hook. Don't let them feel too comfortable about being openly evil. People being comfortable about being openly evil is how bad things happen.
I mean, I'm fine with hanging everyone involved i that's your point.
Best believe this backlash is already factored into Flock's equations
And our governments.
Half these shit ass companies got funding from the government to do exactly what they do. I don't get why people chug on left right and center dick when it's all attached to the same monster culture.
It's almost as if the mentality of western culture as a single unit, is moreso the problem than the government... We have all been groomed to live our entire lives to keep this monster growing. It's not even about political parties, cops and these microcosms... There's people with good intentions and bad intentions in all aspects... Left right or center. Why? Because they are all groomed since birth to live for something universally unatural that requires constant oversight and war to maintain. They choose to live against the universe in order to control the narrative instead of choosing to work with the universe and nature to simply exist without greed.
But we've built the monster so big that if we leave the culture we will end up being treated like Muslims and the middle east. Isn't it clear we rape anything that isn't loyalty to the mindset we created for control? And then the same people that fund it have the gaul to go out and protest the same evil they participated in living for. It's like a mental illness. When are people going to wake up and realize not participating in this culture is the only minimally and slightly real path to stopping it....? We really already gave up humanity to monsters so in truth is say genuine natural honest humanity is already dead. Democracy is owned by those that understand psychology and have the means to manipulate. Democracy hasn't been authentic for decades. It's literally theater now.
I think this guy summed up modern western culture perfectly. I copied this from another post I made... So no YouTube link...
In my other comment I linked a YouTube video... I forget the guys name... But the channel is Middle Nation.
I wanted to share a summary of the first 4 minutes because I thought it hits so well. (Via YT ai).
In the first four minutes of the video (0:01 - 3:52), Shahid Bolsen argues that the flamboyant and nonsensical rhetoric coming from the US government and mainstream media is a deliberate tactic, not an accident.
Key takeaways from the opening segment:
The Filtering Mechanism:
He draws an analogy to email scammers who intentionally include poor grammar to filter for the most gullible targets. He suggests the US political and media establishment is doing the same thing: they are no longer trying to persuade intelligent, critical thinkers, but are instead sorting for a niche audience of loyalists who value belonging over truth (1:00 - 1:59).
Loyalty over Logic:
The speaker claims that the messaging has become a loyalty test. The goal is not to win support from the broader public, but to identify those who will blindly follow the official narrative regardless of how absurd it appears (2:00 - 2:31).
Abandoning Persuasion:
By relying on theatrical, infantile, and disconnected messaging, the power structure is essentially conceding that they no longer view the informed population as part of their legitimacy. They are building a "stupid club" for individuals who lack discernment and want to be told what to feel (3:02 - 3:52).
This concept is a about left right and center.
Pretty much. As someone who dedicated my life to language it's been particularly unpleasant to watch its use as communication medium and meaning-making thing die over the course of a decade or less. I hate everyone involved.
At least they're full of passionate intensity.
Democracy is owned by those that understand psychology and have the means to manipulate.
If you like 4 hour long documentaries, i think you might be interested in Adam curtis's "Century Of The Self". Pretty sure its on YouTube
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this framing is so stupid to me
An East Tennessee county commissioner sparked controversy after suggesting during a public workshop that Flock CEO Garret Langley should be hanged for treason.
Excuse me? The real controversy is the nation-wide surveillance network used to track everyone's movements. The commissioner's response seems to be very measured in light of that fact.
"X company has annoucned new safeguards to _______ (common sense concerns anyone not trying to speedrun Demolition Man would have forseen)."
Do they not realize this makes them confirmed to be so much worse than the average person thinks and exactly what everyone who hates them despises? They don't give a fuck about the rights of anyone they are violating and never have from the start which is why any of this could happen to begin with.
Fuck Flock.
There's a prison nearby.
There are not flock cameras outside the prison or anywhere near it.
That should tell you everything you need to know.
Got my vote.
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Traditional conservatives don't like it, the problem is that most of the parties that call themselves conservative or liberal (in US terminology or the equivalent terms in other countries) are actually all just right wing authoritarian parties with slightly different tactics to convince people to support them. Authoritarianism needs to control the narratives and to do that have an easy way to crack down on dissenters. Heck the term "rednecks" used to originally refer to left wing, labor rights activists. They just got manipulated into becoming sheep for the far right using single issue politics.
"Our flag will be red, with lots of X's. Well call ourselves the red'N'exs"
-civil war on drugs. Timmy.
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man talking sense right here
Based
Not wrong you know
Even right wingers like this dude don’t want authoritarian surveillance bs
There's long been a hypocrisy with the right where they're all about civil liberties and privacy for themselves and authoritarian surveillance for everyone else.
Its not hypocrisy if you dont view most people as human beings.
absolutely yes, the sooner the better
Honestly, I have the impression that only death and high taxes can fix the problems we have with our overlords.
I concur
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Good, let's hang him. Town square, all that dumb old town shit dumb ass conservatives miss despite never having.
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