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A Boring Dystopia
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I'm not advocating violence, of course, because that's illegal both on this platform and in real life.
However, the history of humanity has demonstrated that powerful people need to be publicly executed in order for there to be sea change in economic inequalities. When enough people have nothing to lose, said executions become inevitable.
Don't advocate violence. Instead, imply advocacy for violence.
It's not "let's kill the rich", it's "it'd be a damn shame if someone killed the rich"
It's not "you're morally obligated to burn that pipeline", it's "you're morally obligated to burn that pipeline in Minecraft"
Wanna reenact the French revolution
In Minecraft
Install the guillotine mods
No it's not.
This platform's policies do not have the force of law.
Advocating for violence in general isn't illegal; only specific threats are. (Trump, for example, is an idiot-savant at walking that fine line.)
Also the advocating for violence rule has always been weird, because it's rarely against the rules to advocate for war, even if it's literally violence and also much much worse due to the scale and horror of it.
Yeah no, lemmy.world's admins and mods are already infected with the alt-right taint, calling for eating the rich can and will get you banned.
A general strike of 3 days with 10% of the population participating would do a LOT more than public executions of billionaires.
That said, there's no fucking way you will get 10% of the population to agree on ANYTHING anymore because every single communication channel, forum, and social space is FILLED with people who actively create hostile, circular and unproductive environments. Either for the hell of it or at the behest of their corporate masters, the result is the same.
We can't do it the easy way, so we will suffer until the only choice is the hard way.
All so 8 people can own half the fucking world.
The only way to avoid this that I have ever been able to imagine would require our global society to somehow abandon the concept of currency. But that's insane, of course, so we're probably screwed...
Not insane. Insane is making up a system of what is worth keeping alive and then sacrificing life on Earth for that system. If we want to survive as a species, we might have to embrace a sort of gift economy.