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I had a shower thought the other day that if more CEOs were shot dead, there'd probably be less Return to Office.
People are sometimes like "oh but violence is bad!" but ignore all the casual harms inflicted on people by capitalism and friends.
They also ignore all the freedom of the lower classes which was won through violence against the upper class.
And let's not forget all the freedoms that were granted because we asked nicely while tugging our forelocks.
Those are easy to remember because there are none.
When the people in charge refuse to listen, the only tool left is violence.
One dead CEO caused so much unity on health reform. Never seen anything like this in my life time.
They also ignore literally all of human history when they say shit like that. Hell even the civil rights movement only worked because of Malcolm X's threat of violence.
Malcolm X was a fringe figure: the NOI got lots of press but didn't really do all that much besides indulging in infighting and encouraging local Black businesses. Their approach to politics was separatism. H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, the Panthers, and many others were more closely involved in direct action.
They weren't just threats, there where riots all over the country.
Nah CEOs will mandate RTO for workers while they themselves stay remote.
They can be killed in their homes, too.
So no change?
The (attitude) Adjuster goes blam.
You had me until you distilled everything into "capitalism"... Life isn't black and white.
Inb4 the intellectually dishonest response of "but I said 'and friends!'".
Where would you lay the blame?
And how is that hypothetical response "intellectually dishonest"?
So brave
I am sorry calling out the fake capitalist regime we have, got your panties all bunched up
The regime we have is made up of real capitalists, who behave as capitalists often have throughout history. The kind of capitalism that's fake is the Chicago-school free maket kind, which has never existed in real life, because it embodies a contradiction in terms. The market is either "free" as in freedom from regulation, or it's "free" in terms of no oligopolistic barriers to entry. It can't be both simultaneously. Tuly free markets have a lifetime comparable to free hydrogen atoms: they quickly settle to an equilibrium state that's less free (by either definition).