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23 second vid at the link.

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 55 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This really should have laid bare to libs just how exactly things work in our 'capitalist utopia'

The insane, multi-state hunt to find the shooter (who may not even be the guy), the ridiculous things liberal legislators have said in the days since, THIS derangement where CEOs get a batphone direct to the pigs...

But they're all gonna vote blue for midterms and in 2028 while whining about leftists not wanting to work with them

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 33 points 4 days ago

"We need to change the system from within" is all well and good until you realize that the system is also being changed from within by people who are using the system as it's intended. Reformist attempts are always paddling upstream. Conformist reaction always has the benefit of moving with the momentum of the system itself.

At some point the effort to shackle and tame capitalism and use it for good outweigh the benefits of keeping it intact.

Libs will never admit this, of course, because it's "the least worst thing" or whatever bullshit somebody else told them that they conveniently never thought of themselves.

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 49 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Imagining a lower-tier executive feeling threatened and calling this hotline only to be told they don't qualify for its services.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 36 points 3 days ago

"Help! Active shooter! I'm the VP of sales for—..."

"VP level executives do not qualify. I'm sorry. Dial 911."

"Fucking help me!"

"I'm sorry. You do not qualify. Dial 911. Nuance calls on this CEO line will result in a penalty fee and a note in your HR file."

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago

“Sir, please call back when your company has annual revenues over $5 million.”

[–] miz@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

even if you're a CEO, what's the annual revenue of your company? how many employees does your company have to have?

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lol yeah, I can work by myself and call myself ceo. Most of LinkedIn does already.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The Ol' Democrat Trifecta:

  1. Wastes public resources
  2. To do something that will not help the situation at all
  3. That will alienate the vast majority of their voting base for the supposed benefit of like 100 rich assholes

the-democrat

[–] Des@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

i think they are at the point where the party is so insulated from their base by fifteen layers of consultants that they think those 100 rich assholes are their entire constituency.

but as we know they are right because each of those 100 has tendrils weaving through tens of thousands of "influencers" and "thought leaders" through ownership and patronage.

who in turn have tendrils through millions more shitlibs tuned into this stuff because it makes them feel smart and "informed"

still not enough though for a dying party in a dying nation in a dying system

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 4 days ago

Where's the chuds like Ben Shapiro to call these people special snowflakes, huh? Literally making safe spaces for CEOs but if you have pronouns then you're the crazy one.

[–] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

Have the hotline redirected to Luigi's cell phone

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just imagining the non imminent threat version, like the non-emergency hotline and it's just CEOs listening to CEO asmr (which I assume is someone reading Ayn Rand over the phone while some poor person is softly sobbing in the background about not being able to afford food/medicine/rent) that's somehow costing taxpayers $50,000,000.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

$50,000,000.

At least. I actually wonder what the budget will be. Can you imagine the grifting done by the police? For example - they'll claim they need a state of the art "headquarters" for CEO911™.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's the Batphone, gonna have Chief O'Hara on the other side ready to crack open someone's skull

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Chief O'Hara: "Ah begorra, mayor - where you want this killin' done?"

Mayor Linseed: "Out on Highway 61."

Chief O'Hara: "Highway 61?"

Mayor Linseed: "Just a little joke. The first thing to do is..."

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

so one piece of shit piggy gets what he deserves and they're trying to take NY tax dollars and spend it on security which will only be utilized by rich people who don't pay taxes, meanwhile kids don't have food at school, parents need help with bills, there are countless people on the streets. hell no

[–] Yukiko@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, please. Please do this. Make it even more obvious that this country has different rules for the rich and the poor. Keep showing it to the masses.

im beginning to think the masses are too stupid

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

Can't call a crisis hotline when you're dead think-about-it

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

I can't wait for emergency services to be explicitly means-tested even moreso than they already are

It'll be like that Libertarian Cop copy pasta

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Somehow I don't think this would have saved ol' Brian

Good fucking god.