• Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    We have been ruled by a corrupt elite, individuals and institutions entrenched in power, who have consistently placed their own wealth, influence, and short-term interests above the collective well-being and long-term survival of the human race. These elites have shaped global systems, economic, political, environmental, in ways that extract maximum benefit for themselves, while offloading the costs onto the masses and future generations.

    Rather than acting as stewards of humanity’s present and future, they have prioritized profit over sustainability, control over equity, and secrecy over accountability. They’ve knowingly driven ecological collapse, widened economic inequality, fuelled endless wars, and undermined democratic institutions; not out of ignorance, but because doing so served their agendas.

    While they built empires on fossil fuels, financial speculation, and surveillance, they dismissed or actively suppressed warnings from scientists, whistle blowers, and communities. Their decisions were not made in a vacuum; they were conscious choices to trade planetary stability for personal gain.

    As a result, humanity now stands at the edge of multiple converging crises. Climate change, resource depletion, social unrest, and technological disruption, all of which were foreseeable and, to varying degrees, preventable. Yet those with the power to alter course chose not to.

    We are not simply victims of mismanagement. We are survivors of deliberate negligence. They’ve turned healthcare into a marketplace, democracy into theatre, and human pain into a line item on a quarterly report. While families ration insulin, children breathe poisoned air, and entire families gulp down cancerous water, they dine in boardrooms and speak of efficiency and dividends. Their success is measured in how effectively they can extract, exploit, and evade.

    We now live in a world where people cry out in pain and are met with silence. Where justice and even care seems so unreachable. The real crime isn’t that Luigi shot a man. The real crime is that they created a system where shooting a man was the only choice he was left with. Only a fool thinks they can exploit people without triggering violence. And only a delusional coward believes it’ll stop after the first shot’s fired.

    Unless the time of self serving leaders comes to an end, the violence will only continue to grow.

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    7 days ago

    I think homicidal CEOs with zero negative consequences are inspiring people to violence. If there’s never any justice for a class of criminal, someone they’ve harmed will eventually try to balance the scales

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    “Prosecutors say Charles Manson is inspiring others to violence” was never a thing even though it was probably easier to support because they had a solid case with real evidence to put Charles Manson in the slammer.

    This fishing trip about character looks weak

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    Luigi is a symptom of an unjust system and it has nothing to do with him. Quite frankly, if he didn’t do it, someone else eventually would have. All the ingredients were there, and are still there for this kind of thing to keep happening.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      Know anyone taking bets on how long before one of America’s historic pastimes is revisited nationwide? You know, that ol’ chestnut Fuck the Rich!, etc., remember?