Let's gooooooo.

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It's a prisoner's dilemma. Of fucking course we should revolt and save the world. Organizing that is not easy, especially when it makes you a target.

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Better use of the money is to strong arm cities into adjusting into better land uses. Building a city from scratch you're probably taking farm land from making food to instead be a new city, and if you can attract enough businesses to attract enough residents you've only helped by creating walkability for a few hundred or thousand people while the rest of the country remains car dependant.

Honestly I was on a walk recently and had the thought cross my mind of "what if this road were ripped up, the newly reclaimed land was sold for housing and small quiet businesses and the sidewalks widened into first class bike/walking paths just wide enough for an emergency/utility vehicle to drive down?" and I got a little sad that such a utopian vision just isn't politically palatable.

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And this is the heart of our predicament - the ones in control understand this. If they keep our misery at a low simmer they get to extract everything from us, slowly, we won't revolt. I worry that our only hope may be that they miscalculate and the pot boils over. I really don't want that, but I'm having a harder and harder time imagining real improvements anymore.

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We'd have have to drug or something first to get them to sign over their wealth. Probably film it, make sure no one thinks it was onder duress. The whole process could take months to make sure it looks legit. CIA level brainwashing maybe? I donno, just spitballing.
Then just make sure they can't backtrack on everything by finishing the job.

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Homelessness is up 20% over the last 2 years. The pot is already boiling over, I'm not sure what more you think most people have left to lose.

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This is ignoring inheritance!

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There are 1050 estimated billionaires in the US. In 2024 we've had 38 school shooting related deaths.

So a bit more than 2 months...

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It's the people who think making money is good and moral, even when you have to screw others over to get it, who are the problem.

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Everyone is doing something. Working, going to school, living their lives. Even people who have no job, who walk the streets, are doing something: surviving.

Most people’s survival instincts prevent them from taking drastic measures like this, even when things are really bad. Think of how many people who had every incentive to take a shot at Hitler but did not, despite all the horrors of the Nazi regime.

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I guess we'll see won't we? I predict we've got a bit further to go before enough people are miserable enough. It's a numbers game and I don't think we're there yet.

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Completely agree.

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Really one only ever heard his one daughter speak out against him, since she's been a frequent target for his anti-trans bullshit.

I haven't heard any of the other kids speak up against him on any topic.

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29 years, assuming we maintain 2024 school shooting levels. I propose that we just skip the schoolchildren shootings altogether, and just skip straight to French Revolution rates of aristocrat deaths. They unalived over 14,000 aristocrats over just a two year period.

Given demographics in the US today, those are rookie numbers. I think we could really show history how it ought to be done and bump that up to some really fast math.

The real unfortunate downside though was that 70% of the casualties during the reign of terror was worker/peasant class. Getting at those rich people meant they had to go through 700,000 human shields that the wealthy put in front of themselves. I figure our current wealthy elite wouldn't be reached until a far higher number of Americans perished.

There's a lot of fucking bootlicker assholes out there still.

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They're certainly not all fans.

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Not before trying to buy their way out of it.

"What if I uh, personally kill 1000 millionaires to offset each billion reducing my greedy hoarding footprint."

Jojo, Lady of the West

How many people got shot at school shootings, though?

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Modern aristocrats are also much more mobile than their ancien regime counterparts.

On a completely unrelated note, I wonder how far the FOSSCAD community has come with developing surface to air missiles.

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They killed them. Unalived sounds stupid.

Ephraim

Ah ah, this is Lemmy.world

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Also, only about 28,000 hundred-million-plus-inaires on Earth.

The blight upon our civilization of billions is not that large.