The One Percent

[noforwardslashs@sopuli.xyz]

Luigi is a patsy. It was probably Waluigi

[yoshi@lemmy.today]

People often quote RATM's "some of those who work work forces are the same who burn crosses." It's informative.

They have other, inspirational quotes, too:

"Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse, so make a move and plead the fifth cuz ya can't plead the first."

and

"Return the power to the have-nots, and take a shot."

[jaybone@lemmy.world]

Well, he throws barrels at people, so…

[gladiusb@lemmy.world]

With 1500 other idiot chimps helping him guard it and call it "true ape nation".

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

we humans

Don't blame it on the species, it's bourgeois nation states you're talking about. Despite of what Thatcher, Reagan and others want us to believe, there actually are alternatives. A stateless society wouldn't allow this behavior but would much rather act as in the cartoon. The Dawn Of Everything is a good book about this.

[sxan@midwest.social]

But they're also paying an army of traitor chimps decked out in paramilitary gear.

[frozengyro@lemmy.world]

My Everest is anywhere near large enough to describe their greed.

Here's just an American example, it's worse when you think globally. The mean US net worth is 192k, the richest person's net worth is 449 billion. That's 2,338,000X the mean US net worth. Everest is 29000 feet tall, that's 80 Everest's tall. Aka, mean net worth is a foot, and this fuck owns 80 Everest's.

[grimy@lemmy.world]

Is that how luigi hurt himself?

[aeronmelon@lemmy.world]

Toadette.

[pelespirit@sh.itjust.works]

You gotta name some examples there. I like what Bernie Sanders is putting down, a socialist democracy. Pure socialism doesn't work though, you have to depend on everyone being good people.

[ininewcrow@lemmy.ca]

The Dawn Of Everything

Fascinating! I'm looking up details of the book now and I'll probably read it ... thanks for the recommendation.

[guydudeman@lemmy.world]

Human society has never truly changed.

[psaldorn@lemmy.world]

A mass of hands press on the market window
Ghosts of progress, dressed in slow death
Feeding on hunger and glaring through the promise
Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle
A mass of nameless at the oasis
That hides the graves beneath the master's hill
Are buried for drinking the rivers water while
Shackled to the the line at the empty well

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

The world is my expense

The cost of my desire

Jesus blessed me with its future

And I protect it with fire

So raise your fists

And march around

Don't dare take what you need

I'll jail and bury those committed

And smother the rest in greed

Crawl with me into tomorrow

Or I'll drag you to your grave

I'm deep inside your children

They'll betray you in my name

Sleep now in the fire

[qarbone@lemmy.world]

My Everest is anywhere near large enough to describe their greed.

Our Everest

[flax_vert@feddit.uk]

It was obviously Diddy

[passerby6497@lemmy.world]

I'm thinking they're about a dozen short of 1500

[frozengyro@lemmy.world]

Thanks, too many typos...

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

Completely disagree. Anthropologic evidence from the past and knowledge gained by studying current primitive tribes suggest that there was much greater equity in our past.

We're kinda like in between chimpanzees and bonobos. We started off more like bonobos but as history marches on we become more like chimpanzees.

[kogasa@programming.dev]

Don't think you can stack 2.4 million bananas on top of each other. By volume you'd need like 10^16 bananas to form everest