Mine is that people think punishment will come after death, so there is limited reason to bother seeking justice now. Extremely apathetic world view.
Mine is that for a surprisingly large amount of people, the threat of punishment in the afterlife is all that’s keeping them from raping and murdering.
When I was a kid, I used to see bad things on the news, illegal logging in the Amazon, species going extinct, toxic pollution, deliberate oil spills, ethnic cleansing, famines, political corruption, rabid corporate greed, and I believed the silver lining was “Now that everybody knows about it, people will work to stop it.”
I was way too old when I realised almost nobody does.
Right???
It’s like the whole system is set up to actually reward bad people. Everyone who gets rich seem to do it by taking advantage of everyone else, ripping everyone else, treating everyone else badly, cheating, lying, etc.
Don’t forget, this happens in corporate jobs too. The only ones that can climb the ladder are the ones who do so via stepping on other employees and faking it till they make it.
*wealthy bad people
Poor bad people get disproportionately punished to be made an example of.
Lately I’ve been telling myself “no war but class war” whatever a dickhead in a shitty car cuts me off or rides in the shoulder or something, as a reminder that “poor bad people” are victims too.
Basically it helps direct my anger at those who deserve it more, not the misguided thin blue line jagoff who probably will be homeless if they miss a paycheck, etc. (And don’t get me wrong, I wanna strangle them but we have a common enemy even if they don’t know it!)
My experience with shitty managers tells me that it’s not just rich people.
This is why class politics is incomplete without an understanding of hierarchy. People within a hierarchy will try to pass accountability up the chain, and it stops at the first person capable of deflecting it down. The more egregious the offense the higher up the chain it goes so the ones at the upper levels make sure the hierarchy is as tall as possible so that accountability never reaches the top. Your manager is the next rung up the hierarchy from you and most offenses are minor enough for them to deflect it. Sometimes the bureaucracy enables the accountability to be spread across so many hands that it fizzles out, and sometimes someone has to take the fall.
Richer than their workers
Yeah but I’m guessing the shift manager at burger king is not going home to a mansion.
But that’s the game. Keep the poors fighting over scraps.
Only because we let them, and posts like these don’t help. They normalize helplessness.
That’s because helplessness is normal.
We are all just dust in the wind, etc. hello darkness my old friend
Yes, we must all be the change we want in the world.
That is why I am kidnapping and eating jaywalkers tomorrow
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My favorite adult discovery is that anyone can make them pay with enough effort, even if they can only do so once.
All praise saint luigi
Luigi is a fucking hero but FUCK THAT AI trash. Fuck is that creepy and weird.
I don’t know what you mean by that. On December 4th, 2024, Luigi Mangione was having apres ski hot chocolate (~4:30 PM Mountain time) with my wife and I in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
