• hopolapopola@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    disgust at the vast hoarding of wealth and suffering caused by billionaires is one thing, but openly revelling in their death is gross and i wish more people would say it. it often feels like people have a streak of sadism that they want to direct at an “acceptable” target through bloody revolution, rather than being leftist because of compassion for other living beings

    • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I just honestly didn’t give a shit about them, and still it was all over the news.

      How many people died in car crashes eachday this coverage was everywhere?

      A group of rich people with poor research skills exploded themselves, and it just doesn’t matter to me.

      We don’t spend half this time crying over much bigger tragedies.

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      1 year ago

      I reckon that people become leftists out of compassion, but the dehumanizing rhetoric seems cool and edgy; so they slide into it, thinking it’s OK.

      Hate systems, not people. Don’t eat the rich, eat their money.

      • Zelsabriel@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I think that years of struggle just to meet basic needs leads to dangerous anger, resentment, and bitterness. Tbh billionaires are the ones who have rigged the system against us with decades of lobbying and most, if not all of them, would gladly see us dead in a cost benefit analysis if it gained them profit, so I have no problem with people taking pleasure in their misfortune. They made their choices and current public opinion is the consequence of that. No one gets to and stays at billionaire status off of pure merit alone…