• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    Drive-by e-scooter shootings have been a thing here in Sweden, which I firmly place in the same cyberpunk bucket.

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    Look, if Elon got run over by a Tesla, everyone would be laughing it off right now. If putin got smashed between a large truck and another large truck or by some other means like a large steel plate, everyone would be more than ecstatic. I would do a little dance myself. So I think we should just not try to figure out who did this too hard. It just happens sometimes. Right?

    Cuz nobody figures out who denied your claim when your dad had to die right? Where’s the justice there? This is it! This is the justice. Don’t want it? Well then implement a better way to get justice. As, is, this is great.

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      Hey gun crime is just a reality we have to live with, according to the Republicans in Congress. So I don’t see any reason to make a big fuss just because this rich bastard accidentally feel into some bullets, instead of the usual bunch of innocent children or random black person the cops decided to shoot while face down and in handcuffs. No, I’m sure the police have much more serious police matters to attend to, like civil forfeiture on somebody carrying a large amount of cash or selling appropriated weapons to drug cartels.

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      If somehow Trump died because of a stupid mistake on his part I’d take the rest of the week off and dance like it’s THON

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      Look, if Elon got run over by a Tesla, everyone would be laughing it off right now.

      I think he should have demonstrated the use of that metal tube he wanted to use as a rescue sub to rescue those kids in the thai cave. Best way to demonstrate its safe is to go into it yourself.

      Or he could use a pseudonym and work remote from one of the companies he owns and see how long he lasts as a worker. He thinks he can judge other peoples code? lets see his medicore bitchass show up and show us all how its done.

      That guy sucks.

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      Cuz nobody figures out who denied your claim when your dad had to die right?

      This is part of the hell that we live in.

      If you have a complaint about any corporation, you can’t do anything about it. They all run phone trees designed to waste your time and make it impossible to reach anyone who can actually do anything. They pay call center workers in India nothing to take the frustration which should be directed at the C-suites.

      We live in a world with zero accountability for anyone with a sizable bank account.

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    People got so hung up on cool cyberware and Johnny Silverhand that they completely forgot Cyberpunk was a warning.

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      You’ve said this on so many posts I’m struggling to keep track of which ones I’ve seen before. It’s not a criticism, just saying you’re messing with my melon maaaan.

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    born too early to fight in the post-apocalypse wasteland, born too late to fight in the pre-apocalypse waste land, born just in time to fight billionaires in the peri-apocalyptic wasteland.

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    Copayback. I’ve never smiled as much as I have today. Random Shooter can have anything he wants or needs from me, an alibi, a bike rental, a kidney.

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      Tying a gift card to a balloon and writing a note to go with it “God bless the CEO slayer”

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    …so far.

    Hey dental insurance CEO, are you thinking twice this morning about signing off on that press release where you’re going to start denying all of Grandma’s dental claims if you you’re software finds any evidence of her smiling on social media… Smiling being user-initiated routine wear and tear on teeth that shareholders demand no longer be covered by default.

    Think twice this morning, my Lord…

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    In its very perverted logic, this assassination is good for capitalism. Every CEO can ask for a raise now.

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      One of the strengths of capitalism is that it can profit both off stability and off turmoil. It literally cannot lose

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        That’s why I feel progress should be made by leveraging capitalism instead of nuking it.

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          It’s already been tried with social democracies. They cannot last because capitalism is inherently rapacious by nature and tends to maximize the extraction of surplus value in the long run.

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                  Sorry, just saw this. The answer is at the expense of the global south. Those social democracies still have companies that profit off of the labor and resources of the global south.

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              You mean the same countries that have been having issues with managing the growing number of immigrants and the strain they put on the welfare system?

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                Oh yeah migration is going to become world war insanity. You think unfettered capitalism deals with migrants better? They’re already ceding land to the federal government in Texas for concentration camps deportation centers.

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          Capitalism tries to nuke itself that’s why it’s often heavily regulated. It’s only positive is that it allows for rapid production. Which is also it’s greatest drawback.

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      Let’s increase each one’s pay by exactly three aerodynamic chunks of lead, to be deposited directly into their brainpans at supersonic speeds.

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          He also was using a suppressor without a Nielsen device as they had to rack the slide after every shot. Telling me it wasn’t a professional hit.

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    There was that meme about things we are bringing back in the 2020s from the 1920s, that included anarcho-syndicalism.

    I guess that was a miscalculation, we are actually bringing back even earlier forms of anarchism. 💣

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    Was he catching the casings? Like I’m confused why he kept cocking it or reaching on the top?

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    Such a tragic loss! He’s going to miss those dictionary bullets! Each bullet comes with one word written on it…live, life, laugh are probably still I’m the barrel