• Mwa@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    What if it was a controversial opinion, your cooked.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Do you agree just with their opinion, or do you agree with their reasoning as well? If it’s only the former, don’t bother defending them - associating yourself with hot takes is one thing, but never get associated with stupid.

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    17 days ago

    I’m anxious that all the praise for the CEO shooter is revealing that “eat the rich” wasn’t a euphemism for “tax the rich” but that people actually want the streets to run red with blood and cranberry sauce.

    Cook me daddy

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      17 days ago

      ‘eat the rich’ specifically means ‘we should eliminate the existence of the rich - by any means.’ so taxation works, but more extreme methods are not ruled out. It’s entirely up to the rich on how they’d prefer to respond to this motive - and it’s then up to the working class extremists on how they respond in kind.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      “Eat the Rich” just means “rich bad, and make them accountable.” Depending on who is saying it, it could mean anywhere from taxation to revolution. A good chunk of those saying it are revolutionary leftists, like Marxists and Anarchists.

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        15 days ago

        I mean that’s what I assumed it meant. I didn’t think we were actually going to come out murdering people.

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          15 days ago

          Again, depends on who is saying it. The sentiment behind hatred for the rich is what is expressed, though the methods differ between leftists, who seek revolutionary change, and disaffected liberals, who seek reforms.

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            15 days ago

            Oh of course, person by person there are folks who wouldn’t hesitate to grab a machete and get to work.

            Hell, there are people in leftist camps who decided to join when they heard the word “guillotine”