Microblog Memes

Remember about a year and a half ago when no expense or resource was spared to try to rescue a billionaire with a deathwish from the bottom of the Atlantic while AT THE VERY SAME TIME over 500 refugees that could have been saved, who were still at the surface, were left to drown off the coast of Greece.

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/titanic-submarine-billionaires-get-massive-global-rescue-effort-refugees-left-to-drown/

The ship had been in distress almost two days before it sank, but help didn’t come until it was too late. How many might have been rescued with one-tenth the resources that were rushed to save the five billionaires and millionaires on the Titan?

This isnt a healthcare problem. This is a global crony market capitalist problem.

This is a class ~~warfare~~ occupation problem.

Fuck valuing human life on the basis of ego score.

Because the police protect capital above all.

If CEOs are dying there's a potential negative financial impact, whereas unhoused people dying makes their job easier.

This is why serial killers often got away for so long. Many serial killers picked their victims very specifically based on economic and social standing. Sex workers were often ignored by ignored by everyone and their killers frequently got away with it.

Even historic serial killers like Albert Fish (a incredibly monstrous person) chose to kill poor black children because he knew that the (mostly white) police force of the time would not give two fucks about a missing poor black child.

Well, it's not weird, weird. It's more like immoral, but kind of regular.

Its sweet and innocent that thinks the cops even give a thousand dollars of time and effort to investigating crimes against the poor.

Wrong, police spends quite a lot against poor and homeless people to "keep them in line"

They should close the investigation now before we waste more resources. Can't they just get another CEO? Plus its not like the old CEO is just gonna wakeup and start ceo-ing .... Not with all them speed holes.

I guess someone finally got tired of the guillotine jokes and actually did it.

It's very likely that NYPD is going to spend a lot more on this murder than an "ordinary" one, but do you really know they only spend a few thousand on an ordinary one or did you just pull that number out of your ass? Cuz I have no idea what the murder investigation budget is.

It's only weird if you believe the prime function of the police is to protect everybody.

If you think the prime function of the police is to protect the rich and their assets, these action of theirs make perfects sense as do many other actions (such as prioritizing fighting crime against property over stopping violence)

Murica gonna Murica, what else can I say?

I saw nothing.

RTO? How about DTO (Death To Oligarchs)?

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Don't you understand how serious it is to have any threats to oligarchy???? Even if 300m people would accept an offer to replace him in his job, and provide just as effective claims denials, a homeless person...

What do you think thr 1950s was? The giant boom following USA government subsidies of the middle class, courtesy of FDR. The 1950s had a raging lack of equality, and were in part sustained on the backs of women, but that’s another discussion. It would not have happened at all, in any format, without government subsidy.

From FDR to 1981, an American middle class was subsidized. American labor was valued. You could say it was one of our best commodities, for everyone concerned.

Then, in 1981, the format switched. The idea was, the most financially efficient way to run America was to subsidize the investors and corporate. As such, the wealth would then trickle down to all parts of society, enriching the nation as a whole with this fantastical efficiency. Subsidizing the middle class was systematically broken, overturned, and the subsidies were then given to investors and corporate.

American labor was systemically devalued.

Which brings us to present day. Biden did start to pick away it the 1981-2020 travesty, but fixing broken things takes time, and this broken thing will take more than a couple years to fix. Some teamsters got to keep their retirement, infrastructure will slowly feed us in years to come, but it’s not enough, and it’s certainly not something that even helps most of our day to days as of yet.

Well, that ended this year.

And now we have the people subsidized and grown fat from the 1981-2020 structure in charge.

What will happen next?

Will American labor regain its value? Will we subsidize a middle class instead of the upper tier of individuals, the very people running the show now, going forward? Or will we all be financially squeezed even further beyond our capacities?

We will have to wait and see.

Any evidence for either number?

Of course it is, just look at Elon and Vivek drooling over their possibilities. Fuck them both.