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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What if we start killing board members instead of just CEOs, you know, the puppet masters along with the puppet.

While we are at it, also any billionaires to

[–] WoodScientist 16 points 1 month ago

There's no shortage of steel that I'm aware of, and chain production is entirely automated at this point. So why not?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can't murder your way out of a situation you didn't murder yourself into.

[–] Manifish_Destiny 26 points 1 month ago

Not with that attitude.

[–] kurwa 4 points 1 month ago

They started it, we just need to finish it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Technically speaking humanity did murder itself out of feudalism and into capitalism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is my biggest frustration with these posts. We might not like it, but CEOs are still working class. Most of their wealth is derived from a paycheck. They aren't even the owning class. They're rich AF, but they're a symptom more than a problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

CEOs are not working class dumbass hahahaha

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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass 30 points 1 month ago

Hey.... Boulders ain't cheap either.

[–] hOrni 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A drop of the guillotine is completely free. Just saying.

[–] WoodScientist 10 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Sure. But it just doesn't have the same fire and brimstone "wrath of an angry God" feel to it. Guillotines are quick. But if you really hate someone, you'll go to the trouble of hauling an 800 lb boulder around just to off 'em. If you really want to show your displeasure with someone, you'll go to the trouble of loading a giant rock on a boat and hauling it an hour offshore. It's "I hate you so much I'm willing to go to this amount of effort!"

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about a really dull guillotine?

One that takes ten or fifteen drops to do any real damage?

[–] WoodScientist 3 points 1 month ago

I mean, yeah, but it just doesn't have the same vibe to it. You can't make a grandiose speech about "condemning them to the depths." Plus it's just much more terrifying, watching the surface of the water rise above you, as you're pulled inexhorably down into the abyss...

Also, the water muffles the screaming!

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[–] kemsat 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] RizzRustbolt 4 points 1 month ago

It's a very neat boulder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pioneers used to ride those babies for miles.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's completely inappropriate. That boulder could be turned into a statue.

[–] WoodScientist 3 points 1 month ago

IDK. I'm thinking more a giant bronze statue of Luigi would be more appropriate. Interesting enough, those things aren't as expensive as you might think. Some googling suggests a cost of between $25k-250k for a life sized bronze statue. That's a lot for an individual, but well within the realm of crowd funding. I say we place it on a main road outside UHC's headquarters in Minnesota. Make the bastards drive past it every single day on the way to work.

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[–] A_Filthy_Weeaboo 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

...and a cool ass boulder.

[–] GroundedGator 3 points 1 month ago

This! You have any idea how much people pay for boulders to landscape their yards? A small one about the size of a nightstand can cost 300+.

Can we just put them all in submarines and promise it will be different this time?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even in death they'd be causing sea levels to rise.

[–] WoodScientist 3 points 1 month ago

But they're providing valuable nutrients to endangered sea critters, so it balances out from an environmental perspective.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I guess this meme only applies to America?

In most European countries, you pay for your insurance by contributing a certain percentage of your wages to your insurance company and a retirement payout company. Of course, you don't have to bother with that, since your employer does this in most cases (if you're not a contractor). I think this is a better strategy than just paying from what you have.

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[–] venusaur 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why aren’t we seeing this type of energy towards politicians? They’re the ones making the laws that companies exploit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because in fine, it's the companies and lobbies that bribe them. You can have ethical politicians, but there are hardly any ethical CEOs/board members.

[–] venusaur 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the rates of ethical people across the two are the same. Just have to relate the politicians to the same ranking as a CEO/board member.

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[–] WoodScientist 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You think politicians are the ones who write the laws? You wouldn't happen to be a CEO would you? If so, I do believe you yearn for the Sea...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Polluting the sea is not cool either

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Also rocks can be valuable too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

so does this mean y'all guys are finally coming around on utilitarianism?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought that this was gonna be a different joke, I'm not gonna lie.

[–] WoodScientist 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now I'm morbidly curious what joke you were thinking...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"It's an acceptable loss."

[–] bhamlin 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can't we do this another way? That's a waste of a perfectly good rock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Tie them all together with a floating rope at the wrists to waists. They will eventually tire out, when they do they will sink themselves, once they have provided value to the fishes and other sea life then the rope will float back to the top and you can start all over with another group of valuable market leaders.

[–] WoodScientist 3 points 1 month ago

There's no shortage of rocks at our disposal. If it's the labor costs you're worried about, I suppose we could force the CEOs to quarry and carry their own rock.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

We are just replenishing the world's supply of low radiation steel. In a thousand years scientists will be so thankful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could we not go for a more sustainable solution? I'm sure they'd make a pretty decent fertiliser.

[–] WoodScientist 2 points 1 month ago

The CEOs will be fully recycled by sea life. Steel is just iron and carbon, no real damage to the environment as they rust away. And boulders are inert. And we can make sure the CEOs are dressed in suits made of all natural fibers when we chuck 'em in the drink!

[–] coriza 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh my god, that scene in the beginning of Amistad just flashed back in my head. I had completely blocked it for like 25+ years and now it is back, oh god, I feel sick.

[–] WoodScientist 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, that's something I'll actually apologize for. This is meant to be a humorous vent, not PTSD inducing.

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