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Plenty of time to build catapults.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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Plenty of time to build ~~catapults~~ trebuchets.
I see we have a true connoisseur of siege weaponry in our midst.
Culture. Culture endures. You can kill reddit, but you can't kill an idea.
Age of Empires is older than Reddit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for composting elon, but that alone won't change much.
Never forget - we are many, they are few, there is enough composting to go around, but more importantly, we need to already be creating the foundations for an alternative, better, society, so that when we abolish the systems that currently govern ours, we have a solid and equitable framework to fall back on and build from.
I suppose beating him to death with a trash bag full of 9v batteries on live TV might set the right example.
Sure, but that wouldn't take a whole line of individuals, that wold take a well organised group of a dozen or two, while more groups of a dozen or two go give the other billionaires a visit with their own trash bag, and others go and give some politicians a visit, and some bigger groups take control of the means of production, all while the largest chunk of working class people build the medical and educational and communal support that they need to pull all of that off and come back to once they're done.
I know beating elon up sounds like masses of fun to masses of people, but it isn't your revolution ("your" the individual, not you personally), it's ours. If you're genuinely that enthusiastic about being the one to pull the trigger, there will be plenty of opportunity, but you'll have a much better shot at it if you organise with others (E: even if we go on this being the imaginary world in the comic where the purge is real, if you think in that scenario he wouldn't have pentagon level security and mow all the people with their bags of batteries down with machine guns, you've not been paying attention).
I could definitely solo elongated gut with a sack of 9v wdym a dozen?
It may not change much, but damn would it ever feel good.
It’ll put some healthy fear into the ones remaining, and nobody said it had to stop there. it’s just a nice place to get started.
It won't stop there, because it won't start there.
I get that it's fun to imagine, but even in an imagined purge reality doing what is in the comic will only end with a queue of dead people, not a dead musk.
Without uniting and organising you're not going to put any fear in to anyone (at most, you'll get some other rich people to get even better security like after what Luigi did before they move on with their lives, but you wouldn't, because you'd never get through the already existing security the world's richest man can afford).
The first step to actually changing things is to unlearn the toxic individualism indoctrinated in us by capitalism (among many other things of course) and realising that our power lays in unity.
this is a comment about a comic where The Purge is a reality. it was not an attempt serious revolutionary planning. and I don't see how lining up with hundreds of others to kill one of the oligarchy is somehow representative of "toxic individualism"
this is a comment about a comic where The Purge is a reality.
I get that it’s fun to imagine, but even in an imagined purge reality........
As for toxic individualism - it's thinking that you can get to him on your own. Each person is there for their own turn. So again - all that would end in, even in imaginary purge land is the queue getting mowed down by machine gun. For someone from .ml you seem unfamiliar with the concept of "workers of the world unite" and what it represents.
I'm also literally pointing out that serious revolutionary planning would be a much better way to actually get to him (and not only him, so actually having a long lasting impact rather than just a temporary dopamine hit before returning to the status quo), not suggesting or even implying that that's what's going on here lmfao
the queue is a gag; you're dissecting the frog. it's not expressing a genuine desire to wait in a queue to murder elon musk. no person who has a genuine desire to violently murder someone is going to patiently wait in a queue for their turn to, what, double, triple murder him? it's a joke about how a lot of people hate him. i think maybe reading toxic individualism into this is a bit overreaching, but whatever preach on i guess.
double, triple
Double kill! Triple kill! Running riot! Killimanjaro!
Why do we need to wait for the purge?
You can always take the player two approach.
Can’t miss an opportunity to form a nice orderly queue, of course.
A better one to start on would be Peter Thiel.
Musk is just the dancing monkey.
All laws are suspended during the purge.
Just cut in line.
Just because laws are suspended doesn't mean common decency is.
the working class will never win a civil war
the only way to get rid of the rich is to shoot them to mars.
Elon is rarely at his house anyway.
That could be any Elon.
I like the comic. But also, in what world is waking up with the sun visibly up in the sky "the early bird"? My wife and I are up at 4:00 a.m. everyday, not because I want to be. That's just the early bird life. And you know, the job of people who serve breakfast (she does).
He's not talkin about the time of day, but the fact he's headed out for the purge three days in advance.
That's fair. For me it was just the combination of that visual of the sun relatively high with that phrase. Even during the longest days of the year in summer I'm up before the sun 90% of the time.
Maybe that is supposed to be your reaction on the first panel, but by the fourth panel it makes sense. Maybe you didn’t get to the fourth panel before commenting?
I guess yeah, but in a sense he wasn't the early bird in any sense of the word. He woke up late in the day and showed up late to the purge. Also three days early with probably not ebough gear to camp out that long. I know I overanalyze everything but I'm also a backpacker. Maybe he has a bunch of ultralight gear and some dehydrated meals in that little pack.
I think you just keep explaining the joke. He’s not an early bird is the joke.
Yeah. It's Monday and I worked all weekend but I'm also a little crispy. I'll get there.
Well, crispy bacon is the best bacon. Just sayin.
Most definitely, crispy bacon
4am is still late bird territory. I don't accept anything before 5am as early bird.
this makes no sense. get a full panel evaluation
No, no, I think it does make sense. He's suggesting anything up until 5am is just a bird that is really late from the previous day, then from 5am onwards, they are an early bird for the next day.
I hope he can get his spot back in the bread line.
Awww come on, the more the merrier!