• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Another fun fact, billionaires and their lifestyles emmit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person in their lifetimes.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    I love how Luigi has become a defacto symbol of the revolution. I can’t imagine Nintendo being happy about it.

  • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    There are 1050 estimated billionaires in the US. In 2024 we’ve had 38 school shooting related deaths.

    So a bit more than 2 months…

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      25 days ago

      29 years, assuming we maintain 2024 school shooting levels. I propose that we just skip the schoolchildren shootings altogether, and just skip straight to French Revolution rates of aristocrat deaths. They unalived over 14,000 aristocrats over just a two year period.

      Given demographics in the US today, those are rookie numbers. I think we could really show history how it ought to be done and bump that up to some really fast math.

      The real unfortunate downside though was that 70% of the casualties during the reign of terror was worker/peasant class. Getting at those rich people meant they had to go through 700,000 human shields that the wealthy put in front of themselves. I figure our current wealthy elite wouldn’t be reached until a far higher number of Americans perished.

      There’s a lot of fucking bootlicker assholes out there still.

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          25 days ago

          Killed triggers the moderation and censorship tools more quickly. This way some idiot bootlicker has to “get offended” and manually report it, making it take longer for the admins to notice and take it down.

          • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            25 days ago

            If your lemmy instance cares about that sort of language, please join a new one. The only instances I’m aware of that care about harsh language are .ml (censors bitch and some other curses) and .world (regularly deletes stuff celebrating the UHC CEO’s murder).

            Otherwise, this is lemmy, you aren’t on some site that cares about looking friendly and soft for advertisers. Please don’t bring that self censorship shit here.

            • Shadywack@lemmy.today
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              17 days ago

              This thread is in an LW instance, and navigating offended cunts is more necessary here than Reddit apparently, lol, go report it to a mod if you’re a vapid moron.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      He is not talking about school related deaths but about deaths of school children, so everyone who is still a school age.

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          17 days ago

          Can you actually read?

          It says school children being shot. Not “die in school schootings”. You do realise children get shot outside of school shootings?

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      25 days ago

      Yeah exactly. Normal inheritance means their kids or spouse inherit, and the number of billionaires remains the same.

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        25 days ago

        Fun fact, if I were to inherit the wealth of a billionaire family member who was shot in public I’d get philanthropic real fast!

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          25 days ago

          Many people say this. However of those who talk the talk, barely any ever walk the walk.

          However I think if you are born an heir to a billionaire, you’d lack the perspective which might foster selfless philanthropy.

          I’d like to think that if someone from the working class would randomly get such money they would. But it still seems unlikely.

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            25 days ago

            self preservation isn’t a selfless motive, but if it results in philanthropy then that’s a win.