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ickplant@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 7 days ago
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    Not to be disrespectful to Japan, but it’s like the dropping of the atom bombs in WW2: the first one sends the message that we have the power to do it, the second sends the message that we’re not afraid to keep doing it

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      We eat the top 3 billionaires each year, redistribute their wealth, and watch them all climb over each other for the #4 spot

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        All they have to do is give away enough to not be billionaires anymore. Seems more than fair.

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        I like this. The Hungry Games.

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          Awesome 👍🏼 🤣🤣🤣

      • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The modified Athenian model, I support it.

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      We eat the top 10 at least. Any less and the message won’t be clear.

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    Luigi shot one, they only upped their security. We must not stop at one.

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      Brian Thompson only had a net worth of $43m when he died.

      That is mere pocket change to the actual Billionaire class, where the three most wealthy individuals on this planet each extract $40m+ of interest on their net worth PER DAY.

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        Damn, imagine if people actually kidnapped Elon Musk and ate it live

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          They’d get sick from food poisoning and ketamine overdose.

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            Also, is erectile disfunction contagious?

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      Well first of all he’s entirely innocent. So jot that down.

      But if someone like Luigi had killed that CEO, that still wouldn’t be the same as a billionaire.

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      We didn’t eat him. I really think it’s the cannibalism that sends the message.

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        Holy cow and sacred broccoli.

        Kuru is a thing.

        Let’s not do that. Let’s put them to work. Proper work. Like plowing fields. By hand. Under the sun. From sun up to sun down.

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          I know many hungry dogs that would be fine with it

          In fact, billionaire dog chow sounds like a great treat.

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            I wouldn’t give to mine. Too high of a risk of them getting sick.

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          Kuru happens when you eat brains, just don’t eat brains and you’ll be ok.

          I wouldn’t expect more value from their physical labor.

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            This is about value. It’s about pure, unadultered, punishment.

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      That one wasn’t eaten.

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      CEOs aren’t often billionaires, they 100% do the whipping for them though

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      Once is an outlier. Twice is a coincidence. Three or more is a threat.

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      that’s the point, it can’t be just one. has to be at least two or three.

      After the first one they did get scared like you said. Even the health insurance companies got a bit scared and for a brief time they started “doing good”. briefly. then they waited. no one else got whacked. so it was back to the “norm”.

      You gotta cull a few of them in order for things to change.

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    Real shame we couldn’t get everybody to agree that a person is entitled to a bounty. Like take out a Billionaire, and you’re entitled to take like 2 million for every billion they were worth, and the rest is redistributed.

    I mean just putting the idea out there, and making them think even their secretary or cook might be thinking that 2m+ is looking pretty tasty. They’d live looking over their shoulders their whole life. Could literally be anybody, at anytime, including one of their guards.

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    Every year we wicker man the wealthiest person and their wealth gets used for social programs until poverty (i.e. food water shelter medical insecurities) is eliminated.

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      Billionaire Royale.

      One enters the danger zone at X dollar. They make money with speculation and interest, so they have to donate / get rid of it before the countdown stops.

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      Floating wealth cap. The richest person in the country is responsible for everyone’s health care. When their wealth is depleted to #2’s level, #2 starts sharing the load.

      Keep adding social programs until everyone is down to #1000’s level.

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      I like this, but let’s take the top ten and do a roulette type thing.

      Or maybe we make them compete. Maybe make it like some kinda whose line is it any improv, but with call-in voting. Or like Wipeout. (But still with the call in voting.)

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    I want to try some, are we going with a stew, spit-roast, stir-fry, braised, confit, steamed, ceviche, schnitzel, kebab or tandoori?

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      I’d make a joke about spit-roasting Peter Theil but I don’t want him to sic Hulk Hogan on me.

      Fortunately, Hulk is dead. But now I forgot the joke.

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        Feel free to add or edit it if you come up with it.

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    Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich. Much more entertainment potential, and more hygienic.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      And we get to learn about proper wood chipper safety!

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    Once you pop, you can’t stop.

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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    We don’t need to eat them, we need to chop them.

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      Yeah, I usually chop my food before cooking. Did you think we were gonna just gnaw all the meat off their bones or smth?

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    One every year until they cease to exist as a concept.

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      Jest aside i have often considered a concept where the richest person in the world has half their wealth liquidated and distributed in equal share among the 25% poorest.

      We then repeat this process again and again as needed.

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      I am thinking one per month, on the first Monday of the month.

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    Agreed, im a vegetarian but I’ll take a bite of the billionaire just to prove a point.

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      I’ve long argued that billionaire flesh is vegan because there is a net negative of suffering when they’re consumed.

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    Nonono.

    Don’t eat junk food!

    Compost and eat the veggies!

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      Let them sleep with a fishes.

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      dude i’m returning some billions of dollars worth of bones to the ecosystem. i can eat all the junk food i want.

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    Ew. Prions. Just drown them.

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      Just don’t eat the brains and the risk is pretty low

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    Eat all of them.

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    lots of people serve them.

    but someone needs to serve them.

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      I hear polar bears are having a food shortage lately…

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    As in literally eat one? Ew, I don’t want to get billionaire cooties

    Can we do something else instead?

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