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OK, I read the various finger wagger quotes. I’ll concede one point: the shareholders (capital) bear greater responsibility. Yes, he was “just doing his job.” But it’s dirty work, this job.
It’s true that the primary utility of this type of CEO to a shareholder is liability encapsulation, but if someone hires you to do their dirty work, and you take their money, it doesn’t matter that you’re just doing your job.
In short, any henchman should know what he’s signing up for. Those exorbitant salaries are hazard pay, make no mistake. If you take these dirty jobs, and prolong the suffering of millions, I think it’s reasonable to expect that you’ll need to watch your back. Forever.
Sorry to go straight for Godwin's law, but Eichmann's entire defense relied on saying he was just doing what he was told, "My fault is only my obedience". It's not much of an argument.
Glad I got rid of The Washington Post subscription. We should have significantly less sympathy for either Bezos and Murdoch.
If it was Murdoch or Bezos instead of this guy the parties would still be ongoing
As they've shown us already, strongly worded articles and protest don't do shit.
This had previously been posted to [email protected] (https://lemmy.world/post/23131889) but was removed as "not politics." Personally, I think pointing out instances of manufactured consent very much is politics, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because .world admins, and by extension their mods who have to enforce their policies, are corpo bootlickers
It does seem clear from the messages they write which, coincidentally sound entirely like Reddit marketing tripe, that they are gunning for a corporate buyout and golden parachutes, for a Lemmy instance, which is laughable.
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Fox News (12/6/24) quoted one of its own contributors, Joe Concha, saying, “I think this encapsulates the far left’s worldview: If you run a company that isn’t to their liking, you deserve to die.”
This is not about running a random company to someones liking. Its about the company that decides whether people die or not. It literally decides about the life and death of its customers and they wonder why people respond with death threats when the company tries to kill them.
its not just that, it includes forcing people to live with completely treatable unnecessary chronic pain or issues.
It's profiting off of the suffering of others. It's evil.
Kinda off topic, but I wish more of these posts were not on the .world instance. They seem to be giving into the censors and becoming more reddit-like over time.
Very on topic imo
Get off .world yall
As someone that started on Lemmy post Reddit, I found .world to be the most up front and easy to sign up for. I would love to change off of world but I'm not sure the best alternatives or ways to find them? Do you have any recommendations?
join-lemmy.org has a list of instances you can join. If you just want to look through a list that's a great place to browse.
If you're looking for specific recommendations I'd say lemm.ee is great in terms of moderation, they don't overmoderate and tend not to defederate from many places so users can kinda choose themselves whether or not to block an instance. Dbzer0 is similar, it's the instance with the big piracy community which .world blocked, and the admin is also great.
Both of those are in the top 10 communities in terms of size though iirc, which ideally people would avoid the biggest instances and join smaller ones to try and prevent centralization like what happened with .world communities.
Lemmy.zip is also great from what I've heard, and while it's not small, it's top 20 instead of top 10 at least.
Wow that's spot on the kind of information I was looking for! You're incredible, I appreciate it!
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Depends on what your interests are but at a bare minimum I’d avoid creating an account or a community on .world (corpo bootlickers), .ml (ultimate power tripping bastard admin), hexbear (highest troll ratio of anywhere)
I’ve got several accts on different instances. Each have their quirks. Like some don’t allow downvotes or different words, and others are federated or defederated with other instances I wanna see or avoid on occasion
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Feel free to crosspost!
I pray for them to receive a karmic, consequentialist outcome for all the things they've done.
Out of all the people who have been shot in NYC in 2024, Brian Thompson is the one I feel the least sorry for. And that includes people I've never heard of.
Cancel your cable or satellite subscriptions. Don't let Fox raise their carrier fees. https://www.nofoxfee.com/ https://www.commoncause.org/work/no-fox-fee/
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I demand that Bezos and Murdoch outlets shut the fuck up.
Note how both demands will be equally successful.
I want the population to exercise more civic engagement and vote to their interests, not their social identity. But the Zeitgeist is a force of nature that cannot be bargained with.
Hence an absolute monarchist is the President Elect and the death of a rich CEO is lauded.
And of course Trump is a million times worse than the dead CEO in every respect. But the vice-signalling of a successful murder makes it cooler to kill the CEO than to vote against Trump.
That time has been and gone! There are no free and fair elections in USA. It's another blinder from Putin's playbook. Those freedoms will never be restored.
They'll never be given back.
They could be taken back.
There in lies the challenge! Mobilizing internet addicted societies to take action.
The common people demand more sympathy for Luigi
I have concepts of thoughts and prayers
I don't even have those.
didn't get prior approval
I demand more sympathy for americans with medical issues. Enough to get action to get them healthcare. Once we have that I might have excess sympathy that could be applied to health insurance execs. so get cracking.
Sorry, my thoughts and prayers are out of network.
Internet users are declaring that the man police believe to be the shooter, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, is certifiably hot
That's just a fact. It has nothing to do with whether or not you're sympathetic to him.
Best I can do is deny, defend, and depose.
They can demand all they want. Afaict bezos and murdoch should be more worried about themselves
Oh, I think they are worried. They control the media, and the fact that they are trying, and failing, to steer public opinion away from supporting a vigilante act terrifies them.
How can Americans simultaneously hate health insurance CEOs while simultaneously shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot?
Neither party was offering single payer. American voters are stupid as fuck but I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here.
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Because the man on TV said changing the system would be communism.
No, people started to understand a bit about communism so the new term to fear is 'woke.' Nobody can define it so it's the perfect boogeyman. Don't like something? It's woke. Bad stuff, I tell ya.
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No.
No
Normally when you 'demand' something, you would have some sort of necessity or something of value that you can withhold until the 'demand' is met...
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