Everybody deserves the protection of our law enforcement, unless you aren't wealthy or powerful. And if you're black, we'll be sure to harass and/or assault you.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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CEOs and executives aren’t the target of the anger, it’s sociopathic CPAs (Cunts, Pricks, and Arseholes). It doesn’t help that to succeed as an executive one must embrace being a sociopath.
The easiest path to remove the targets they’ve painted on themselves is to cease being, and behaving like, sociopaths.
More broadly, we need to stop incentivising, rewarding, and normalising sociopathy.
I stopped at "cease being".
The easiest path to remove the targets they’ve painted on themselves is to cease being, and behaving like, sociopaths.
Or perhaps the aristocracy just builds another ring of fences and hires another battalion of guards.
Excited to see a huge investment in PR for corporate leadership in the next few years. Like Shark Tank and Undercover Boss weren't saccharine enough. You're going to get the Full Israel of media coverage soon.
I haven't watched a lot of Shark Tank, but it wasn't doing a lot to endear billionaires to me. But given how little I watched, I may not be the target demographic.
So we know for sure which side of the class war New York Governor Kathy Hochul is part of.
Are you taking notice state voters?
The voters will get ads about all these random promises for the working class and then once elected the governor will continue to do favors for the wealthy elite who paid for those ads on their behalf, putting them in office and giving them some power to help out their friends and family. The promises to the working class won't be fulfilled, but that's ok because they never are. If the opinion is that bad they'll just vote for the "other" party who follows the same big money finance playbook because there's no other way to succeed in major elections outside of big money.
This is the way the world works, it's not just NY. It's never going to change unless humans are removed from the equation, likely in an extinction event.
Why are CEOs getting special treatment? don't they already get paid enough to afford personal security?
So these virtual meetings are held any time anyone in New York gets murdered, right? No?
Which 175 reps?
Isn't clear, but also will include law enforcement of assorted varieties.
There's more than one variety of class traitor?
It's like Baskin Robins, there are multiple flavours of class traitors.
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“Demonization of corporate executives is not new.”
I wonder why that is.
Reminds me of a great way to put it I read somewhere on Lemmy the other day:
Nobody is vilifying billionaires. It's just not possible. You can't vilify someone when they're already a villain
State assistance for corporate security
If we don't take the funds from healthcare budget, then Iran will win.
“Demonization of corporate executives is not new”
Right - they’ve been demons for a long time, and we literally had to invent the FTC to curb these robber barons’ lust for power over 100 years ago. They’ve been working steadily ever since to erode that protection and exploit us even further. Demons, the lot of ‘em.
How stupid can they get? All of this is reinforcing the perception (read "fact") that violence against corporate executives has significant impact and instantly makes you famous (or infamous). Is what they are doing really the best course of action given the oversupply of people in America with easy access to guns that also feel powerless and disenfranchised? Anyone can see how this has the makings of becoming a recurring thing.
I am not weeping over it, but it is a little shocking to see how poorly they are handling all of it.
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Gosh, where and when is this group of 175 people going to be?
Think of the CEOs. Think about them when buying a gun. Think about them when sharpening a hatchet. Think of them, when building a guillotine...
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If Kathy is the one calming the CEOs it sounds like she'd be the next target as part of Operation Scrooge.
Or they could, you know, just stop being dicks.
I thought it was the onion for a second there, but nope it's t a real article
They could have voted for Cynthia Nixon.
New York wanted these assholes.
They could have voted for Cynthia Nixon.
Yes, and they should have.
New York wanted these assholes.
Probably not, no.
You see, propaganda is much more effective than most people know or are willing to admit, and New York, being the largest media market in North America, is a very clear example of that.
You don't have to be an idiot to be swayed by effective messaging, and messaging doesn't have to make sense to be effective.
You don’t have to be an idiot to be swayed by effective messaging
Actually a fair and salient point. You're not wrong.
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