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 worst thing about this is that racists are now going to use it as an example of how cops are “equal opportunity” murderers, not the armed division of the KKK who disproportionately murder Black people they actually are🙄

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.

Ooh, my username checks out 😂

I’ve had pirated copies on every pc I’ve owned for a couple of decades, “long gone” lmao

Fuck EA, they ain’t seeing a penny from me, and I definitely won’t be engaging in any “ports” that probably exist to scrape my data and charge me more money lol

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).

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.

Oh yeah, they wouldn’t have scrapped it unless it was damaging them somehow (like you say, or possibly by being so transparent they couldn’t even muster any plausible deniability), rather than benefits claimants, as intended.

Thank fuck for miniature, and no doubt temporary, fucking mercies.

The human-run system is already designed to reject as many claims as possible and make it as absolutely difficult as possible for those they don’t flat out reject to get even the lowest rate (again, the default, which, like a rejection, you then have to appeal to get what you’re really entitled to), yet somehow AI would have managed to make it worse.

Don’t think for a second this’ll stop them from trying again, or making the existing system worse still in other ways.

After all, we are the real leeches on the government tax pot that they need to eliminate, not their fellow landlords and capitalists sat next to them on the parliament bench. 🙄

And I can wear light up shoes.

I was hoping to find this here somewhere lol

I’ve always had long feet so I never even got long to wear kids shoes (and light up shoes weren’t even around yet during the short time I did lol) and was so jealous of a friend of mine who had tiny feet and could wear all the cute and sparkly and light up shoes she wanted long in to adulthood.

If it was me, I’d absolutely be buying all the fun shoes I could afford. 😂

He just couldn’t contain his enthusiasm… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This gave me a good chuckle, thanks 😂

He ends that last reply with “no more spending taxpayer dollars, that era is over!” which is a pretty good indication that there very much is politics to it (so I agree with you, but also he isn’t even trying to hide it, so I don’t see him trying to defend himself by pretending he doesn’t support their politics)

Yes, exactly, thanks for summing it up so concisely!

Where did I even mention exercise and diet?

This made me think of

Also, fuck trying to inflict ABA sort of bullshit on ADHD’rs as well as autists, it’s ableist from the core and is all about making us “productive members” of ableist capitalist society, rather than happy well cared for individuals, and is a huge contributor to stress and feelings of inadequacy and of being burden.

Sure, coping strategies are good and important, but they should solely be to benefit the patient, not make the patient more beneficial (and acceptable) to others.

The more inclusive and accessible society is, the less stress marginalised people are exposed to for being “other”.

These fines make it harder for Bezos

Truth is he doesn’t even notice it. These fines are mere days, maybe a week’s worth of income to people like him.