• BranBucket@lemmy.world
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    Remember the Panama Papers?

    Yeah…

    As for the 9-5ers, how else are they gonna live? Just existing costs money in the US, and refusing to run the rat race still carries a social stigma in many places. The ideals of rugged individualism and the nuclear family as the base unit of society have eroded communities and people are somewhat isolated even in urban centers. Social media only fuels this effect by giving people a synthetic sense of community and belonging.

    No one’s likely to make waves until they see a direct threat to themselves or a community they identify with is at their doorstep.

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    This is exactly why people attack the system and capitalism. They are not “extremist” they just understood the problem.

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    You know the people who had the files this whole time are the same people that would be the ones doing the arresting right?

    How many of these releases do we need to have to realize that the truth being either exposed or rumored doesn’t change anything.

    We had the Panama Papers. There was the Snowden leaks. The Chelsea Manning leaks. Hell, the fucking CIA admitted they were secretly drugging civilians with LSD just to see what would happen.

    If you are surprised that this time is any different, you aren’t paying enough attention.

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      Thank god. Please stop using US tech. I have changed my search engine to France based Qwant search.

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      Yes and its horrific what they did to little kids. I have posted a page to make the public especially 9-5s aware that if you dont stand up now tomorrow they will come after your kids while you’re slaving at work.

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    heck you don’t even need epstein for the 9-5 thing. Its just pointless now. Work is selling you don’t get paid well but with the experience you will be able to increase your wage. if you do manage to save and make enough to get a mortgage you won’t keep it up long enough to pay it off and retire as you will be working at walmart in your 50’s. Timothy Learys advice has never made more sense.

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      It doesn’t work anymore. The owners have gotten too greedy, and taken so much from working people, that we can’t even make the bills with one of their jobs. The only thing to do is all decide not to work until we collectively bargain for better conditions, better pay.

      And get an honest CPI, as it’s understated for 50 years and we take a pay cut every year the difference between the 2-3 percent average cpi inflation under the changed metrics, and 5-8 percent that it was under the old unchanged standard, and that was just by 2008, before all of our inflation here.

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        I mean I always took his drop out was talking about the machine whether it be work or school or whatnot. What is you say is exactly why. If your working to be homeless you might as well just do whatever. maybe pick up work if its not corpo controlled here and there. cash under the table things for neighbors or such and growing things if you can. guerrilla planting and and harvesting. if your ok with it steal but only from the corps or the ultra wealthy or police or such.

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          This is what I’ve done and there’s plenty of room. Literally, the situation I’ve figured out could support a dozen people. The tricky part is convincing them to come out and play. Netflix and DoorDash are absolutely crippling bait. “turn on, tune in, drop out” is the whole quote. Think step 1 has been forced on most of us at this point and the waves of “content” we’re inundated with exist largely to prevent step 2 from bringing you anywhere meaningful

          On a more positive note, if anyone wants to disappear into the woods dm me for exfil ;)

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          If we organized together we could make our own communities that at a minimum could require a lot less money to get by without having a lower standard of living. We could help each other make a living in our small businesses, and we could start our own larger businesses.

          Why are we working for publicly traded soul less corporations? If they don’t pay enough to get by, we can just make our own companies to fill some of these needs that the profit motive is failing to provide. All of that as a sideshow too, the organization would first and foremost be marshalling our discontent, and actions, to act in concert to have impact. A general strike is on the horizon, it’s the only answer to the militarized government responses we will be looking at soon.

          Strikers don’t even have to march on buildings. They just don’t work. They can’t force everyone back to work, or hunt them all down and arrest them for not working.

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      The CEO of our company is also a stupid 9-5. He doesn’t own the company so gotta slave for 10 years. He’s lucky as he won’t be slaving for 30 years just to pay of a mortgage on 1 home.

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        Seems like you’ve got the shittiest CEO not taking advantage of all these sheep willing to do your job for pennies.

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          Yea he makes like $600k . I dont understand why that fucker slaves everyday. Work for 8-10 years and then retire but 9-5s are too stupid to live a decent life. Love enjoying being dominated and degraded lol

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    Do you think that anyone who’s part of the working class (yes that includes these 9 to 5’s you’re denigrating) has any power to actually do anything to the people that spent decades abusing war orphans, abducted kids and anyone they could get their hands on?

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        It’s a lot easier to get to some “poor” healthcare CEO than it is to get to a multi-billionaire like Musk, Zuck, or Trump.

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          Playing mario brothers single player it would be. But if we could play multiplayer, there would be nothing stopping us, if anonymous. We just need the system to play like that. Wait what are we talking about, mario kart obviously.