• @Toneswirly
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    1210 hours ago

    If I had the opportunity for some street justice on a billionaire I wouldnt fucking hesitate. That said, it would change jack shit. His wealth just passes to the next asshole.

    • @Maggoty
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      127 minutes ago

      In a hypothetical world where billionaires cannot go outside a security perimeter for fear of their lives, how soon would we see people refusing the inheritance or donating massive portions?

    • Cethin
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      108 hours ago

      It would change things if it becomes systemic. If they learn to be scared of being a billionaire, maybe they’d be less likely to want to become one.

      • @quicksand
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        I think they’d just hire more security. They have the money for it.

        Edit: I agree with your sentiment though

        • @[email protected]
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          31 hour ago

          It is enough to have one person doing the inside job, but this will escalate too and… welcome to modern Russia

  • @[email protected]
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    9815 hours ago

    You and me baby aint nothing but mamals, so lets lead a revolution like on discovery channel

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    3415 hours ago

    Did you know, chimps don’t have remote killing drones, armored vehicles, or nuclear weapons.

    Well human do, and its usually not the average person that have posession of those things.

    • Bizzle
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      2615 hours ago

      Average military pay is like 2100/month so I guess if the dudes in charge of the nukes/drones/tanks decide to stop getting cucked by business interests it would probably be fine.

      • adr1an
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        1714 hours ago

        Or decide not to kill their relatives. Like in previous revolutions ;)

        • @[email protected]
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          That doesn’t always happen, look at the massacres in South Korea before the end of the dictatorship.

          The numbers on wikipedia are lower than actual numbers as questioning them could literally get you executed until the 90s. For example the official number for the Gwangju uprising is 165, but the city recorded an extra 2300 deaths above historical averages for May. That doesn’t include thousands who were arrested, many of whom sentenced to death.

          The government ordered the soldiers to shoot the protesters, and they did, and hardly anyone knows about it today.

          Indonesia is also worth looking at.

    • @[email protected]
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      1413 hours ago

      This is honestly the reason why I don’t think we can achieve a successful uprising anymore. Probably not a nuke, but drones definitely could and would be used to tear through even the largest of mobs if they formed today. Marie Antoinette would be happily eating her cake watching her people get mowed down by autonomous turrets if the French revolution happened today.

      • @[email protected]
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        913 hours ago

        IMO we are probably on the brink of the last possible society that can on a technical level. I would say, nukes, and even drone bombs etc… are unlikely to be utilized, simply due to collateral damage, infrastructure damage etc…

        However, things like the boston dynamics spot etc… We’re probably a decade away from when 1 person can control an army of perfectly loyal soldiers.

        • AwesomeLowlander
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          610 hours ago

          Unless they’re maintaining the software themselves, there’s no such thing as perfectly loyal. In the past the revolutionaries needed to capture the armory, now they need to capture / subvert the servers / programmers.

          • @[email protected]
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            410 hours ago

            It’s true… but with all things it’s a matter of quantity of people you need to be loyal… IE one commander who agrees with the cause, vs 100 soldiers that could talk about it.

            Plus, it’s far easier to grow a concience on the field looking in the eyes of the children you are murdering, vs sitting in a computer or robot lab having no “need to know” what these robots do when they leave your office

        • @P00ptart
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          19 hours ago

          If it’s got that kind of capability, it can be hacked.

    • @exothermic
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      2115 hours ago

      Naw. He can’t afford to lose cheap labor

    • @[email protected]
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      1214 hours ago

      It’s alright, given the current performance of Blue Origin it’ll take him a decade or two to get the missile working.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        213 hours ago

        to get the missile working

        If you know what I mean…