tuoba denraelDec 9, 2024
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆

I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO.

"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."

https://www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-solutions/

Peaceful Solutions

On respectable and profitable human-suffering engines, the murder of a CEO, propriety in a land where life has been cheapened, and some good news for those who seek peaceful solutions.

The Reframe
Dec 8, 2024 at 7:40pmWeb
Show threadMark Nay - SparkyDec 8, 2024
@JuliusGoat well said MR. Moxon
Show threadLaloofahDec 8, 2024
@JuliusGoat Or deemed to be *too costly* to others.
Show threadRadiojaneDec 8, 2024

@JuliusGoat

"The peaceful solution to problems caused by our machines of human suffering is to completely dismantle our machines of human suffering, and to pay the cost of doing so. This isn't an ultimatum or a threat, it's simply stating the obvious, which is that engineering death and suffering and despair on a mass scale will never create conditions of peace, even if it will make a buck." -- *chef's kiss*

Show threadPasswordsarehard4Dec 8, 2024
@JuliusGoat MLK preached about a peaceful protest. Years and years he proclaimed it, all the whole while being suppressed. The truth is it never would have worked, he could still be alive but he wouldn’t have ever made a peaceful change. The only reason it worked is because of his violent end, that violence is what finally worked. The question now is have we had enough violence for them to change or will more be needed to rein in greed?
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDDec 9, 2024
@passwordsarehard4 @JuliusGoat As a footnote, 'peaceful protest' doesn't mean that there will be no violence. To the contrary, it is a technique to make visible *where the violence is coming from*. And it often works.
Show threadMichael RobertsDec 8, 2024
@JuliusGoat Out of the park as per usual.
Show threadryeDec 8, 2024
@JuliusGoat Very well said.
Show threadChris WoodDec 8, 2024
@JuliusGoat really interesting to read. I had no idea “life has to be earned” in the US. That’s a really helpful context to understand what’s going on there. Thank you for writing and sharing this.
Show threadTeddy TedalooDec 8, 2024
@JuliusGoat yes.
Show threadteledyn đ“‚€Dec 9, 2024

@JuliusGoat @chiasm

Something about shoes, and how well they might fit? 🤔

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Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt.bsky.social)

Wow so Zuck is *scared* scared

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Show threadPirjaPaaDec 9, 2024

@JuliusGoat

WONDERFUL piece, thank you

Show threadtiny_mDec 9, 2024
@JuliusGoat I've been thinking a lot recently about how cheaply we value human life. We're bombarded with the news about people dying in wars and we watch people fleeing violence and dying as they try to reach safer countries. Then (if you're lucky) you turn off the news and go about your boring day. I think human life has always been cheap and we find it easy to dehumanise people that come from other places. But we don't really like to believe that about ourselves so we pretend that's not true
Show threadDeborah SampsonDec 9, 2024

@JuliusGoat
So many important points…

“It seems to me that some of the wealthiest & most #0powerful individuals in our #society think they can create one kind of world for everyone—a world where human #life is disposable & as cheap as it can possibly be made—but then think they don't have to live in the #world they've forced us all to occupy, too. They think they can make a world where some #people matter & other people don't, & in so doing will remain perpetually the ones who matter.”

Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDDec 9, 2024
@JuliusGoat The blitheringly obvious - but very well written. And yes, America's official religion is capitalism. That's why this murder - like taking down the Twin Towers - is also blasphemy.
Show threadEVHasteDec 9, 2024
@JuliusGoat Really enjoyed this one!
Show threadRejZoRDec 9, 2024
@JuliusGoat I get sick when I hear mainstream media whining "but he had a wife and daughter". Yeah, so? All the hundreds of thousands of people who had medical care denied also had wives/husbands and children and this guy and all the execs around him didn't give two fucks if that meant saving bucks for their bonuses. So, spare me the sympathy and guilt tripping bullshit. Taking a life is not okay, but why that didn't apply to this guy? Only the poor should have morals or some shit.