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The Pitchforks Are Coming… for Us Plutocrats

rokosbasilisk 10y ago
What a bone chilling read. We are very close to boiling over in the usa. Extreme violence in our cities and a trump supporter was tortured live on a video stream just today. People are angry about everything. Its frightening.
- pm24601 10y ago
  > trump supporter was tortured live on a video stream just today [citation needed] with what? the truth?
  - jimmywanger 10y ago
    http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/227116738-story http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/227116738-story The police "aren't sure if it's a hate crime". Hope you feel good about making fun of racist brutality against a mentally handicapped person.
- norea-armozel 10y ago
  I think taking one event which the perpetrators were teenagers as some sign of a larger issue is a big mistake. Believe it or not teenagers are just mean animals regardless of time or place. I guess it comes with the whole puberty thing.
  - rokosbasilisk 10y ago
    The backlash is what worries me, this could easily trigger a huge retaliation. The same backlash that led to donald trump, and the new right.
    - norea-armozel 10y ago
      I doubt it. There's not a strong racist undertone to at least the exit polls as I've read them. Only a few fringe groups like what you find on Daily Stormer or /pol/ are the likely candidates for any violence but even they're too cowardly to do anything now that the world has eyes on them. If there's any backlash it'll be sporadic.
davidgerard 10y ago
(2014)
Pica_soO 10y ago
And as plutocrats have always done, they will find scape-goats to slaughter. Until one of the scape-goat Shepard proofs a little harder to steer and the whole fun adventure slides into civil war. Thus ended the lesson. The funny thing is that right now, the mercenary part of the us-army is another repeated mistake , the old Romans did. Once the US ceases to be a green-card dream, why should those soldiers fight and die for a unreachable price? And you do not simply "pacify" those angry plebs with bread and games. What pacified them was the chance to one day be a patrician- the dream of having your own little thiefdom, with surplus to feast and a future secured. I think it would be a good idea, to see Trump, Bezos and Thiel learn to play the Lute- and form a band called "Romes End". </sarcasm>

What a bone chilling read. We are very close to boiling over in the usa. Extreme violence in our cities and a trump supporter was tortured live on a video stream just today. People are angry about everything. Its frightening.

pm24601 10y ago
> trump supporter was tortured live on a video stream just today [citation needed] with what? the truth?
- jimmywanger 10y ago
  http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/227116738-story http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/227116738-story The police "aren't sure if it's a hate crime". Hope you feel good about making fun of racist brutality against a mentally handicapped person.
norea-armozel 10y ago
I think taking one event which the perpetrators were teenagers as some sign of a larger issue is a big mistake. Believe it or not teenagers are just mean animals regardless of time or place. I guess it comes with the whole puberty thing.
- rokosbasilisk 10y ago
  The backlash is what worries me, this could easily trigger a huge retaliation. The same backlash that led to donald trump, and the new right.
  - norea-armozel 10y ago
    I doubt it. There's not a strong racist undertone to at least the exit polls as I've read them. Only a few fringe groups like what you find on Daily Stormer or /pol/ are the likely candidates for any violence but even they're too cowardly to do anything now that the world has eyes on them. If there's any backlash it'll be sporadic.

davidgerard 10y ago

(2014)

Pica_soO 10y ago

And as plutocrats have always done, they will find scape-goats to slaughter. Until one of the scape-goat Shepard proofs a little harder to steer and the whole fun adventure slides into civil war. Thus ended the lesson. The funny thing is that right now, the mercenary part of the us-army is another repeated mistake , the old Romans did. Once the US ceases to be a green-card dream, why should those soldiers fight and die for a unreachable price? And you do not simply "pacify" those angry plebs with bread and games. What pacified them was the chance to one day be a patrician- the dream of having your own little thiefdom, with surplus to feast and a future secured. I think it would be a good idea, to see Trump, Bezos and Thiel learn to play the Lute- and form a band called "Romes End". </sarcasm>