#yeet the rich

[fearlessfloyd]

The 2024 US Presidential Election - Speculative Fiction?

So yesterday the Supreme Court just pulled the mask right off and admitted, yes, we want an autocratic ruler in the US because that's what our billionaire class wants. 

We the people of the United States are watching in real time the destruction of American democracy by oligarchs in almost the same way we saw it happen in Russia - corrupt courts ignoring precedent and the constitution, media outlets spewing non-stop propaganda, both of which are financed by the oligarchs (multi-billionaires and the executives who run their corporations and manage their wealth).

This effort, which began decades ago, has functioned to beat down civil resistance and to smear the idea of democracy to the point where the highest court in the land can just proclaim that the nation really needs a king (a czar, comrade!) and not a democratically elected president. Which is exactly what the United States Supreme Court did yesterday.

In a little over one hundred days TFG will be declared the winner with a prima facie unbelievable 65% or more of the popular vote, an outcome obtained by election interference by the right (which explains why they've been normalizing the idea that the Democrats have been manipulating elections - every accusation is a confession).

The MAGA crowd will cheer thinking that they've won when in reality they are losers like all of the rest of us non-oligarch citizens. The only winners are the mega-rich who sadly are mainly multi-generational wealth nepo-babies who've never done a thing for this country except exploit its resources, diminish its people, and destroy its laws.

When Biden and the vast majority of Americans protest such an unlikely outcome the ruling class will have the media bombard us with messages that it's just sour grapes after the 2020 election. The courts will throw out every challenge just like they did after 2020 but this time not because there was no interference, but because the man in the room holding the gun said to do so. The media will report it as though the courts saw nothing wrong with the election.

It was a perfect election, it was perfect! So beautiful!

TFG will declare himself in charge immediately, not waiting for the standard transfer of power because that's just a Constitutional norm (even without SCOTUS support that asshole never followed our nation's norms or traditions anyway). Biden and Harris, Sotomayor and Kagan will be executed (along with Hillary because he wants to and no one can stop him now), and protests in the streets will be violently put down with extreme prejudice.

I don't even want to imagine AOC or Jasmine Crocker's fates.

And that's how the United States joins the ranks of Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia (three of TFG's best buddies!) as a nation with incredible resources and great wealth ruled by a tiny group of inbred trust fund babies and a performative monkey in charge.

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Ah, that's all just crazy talk!

Right?

[maniacalmachinist]

Epiphany: The Failures of Business and Economy

Well, it's mid-2024, election season coming up in the US, and 4 years since the Covid Pandemic hit. Sadly, all of the jobs I've had since were affiliated with government, and thus covered by employment as "Essential" due to the company's government contracts. But that aside, let's look at what's been happening since: inflation rose even more (currently $3.25/gal for gas in many states), rent and taxes have increased but with little/no improvement on employee pay, insurance also up, housing rates up . . . it's like the only thing that didn't go up with inflation was, of course, wages. This is FUCKING ABSURD!

And what makes it worse, i recently heard that the person currently running Wal-Mart of all places is making 900x what their employees make . . . so if a starting employee is making (only now making that is) $10/hr, that means this CEO is making $9000/hr . . . I'm sorry, is that even legal? Just because you are making big decisions for a company doesn't mean you're actual worth 900x your employees. You should realize, without your employees, and the blatant embezzling of their potential funds, you'd not be making that amount. There used to be this thing called "luxury taxes," and anyone making over $300k/year was taxed at 75% . . . yet, they're not paying much, if anything on their taxes.

This is just stupid rich, not wealth, but rich, and that's a bad thing for the economy. I don't want to hear "well they create jobs," mother fucker they don't . . . a job only exists when there's a viable and stable market/need for their goods/services . . . this is what "The customer is always right" means . . . means all things are customer driven, whether by popularity or need. IF you create something no one needs, or even wants, guess what? You creation of a job is going to fail.

But I digress, as here's the real reason inflation is a thing . . . because we have billionaires. That's right, wal-mart and other places are increasing their prices because certain jackasses have taken a LOT of money out of circulation, one could call a "economic blood clot." THeir money isn't moving, nor working, which is why their taxes were so high . . . that which is taken out of a system must be put back in by some critical amount. Inflation then becomes an opportunistic excuse to jack up prices, not a necessity.

Last i recall, no one is born with the intent of lifetime servitude to another's well-being. Most of us don't mind working, but when you realize what you're working for is only to put that much more money in another person's pockets, its clearly a blatant insult on human rights. As someone born to the US, we were supposed to be freed from having Kings and Queens . . . but it looks like CEOs are trying to bring back the fiefdoms that our founders didn't want. No one should be born to only become an economic/financial slave to others.

The more a system takes away from it's people, the sooner it's people will rise against it. History has proven that time and again, and just because it hasn't happened in a long time doesn't mean it never will again . . .

[what-i-want-shitpost-vent-idklol]

I think we should just euthanize wealthy criminals who can afford to pay off whatever bail or fine they get. Theyll just keep breaking the law and paying the fines and bail. Kill them. Get rid of them and take all there money. They should make a law that states all wealthy criminals who break the law more than once (or commit heinous crimes even just once) should be euthanized and the government can take all there cash. Our race would be so pure and clean and our planet would be soo clean. Imagine killing all the antisemites/racists in power 😌😌

[lauronk]

Springald and idk what that is but I am mad jealous of the October babies with their trebuchet

[the-lorax-mustache]

In case you couldn’t tell I am very invested in the yacht sinking orcas fandom.

[emergingghost]

small collection of jb posing with/contributing to graffiti

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

[killemwithkawaii]

Why didn't anybody tell me that, upon the stroke of midnight on my 30th birthday, I would suddenly be struck with the irresistible compulsion to completely refurnish my bedroom???

[hiswrlds]

' can you read the melody? ' the parchment in the niwa's hands is aged and nigh-withering, yet the little notes marking out music were still clearly dotted in dark, black ink. above the trail of quarter-and-staccatos rested its handwritten title, the words THE ANGEL'S SONG written in beautiful cursive script.

' it's supposed to be magic, and anyone who listens to the song when it's played will feel happy and at peace with themselves. ' for as much as it might have sounded nothing like an overactive imagination, it was in fact a reality, as well as a truth. strange powers rested in the music, and even he and dark had fallen under its influence once upon a time.

' the thing is, it can be really dangerous too. if you play it in reverse, then it turns into 'the devil's song' and starts to hurt anyone who listens to it --- more than anything. so much that you can't even speak or move. so we're keeping it safe, ' away from what wrong hands they could. ' i wanted to show it to you because... you liked music. and me too, i like it a lot --- that's why, i was wondering if, maybe, even without weird powers, you could still make magic, and knew a song or two that could always make people happy, too. '

@dnangelic

Somehow, the parchment looks even more fragile & old  against the white of gloved hands that carefully holds it .  The hedgehog turns it over, looks at it from arms length & then back close to his face . Thing truly is old, but he could make out the musical pattern with ease, quickly getting a feeling of what the fabled song would have sounded like on a piano or perhaps a violin, but no instruments could be found nearby, leaving only his vocals for the mission . 

“ Magic, right ?  I can buy that . ”  A song that brings people happiness is a surprisingly tame concept compared to what other extraordinary things he's stumble upon throughout his life . ( From gems that grant unfathomable power, to small creatures born of solely love energy ... )  sometimes things get so out of pocket that some people can only wish to restore to scientific reasoning, filtering ancient voices to one's & zero's, breaking down the elements to charmed stones, trying to control what they cannot comprehend, all in desperate attempt at making it make sense .   Sonic doesn't understand such logic, but he can understand where the worry & fear stems from . 

This musical piece in his hands for an example, capable of  both miracles & misery  to whoever listens ---  and what about who performs ? What about who sings ?  He has to assume there won't be an effect, trusting that Daisuke would have been careful enough to mention it .  Not that he's concerned, he's simply curious . 

Quite so . 

“ If it's so dangerous, why won't you just get rid of it ? ”   His voice is light, like he would ask about something as trivial as an emptied pen —   he's unmoving, save for an ear flick, making sure the boy doesn't get any indication that he might harm the piece of parchment himself . Hazy emerald flickering between thief & paper, he continues to silently run through the tones, it seems quite easy, like he could recite it in a bit . From someone who truly loves music, the response might seem quite insensitive, a bit unlike himself .  But the detachment in the air around him stems from something  simple .  

“ I mean a nice song — ”  He shrugs, a little exacerbated by emotion that he now lets loose . He's still smiling at the paper, that tug at his lips which never seems to waver with ease, even as his eyes speak of frustration & discontent .  “ But the feeling it brings is fake, isn't it ? ”   It's simply magic, it's not the song itself, it's not the idea behind it, it's not the heart the composer put into every tone and melody .  And if it's not any of that, then what's even the point ?  

“ I know a song or two, but even I am not sure if it could happiness to everyone, and that's the fun part, because when they listen to it, I want it to be something unique, something they get to choose, y'know . ” Not anything spellbound or starstruck .  Something real & special .  And he recalls songs, he remembers melodies, he thinks of the nursery rhymes he's used to put together for his little brother to sleep, for an instance,  what was safe & warm now feels nostalgic & funny . And it's not a bad change, it's natural, it's welcomed & precious .  

“ You're right though, you don't need magic to make people feel happy or at peace, you could make the magic yourself . ” He flashes a sharp-toothed grin, encouraging but dangerous, empowering as if he has just discovered a loophole in a law system and was hoping someone would use it sooner than later  .  The underlying, sudden mischief disappears as quickly as it came, and he turns back to the glorified piece of paper at hand with the intensified readiness & attention of a school kid asked to read a paragraph for the class .  “ Do you still want me to read it ? ”

[m1shka-moon-bear-feelings]

To be honest, I read that at first as "Yeat/yeet the rich", but I believe it to hold the same message.

"Eat the Rich, Feed the Poor"

Seen in Karlskrona, Sweden

[pod-bird]

I would like to see me try

Me too Fleet, me too

[mynameispetric]

Bless whoever co-opted this sbux thrive thru window to spread The Truth.

[Image Description: bumper sticker stuck under drive thru window that reads “Yeet the rich into the sun.”]

[queenoftheimps]

So I'm still (very slowly) working my way through rereading The Vampire Lestat, and I got up to Magnus

And oh god do I suddenly remember how much Magnus suuuuuuuuucks

[fateviled-aa]

loving h/arry o/sborn is the greatest hardship ive ever faced and for what? to see him die over and over again (or never exist at all)?

[chipped-chimera]

So I have to go get a brain MRI lol.

Don't worry it's not serious, this is prep for rTMS (wikipedia linked) - part of me has been kind of waiting for a brain MRI like? Oh that bastard up there? Hate him. LEMMIE LOOK AT IT. LET ME SEE THE BASTARD.

Anyway in today's dose of late stage capitalism/tech dystopia, I asked about the side effects (vaguely remember there's a seizure risk but it's a during treatment thing, so if they stop it stops) and the receptionist giving me the breakdown said it was low and generally very user friendly -

So much so in fact, that the US (I think she said it was the US army, not ours) army does it on their snipers to improve concentration! ... and there's also a clinic in Japan where you can go get it done before work ... to improve ... concentration.

Yeah you bet I stopped her right there with a: Oh wow ... you can really see what kind of world we live in with that one, huh. 💀

Uh anyway wish me luck that I fall in ... whatever success percentage they use currently (I swear to god it used to be 80% but now it's looking like 50-65% :/) and that the government foots a huge chunk of it because I was classed with treatment resistant depression about four medications ago (I'm on my 6th I think) and that the pay gap is within my family's budget because lmao I can't pay that ever

[evilminji]

If ghosts are declared legally neither sentient nor sapient >.>

Then? LEGALLY? Anything they do? They can't be held responsible for. After all, they don't know any better.

Danny should start a harrassment campaign. Clear Activist actions. Publicly. Loudly. And with the world watching. Wear it on a tee-shirt. Keep repeating it.

"I'm not legally sentient or sapient. Not MY decision, this is what YOU decided."

Openly steal from the rich. Like, OPENLY and on a petty level. Sweep wall street. Hit major companies for food and water and give it too people. Kick presidential candidates in the balls. Cause expensive but not life treating inconvenience to the world.

You can't be a criminal, after all.

It's literally the Jesus approach. "Turn the other cheek". If you strike me AGAIN, you are acknowledging me as an equal. So which is it, oppressors? Am I less then you and free to rebel, or am I equal and capable of being held accountable?

Charm campaign with his enemies money. End world hunger. Take their wealth. Chaos and Discord. No, sorry, you CAN NOT negotiate with me! I'm INCAPABLE remember?

Neither sentient nor sapient!

Shame. Better fix that! Hey? Who's yacht was this? YEET! Guess it doesn't matter now! It's in ORBIT! Have a GREAT daaaay~☆