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[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Deny Delay DEFUND.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Really goes to show who exactly the police work for.

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

We need to give our executives the tools they need to protect themselves from these violet threats. Tools like the ability to quickly roll back all machiavellian policies and practices before they can become a real danger to the policy makers.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay. Can I get a hotline to call when a corporation fucks me over in some way?

[–] Tire@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Best we can do is send a cop to your house to shoot your dog.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 126 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Remember all that critical theory stuff people were freaking out about a few years ago?

It's basically about how society arranges itself to benefit the people who have the power in a society.
Like how crimes against business and capital are serious crimes, but crimes against workers are usually treated as paperwork errors.
Compare the number of people arrested for shoplifting as opposed to the number arrested for wage theft.

Or about how the murder of one CEO gets weeks of media attention and a potential development of new systems by the police to keep it from happening again, but we've already moved on from the last school shooting, and our official policy is "yeah, that'll happen from time to time"

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

That's a good point. The white collar crime doesn't get as much time as a shop lifter.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

The specific example of the health care guy says everything about that too. Deny someone health care and they suffer and die? Or maybe hundreds of thousands of people? No problem.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cyberpunk dystopia, but without the cool ass shit, just a lot of ways to die horribly.

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

just a cyber dystopia, missed out on the punk

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah, this is definitely the Kenny G smooth jazz of dystopias. And I mean that in all of the worst possible ways.

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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't they make enough money that they can pay their own security or set up their own hotline? Why does the citizens have to pay for it? Maybe their insurance can pay for it since it's a high risk job.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 78 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Watch Congress turn bodyguards into something you can get a tax break for, like they did for private jets under Trump's tax reform. In the end they'll find a way to make sure we pay for it, not them.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Cool. Then the general public should be able to hire bodyguards for their kids in school for massive tax breaks.

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[–] ton618@lemm.ee 90 points 1 week ago (2 children)

America on that any% speedrun to become Cyberpunk universe.. trauma team, anyone?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've said many times the only thing missing between this reality and a cyberpunk dystopia is full-dive VR.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 85 points 1 week ago
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 62 points 1 week ago

Satire is dead. Not enough CEOs have followed suit.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm confused. Was there another CEO killed or harmed? Or was it still just the one? I mean, if CEOs were falling like flies in NY state, then I guess it would make sense to have a special hotline for a task force or something.

But if it's still a tiny number of CEOs, then something like this would be a giant waste of government resources.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

But if it’s still a tiny number of CEOs, then something like this would be a giant waste of government resources.

I think you underestimate how deeply those in power value a CEO vs any one of us.

Edited to add that every single detail about how this case has been handled proves that.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Sometimes, wasting government resources is the point.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin - An Accounting of the Victims of Brian Robert Thompson

If you want to actually look at things quantitatively. I ran the numbers, and by my math, Brian Robert Thompson was responsible for the deaths of 40,000 innocent American souls.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even by a conservative estimate, he was responsible for more deaths than the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And this figure includes only deaths, not the injuries, pain, suffering, and bankruptcies that resulted from his actions. When these are included, his victims likely number over a million.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is like the Trauma Team in Cyberpunk. Rich people who can afford the highest tier get a private militarized swat team to go to them any time they're in trouble.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago

Except it's not even private, it's funded by public taxes, which is EVEN WORSE THAN CYBERPUNK

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

Trauma team charges 100 Eddies per minute from when you call them until they deliver you to the hospital, plus spend ammunition and medical supplies. They waive the charge if they need 7 minutes or more to get to you, though. (Not relevant in gameplay, as their response time is 1d6 minutes). And they have heavy weapons to fight their way through to you. So, their services are sort of reasonably priced for what they offer. And even if you don't earn the big bucks, if you live in a Arasaka living facility and eat kibble, you should have enough saved up to pay for their services if you end up needing them. (Of course, living in an Arasaka living facility may lead to you needing their services)

Point being, "Cyberpunk 2020"'s healthcare system is better than America's.

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We should normalise saying "just another healthcare denial shooting" like people say "just another gang rivalry shooting".

Giving them a special CEO hotline that normal folk can't use isn't going to make them more popular.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago

"Hi yes I'd like to report that a CEO is about to make a decision that could hurt themselves or millions of others. Yes i would like to have them committed and watched for the minimum amount of time. Thank you for your help."

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If I'm reading this right it's worse than that.

You know how when you go to the police to report a stalker or someone threatening you and they just kind of roll their eyes and tell you there's nothing they can do? And you're left getting a useless restraining order that's going to do nothing but feature in the news and trial after you get murdered?

This is a hotline for rich people to report stalkers and threats specifically to be acted on. But I also wouldn't be surprised if they whitelist their phones to be at the front of any queue for 911.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago

When a school shooting occurs the cops wait outside for the kill count to rack up.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are two things that the aftermath of Luigi's action has made poignantly clear to pretty much everybody:

  • That the vast majority of people no matter their party affiliation and political leanings is feeling the pain and hates the abuses that carry on being committed by a minority of people in our system with total impunity ... until Luigi.
  • That the Ju$tice System, the Police and most of the Press, unlike what they claim work for that minority of people, not for the rest of us.

It's amazing just how certain parts of the system that are supposed to work for everybody (such as in this case the Police, and in other cases large parts of the Press with their "poor CEO" articles) are pretty much shouting loud and clear for all to hear that "we're not working for you, we work for the ones that abuse you".

Most people just discovered now with this killing of a hated CEO that what they individually felt about certain things was also felt by almost everybody, and then these bought-and-paid-for minions who for decades have been putting a lot of effort in passing themselves as "working for the community" just repeatedly and overtly signal to everybody else their true minion-of-the-rich nature.

Mind you, as a Leftie who has been skeptical of whose those elements of the current system for decades, I'm happy they're basically outing themselves and they should keep on doing it so that everybody sees them for what they really are and who they really serve,

[–] Modva@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And now the rich get their own military for use against the citizens

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

They've always had it.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

That's it, I'm founding my own LLC so I can be a CEO

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Errr...you guys have to wait on hold on 911? This isn't just a joke?

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Yeah fuck this, a special 911 enables the rich to snitch on the poor without any good reason, citing "threats". No specific class of people in a society should have special access to law enforcement.

But who am I kidding. When the SCOTUS ruled that the police protects property and not people, this was the next logical step: protect those with more property than others.

One more step towards a Cyberpunk dystopia. And one more step towards class consciousness, a general strike, and revolution, hopefully.

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[–] nathanjent@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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