Go get em Spidey.
My vote is for the punisher tbh
Would love to see someone come up with a simple, yet easy to parse in single color, graphic of punisher killing a cop that we could put next to the logo on those trucks.
Method of execution?
One might say it’s better than a system where everyone starve…
Which system are you speaking of?
Systems without exploitation
Is that system in the room with us right now? 🙄
Americans be like
No, see, I made all my money by inheriting it, and because I’m rich and wealthy that means that god must love me, and therefore I must be a good person inherently. People are poor because god doesn’t love them, therefore they must be bad people. Duh. /s
The real question is how do you define best system. I bet those billionaires think this is in fact a pretty good system. Though they are probably never satisfied, so they wouldn’t say best until they could snap thier fingers and a million people would start working to make whatever idea popped into thier head happen.
Gatcha addicts.
All of them. Gambling addicts addicted to watching numbers grow.
Pretty much. Though from things I have read they are more likely to be competition addicts. Gambling would be one way to compete with others. But yeah, honestly, I wouldn’t want to be them. I consider most of them mentally ill.
They aren’t even happy. By most accounts they lead pretty miserable lives, apart from the exorbitant wealth. But it’s gotta grind some gears when you automatically assume everyone is only friendly to you because of your money.
Yeah, I don’t know if I would go as far as to say they aren’t happy. Seems more like never satisfied to me.
We got all the dystopia and none of the cool futuretech.
Low latency cell phone coverage anywhere on the planet using LEO satellites is undeniably cool future tech.
The fact that progressives have decided to hate the space industry, probably because Elon is a prominent figure in it, really rubs me the wrong way. It’s regressive bullshit under the guise of a moral assertion.
Honestly I’ve noticed a lot of anti intellectualism from progressives over the past few years. You guys hate STEM, hate emerging tech, and hate people who work in emerging tech. While they stress “being informed”, all that really means is watching some 15 minute YouTube clip from a comedian pretending to be a journalist or reading an article from an obviously biased website, then adopting all the assertions as their own viewpoints.
If anyone disagrees with that worldview, they are ridiculed for being either morally or intellectually inferior. Usually there’s some literal schoolyard level insult thrown in. I don’t like the cyber truck, but calling anyone who drives it a “cybercuck” is the kind of shit I would expect from middle schoolers.
It’s absolutely exhausting.
There’s a way to do things, and then there’s a way to do things well. It may be that many progressives are no longer interested in progressing for the sake of progression. Rather that they’re trying to create not just a more “advanced” world but a better, more beautiful one.
I do somewhat disagree with this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very much on the eat the rich train. But, while not due to elons personal “brilliance” space x has cut the cost of going to space by a huge amount. And so many amazing things have come out of the space program
Why can’t we do both? How many billionaires are there? How many of them have their own space company? I’m no mathologist but something doesn’t add up.
The fact is, one thing has pretty much nothing to do with the other. The wealth gap between the wealthiest individuals on Earth and the rest of us is not the cause of poverty; in fact, as you go back in time long term, the wealth gap shrinks, while overall poverty goes up.
And what you mention about Space X is one example of the ‘rising ride lifts all ships’ phenomena that makes things better for all of us overall long term.
The fact that fulfilling three extremely-doable conditions: graduating high school, not getting married before the age of 21, and not having children before getting married, make your chances of being impoverished as an adult next to nothing, makes it even more obvious that billionaires are not the cause of poverty.
Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of increases in net worth of billionaires is created wealth (as in, if it didn’t happen, that wealth wouldn’t belong to someone else, it just wouldn’t exist at all).
The real issue is the eradication of poverty. It’s impossible to prevent someone from being at the top, and that top being exponentially higher than the average, in a society where wealth is so ‘create-able’ (and the fact that it is is a good thing, imo!), that position is always going to exist. But as we’ve seen over the past 50-100 years, it is very possible for that wealth gap to not only exist, and grow, and have the percentage of human beings who are impoverished shrinking, at the same time.
Add be born in a rich country and don’t be mentally ill to your list.
Sure, if by “Elon’s brilliance” you mean decades of Congress forcing NASA to outsource plus a whole lot of engineers none of whom are also CEO
while not due to elons personal “brilliance”
Be the change you want to see! Load up on cold cathode tubes and shove them in your PC or wherever else you can think of!
Well if it isn’t the best system why is it the system we have? Survival of the fittest, duh!
I hate to burst any utopian bubbles out there, but the problem with society ultimately isn’t capitalism, or communism, or socialism, or fascism, or any other system of government or economics. The problem with society is people. We are the problem. While some systems of government are certainly better than others at protecting us from our ourselves, eventually they all crumble and succumb to our depravity.
“We have met the enemy, and they are us” -Pogo
It’s Neo, also I kinda agree. Though how to fix it is the tricky part.
Sharing twitter posts in a meme sub isn’t the best system either. Don’t expect anything to change with the current quality of discussion.
The plan is going well. Now all we gotta do is convince all those sonobabiches to get on a Tesla rocket to Mars. As soon as that shit is outta here, we cut off communication and problem solved.
So we’re going to support a democratic system to tax people and service the underprivileged, right?
We’re going to do that, right?
Sounds good to me
