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   Sam (samuteki@ohay.ooo)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 00:29:18 JST Sam

   I get that people want to root for vigilantes that take justice into their own hands against corruption in a system, but you don't change systems with random one-off actions.

   Changing system-wide problems is either very long and painful (voting, activism, community organizing etc) or long and very painful (wars, revolutions).

   One man with a gun very rarely changes things. It's when people come together and fight (peacefully or otherwise) with common goals in mind that real social progress is achieved.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 00:29:07 JST Rich Felker

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     @samuteki What one man with a gun has changed is not eliminating a functional part of the system of harm. These shithead CEOs are fungible, replaceable with chatbots even.

     Rather, it's bringing together people who not only realize what the sides are, but realize one another and everyone else realize what the sides are.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 00:30:37 JST Rich Felker

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     @samuteki It's also a first step in making the billionaire/CEO/finance class realize where things eventually will end up if they don't back down.