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   Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 11:42:42 JST Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓

   Here’s why #LuigiMangione became an instant folk hero, and rightfully so:

   We have an incredibly inequitable system - most of all, in terms of wealth. If you’re not spectacularly rich, our system doesn’t do jack shit for you. You can write to your “representatives”, and they’ll send you some hollow form letter unless you cut a fat check to their campaign fund. Voting doesn’t fix this.

   We’ve all felt trapped in this unresponsive system for decades.

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 11:42:40 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     #LossAversion and #fear drive the oligarchy.

     It always has.

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     Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 11:42:41 JST Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓

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     Luigi showed us there’s still a way to bend the arc. There *IS* something that can be done. There is a way to make them listen. If these oligarchs refuse to make this system work for the rest of us even a little bit, we can just…

     Kill them. It’s surprisingly easy.

     So bring on that job-erasing AI. Take away Social Security and Medicare and give it to the rich. Go another year without raising minimum wage. Let’s really get this party going. I very much look forward to it.

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     tinydoctor repeated this.
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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:08:27 JST simsa03

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     Read this kind of crap that least 20 years, over and over again, all culminating in "voting doesn't fix it". Which is exactly why T won in 2016, why women's care in rural aeras was cut, and why you now have the Supreme Court you have. And I cannot prevent your shit from littering my TL because I have no way of blocking you. *That* is the nuisance of our time, not the nonsense you post.
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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:12:26 JST simsa03

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     Yes, was already proposed by John Brunner in "Shockwave Rider" as early as 1975. Didn't change shit. Anything, any original idea? I thought not.
     
     Please, please block me so that your nonsense is no longer pushed into my TL. Thank you.
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     Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:13:09 JST Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓

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     @simsa03 Click on my profile. There should be three lines or three dots in the top right. Click on that. You’ll have the option to block me there. Buh-bye.