• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I prefer bringing a guillotine to the meeting, like what happened in Salem during a council meeting with a data center CEO. Or Luigi style pie throwing, with bullets.

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    Funny story, here in Sweden, our speaker of the parliament was visiting a school to speak. Someone threw a “banana or part of a banana”. Bodyguards “aprehended” the boy until police arrived and the boy was interrogated at the police station.

    The speaker then started a criminal suit against the boy (who was 16) with the charge of disorderly conduct. The damage was noted as, “a stained shirt”.

    According to the speaker, incidents like this could cause politicians to not want to speak at schools (oh no… how will the children cope?)

    Anyway, people are calling him out as the clown he is. And i’d be very surprised if he gets to keep his post after our election (regardless of who wins)

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        Eh, only if they want to, I am still pissed off that Maud Olofsson got away with the Noun affair and even got to decline attending a government review board about the affair.

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    Cops will execute you for throwing pies at the wealthy elites these days, may as well skip straight to throwing Lucy Parsons special pie.

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    You do something like that today they’ll try to put you away for 30 years on terrorism charges.

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        A suspended sentence is just the ultimate slap on the wrist tho.

        It’s basically saying “Yeah you did a bad thing, just stay out of trouble for a few months and we’ll call it even, k?”

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    If we’re going back to when we actually put ourselves at risk to fight back against our overlords, I’d rather we go all the way back to when we’d burn their houses down - often with them inside - instead.

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    Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot

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      Yeah, pretty much. A large part of what made the face-pie so effective was simply the “we can still touch you” reminder. It’s a powerful message, because it reminds them that their bodyguards only need to fail once. It’s the old “you need to protect yourself every time, we only need to touch you once” thing. Which is why they’ve captured the courts and police, to deter attacks even when they aren’t under constant protection.

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        I remember a few years ago, there was a big to-do about people throwing paint on their yachts lol. Even that was enough to scare them.

        If they want to charge people with bioterrorism over pies, then the pie throwers might start throwing brick pies given they will face similar charges.

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      Because we stopped doing shit like this and gave in to bullshit civility politics. That shit only benefits the fascists.

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        Because we stopped doing shit like this

        Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.

        Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials

        This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.

        But I’m not seeing any evidence to suggest we “stopped” doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we’ve got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.

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          Interesting points. Don’t know if I recall all those offhand. But the Cashapp guy for instance, that was a fight between two people of essentially the same class over some family / dating / cocaine issue. That doesn’t really fit the pattern we’re talking about here.

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          Bruh I’m just talking about throwing pies in assholes’ faces I don’t need all this jeez louise

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      Easily get shot these days. Most of the big names are surrounded by exSF who are carrying far more firepower in their briefcases than any one of us can ever purchase.

      Most of the time they are even carrying firearms that are illegal or never properly gone through NFA. A few rappers and their bodyguard occasionally get a weapons charge but you never see Musks or Fuckerberg get in trouble.

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        I seem to recall some video of Musk going through security at a courthouse, and hoping he would slip up with a gun or a bag of cocaine. I’m sure nothing would have happened to him.

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      Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.

      These were brave acts then. They’d be brave acts now.

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        Yup.

        What changed is not the risk, just how we perceive it. Not long ago living under fascism was literally considered a fate worse than death

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      What happened to the dude who shot syringes of his piss at Ilhan Omar?

      Aka a literal biological attack?