Spyke
lemmy.world

That's sort of a version of an old Soviet joke...

A Soviet man is waiting in line to purchase vodka from a liquor store, but due to restrictions imposed by Gorbachev, the line is very long. The man loses his composure and screams, "I can't take this waiting in line anymore, I HATE Gorbachev, I am going to the Kremlin right now, and I am going to kill him!" After 40 minutes the man returns and elbows his way back to his place in line. The crowd begin to ask if he has succeeded in killing Gorbachev. "No, I got to the Kremlin all right, but the line to kill Gorbachev was even longer than here!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes#Gorbachev

(I heard a different version with Khrushchev, but I'm sure it was told a lot.)

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lemmy.world

Wasn't Gorbachev the chillest of all Russian rulers? For some reason that is his image in my head.

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superkretreply
feddit.org

Wasn’t Gorbachev the chillest of all Russian rulers?

He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.
But he was also the last, meaning that he presided over the time when the Soviet Union was collapsing.

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He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.

Yeah, but not the most obedient. That's why the west preferred Yeltsin - and his faithful number two, Putin.

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jaybonereply
lemmy.world

I would guess Yeltsin for most chill. But either way I’m thinking by gorbachev’s time bread lines were still pretty bad.

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wiesonreply
feddit.org

Well Yeltsin had tanks shoot at the parliament building

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In a world where The Purge exists, you think Elon wouldn't have automated security guns and maybe even actual robot terminators? Have you seen those movies? The rich fuckers are always the ones who come out on top, except the one time a poor person fucked up one of their murder orgies after almost being murdered.

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cerementreply
slrpnk.net

’cept Elon would cheap out any chance he could – his recent tech show proved he couldn’t handle anything more complex than animatronics puppeted by underpaid interns

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Fedizenreply
lemmy.world

Elon is also a ketamine junkie sex pervert. You get a hot girl in suit to knock on his door and decapitate him.

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Did that have to do with his comfort and safety, or just some hobby he uses to trick people into giving him money?

These people use their power and influence to stave off time and death as their prime motivator, just look at his hairline for the best evidence.

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Yeah but he'd get cocky and take his cyber truck out. Then we'd throw rocks at it and break his "unbreakable" windows. It'd be real easy to get him, and the one who does is going to be the king of the purge. We'll leave them alone out of respect.

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lemmy.zip

Except this is Elon we're taking about, the guns would jam and the robots would trip and fall and break.

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Thanks for outlining this for us. Working on securing the rich, so I have to think of all possibilities.

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The last time when you could overwhelm a well-fortified position with pure numbers was more than 100 years ago.
Today, with enough funds and prep time, an automated system can kill tens of thousands of angry citizens before they get close, no matter what strategy they use in the moment.

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Who needs terminators when a nice irradiated zone will do the job just fine

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A bodyguard would turn on him. Torture him first to transfer wealth then top him.

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but what if his own family begins to see the threat that Melon is...

then what...

who will save him then...

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You only need to wait for the purge, and in a queue, if you're going one-on-one, but never forget - we are the many, they are the few, all we need to do is unite.

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Oh yeah, I'm a badass mix of Jonny bravo and Evel Knievel. None have performed such a daring stunt. It all started when I was born, I realized I could be born first by cutting in front of my twin.

Then I continued my extreme sport as I grew, candy at trick or treat, using the potty, using the break down lane during construction. There was no end to my daring

This is my story, the man known as Aweso line gets cut

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If they've a problem they can line up and speak with me! I'll have them know though, that I'll be first in line to talk to me no matter what.

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Sure, but you're still waiting for the government to legalise it for you, which is never going to happen (not for those of us who would target billionaires, anyway).

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lemmy.world

How did you find this video?? It had 8 views when I watched it. You can't just ignore the AlGoRiThM

Truly, we are beasts

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lemmy.world

Wait, how does the view counter work? It still shows just 8 views, and I've viewed it twice.

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lemmy.world

I'm not.sure exactly how it works, but it might be a cookies, or IP check for the views? Either way it may just be that an individual person cannot view the contents multiple times to increase the count or you might get bot shenanigans

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lemmy.world

I'm not really concerned that my 2 views aren't counted as 2 separate views, but if it had 8 views when you watched it, shouldn't it have at least 9 views when I watched it after reading your comment?

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yeah i got small grin out of election day coinciding with guy fawkes day

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lemmy.ca

Just wait until The Purge happens, then you can legally skip in line 👍

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I like the idea that all of these people are at a truce because they all want to kill Elon and they're all like, "okay, first this guy, then we do the real Purge."

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lemm.ee

It’s good to see focus on the two men behind the curtain instead of the orange distraction. That 1A speech was very very scripted, nuanced, and scary. More smoke and mirrors. The only piece of Trump I saw in it was the “require a court order to remove/ban a social media account”.

Sadly the only original, unfiltered through other YouTubers vid is posted by RFK. It even has big green crayon all caps, bold letter subtitles.

Look to Elon and Vance. They’re the bigger threats.

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zephorahreply
lemm.ee

Dude, no. That is NOT what’s being discussed here. Nor is it ok.

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whithomreply
discuss.online

So, let the law do it? The law controlled by the republicans? Hi there, trump voter.

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dfyxreply
lemmy.helios42.de

One doesn't have to be a Trump voter to think openly discussing murder is not okay. Especially because normalizing murder of one's political opponents plays right into right wing extremists' hands.

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Good luck getting that message across. A large portion of lemmy seems to consider it acceptable when they do it.

I've found my lemmy experience greatly improved by just blocking and moving on, with the exception of a few users that overwhelmingly post other useful stuff instead of just shitstirring.

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You got a better idea for Elon? Enlighten me.

I’d like to make an observation that the rich and abusive would love you to think that murdering their murdering asses is somehow morally wrong.

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But Purges are a right wing phenomena to attack society, they'd never be able to off a millionaire.
A day or two before Musky gets on his private jet and flies off to a third country, or a private island or somewhere while right wing hate groups kill off minorities, leftists, and political critics.

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sh.itjust.works

Always happens in your dreams, lemmy, while your biggest political activism is "trump bad" memes.

In reality, your beloved democratic party are just a different flavor of a corporate bitch.

You need to work hard on starting grass-root movements all across the country to facilitate proper democracy and eventually allow for a civilized political discourse at the parliamentary level where the whole spectrum of opinions is presented representatively.

But, no, ofc "puuuurge elon tomorrow!". And then back to watching YouTube on your couch.

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But, no, ofc “puuuurge elon tomorrow!”.

Wasn't the whole moral of The Purge that rich people are insulated from the consequences of their shitty policy. And the only real defense against stocastic violence is community with your fellow man and trust in one another?

"Purge Elon!" is a fiction because Elon is at the center of an enormous, slavishly loyal cult. Meanwhile, folks on Lemmy would slit each others' throats over a bad meme. There's not going to be a line, because everyone in it would be stabbing one another.

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Your beloved democratic party

I was under the impression that the democrats were pretty much universally hated here and the question was wether or not to hold our collective noses and still vote for them in face of a greater evil or not.

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