Won't someone think of the CEOs.

Everybody gets equal protection, but some get more equal protection than others

Will someone think of billionaire pocketbooks in this trying time?

Virtual. You can goatse them all at once.

Even if nothing, um, definitive happened, people could still gather outside and protest LOUDLY, and they have to come outside sometime and face it.

Besides that, law enforcement doesn't protect anyone. Didn't protect Brian Thompson, did it?

Law enforcement is reactive. They show up after the crime has been committed to take notes (incorrectly) and maybe arrest the wrong person. Oh, except when patrol officers are running speed traps so they can intimidate the undesirables and shake them down for fines (which are regressive), maybe abuse some authority (or just make shit up) in order to provoke an unnecessary arrest.

We cant afford for every American to have secret service protection. So we should just get rid of the secret service entirely. Big money wastage. TSA also needs to go. They never did anything to start with.

I honestly don't think this would work, too many older people vote and they are not generally in agreement with the working class plights of modern times. They think we should still make a nickle while they make a buck because they got there first.

It's going to be a zoom call. Though it would be hilarious if the governor actually hated CEOs, got them all in one place, and tried to consistently leak the info ahead of time.

95% of American gun owners are pussies that couldn't even get past the first hurdle when aiming at another human being unless their god king tells them to.

that's because they follow directions fairly well but lack the basic foundations of free thought.

Free market for thee, but not for me.

What did it change? Perhaps more people are becoming aware of the scope of the problem but from a practical perspective I don't think any difference has been made up to this point.

Which party represents workers again?

no one will remember who was on the side of the working class come election season

To be fair, at the very most 5% of national level general elections feature a candidate who's not an enemy of the working class.

Because probably the richest political party in the world is the least bad of two options and blatantly favor donors over grassroots in the primaries that they are somehow still allowed to be the arbiters of.

It's like pitting 1989 Mike Tyson against 1989 Mohammed Ali, except Ali gets a head start where Tyson has to stand completely still, a loaded shotgun, and is the match referee.

It's virtual.

Isn't that interesting? Bet one whole security guard is sitting outside.

The voters will get ads about all these random promises for the working class and then once elected the governor will continue to do favors for the wealthy elite who paid for those ads on their behalf, putting them in office and giving them some power to help out their friends and family. The promises to the working class won't be fulfilled, but that's ok because they never are. If the opinion is that bad they'll just vote for the "other" party who follows the same big money finance playbook because there's no other way to succeed in major elections outside of big money.

This is the way the world works, it's not just NY. It's never going to change unless humans are removed from the equation, likely in an extinction event.

In other news, demonization of actual demons also not new. It’s been showing signs of decline though, as much more effective evils steal the attention.

Isn't clear, but also will include law enforcement of assorted varieties.

I stopped at "cease being".

The easiest path to remove the targets they’ve painted on themselves is to cease being, and behaving like, sociopaths.

Or perhaps the aristocracy just builds another ring of fences and hires another battalion of guards.

Only Little Caesars.

The other chains occasionally deliver something minimally edible by mistake.

Reminds me of a great way to put it I read somewhere on Lemmy the other day:

Nobody is vilifying billionaires. It's just not possible. You can't vilify someone when they're already a villain

I haven't watched a lot of Shark Tank, but it wasn't doing a lot to endear billionaires to me. But given how little I watched, I may not be the target demographic.

And yet nothing is really going to come of it. I guarantee you this will be swept under the rug as soon as they can get kids back in school and schedule the next shooting. The fuckers at the top won't see another real threat.

I don't want a solution. I want to be mad.

when building a guillotine...

There's a guy on tiktok that actually did this, built an actual working guillotine I mean.

Don't ask me for his handle, I don't remember and I don't use tiktok. He came up in my youtube shorts a while back.

They could have voted for Cynthia Nixon.

Yes, and they should have.

New York wanted these assholes.

Probably not, no.

You see, propaganda is much more effective than most people know or are willing to admit, and New York, being the largest media market in North America, is a very clear example of that.

You don't have to be an idiot to be swayed by effective messaging, and messaging doesn't have to make sense to be effective.

One guy dies. Suddenly the fuckin governor is holding an all hands meeting to discuss using state funds to protect wealthy elite.

Poor New Yorkers die every day…crickets.

“We care about everyone equally.”

How does one educate people on how another is misguided...if they weren't?

Tell me you have never had to truly deal with the American healthcare system without telling me that you have never had to truly deal with the American healthcare system.

I'm wondering why they aren't just educating the public on how Luigi was misguided.

Do not be fooled. They know what the people want, they are not incompetent. They simply have a conflict of interest.

They don't actually plan on responding to the peaceful methods that the public has to change anything, or being a true "representative" for the people in that they represent and champion the wishes and needs of the people. They would both lose significant support from the capitalists that line their pockets, and look like hypocrites if they advertised and/or made possible peaceful means of change to a population that is very publicly motivated to make those changes happen, because they would eventually have to stand in the way of that change in order to please the capitalists. Social welfare is really bad for business, the capitalists need these ailments to exist in society so that they can sell us the cure.

The media and politicians want us to feel helpless. They want us to look to them as our only means of change so that they can gatekeep what changes are actually possible and what is allowed to occupy the national consciousness. They know what we want, they don't want to give it to us, which leaves them with two options: reveal the system for the undemocratic hyper-capitalist machine it is, or gaslight the people so the wheels of the machine can keep turning another day. The first option is not something that is ever going to happen and remains the burden of the people that want to see real meaningful change.