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Why would the 1% be nervous?
It's not like the Americans will actually do anything. At most there will be some light trolling, some graffiti and maybe a twitter hashtag. Tjen everyone will pat themselves on the back and feel slightly superior before returning to their slave jobs, without healthcare
Are you familiar with the term Stochastic Terrorism? The upshot is that enough public support may encourage individuals to take action against high-profile targets.
Imagine, for a secone, that you're one of those 1%. According to the census, there are about 340 million people in the US. If just 50% of them hate you, that's 170 million. If 99.9% of them do nothing, that still leaves 170 thousand willing to act. Statistically, you'd have one potential killer every two thousand people. Sure, the actual figure might be much lower. Do you know for sure? How would you estimate that?
Let's run with that statistic for now. How many people do you interact with or pass by daily? Weekly? Monthly? How many of those potential 170k might intentionally seek you out? The more wealthy or prominent you are, the greater of a target you become, but it may also depend on personal wrongs, leaving a lot of uncertainty and hard to predict variables. How would you know whether there's a target on your back? Or multiple?
If you thought you were invincible, that deterrence by law enforcement and public distaste for violence would prevent any such events, that illusion has been shattered now. All it takes is one slip-up of security, one person with nothing to lose and the right luck.
Would you feel safe?
Until recently, we all thought nothing would happen. Now something has happened. I think at this point it's impossible to predict whether that will inspire copycats, whether the public approval may encourage more disruptice mass action or whether it will actually go back to complacency and stay an isolated incident. That unpredictability should give them pause.
Add to that if you suffered at their hands.
Add to that if you just, by chance, find an opportunity to fuck them up.
They will end up hiding in their gated communities of course.
I remember posts like yours from a while back... and then one day a young man with a bright future and as lot of advantage chose to leave that behind to shoot a CEO in the back of the head on the open street in broad daylight.
"Why would the 1% be nervous"
Your post is a weak attempt to sow defeat in the hearts and minds of those who started to perk up and think a bit more after seeing what Luigi decided needed to be done. On balance, your post reads like you're actually nervous.
I mean, the internet does nothing better than slacktivism.
Sure, but rumors have it there are people that go out and actually touches grass between their slacktivism sessions.
It really helps that increasingly the internet just feels shittier and shittier so people actually WANT to "touch grass".
I mean, "nobody wants to work anymore!".... Maybe you're just repeating buzzwords because the blind repetition is comforting enough to help you feel sure about an unsure world? Maybe you've long since stopped questioning the meaning of these catchphrases and their perceived validity before you plainly parrot them, as designed.
How about people actually do shit, take action in real live, and then they supplement that with additional online activism. I'm out marching, I'm picketing, I'm supporting unions, I'm researching candidates and their funding and I'm voting. I'm educating younger people who are curious and welcoming back misled friends and family when they wake to the tactics of conservatives and realize they need to stop refraining or voting against their best interest.
Technically wasn't broad daylight, it was just before sunrise. But that doesn't really affect your point.
Wow, the CEOs really do wake up early and work hard /s
Hitler wore a brown hat
what a shithead
I'll be honest. I'm not sure. I grew up outside the US. Things were far worse but in some ways, less bad division wise. I was mostly a child or a teen but I did live thru two revolutions. Both regime changing.
It all starts rather complacent and lazy. But the bubbles. They are not feeling new to me.