• enphurgen@lemmy.world
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    If their actions threaten our livelihood and health, standing up for yourself is really just self defense.

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      Shittily redrawn or recreated with AI, the original meme format looks fine. The original episode the meme is from dates back to 2001, so it’s in standard definition and looks blurry compared to what we’re used to nowadays. I guess someone thought the meme needed to look more “clear” or HD, so they did this without considering how it mangled her face in the process.

      Note that there’s only 4 audience members instead of 5, and the lighting and shading is entirely different too.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    It’s not the CEO, it’s the shareholder class (and the system).

    CEOs are just lapdogs with a job.
    Shareholders dictate what CEOs (management board) objectives are. Is usually profit. If their job was to maximise wages, CEOs would try anything to achieve that.

    Ppl will really think CEOs that affect profit by 0.01% are the issue, not where the vast profit goes, and why is profit king above all else (human lives & ecosystems included).

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      The CEO is still the top-paid employee, who has a golden parachute in their contract, and will happily fuck over as many employees and lives as needed to make the bottom line look good. And they can influence a lot.

      Example, if you kill one, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield will revert to the Anesthesia Policy they had planned. So they do have some impact.

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        I think youre actually agreeing in a round about way. The ceo is beholden to the shareholders who just want the stock price to go up. You have to pay a ceo that much money because they see the books, they see the profit, they have a hard job to do selling out their own employees. How much does your soul cost? Well, for some ceos its 20 million. Theyre the train conductor running the train down the rails of profit over people.

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    Those who have taken the entire dish onto their plates, leaving others’ plates empty, and who, having taken it all, say with a straight face and a clear conscience, “We who have everything are for peace!”—I know exactly what I must shout at them: You are the first to be violent; you are the instigators of all violence!

    And when, in the evening, in your beautiful homes, you go to kiss your grandchildren, with a clear conscience, you probably have more blood on your hands—unaware of it, in God’s eyes—than the desperate person who took up arms to try to escape their despair will ever have.

    But let’s not fool ourselves: violence isn’t limited to weapons; there are situations of violence.

    A speech from the Abbé Pierre on the national TV in France. The man itself has been accused of multiple sexual aggression so he’s not someone to admire but he did do a lot for homeless people.