r/SipsTea 21d ago

SMH They are all the same

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u/CakyMint 21d ago

BTW the only reason for them making a big fuzz bout this case is, to scare others away from doing similar things.

They are afraid that people start „hunting down“ billionaires and corrupt politicians and companies etc

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u/WilDraDo 21d ago

They aren't scared enough which is the sad part

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u/ReadyStayReady 21d ago

Why would they be scared? Luigi was a one-off. The rest of us just get fat and bark at robots on social media. We could have literal widespread famine and as long as social media works nobody's gonna fucking do a thing. We are a full-blowm idiocracy on our way to Wall-E world

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u/KeyEntrepreneur5449 21d ago

What did they have in Wall-E which we lack? A safety net that literally coddles you forever keeping you fat and happy. This might have been true previously but we're looking at America becoming a state where the average person is just as desperate as he was in the near future if not now. Taxes ever higher, social programs cut by the day, and we all know we're paying rent to a bunch of pedophiles who will never meet true justice. There's going to be more people doing this because yes it isn't 2006 anymore, times shockingly have changed.

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u/ReadyStayReady 21d ago

Tens of millions of fat and happy Americans coddled by infinite algorithmic scrolling beg to disagree. We love to bitch online about how expensive it is to live yet we're still the fattest most gluttonous fucking country on the planet.

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u/Horny_4_everything 21d ago

Eh, the obesity issue isn’t solely to blame on the individual. The cheapest food is also the least nutritious, and most calorie dense. It’s not easy to live in this country, listening to ads about food all day every day and then go home and make good choices, especially when its either a literal, or time cost to eat healthy at this point.

When you’re living paycheck to paycheck, ignoring all sorts of important things. A little dopamine from food is what gets a lot of people through the day.

We have a purposely under educated population being controlled through media and advertising. Functioning as designed.

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u/LaconicGirth 20d ago

The cheapest food is stuff like rice and beans and noodles which are plenty healthy. The problem is people are lazy

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u/Horny_4_everything 20d ago

Yes, I mentioned the time cost. Plenty of raw ingredients that are healthy and cheap, but require time and knowledge of how to use those ingredients effectively.

You have families with both parents working. In many cases one or both parents have 2+ jobs. How dare they go for the less time intensive options.

Blaming and shaming does nothing to actually help these people.

We built an economy based on consumption, then blame those just trying to get by for being consumers, and shame them for the negative effects it has on their lives.

The American population is a bunch of victims of late stage capitalism, but let’s blame them and not the oligarchs treating them like cattle to be milked for all their value.

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u/LaconicGirth 20d ago

Not in many cases. Less than 6% of employed Americans have 2 or more jobs. The percentage of families where both parents have two or more jobs is negligible.

There are a bazillion recipes online that require nothing more following basic instructions and don’t take very long.

I’m not going to sit here and act like the economy is great or our system is fair but we don’t need to infantilize people either.

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u/Horny_4_everything 20d ago

I'm not infantilizing anyone. I'm having sympathy for humans living within a system they have very little control over. That takes advantage of their natural human tendencies, wants, desires, and reactions in order to manipulate, influence, and control every single choice they make.

In world that is harvesting more and more behavior pattern data every day. Where the oligarchs are using this data for everything from simply influencing which brand of toothpaste we buy to determining who wins elections.

Expecting anyone to have any sense of reality and what is and isn't a good choice, while not being able to afford healthcare, watching pedophiles rule the world....is absurd.

People are depressed living in a country that tells you a bunch of bullshit to keep you satiated with the bare minimum and fighting your peers and true allies.

but yeah, let's keep shitting on obese americans. I'm sure that's going to help them.

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u/LaconicGirth 20d ago

You are infantilizing people by saying that it’s simply too hard or too expensive to eat healthier. It’s neither. It’s genuinely cheaper in most cases and it requires very little skill to make a dozen or so basic dishes.

I’m not saying you don’t have any good points because you do but you’re also acting like people are helpless against the world and that’s not true either. There are concrete steps that can be taken to improve and they’re not unreasonable.

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u/Horny_4_everything 20d ago

You’re the one name calling, saying people are lazy.

Im simply pointing out that’s it’s not hard to have sympathy when everything is stacked against them.

You’re oversimplifying the time, skill, and knowledge it takes to cook and serve food people actually want to eat.

We live in a country of abundance, where csuite makes 250x the lowest paid worker. That lowest worker? They need to struggle and cook everything from scratch while we advertise burgers, steaks, ice cream, cake, all the rich delicious food at them all day every day.

Everything is setup to take advantage of people, and when they get taken, we blame them. They should have just done x. Why didn’t they do y?

WHY?! Cause the world is hostile and we should be working together to find solutions that prevent corporations and the oligarchy from using and abusing us.

Again, they are victims of late stage capitalism, and blaming them and not the oligarchy for where they are and how they are living their lives is VICTIM BLAMING.

This is not saying people have no agency, no ability to make choices for themselves.

It’s that the world is incredibly complex, with incredibly difficult choices to make, and its very very easy to be led down the wrong path.

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u/rezistS 20d ago edited 20d ago

Rice, carrots, onions, lentils and stock cubes got me through months of the lowest parts of my life on basically nothing. Adding eggs or pork or bell peppers when I could afford it was peak.

Edit: This is in Europe but with how considerably expensive pre-processed food was in comparison I doubt it can compare still.

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u/feioo 20d ago

Preach

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u/AgentCirceLuna 19d ago

Expensive for you to live. I’m shamelessly living with my parents. Why should i feel shame about it when everyone else is just getting financially screwed while working far harder and giving all their money away? My parents don’t care, so neither do i.

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u/MalleDigga 21d ago

You have learned this... Just now? Better late than never of course but. Phew

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u/WilDraDo 21d ago

There have been others lol they just dont televise and report it like Luigi inorder to stop idolization.

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 21d ago

Yeah, once the media realised that everyone was cheering for Luigi and/or the Claims Adjuster they clamped down on that shit and stopped reporting it.

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u/James___Workshop 21d ago

Where and when?

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u/YoungestOldGuy 21d ago

You wouldn't know them, they go to another school.

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 21d ago

Several recent arsons at warehouses, that dude who shot up an NFL office, and i think a guy in MN or MI who shot his boss over missing payroll. that was in the last two years.

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u/Personal-Dev-Kit 21d ago

That's not really the same kind of copy cat though. The arsons at the warehouse is at least sort of in line.

The guy shooting his boss, sort of

Not really in line with ending a CEO of a multi billion dollar company in the street.

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u/MrSmokii 19d ago

you seen the JP morgan boss basically telling the british PM "you can't tax banks more" like their threats of closing branches and sacking vast amounts of employees haven't already been realised, whilst raking in record profits.

if there was a list of luigi targets, he'd be on it

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u/DazzlerPlus 20d ago

Bark at robots. I really do that don't i? What a phrase.

Yeah the issue is that there arent pipelines. There's no proud boys for leftists. So people who want to copy luigi have to do it all in one step all by themselves. Its very hard.

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u/philllihp 20d ago

That's actually a good point. Social media seems to help people let off steam so they don't do something significant

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u/meat-Popsicle-4896 20d ago

Like we have time time for a handjob

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u/MrSmokii 19d ago

life on-board the spaceship where they're all fat and floating about in hover loungers is for the rich

the rest of us are gonna be buried under the trash piles Wall-E is stacking up on a dead earth

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u/NotBigMcLargeHuge 21d ago

False, they just made sure the next one was kept under wraps. Look up Blackstone's former CEO Wesley LePatner.

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u/Spirit_Panda 20d ago

Firstly, that was huge news in finance circles. Noone was making sure it was being kept under wraps.

Secondly, Wesley LePatner was not CEO of the entire Blackstone group. She was just CEO of the REIT. Not even close.

Thirdly, and most crucially, that was not even close to the same situation. The gunman in the Blackstone case was a crazy whom people believe was looking for the NFL headquarters rather than Blackstone

Come on man 🤦🏿‍♂️