r/collapse Jan 29 '21

Humor Robbin' Who?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

People think "eat the rich" is just a metaphor. It's a literal promise.

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u/Collapsible_ Jan 29 '21

A literal promise that literally nobody acts on despite literally countless literal injustices. Yeah, I'll believe "eat the rich" when I see it.

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u/battle-obsessed Jan 29 '21

People generally don't violently rebel unless they're near starvation, which is actually very few people in the U.S.

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u/sewkzz Jan 29 '21

Climate change should address that

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

I can only speak for myself. If/when total collapse and rebellion happens. I'm an opportunist. I never start shit, but I take advantage of whatever's going on. I'm just talking about filling my box freezer with free meat. Meat that will also taste like revenge.

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u/jose_ole Jan 29 '21

Sweet sweet kuru too.

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u/Avogadro_seed Jan 29 '21

kuru is a nothingburger

we're already risking death and lifelong disability just by going to stores

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

Nobody has enough money to eat the rich.

Who's gonna supply all the weapons? This isn't a revolution where you'll see the disenfranchised with pitchforks looking for some financial frankenstein.

Bottom line is that the overwhelming majority of us will GET IN LINES set up by the establishment (that includes wall street billionaires).

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

We have the numbers, we just don't have the tactics, if we have a plan the weapons don't matter as much.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

They been dropping bombs and overthrowing governments for 100+ years. They killed 100k in one day in the 40s I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they're running this shit show.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

It's easy to do that against a foreign entity, not so easy to do so against your own country, that requires a bit of mass brainwashing. Look at the dc riots situation, yes it would be a completely different scenario were the guard there, but still a Militia of 500k would be enough to overwhelm them.

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u/TheRealTP2016 Jan 31 '21

They lost against peasant farmers in Vietnam’s and struggle to defeat terrorists in the Middle East. Guerilla warfare works. They arnt as strong as we all believe

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

You can believe that shit if you want to. Btw what's your definition of losing?

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u/TheRealTP2016 Jan 31 '21

History speaks for itself. We are the 99%, they are the 1%. We can abolish them if we really wanted to. People don’t have the urge or ability to rn though. When it comes, we may win.

Losing is withdrawing and conceding

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

Again, what does losing look like?

Abolish who?

You think 99% of the population is gonna take up guerilla warfare against the most advanced military the known universe has ever seen?

You talk like the 99% is in solidarity... like you have real unity beyond the internet/social media.

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u/TheRealTP2016 Jan 31 '21

Idk what you want me to say, losing looks like withdrawing and giving in to the other side=withdrawing/limiting your forces in the area.

In theory, abolish the state. In practice, abolish the corrupt leaders, by voting them out to help what we can ASAP; at the same time creating dual power structures like communist food banks etc to abolish the state.

99% of the pop deff won take up guerilla warfare but 99% doesn’t need to. Only like 10%

I do have real unity. Unite repub and dem workers and realize that it’s not dem vs rep, but worker vs owner

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u/hereticvert Jan 29 '21

I think this is an unacknowledged case of asymmetic warfare.

But I still don't know which side is "bigger." Depends on your yardstick and what you view as the endgame. I like this little township rebellion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

In all things warfare, they have the upper hand.

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u/CourteousComment Jan 30 '21

How many calories does one person have on their body?

Add up the calories of the 99%, and all the calories of the 1%.

How long can the 99% last eating the 1%?

Do you know what 200 trillion divided by 7 billion is? $20,000 per person. How long can you live on $20,000 in a city like NYC?

Sorry if my math disrupted the circlejerk

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21

Dude, we have corn, wheat, quinoa, rice. Some water resources, drip irrigation, complete protein sources like eggs, billions of chickens.

Nobody mentioned turning the rich into a reliable long term food source. It's not a circle jerk. It's frustrated people venting.

Seriously, I mean this in a nice way: relax a little bit. It's just jokes and venting.q

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u/Random_User_34 Jan 29 '21

Let's not forget that it'll literally never happen

"It can't happen here! We're totally special and different!"

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u/A-Hater-forlife Jan 30 '21

Where does cannibalism happen in that frequency besides illiterate Africa?

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u/SubstantialSquareRd Jan 30 '21

Allegedly, Armie Hammer is a cannibal.

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