• _bcron_@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    “Over the last two years, online activity has indicated a growing negative sentiment around conglomerates, the wealthy, and executive staff at private and public organizations,” the bulletin said. “Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”

    The problem isn’t that people are acting on these sentiments, the problem is that conditions are so shitty that these sentiments are becoming the norm. Law enforcement would be doing themselves a service by acknowledging that rather than enforce a bunch of ideals that are becoming ideals held by a minority. Eventually everyone’s starving and trying to arrest someone in a supermarket for theft is pure idiocy because in certain circumstances morality is very flexible if objective

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      It’s almost as though none of these people have read any human history. When the ruling class oversteps, revolution follows. It’s literally how the US came into being so anyone clutching their pearls is willfully ignorant, at best.