• ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    333·
    1 month ago

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for composting elon, but that alone won’t change much.

    Never forget - we are many, they are few, there is enough composting to go around, but more importantly, we need to already be creating the foundations for an alternative, better, society, so that when we abolish the systems that currently govern ours, we have a solid and equitable framework to fall back on and build from.

    • kd45@lemm.ee
      19·
      1 month ago

      I suppose beating him to death with a trash bag full of 9v batteries on live TV might set the right example.

      • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        Sure, but that wouldn’t take a whole line of individuals, that wold take a well organised group of a dozen or two, while more groups of a dozen or two go give the other billionaires a visit with their own trash bag, and others go and give some politicians a visit, and some bigger groups take control of the means of production, all while the largest chunk of working class people build the medical and educational and communal support that they need to pull all of that off and come back to once they’re done.

        I know beating elon up sounds like masses of fun to masses of people, but it isn’t your revolution (“your” the individual, not you personally), it’s ours. If you’re genuinely that enthusiastic about being the one to pull the trigger, there will be plenty of opportunity, but you’ll have a much better shot at it if you organise with others (E: even if we go on this being the imaginary world in the comic where the purge is real, if you think in that scenario he wouldn’t have pentagon level security and mow all the people with their bags of batteries down with machine guns, you’ve not been paying attention).

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
    101·
    1 month ago

    A better one to start on would be Peter Thiel.

    Musk is just the dancing monkey.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
    126·
    1 month ago

    I like the comic. But also, in what world is waking up with the sun visibly up in the sky “the early bird”? My wife and I are up at 4:00 a.m. everyday, not because I want to be. That’s just the early bird life. And you know, the job of people who serve breakfast (she does).

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      421·
      1 month ago

      He’s not talkin about the time of day, but the fact he’s headed out for the purge three days in advance.

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        That’s fair. For me it was just the combination of that visual of the sun relatively high with that phrase. Even during the longest days of the year in summer I’m up before the sun 90% of the time.

        • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          Maybe that is supposed to be your reaction on the first panel, but by the fourth panel it makes sense. Maybe you didn’t get to the fourth panel before commenting?

          • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
            12·
            1 month ago

            I guess yeah, but in a sense he wasn’t the early bird in any sense of the word. He woke up late in the day and showed up late to the purge. Also three days early with probably not ebough gear to camp out that long. I know I overanalyze everything but I’m also a backpacker. Maybe he has a bunch of ultralight gear and some dehydrated meals in that little pack.

        • *Tagger*@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          No, no, I think it does make sense. He’s suggesting anything up until 5am is just a bird that is really late from the previous day, then from 5am onwards, they are an early bird for the next day.