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The Purge (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by shderz@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[+] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works -32 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Always happens in your dreams, lemmy, while your biggest political activism is "trump bad" memes.

In reality, your beloved democratic party are just a different flavor of a corporate bitch.

You need to work hard on starting grass-root movements all across the country to facilitate proper democracy and eventually allow for a civilized political discourse at the parliamentary level where the whole spectrum of opinions is presented representatively.

But, no, ofc "puuuurge elon tomorrow!". And then back to watching YouTube on your couch.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

But, no, ofc “puuuurge elon tomorrow!”.

Wasn't the whole moral of The Purge that rich people are insulated from the consequences of their shitty policy. And the only real defense against stocastic violence is community with your fellow man and trust in one another?

"Purge Elon!" is a fiction because Elon is at the center of an enormous, slavishly loyal cult. Meanwhile, folks on Lemmy would slit each others' throats over a bad meme. There's not going to be a line, because everyone in it would be stabbing one another.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Your beloved democratic party

I was under the impression that the democrats were pretty much universally hated here and the question was wether or not to hold our collective noses and still vote for them in face of a greater evil or not.

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Implying that we have ever stopped watching Youtube on our couch to begin with

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 205 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That's sort of a version of an old Soviet joke...

A Soviet man is waiting in line to purchase vodka from a liquor store, but due to restrictions imposed by Gorbachev, the line is very long. The man loses his composure and screams, "I can't take this waiting in line anymore, I HATE Gorbachev, I am going to the Kremlin right now, and I am going to kill him!" After 40 minutes the man returns and elbows his way back to his place in line. The crowd begin to ask if he has succeeded in killing Gorbachev. "No, I got to the Kremlin all right, but the line to kill Gorbachev was even longer than here!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes#Gorbachev

(I heard a different version with Khrushchev, but I'm sure it was told a lot.)

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 113 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

In a world where The Purge exists, you think Elon wouldn't have automated security guns and maybe even actual robot terminators? Have you seen those movies? The rich fuckers are always the ones who come out on top, except the one time a poor person fucked up one of their murder orgies after almost being murdered.

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Except this is Elon we're taking about, the guns would jam and the robots would trip and fall and break.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

The guns would probably kill him... Mission failed successfully

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago

Yeah but he'd get cocky and take his cyber truck out. Then we'd throw rocks at it and break his "unbreakable" windows. It'd be real easy to get him, and the one who does is going to be the king of the purge. We'll leave them alone out of respect.

[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

but what if his own family begins to see the threat that Melon is...

then what...

who will save him then...

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I feel with enough people working together, something could be done. I don't mean to threaten anyone, so let's just say the target is a Fictional Evil Technologically Advanced Billionaire, or FETAB ; and definitely not any real person. The strategy I have in mind would involve digging trenches outside his property and literally smoking him out by burning a huge pile of tires upwing.

The biggest problem would be getting shot by drones while digging or while setting up the pile of tires (if it's done during the purge) or being attacked by police if it's done beforehand. I think secret underground tunnels should start being dug in secret before the purge, so they can collapse into trenches when needed. Then, the trenches keep FETAB from escaping by land in his FETAB-mobile, and the smoke makes a helicopter or private jet difficult to get of ground.

Drones or makeshift aircrafts with makeshift incendiary bombs can be sent to the house under the cover of the smoke. Even assuming he is in an underground bunker, this much smoke would put it's air filtration systems under significant stresses and also cause big material losses. In the end, he still have chances of making it out alive, his death would come either from suffocation in his bunker (if hos filters are saturated by soot and he doesn't have enough bottled oxygen) or, more likely, him trying to escape and having an accident (made more likely by the smoke and trenches).

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

FETAB won't be in his house or any publicly known location at all tho

[–] anonymous@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

Thanks for outlining this for us. Working on securing the rich, so I have to think of all possibilities.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

The last time when you could overwhelm a well-fortified position with pure numbers was more than 100 years ago.
Today, with enough funds and prep time, an automated system can kill tens of thousands of angry citizens before they get close, no matter what strategy they use in the moment.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

He'll just leave the country

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

idk, tech can go the other way too...

fuck these people in particular

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

A bodyguard would turn on him. Torture him first to transfer wealth then top him.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

’cept Elon would cheap out any chance he could – his recent tech show proved he couldn’t handle anything more complex than animatronics puppeted by underpaid interns

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[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 87 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You only need to wait for the purge, and in a queue, if you're going one-on-one, but never forget - we are the many, they are the few, all we need to do is unite.

v for vendetta masked crowd

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (5 children)

In the purge anything goes, even cutting in line

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

even cutting in line?!?!

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah, I'm a badass mix of Jonny bravo and Evel Knievel. None have performed such a daring stunt. It all started when I was born, I realized I could be born first by cutting in front of my twin.

Then I continued my extreme sport as I grew, candy at trick or treat, using the potty, using the break down lane during construction. There was no end to my daring

This is my story, the man known as Aweso line gets cut

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ohh thr English won't stand for that!

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

If they've a problem they can line up and speak with me! I'll have them know though, that I'll be first in line to talk to me no matter what.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Whoa there, murder I understand but that?

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but you're still waiting for the government to legalise it for you, which is never going to happen (not for those of us who would target billionaires, anyway).

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cuts in line at the legalizing the purge line

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's the spirit! 😂

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You fools. This was the only thing separating us from wild animals. Now they've surpassed us https://youtu.be/iLMtwHAIGh8

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How did you find this video?? It had 8 views when I watched it. You can't just ignore the AlGoRiThM

Truly, we are beasts

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

I put "animals queueing" in the search bar and scrolled way down

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait, how does the view counter work? It still shows just 8 views, and I've viewed it twice.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not.sure exactly how it works, but it might be a cookies, or IP check for the views? Either way it may just be that an individual person cannot view the contents multiple times to increase the count or you might get bot shenanigans

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not really concerned that my 2 views aren't counted as 2 separate views, but if it had 8 views when you watched it, shouldn't it have at least 9 views when I watched it after reading your comment?

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just watched it and it’s showing me 13 views

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

we're at 22 view now. It's Lemmy viral

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

yeah i got small grin out of election day coinciding with guy fawkes day

[–] LolaCat@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just wait until The Purge happens, then you can legally skip in line 👍

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 6 days ago

This does not work on the British. Waiting in line is the holiest of holy activites for the British.

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