If their actions threaten our livelihood and health, standing up for yourself is really just self defense.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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Why is Lisa’s face so weird?
Shittily redrawn or recreated with AI, the original meme format looks fine. The original episode the meme is from dates back to 2001, so it's in standard definition and looks blurry compared to what we're used to nowadays. I guess someone thought the meme needed to look more "clear" or HD, so they did this without considering how it mangled her face in the process.
Note that there's only 4 audience members instead of 5, and the lighting and shading is entirely different too.
Lisa needs braces
Dental plan!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
a concept used to describe an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.
It's not the CEO, it's the shareholder class (and the system).
CEOs are just lapdogs with a job.
Shareholders dictate what CEOs (management board) objectives are. Is usually profit. If their job was to maximise wages, CEOs would try anything to achieve that.
Ppl will really think CEOs that affect profit by 0.01% are the issue, not where the vast profit goes, and why is profit king above all else (human lives & ecosystems included).
In most cases CEOs are also shareholders. And often the majority shareholders. Their bonuses are often made up of shares. They are in most cases the same cunts.
There's like 100 big names in business who are shareholders and board members on each other's businesses.
Yes, it is a rigged system.
The CEO is still the top-paid employee, who has a golden parachute in their contract, and will happily fuck over as many employees and lives as needed to make the bottom line look good. And they can influence a lot.
Example, if you kill one, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield will revert to the Anesthesia Policy they had planned. So they do have some impact.
I think youre actually agreeing in a round about way. The ceo is beholden to the shareholders who just want the stock price to go up. You have to pay a ceo that much money because they see the books, they see the profit, they have a hard job to do selling out their own employees. How much does your soul cost? Well, for some ceos its 20 million. Theyre the train conductor running the train down the rails of profit over people.
Agreed.
It's also why the extreme change you described was so small.
Was this redrawn from memory? Wtf is going on with the art
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It's always a shame when people are jealous of other people's hard work /s.
Those who have taken the entire dish onto their plates, leaving others’ plates empty, and who, having taken it all, say with a straight face and a clear conscience, “We who have everything are for peace!”—I know exactly what I must shout at them: You are the first to be violent; you are the instigators of all violence!
And when, in the evening, in your beautiful homes, you go to kiss your grandchildren, with a clear conscience, you probably have more blood on your hands—unaware of it, in God’s eyes—than the desperate person who took up arms to try to escape their despair will ever have.
But let’s not fool ourselves: violence isn’t limited to weapons; there are situations of violence.
A speech from the Abbé Pierre on the national TV in France. The man itself has been accused of multiple sexual aggression so he's not someone to admire but he did do a lot for homeless people.
Social murder is also very much a thing.
I see Lisa projector meme + "Late Stage Capitalism" instance = immediate upvote lol
Good message defeated by what looks like an ai render of the meme
Would it be possible to go work for a company with CEO getting paid much less?
Ballistic lead applications applied internally normally help achieve this.
How is shooting your current CEO going to help you find a company to work for that pays less to their CEO?
Probably won't. I just like hunting.
OK, can we stop randomly redefining "violence" to be whatever we do not like?
We already have a word that perfectly fits here: Exploitation
Knock it off. Thanks.
Violence isn't always physical.
violence /ˈvʌɪəl(ə)n(t)s/ behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
That's the common definition. In which case would violence not entail a physical action?
Where is this idea coming from that violence isn't physical?
Mental or psychological violence isn't physical. Economic violence isn't physical, verbal abuse isn't physical.
That doesn't answer my question.
It answers your question perfectly. You gave a definition of physical violence. There are many forms of violence that are not all physical.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation"
Withholding basic stuffs like housing through state violence is definitely a form of violence
This isn't redefining anything, violence takes many forms, not just broken glass. There's mental violence, economic, sociological, cultural, verbal.
OK, can you give me the definition of violence that you use? Because the common one is:
behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
You remind me of my Christian parents who redefined "religious" to mean "following the laws of the Bible", which they claim they don't because they follow Jesus instead, so my Christian parents now claim not to be religious, even though the common definition is "relating to or believing in a religion." - simple as that. It feels really silly to do that. Cult-ish, even.
What displayed here is a form of economic violence. It looks like you asked for a definition of violence instead of searching for types of violence.
It looks like you asked for a definition of violence instead of searching for types of violence.
Yes, because if you have a word that has a definition, and you put a modifier in front of it to specify something, you can't have that thing becomes something completely different.
Let's assume my point for a second, for the sake of argument (yes, yes, I know you don't agree), and violence is physical only.
That means that if you add a modifier in front of it, it doesn't make sense to have that specified violence suddenly not be physical.
That just doesn't make any logical sense.