LOS ANGELES—In a post to the app that garnered dozens of likes, local NextDoor user Janine Parry reportedly came right out and asked this week if it was okay to set a homeless man on fire. “Hey all, I’ve seen this guy around the neighborhood a few times, and I was wondering if anyone would mind if I doused him in…
  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    10 months ago

    The Onion on point as always finding ways to satire the already cartoonish sociopathy of our “society.”

    You have to stand in awe at the level of ignorance it takes to look at the swaths of our nation’s greatest and most powerless victims on our sidewalks, alleys, and tent cities, and hate and blame them for your problems, like lowering your property values.

    Seriously? Not your greedy boss? Not the oligarchs that take most of the value society produces? That powerless, broken human being on the sidewalk dying of exposure and police harassment for the crime of being a sub-optimal capital battery is the subject of your ire?

    You almost certainly have more in common with them than the owners of your workplace.

    https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1

    • GBU_28English
      8·
      10 months ago

      The reason this happens is people hold on to whatever scrap of “status” they have, we all do.

      Folks can’t do anything about the “system” but they can try to keep “scary” people off their block. It’s an expression of limited ability.