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What's stopping people who lash out at the world from going after corporations?

Obviously violence isn’t ever the answer but I’m just curious, when people go nuts and decide to take life and cause terror, what makes their decision to attack something like say a school or a church/mosque, a sporting event. As far as I see it in this day and age the biggest stressors in our society are corporations yet you never see someone say. “Yeah im gonna attack Amazon or HG wells”

Why is this? Why seemingly random places

crypticthree ,

sniff ideology

ogmios , (edited )
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Are you expecting corporations to tell you about it when they do? They lie blatantly about what happened/is happening and the average person eats it up because the corporate news lied to them about the actual nature of what happened/is happening. We’re currently in the epicentre of probably the largest revolt against corporate control since the dawn of the corporation, and most people think it’s about every emotionally charged issue that exists other than the actual reason.

yokonzo OP ,

I mean, kind of hard to cover up a shooting or bombing in a public office building, I can bet that if Google got attacked it would be all over the news

ogmios ,
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How do those things actually accomplish anything against corporate interests though? One of the issues with corporations is that they have many layers of grunts in public facing places so that the people actually in charge are never even exposed to the public. The fact that people’s minds immediately go to the least effective, most self destructive, methods possible to oppose such systems is a symptom of corporate media controlling the narrative. Occupy represented an actual threat to their control, and that’s exactly why corporations have become intensely interested in divisive social issues ever since.

PP_BOY_ ,
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I can bet that if Google got attacked it would be all over the news

Except there was literally a shooting at Google Headquarters a few years ago and the news has done everything they can to memory-hole the event because it didn’t fit the outrage bait narratives they love to perpetuate.

umbrella ,
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what is the actual reason then, and how can you tell people are revolting?

ogmios ,
@ogmios@sh.itjust.works avatar

The current situation started with Occupy speaking out about banking practices, when large corporations failed due to their own greed, and our governments just handed them money to save them from the consequences of their own decisions. That made it abundantly clear the entire economy is rigged against the average person. You can get a rough idea of what’s happening by paying attention to how the corporate media has been whipping people into a frenzy, working relentlessly to demonize certain demographics. It might be harder to see it these days, but the current state of the media is absolutely nothing like it was prior to 2008.

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Mass shooters aren’t exactly known for their well-rationed thinking. On a side note, what’s up with H.G. Wells??

yokonzo OP , (edited )

I was just trying to think of corperation names, though I do believe HG wells was at the center of some controversy

spujb , (edited )

😂 HG Wells is an English writer often known for being the “father of science fiction.” He is most famous for writing The War of the Worlds.

You may be thinking of H.G. Hill or Wells Fargo?

yokonzo OP ,

Holy shit that’s exactly the mistake I was making 😂 good catch

spujb ,

now i have to know, was it wells fargo?

either way thanks for the laugh 😂 no hard feelings

partial_accumen ,

though I do believe HG wells was at the center of some controversy

Are we talking about H.G. Wells the scifi author that was born in 1866?

bjoern_tantau ,
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School shooters usually go after the environment in which they they were abused.

Churches and other temples are usually attacked for religious reasons.

Apart from that a public gathering of many people is the easiest to cause widespread destruction in. An office building isn’t as tightly packed and might even have its own security. Plus, if you want to lash out against a corporation you are probably more likely to blame upper management than the general workforce. But targeting specific rich people is even harder and takes more planning.

But also: 9/11 was targeted at a lot of corporations.

DemBoSain ,
@DemBoSain@midwest.social avatar

Someone did attack the Youtube headquarters several years ago. She was mad they had demonetized her videos.

Mindhunter ,

Links ???

xfreed ,

en.wikipedia.org/…/YouTube_headquarters_shooting

Mindhunter , (edited )

Lol the right wing nuts tried to blame it on youtube also nothing about why she did it on wiki still thanks tho.

EDIT: My bad there were things abour why she did it on wiki it turns out.

DemBoSain ,
@DemBoSain@midwest.social avatar

Police believe Aghdam was motivated by perceived discrimination by YouTube towards her channels.[29][30] She complained about the company on her website,[31][32] writing that “Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!” and that the company had demonetized most of her videos.[33]

Mindhunter ,

Oh sry did’nt notice that

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