At least one society is decent enough to take out their antisocial billionaire parasite trash...

Since there's no rational hope of addressing the other 3k or so billionaire parasites on Earth without building a really big Titanic wreckage tour sub and making little paths of stock certificates leading to it like reese's pieces in ET, I'll take whatever incidental vicarious revenge against humanity's oppressors I can get.

I can't get behind a government giving the death penalty to anybody for any reason

I'm against the death penalty in general, but I also acknowledge that in terms of tangible damage to humanity, any billionaire walking the Earth makes any serial killer who has ever walked the Earth seem positively quaint by scale.

I also recognize that we are living under class occupation. The owner class handily won the class war by convincing most of the developed world not to fight it half a century ago.

The peasants don't have the luxury of taking prisoners. We are the losers of a war, in spite of the fact that many have come to worship their occupying oppressors.

Keeping the most destructive humans locked away and well fed until they die of natural causes is a peacetime luxury for those in charge, and unless you're holding a reprehensible amount of capital, that isn't us. You might believe we are in peacetime, but if we refuse to stop them, and it looks that way, they will force our shared, communal habitat to stop us all through their insatiable, sociopathic avarice.

We love to think we're not, but we're still subjects wholly dependant on this world, even the owners activily attacking us and it simultaneously.

1789

It is perfectly reasonable to oppose the death penalty, but the foundational event of the modern left movement was people chopping off a king's head.

I'm against the death penalty on the grounds that I don't want the government to have the authority to kill because they keep fucking it up. Either they get the wrong person or botch the execution.

There's no question that a person is a billionaire.

Since you can't make a revolution with white gloves.

The term "leftist" is too broad and "death penalty" too loosely defined.

Auth-leftists definitely support the death penalty, as in a powerful state should have authority to kill.

Anarchists don't think there should be a state therefore there is no body authorized to kill. If someone must die, it would be at the hands of an individual or an ad-hoc grouping and be called "self-defense".

Thinking things can change without the 0.1% being killed at all is a liberal idea.

This is like the boomer FB shit

Welcome to Lemmy!

billionaires aren't people. their existence requires a river of blood, and they all deserve death, regardless of the states opinion.

I think its good to remind them they can be killed. I think they forget.

People are extremely bitter that rich people exist, and openly would call for their deaths, regardless of however much their lives would actually improve, were they to die, or however much their oppression might continue under a more conventional arrangement, or a less, sort of, offensive level of wealth inequality. People do find it offensive, basically, they find it ostentatious, and what's more commonly called for, to be put to death, than ostentatiousness? Than the offense of sensibilities?

I dunno. You get a lot of hard talk from supposed leftists who understand nothing of the kind of core principles at play, but none of them will realistically do anything, they're just floating by and passively regurgitating whatever they consume in the spectacle. They lack the empathy to commit real violence or change, I think.

Lol too bad. Eat the rich

But that's the only murder that's socially acceptable!

look, could it be better? yes. is it nothing? no.

Maybe we can trigger a feeding frenzy...

Me neither, but killing some of the capitalist class has always been part of leftist revolutions so I can let this one slide.

Seems like a waste of energy and labor. Put that capitalist pig to work in the community. I read somewhere that the death penalty is just a scare tactic to get her to give up some cash she’s got hidden.

Pretty impressive stats you got there, considering that 27.2% of Vietnamese people are under 18 years old.

Source

And remember kids, 73% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Gotta serve those numbers with some sauce

Is that 70% of total or 70% of the homeowners?

That's actually pretty awesome IMO.

Cue 'that guy' telling me how bad Vietnam is.

This is a communist country and a show trial for someone fell out of favor, not am actual fraud case

That's actually what their "death penalty" is trying to do. Apparently most of the money she stole is in overseas bank accounts and relies on her taking action to actually give it back. She has appeals and if she paid up the appeals will probably back down from the death penalty.

I'm guessing they take the money too

¿Porque no los dos?

This is the correct answer. It's not the kind of revolution people are thinking, like with France.

This is more like Stalin level shit to send a message.

trip to a coal mine would also be classic.

it doesn't have the money anymore, and that's why its being given justice.

thank you Vietnam, score one for the tankies. I mean, it took a while, and they still have billionaires, but its not nothing, so good on em if they follow through.

Says someone from a high horse in a wealthy neo-colonial Capitalists country that's allied with various genocidal regimes.

that's a weird way to spell "enabling them in the first place" 🤔

Yay for diversity?

i mean it's vietnam, i would expect non-white

What do you mean by that? The articles about this have been all over on lemmy for the last few days. She got away with ~$9 billion in financial crimes for over a decade, with total damages estimated at $12.5 billion. Her husband was also caught for embezzlement of billions and is receiving a 9 year prison sentence.

the actual truth appears to be that she committed an incredible amount of really basic, egregious fraud