It seems people will do absolutely anything except take their anger out on people who might deserve it.
Beat your wife and kids? OK
Run over brown people with your truck? Terrific idea
Shoot your boss? What, never
Well, I know why, it's because the media rallies themselves to get you all riled up about the gays and the browns, so your rage won't have any consequence
They do the same with Islamic extremists in eg Pakistan, funnel people into stupid fundamentalist orgs so they won't look into Marxism, and bonus points, the extremist orgs you're propping up will even hunt communists themselves, the same way conservatives in the US despise anything socialist (in the UK we don't know what communists are, we just hate scroungers, trans and immigrints 😡)
Kind of following up from my post the other day about CEO salaries, still thinking about it, I honestly don't get how senior management are able to kid themselves when they only earn £200k themselves, real serf behaviour
there's an episode of Who Makes Cents which is, sheesh, over 5 years old now that i remember listening to. it's been a while, but the guest was this labor historian academic who wrote a book about the history of workplace violence in the US auto industry in the 60s-80s.
i'm paraphrasing.... one of the things i remember him saying was that the rates of workplace violence in the US haven't really changed that much, maybe they've even decreased slightly, but that decades ago the violence (and its threat) was directed at management. like, people brought guns to work (usually left in their car, but easily accessed) and did so for reasons of "self defense". it's noteworthy they considered managers fucking with their livelihood/organization to be an attack on their person to defend against. they felt the need to periodically remind management in little ways that if workers are pushed to hard, they are capable of bringing immediate violence.
whereas now, workplace violence tends to be unfocused/omnidirectional.
it certainly drove home the relevance of "false consciousness/cultural hegemony" today.
RETVRN
It’s very amusing when conservatives will invoke shit like “the tree of liberty must be periodically watered with the blood of tyrants,” but the idea of killing your boss or even just intimidating him or even just fucking unionizing is seen as a big no no. These people just have violent fantasies of getting into a shootout with the ATF and gloriously dying because they can only seize his guns from his cold, dead hands.
They have fantasies of mowing down powerless people who look at them funny and most who have lived out that fantasy have escaped without consequences