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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by CPLX on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:48AM (#31527710)
If they believe they’ve exhausted all other avenues for positive change, and if I personally have subverted and taken over roles best left to a democratic government, then of course they should.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

If they grow weary of the existing power structure and have not been given the ability to meaningfully participate in the institutions that govern the lives of themselves and their communities, then they most certainly should exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow those institutions.

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/abraham_lincoln_101160

Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by daenz on Friday May 27, 2022 @02:20PM (#31532934)
You're re-contexualizing an Abraham Lincoln quote about the government to justify threatening the life of a private citizen. If you have an issue with the government not doing what you feel is its job, then maybe you should petition the government instead of advocating for some bizarre lynch mob (that, ironically, would be put down swiftly by the very government you should be petitioning). That's how "exhausting all other avenues" actually works.
Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by CPLX on Friday May 27, 2022 @02:58PM (#31533447)
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it."

Pretty sure the owner of the largest pile of wealth ever assembled and the top political newspaper in the country fits well within the framework of this country's institutions.

There's nothing bizarre about a mob coming for the assholes who hoard all the wealth and consign the masses to subsistence level existence. In fact this dynamic is probably the most enduring concept in human history.

Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by daenz on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:12PM (#31533625)
Is this how you really feel about the Fortune 500 companies that participate in your From Day One conferences? That their leaders should be lynched?
Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by CPLX on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:33PM (#31533875)
I'm expressing a very uncontroversial opinion, which is that the state should have a monopoly on violence, and that the state should be run of, by, and for the people. If the roles that should be assigned to government ever become so corrupted by corporate interests that the institutions that control our life are no longer recognizable as democratic they should be overthrown by force if necessary.

This is the founding principle of America, and I'd be happy to advocate for it in any forum. It sounds like you have an alternate worldview and that's fine too, perhaps we can agree to disagree on this point.