• someguy3@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    4 months ago

    What does that even mean? Is he just calling everything he doesn’t like the n word? So what does he mean by calling billionaires the n word?

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    4 months ago

    Dunno, portrayal of US south landowners (and slaveholders) in manners and taste in movies and books seems not much better than what he seemingly means. Even with that flavor of idealization of the Victorian times. The example is a result of a guess what he’d consider not “negrous”.

    What are the exceptions, if we replace the funny word with “tasteless and stolen”? (I can’t, well, maybe Bill Gates, but in essence when people in our age become that rich, they start to perceive that as good taste and unconsciously strive to that)

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    47
    ·
    4 months ago

    Ok, i reconstruct the slur in my mind and…what the fuck is that even mean? It sounds like another one of those word salad by intoxicated individual that mean absolutely nothing but also trying to be profoundly racist.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      He’s saying billionaires spend their money ostentatiously, foolishly, lavishly like they never saw money before. “New rich” would be a comparable term.

      Still, not sure I completely get it.

      • Almacca@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        4 months ago

        So like covering everything with gold and putting your name in giant allcaps on them?

      • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        Still, not sure I completely get it.

        Same. One legitimate criticism of how rich people interact with the economy is that rich people have a tendency to hoard their money instead of pumping it back into the economy. Spending all your dough may look tacky and ostentatious, but it creates more jobs than piling it up in a vault.

        So this guy’s thinking is contorted in fascinating ways. I am starting to wonder, though, does being a bad thinker make you more likely to be racist? Or does racism harm your thinking? Both?

        • Almacca@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          4 months ago

          Spending all your dough may look tacky and ostentatious, but it creates more jobs than piling it up in a vault.

          Won’t somebody think of the mega-yacht industry?!

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        In a spectacular display of racist logic this chud is saying that black people aren’t supposed to have inherited wealth, therefore all rich black people are nouveau riche (new rich). Which means that what they are saying is that spending with abandon is something only a newly rich black person would do.

    • bss03@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      I think you have to go several levels of racism deep to even understand it. Like the (censored) phrase “I don’t hate black people; I hate N-----s” has to make enough sense you understand the “distinction” being made. Then you translate that distinction and apply it to some sort of “good billionaire” and you sort of get his claim.

      I think?

      I certainly could have missed his point, if any; I’m not sure it was worth catching.

  • EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    The appropriate words to put in there are Nigglers. Cause they are all niggler-rich. They niggle away at us: pay me for this pay me for that. They didn’t do any work or produce anything but a stranglehold on their workers (niggling away their/your hours for niggled pay).

    Lynch the Nigglers. Billionaires & corporations. Lynch em all.

  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    4 months ago

    How can someone even think this makes sense lmao.

    “You can probably name exceptions.” Indeed, I can literally only name exceptions wtf

  • theneverfox@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    4 months ago

    You know what… You run with that. I have no idea wtf it means, but if you stay pointed at the billionaires…

    Well, a piece of shit launched at my enemy isn’t my friend, but I’m not going to get in it’s way either