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  • The CEOs will be fully recycled by sea life. Steel is just iron and carbon, no real damage to the environment as they rust away. And boulders are inert. And we can make sure the CEOs are dressed in suits made of all natural fibers when we chuck 'em in the drink!

  • It's not about efficiency; it's about sending a message! Bullets are a lot easier than boulders into the Sea, but they just don't have the same vibe! Nothing says you hate someone quite as much as being willing to haul a half ton boulder a hundred miles offshore in a boat. The impracticality isn't a bug; it's a feature! For boulders chucked into the ocean, the bigger, the better!

  • IDK. I'm thinking more a giant bronze statue of Luigi would be more appropriate. Interesting enough, those things aren't as expensive as you might think. Some googling suggests a cost of between $25k-250k for a life sized bronze statue. That's a lot for an individual, but well within the realm of crowd funding. I say we place it on a main road outside UHC's headquarters in Minnesota. Make the bastards drive past it every single day on the way to work.

  • Sure. But it just doesn't have the same fire and brimstone "wrath of an angry God" feel to it. Guillotines are quick. But if you really hate someone, you'll go to the trouble of hauling an 800 lb boulder around just to off 'em. If you really want to show your displeasure with someone, you'll go to the trouble of loading a giant rock on a boat and hauling it an hour offshore. It's "I hate you so much I'm willing to go to this amount of effort!"

  • As @xmunk@sh.itjust.works noted in the original post, the image and title are a reference to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar's_feast

    For some reason I was moved to take a real old school “fire and brimstone” bent on this. I’m agnostic myself, but it just felt appropriate for whatever reason. “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin” is the literal original “writing on the wall.” Maybe it’s just my religious upbringing. but when I see someone who clearly so escaped justice in life, I’m drawn to thoughts of divine retribution in the afterlife. I also think this is one issue that really unites both left and right. And while I mentioned what is usually considered a left wing concept, Medicare for All, I thought it appealing to frame the discussion in a very traditional view of divine judgment rather than something like Marxist class analysis. The imagery of an evil man maintaining his fall even after he hits the ground is something that really captures my imagination.

  • Thanks. For some reason I was moved to take a real old school "fire and brimstone" bent on this. I'm agnostic myself, but it just felt appropriate for whatever reason. "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin" is the literal original "writing on the wall." Maybe it's just my religious upbringing. but when I see someone who clearly so escaped justice in life, I'm drawn to thoughts of divine retribution in the afterlife. I also think this is one issue that really unites both left and right. And while I mentioned what is usually considered a left wing concept, Medicare for All, I thought it appealing to frame the discussion in a very traditional view of divine judgment rather than something like Marxist class analysis. The imagery of an evil man maintaining his fall even after he hits the ground is something that really captures my imagination.