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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 151 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Now this is vigilantism I can get behind.

Although it would be funnier if they hadn't pied themselves and had pied a real CEO.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 112 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Purely performative. Got it.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

The UK has a long tradition of pieing awful politicians - and guess what? It gets a laugh and memable pictures, but changes nothing.

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[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Are you expecting some local neceomancer to raise Ken Lay just for a practical joke? Because I was...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh you wouldn't need to raise him from the dead. Just digging him up would be fine.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

He's just Laying there after all.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seems like the last vigilante would get behind too.

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[–] OutForARip@lemmy.ca 133 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Lame. PR stunt.

Do it to a real CEO, and ditch the pie.

[–] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair.. Not everyone is willing to risk it all and straight murder people, but still want to show their dissatsifaction with the system.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 3 points 2 weeks ago

So just hand on face then?

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Before the UnitedHealthcare CEO assasination, it would've been. Now it's not.

Before, it would've had the message of maybe "we think a pie in the face and some public humiliation might make you fix your ways".

Now though?

Now the message it sends is "this could've been your public execution, and the world would've cheered."

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[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 67 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A satirical Enron, so was the pie a planned part of the art or was it a legit attack by someone not in on the joke?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

It was planned. But still quite funny.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's pretty lame. There's way better things to do with CEOs in new york

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 60 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think part of the point is just to show that they can be touched. It would be like walking up and saying “bang bang” with finger guns instead of actually shooting them. It’s a way of going “I could have done it. You’d be dead if I wanted it. This is a reminder and a warning that you only rule because the plebs allow it.”

I agree, there are better things to do to CEOs, especially for companies as shitty as Enron. But if CEOs are on high alert like they are now, then a pie to the face would be a good way of keeping them anxious. It would tell them “your security failed. They need to succeed every time, but the masses only need to succeed once.”

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I feel like this "CEO" and "birds aren't real" guy is just a self-promoter of the Jake Paul type, or like the guy who started "BumFights."

We finally have something going on that could really be a focus on the evils of corporate corruption, and there's some self-promoting manipulator who jumps aboard as quickly as possible to get some screen time.

It's really disgusting.

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Staged for free advertising? It makes no sense for someone to attack a nobody, that "Enron CEO" is a title that has been given by himself.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

Satirical company, so yes, that's all it is and nothing more.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 weeks ago

Note: not actually the energy company.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

I bet he was pissed but when he got home he felt quite lucky that was all it was.

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're bringing back Enron? Who's fucking idea was that?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 16 points 2 weeks ago

It's a satirical company.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

This is literally all publicity stunts.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

satirical project on the relaunch of the energy company Enron

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago

The new Enron might be a satire on crypto but it's more likely just another crypto grift

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 19 points 2 weeks ago

Was he pied by Bernie Sanders?

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought presidents get shoes

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

It is tradition, after all

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ideally with something denser and faster than a pie.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

For sure. I’d settle for the pie though since he’s apparently so afraid of it.

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Everything about this is lame.

[–] Nuerion@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh My God, Oh my fuckin Gawd. 😂🤣🤣😂

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Aw, lame. Thought it said "Pipe" and thought: yo?!

[–] enkille@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ha ha funny

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

Times Now News?

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So it begins...

👀🍿

(Grab ya popcorns, before these CEOs raise the prices)

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