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  • didnt say musk couldn’t be assassinated or otherwise disposed of. Im responding to the commenter that wanted him homeless and poor.

    Like virtually everything else in life, this is not a binary decision…

    They can literally just fly away.

    They can abandon all their possessions that are stateside and try to flee, and maybe some do. But we’re talking about the type of people medieval dragons were based on, they ain’t running to save themselves over what they’ve hoarded.

    Not to mention they effectively control the minds of the population that would take up arms against them.

    Loads of shit wrong with that statement, but most obviously that only conservatives have guns.

    Tldr:

    You said one thing is possible.

    I said not only is that thing possible, but more extreme things are.

    Logically I don’t understand how I can help you understand this, and that’s the only way I know to explain things, I’m sorry.


  • France used to have kings bro…

    Kings with so much money they not only funded but sent their own seasoned commanders across an ocean for a revolution against their rival just so they couldn’t have it.

    You think a week before the first head came off that the average French citizen believed one day the monarchy would be dissolved?

    Like, none of this is new, we just need to look at it on a timescale measured in centuries and not just since we were old enough to remember.

    The wealthy don’t have to control the government, and they don’t even have to be wealthy if the rest of us don’t want them to be. That’s how modern wealth works, it’s 1’s and 0’s. If the next US government says “that’s mine or your cut off from US banking”. They’re gonna fucking transfer that money, be ause it’s not even the banks to begin with.

    We have an absolute shit ton of options to work with


  • The answer is when enough people get tired of them hoarding everything…

    Gluttony was always greed, and the stories about dragons sleeping on gold were just allegories for people like Elmo.

    We need to stop acting like this is a new problem and we don’t know how to fix it.

    It’s human variation, some people are wired to do anything for as many resources as possible. Which is fine as long as we get them treatment instead of giving them the keys to the planet.

    All we gotta do is stopping letting the wealthy make all the decisions, because they’ll keep deciding that they should have more of the money.








  • they poop and don’t need anyone to clean them.

    Let a baby walk around naked shitting anywhere and it would be just as “clean”

    They don’t scream when a predator is around because they understand what can happen.

    The trade off for those early vocalizations is speech…

    It’s worth it.

    They run from predators.

    Their babies don’t, because babies of any species can’t outrun predators…

    Like, what the actual fuck is even your point?

    None of what you’re saying is even true and there’s a million better ways to promote veganism than this nonsense


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    Essentially the story is angels were god’s original creations. Perfect beings built to serve.

    But that was boring so god created humans and withheld knowledge from them, and commanded angels to serve at human’s beck and call, even tho the humans were complete idiots who lived a life of luxury free of any worry.

    Lucifer was basically Prometheus and “tricked” humans into learning stuff.

    Then God threw Lucifer, the humans, and a couple other angels out of paradise because humans weren’t dumb pets anymore.

    And somehow that makes God the good guy in the story.

    Personally it always seemed like God was a dick and Lucifer had our backs, but that’s why I didn’t have to keep going to CCD as a kid



  • Nothing is binary

    I took a bio psych class that got into neurotransmitters and shit, the professor started almost every class with:

    “Normal” is just the average, if anyone was exactly “normal” they’d be the weirdest most unique human ever

    Because a lot of people get freaked out about their own when they start learning about psychology or genetics, smacking them together and teaching 20 somethings is a recipe for existential crisis.

    Your brain is sorting people into binary groups because that’s an easy shortcut our brain uses for everything. But what’s normal at the gathering of the juggalos is weird almost everywhere else. It’s all subjective and there’s a lot more ways than one to be normal.

    Maybe someone is 99.9999% “normal” but they peel hard boiled eggs with their teeth like a psychopath. You’d never know till you saw them do it, but it would instantly recategorize them in your head as “weird” without a second thought.

    But everyone knows they’re actually a unique snowflake, so it’s common for people to feel like they don’t belong to just one group. When it’s that everyone has that level of uniqueness, it’s just too much for our brains to keep track of, so we throw labels on people and treat them as groups.


  • Most people want to want for nothing…

    But once that happens, then you start wanting the extra shit.

    And humans are wired to never stop wanting extra shit, like through pretty much all of recorded history it has always taken a lot of work for someone to get to the point of wanting nothing once basic needs are met.

    It’s something people devote literal lifetimes too, and still might not truly pull off.

    Even if you meant it in a hyper pedantic way like seconds before death, they’d still all either want to live or want to die, the slice that truly wouldn’t care would be statistically insignificant


  • Eh, I disagree on both parts.

    Lots of information out there, but it’s the equivalent of a Forrest full of virtually identical berries, 90% of which are poisonous.

    And people are broke as fuck these days, you need wisdom to survive like that, and you earn it the hard way.

    It’s just that when they have to devote so much energy to meeting their base needs, they can’t be assed to think about more abstract things.

    Which is why the wealthy are never happy unless everyone else has nothing. When we’re comfortable enough to think ahead, we start asking why there’s any oligarchs to begin with. And their propaganda pitting us against each other isn’t as effective.

    People are wise, you’re just judging fish by how well they can climb trees




  • It’s wild that the first generation to do LSD in mass

    I want to say hippies were less than 1% of that generation, but for some reason I think it was recorded as 2-3% which would be a gross over-estimate.

    But for every hippie you think of sticking daisies in rifles, there was 100 spitting on Black kids for going to the school they were legally required to go to.

    It would be like if in 2080 they think we’re all catboys with blue hair and 37 facial piercings.

    Sure, those people exist as a fringe demographic, but they’re not the norm.

    Bmost hippies had more issues with peers their own age than their parents age, that part of the folk tale gets left out tho, because the people who want us to think they were hippies and “grew out of it” were the ones beating hippies for being different.

    All they were ever trying to do was lie to younger generations in the hopes they’d confirm to decades old social norms. Like, it’s weird how many people still don’t understand the boomers just lie about shit instinctively. They grew up in a world filled with lead and are literally incapable of caring about logical inconsistencies. They want younger generations to think they were cool, so they just fucking lied about what they were like as a generation.

    If you ever run into a real deal old hippie some day, ask them what the majority of people their age was like back then.