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I'll give mine to get the ball rolling.

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.

I don't know if that take would make David Benatar blush, make David Benatar cackle with glee, or if that was posted by David Benatar himself.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

There was a user, like in the first 12mths of the site, who popped up at least twice (the second time with a new account) to suggest the solution to California's water problems should be a pipeline from the great lakes. And they seemed to really thought it was a good idea beyond simple trolling.

And they kept arguing back when people pointed out how that wasn't possibly legally or politically as there's treaties between the USA and Canada. That it wasn't practical in terms of cost or logistics. That it would damage the ecosystem of the great lakes. That California would be fine if they just stopped water intensive crop farming and recycled water (even before considering solar powered desalinisation).

And they weren't like a lib (or more than any of us). Their answer to things like treaties or costs was often things like "well after a socialist revolution there won't be a Canada and USA with those treaties" or "we could build this pipeline with a centrally planned economy" etc

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Even with all of that aside, pipes leak. Pipes rupture. A pipe that long has a staggering number of points of failure all the way to where it's going, and not all of them would be accidental.

California doing less bazinga shit with water like golf courses and rich asshole amusements would matter a lot, and also less almonds and alfalfa crops, but...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then their answer would be something like "but under communism we'll have better pipes that don't leak"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Communism is about rich assholes in California getting to keep their golf courses. marx-joker

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can't help but think this take was partially inspired by that weird Geo-engineering project the Soviets half tried to do where they were gonna reroute a bunch of rivers in Siberia to give western Russia more water.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Or South Africa with the Lesotho Highlands Water project where there's a plan to pump a ton of water from Lesotho to Gauteng.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah like Geo-engineering is not inherently bad (or good). But it was such an impractical plan. Especially when California could sustain itself with by taking back all the water rights from certain farms, recycling and desalinating (which would be a huge project but not as huge as pipeline thousands of miles long that goes through the rocky mountains).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sounds more like stupid MAGACOM dipshits that basically gussy up resource taking and imperialism in fake-communist terms, i.e. stealing a bunch of Native/Canadian water for the inefficient capitalist hordes in California.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

NAWAPA brained fuck yeah