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[–] 13 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Misanthropy and ecofsscism are different things. Like, I cant speak for George Carlin but as someone who cares about both human and non human animals, I've got a pretty grim view on humanity as well. We are extinction machines and have been ever since we had spears to throw and hafe only gotten better at wiping out species the longer we've gone. I'm a human and so are a lot of my friends, and I hope we can do better one day and think we do have the capacity to do so. But it's been an awful track record for the last 10 000 years. The idea of even not factory farming animals is basically socially off the table for the overwhelming majority of people let alone having any environmental concern that isn't human centric. I think it would be a better planet had apes never figured out tools. But we are stuck here now and there's no sense in dwelling on what could have been, but it's a sentiment I understand.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago*

    To be fair given that there were five or so previous mass extinction events before this one something else would have eventually come to take us out even if apes never learned how to use tools.

    This is the moment where we either consciously take up the reins of the planet to harmoniously guide and protect it's development or we will unconsciously kill ourselves. Literal do or die shit

    Stopping our own self inflicted mass extinction event is just the tutorial mission before we face many more dangerous terrestrial extinction events

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  • [–] 5 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    Misanthropy and ecofsscism are different things.

    Good point, some misanthropes just wind up celebrating school shootings on 8chan

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    some misanthropes just wind up celebrating school shootings

    Carlin did that too in his comedy routine. His bit is being a misanthrope. Whether he truly believes in it or not or whether there's a difference is up to you to decide.

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago

    He died before the times would reveal his exact colors and im kinda thankful. I think he'd be cool but its wishful thinking as well. His angry misanthropy stuff is a bit much for me now cause it's 25 years later than these bits and i'm not 12 anymore. I like his older more silly stuff nowadays. I'm a language nerd and also really weird about semantics and his material like "I will not be getting on the plane. I'll be getting in the plane" is the kind of shit I really like about his work. I relate to that shit hard

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