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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is he saying he doesn’t consider women human beings?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Don't threaten me with a good time. I'd gladly be more machine than man.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd totally be up for getting the whole cyborg treatment. Mind you, I'd be very critical of who puts what in me. I'd rather die than end up with a Black Mirror/Elon Musk/Mark Zuckerberg - advertisement firm inside my head.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I’ve met a couple of cyborgs (assuming we don’t count birth control/hormone regulation implants as technology, which we should do because they are). One was thrilled to be categorized that way (she has a pacemaker) the other was not (nerve inhibitor for pain, doesn’t work very well).

    So yeah I suppose it also depends on the goal and if the tech is friendly enough to achieve it. In the latter case, it doesn’t work because it’s very difficult to charge the battery. What a dumb reason to be crap implanted tech.

    Caution is very much warranted.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I used to think this and nowadays I'm paying attention to all the people making the machines.

    I'm all for getting borg'd out, but I don't trust anyone to make the things I'd want to put in/on my body. You know it would all come with a data miner and a subscription fee.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This morons always make stuff sound cooler than it is.

    I'm not really that into being a human, I kinda want to mesh with the machines and lose my human status. I really don't dig capitalism doing it, like neuralink, but I do want to live forever as a machine chimera, living in a fully automated post scarcity space communism era.

    Sadly, transgender people existing doesn't mean any of that. It's just, you know, people existing.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Don't worry charlie. No one is going to become as inhuman as you.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When you get "transgender" confused with "transhumanism" I guess. Though there isn't zero overlap given that choosing one's own form is an element of the latter.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Mesh with machines? Like what Nazi Poster boy Elon Musk's Neuralink is trying to do? Is Charlie Kirk trying to dogwhistle that he's trans?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Ironic coming from Charlie Kirk considering he's never demonstrated enough empathy to be fully human.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How insecure do you have to be to believe that the existence of a type of person means that someone is going to force you to be that type of person.

    I get that feeling that these anti-LQBTQ+ people were all told forcefully what type of person they had to be when they were young.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I feel the urge, but I refuse to dishonor the Machine God by quoting the Mechanicus trailer here.

    He would make a great doorknob servitor.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    So before I get to be a cyborg, I get to be trans? Sounds like a fucking wicked fun future.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    They don't call them transformers for nothing

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Too slow buddy, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” beat you to it with better politics back in 1985.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Charlie Kirk talks like a man who desperately wants to fuck a vacuum.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't think I would stop being a human if I was part robot. Are people with artificial hips or cochlear implants less human?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Saint Michael Knowles recently discussed this on his show, and I really like (but disagree with) his answer. Paraphrasing:

    "The surgeries we do now are designed to correct a deformity, or defect, or restoring normal functionality that is missing or has been lost. It brings up what is broken & fixes it. These surgeries they're trying to do now will allow humans to surpass human limitations, to become superior, to be more than human. And I don't think that's right or good."

    Now coming from a deeply religious man, who likes to keep things natural & doesn't like tampering with stuff. Praises the human form, really celebrates humanity...sure. He's pretty consistent in character & I can see where he's coming from, kind of.

    I say, why the hell not become more than human? Why not see what greatness we are capable of, when augmented with cyber implants, robotics, and AI? The people are willing to become more, let them become more. See what happens. I think the good will outweigh the bad, and if there's a god that has a big problem with that, well let him come down & say so. Until such a time occurs...let it play out. I want to see what we can do. 🙂

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Who told these assholes about Black Mirror?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Caught here in a fiery place won't lose my will to change

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Humans are stupid as fuck. I'd love to stop being a human.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It's almost as if, if you're comfortable, and confident with your sexuality, and not a massice piece of shit, you don't worry about what other people want to identify as. His face keeps getting smaller though

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    He needs to realize that no matter how much he tries most people will never view him as a man.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Cyberpunk me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    hardly Charlie. you and your ilk lost your humanity long ago.

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