Leaders and political groups from around the world seem hell bent on choices that don't make any sense. Even if you take into account stupidity, greed, narcissism, religion, rascim, hate, ect. there are constantly things happening that don't fit.

If inst, you reframe the shit being done with the thought that while none of them may agree on a final destination, they all agree that a fast drop in population is the "fast and easy" solution, then suddenly it all starts to make a lot more sense. Then everything going on is a rush to secure power and position in the post apocalypse world. And things like antivax become their own filtering mechanism to self-select stupid people out of the gene pool.

Unfortunately, once you begin thinking about things with that mind set, then it also becomes really difficult not to see COVID as a test of the system, or at least the tipping point that pushed everything into high gear.

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[–] 13 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

It's ironically comforting to think that they have an ultimate plan and goal, even if it involves killing most of us, but it's not true.

This is merely history repeating itself for the umpteenth time.

People who have all the money and power want more because they got into those positions in the first place due to the sociopathic, narcissistic mindsets.

The plan is and has always been no more complicated than, "I'm infinitely more important than you, I want it all, and you don't matter."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Yep. Obama once said in an interview how once he met super rich people he realized they're just normal people and unfortunately that's very true. They're not special. They're not a cult of baby blood drinkers, perverts and sycophants because they know something. It's because they're normal fuckers.

    You know these fuckers. They panic to get one car ahead of you in traffic because mentally they don't think they'll get to the same place in basically the same amount of time, usually faster if they just respect traffic flow, they don't even consider other people at all in their decisions. They buy all the Pokemon cards, concert tickets and game systems to scalp to get themselves ahead even if it isn't a hobby they're interested in at all. They take what isn't nailed down cause they can not because they need it. They lie and cheat for their own personal feelings to avoid guilt and ever considering themselves negatively.

    They're just bad people, some are born bad I believe most are raised.

    Next time you go into work look around at the bozos you work with. They're in the CIA, they run the government, they handle your healthcare. Yes they are that incompetent and yes they are that rude. That's just how some people are, it's just how humans are.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    Human nature arguments are dubious when the range of human behaviors is largely determined by the opportunities, obstacles, and incentives that arise from particular socioeconomic systems.

    Capitalist societies value and incentivize the accumulation of wealth, which requires greedy and self-centered behavior, so we are surrounded by greedy and self-centered people.

    Socialist societies value the collective good, so they promote altruistic and communally-minded people. Just look at interviews of people from former Soviet states. Almost universally they say that people got along better and had a real sense of solidarity and care for your neighbors.

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    been saying this for decades. the civilian deaths caused by global climate change will only reduce the population to those that have the means of survival and those who are "lucky" enough to have survived.

    the aftermath will provide a new playing board on which new leaders and government will administer and control the masses that are then a more manageable size.

    not only do the choices made up to this point begin to make more sense but choices that have yet to be made also become more apparent.

    why the push for AI? because it will supplement skilled labor and technical engineers that will be lost after the event.

    why the push for automatic factories? robotic assembly will replace physical labor. you can even see this with the push for 3D printed homes.

    skilled labor markets have been shrinking for decades. it's impossible to find a skilled contractor to work on your home that isn't a national corporate conglomerate, and if you do by some miracle find someone they're over the age of 60.

    btw, homeownership is abysmal because corporate interests have been gobbling up properties and keeping rent sky high.

    it's all related. all of it, and it's not meant to kill you. it's meant to distract you, to weaken you. just long enough that your poor environment kills you.

    why else were they terrified when Luigi happened? they were terrified that an uprising was about to happen.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 hours ago

    No, they always do this. A number of civilizations crashed in the past because the rich wouldn't adjust to reality.

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  • Why do you think they're pushing for AI? They know the other people in their bunkers will revolt. They'll either use AI to replace people or settle for Musk's human-controlled robots so us poors can live far away while still acting like slaves.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    Thanos used a statistical process for extermination outcomes. The ruling class tends to agree with Oil oligarchy because the latter helps keep them as the ruling class. Food scarcity deaths don't apply to a random statistical selection. It is poverty/national poverty based. Flood/wind damage repair/insurance is actually a significant wealth drain for highest property value markets, but Oil oligarchy disinformation will always make for the best friend of ruling class. Weapons and Zionism can team up for war policy.

    The worse the country, people's lives, misery, anger get, the less focused any political debate is on improving lives/future, and simply on replacing the previous administration causing misery/anger.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    Insatiable greed is a feature of the our species. It always has been, always will be, and there will always be a handful willing to destroy everything if it means they win.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago

    I comented here with pretty much the same thoughts.

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

    There is a million of them and 8 billion of us. We could take them. Let's go global as one world and set things right!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago

    That sounds good except for the fact that half of those 8 billion either worship the million or believe they can join them by following the rules hard enough.

    Not saying I'm against lynching the lot, but you have to understand that you aren't just fighting that minority, the drooling masses are going to fight on their behalf.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    I think there is also a big component of “why should I behave, when the next guy over doesn’t?”

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago

    Even if you take into account stupidity, greed, narcissism, religion, rascim, hate, ect. there are constantly things happening that don’t fit.

    These things actually fit quite well, when you are greedy you want something and don't care about these around you or the consequences.

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  • [–] 56 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Thanos didn't discriminate while in our case the richest will survive and the poor will be (more) enslaved

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Obviously, I used Thanos as a shorthand in the title. So, I wasn't actually thinking that it was going to be a 1 to 1 translation of his plan... Of course he also wipes out the dwarves that made the gauntlet, and really does a number on the Asgardians. So, I am not sure you can claim that he was 100% "fair".

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  • [–] 7 points 8 hours ago

    Slrpnk.net isa dat-a-way (⁠☞゚⁠∀゚⁠)⁠☞ my guy. Come join us as this take fits well. This is pretty much my take on humanity. However, hope is rebellion against the system. Don't give up.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    The perception of viability of the "Thanos solution" (snap your fingers and a literal random half of every population ceases to exist) depends almost entirely on which side of the snap you find yourself on. Those for are banking on their survival. They don't care about yours.

    There are, of course, a few who do want to be eliminated by the snap. They don't want to be in the resulting world, and death by snap is completely painless by any account. You simply cease to be. The only issue is you see it coming, so you have a moment to reflect. But nobody seemed to suffer for it. Just the ones who were left mourned the lost.

    There's also the proposition made by The Leftovers (a TV show on HBO), that if you remove just 3% of the population, the world changes drastically. However, in that scenario, it was only on Earth, and it was only humans and, IIRC... birds? Every other population was not culled at all.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 hours ago (16 children)

    Razor of Occam. No need to fantasize about conspiracies and global shit, when greed and idiocy suffice

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  • [–] 10 points 9 hours ago

    Well there really are elites who engineer structures where they will always be on top even at the expense of others. For example, the sovereigns of the eastern european countries deliberately curtailed the industrial revolution and rail, because they thought it would bring a social revolution in which they will be overthrown.

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  • [–] 30 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

    Hanlon's Razor would be a better fit.

    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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  • [–] 12 points 8 hours ago

    It's entirely possible to be evil and stupid, but insulated from your mistakes by money. The education and environment of the rich is highly conducive to socio/psychopathy, and selects strongly for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago*

    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

    IME you should add "and laziness." to that sentence.

    It's quite useful for getting what you want really. Make not doing what you want more effort. Most people are too lazy or tired to not give in for unimportant stuff.

    Eg. when being stopped by the police, take your time finding your driving license. Chances are they'll get bored and let you go on your way before you've found it.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    It's always this.

    I remember some post from years ago by a person saying that Elon Musk seems like a genius up until he starts talking about something you're familiar with.

    Thanks to the Internet, I think it's gotten both more difficult to hide your own stupidity unless you're careful with your tracks (the power-hungry often aren't) and easier to absolutely flood the discourse so that your inferior cognitive abilities are either lost or overshadowed by something else (like Trump doing everything he, unfortunately somewhat successfully, to keep people busy talking and thinking about so much more other than his ties with Epstein).

    And it keeps showing with the political and corporate leaders. The smarter ones from the latter, unfortunately, mostly seem to be psychopaths and/or sociopaths, very keen on leading the former where they need them (currently supporting AI and preparing the bailout, curbing the competition before, probably staring jaw-dropped at the news of "AI going rogue" and how can be the end of humanity and all).

    Imma beat the dead horse and say that out of all dystopias, Idiocracy (2006) turned out to be the most accurate.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago*

    Elon Musk seems like a genius up until he starts talking about something you're familiar with.

    So Elon Musk is basically AI? A piece of the bewildering puzzle of what the fuck is wrong with the world today has suddenly clicked into place.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 hours ago

    Vote for a #WealthTax, talk about it, tell others about it. Without their wealth, they lose a lot of power.

    !twnw@fedia.io

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    I agree that the Epstein class are stupid, religious, racist, and hateful. I'll also add that they're cruel, pedophilic, egotistal, and manipulative. But I don't see them being narcissistic. Narcissus just wanted to be left alone.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 hours ago* (4 children)

    They'd rather be the most power in a world of fewer people than sacrifice to save them. With AI adoption potentially enabling them to retain functionality at scale, with far fewer workers, they have even less incentive to sacrifice.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    With AI adoption potentially enabling them to retain functionality at scale, with far fewer workers...

    I suppose that might work, altho it would also introduce a tonne of instability in to global economies at all sorts of levels, with accompanying high risks of collapse, anarchy and whatever else. Even if those weren't a huge set of risks right there, global warming and ocean acidification are coming with a vengeance to make the surface of the planet largely uninhabitable and starved of O2, among other things.

    IMO these billionaires are rapidly approaching the point at which they'll need to vanish with their peoples in to their elaborate bunkers. And who knows how that turns out for them over the years. (seems to me it could get ugly real quick)

    A year or two ago there was an article from a high-class escort who was evidently a regular at some kinds of global billionaire get-togethers. She got to know the mindset of many of the attendees over time. She said that roughly half had some kind of personal solution in their minds, and the other (roughly) half felt discernibly hopeless. And even that wasn't enough to spur them to try to find solutions as a group, it seems.

    Point is, each of them seems to consider themselves their own little kingdom in many ways, helpless or completely uninterested in addressing global threats.

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