• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    No amount of peaceful protests and organizing peacefully will result in any amount of meaningful change. The only way to get this rat fucked world to be not ratfucked is to fix it by force in a very violent and bloody way.

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      15 days ago

      Why do you think the super wealthy are so keen on robots and AI? When even the police officers can’t “have had enough” there is no rebellion possible, ever again.

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      15 days ago

      I think there’s not that much actual evil, as in pure intent to inflict pain and suffering. There is a lot of focus on short term, personal gain though. Sounds the same, but the latter has a purpose and can be controlled using that purpose.

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    16 days ago

    Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    If I had access to all of the televisions and radios in Imperial America, I would get somebody famous like Zohran Mamdani to read a paper detailing how the upper classes not only facilitated the rise of Fascism in Europe, but also profited from the Axis’s war crimes and survived the twentieth century almost completely unpunished. At the end, he would say something like ‘As I speak, hundreds of thousands of workers are going to seek and despoil the upper classes with the understanding that there is no other way to make them pay for their crimes, and that this course of action is far more preferable to leaving them unpunished.’

    I suspect that few people, if any, would take action.

  • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOP
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    17 days ago

    I believe we live in a very duplicitous world were greedy old people don’t mind seeing the world burn if they can get richer. The more you learn about the world the shittier it seems. I expect humanity will go extinct either because of climate change or due to achieving AGI and everyone being rendered for materials to make more money.

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      The disorder we see isn’t proof that the world is doomed. It’s proof that those old bastards don’t have the reigns like they used to. They’re cracking down not because they have unending strength, but unending fear.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    The only way any of this shit could matter is if everyone were on a level playing field.

    This vile reality can’t even agree that everyone should have working bodies. So forgive me if I think it can go to hell along with everyone who thinks they’re all that.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

    Most people are complete idiots and will rather burn the world for a bigger flatscreen TV than to save it for their children.

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    17 days ago

    People who choose to suppress a growing power with the idea that they can easily win,
    then make it look like they’re the victims when the victims decide to fight back,
    with the ones standing up to themselves becoming stronger and stronger over time,
    and the suppressing people choosing to never negotiate a losing battle/war
    apart from demanding that the winning party makes concessions to let them win,
    deserve to die through the consequences of their own actions.

    Bonus points for those people who fly banners of freedom and progressiveness
    while their organizers get paid by doing the bidding
    of oppressive conservative foreign agents
    who want their country to regress for their own gains of power.
    And while displaying their wicked pop-culture chants, posters and gestures,
    are often demanding their government to retract a reasonable proposal such as
    ‘murder, and that includes any incel strangling his perceived girlfriend to death,
    should be made illegal, even if you’re on a vacation’
    or ‘stop taking money from foreign agents’
    that are mild copies of laws from said foreign agents’ country.

    And even more bonus points for the appointed new leader
    legitimized through a so-called international award of good behavior.

    And I say this because while all the hypocrisy is absolutely infuriating,
    to top it off by trying to chop off the hand and head
    that tries to give you mercy, then there’s no redemption,
    only more and more defense against
    more and more deadly risky escalation.

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    17 days ago

    What’s your most cynical opinion about the world?

    The Earth will, eventually, long after we’re all gone, be incinerated by the sun. If life co-exists elsewhere in the universe, I suspect it will be too distant to have much impact on us nor them. So I believe that humanity will inevitably have no meaningful legacy in the long term. And I also believe there is no objective meaning to existence, it’s just a neat little quirk of chaos.

    That doesn’t imply I think nothing is meaningful, it doesn’t take long to notice I care deeply about people and what we do. But, ultimately, meaning is temporary and subjective. (I haven’t explored much of formal philosophy but I’ve heard my perspective aligns with absurdism or existentialism)

    edit: I didn’t realize this isn’t actually cynicism (a prudent distrust), but more nihlism (a distrust upon belief in meaning)

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    17 days ago

    Capitalism made almost everything the same big pile of shit. No matter the language and culture, in the end, it’s the same shit.

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    That it’s pretty shit from the bottom up. Boring Lagrangian giving rise through great efforts of complexity to an endless dead void. On a mote of dust somewhere, there’s a soup of unusual chemicals making short lived bubbles of flesh that are compelled to eat each other for survival. Some of them organized into a System; it’s bad. It can change for the better or the worse, in increments, if enormous emergent collective efforts are made. On the individual level, though, existence is either painful or less painful but more boring if you’re lucky. But generally you don’t think about it and just kill time waiting for death.

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    17 days ago

    Evolution of Homo Sapiens was inevitable which means destruction of the entire habitat and all species in it is also unavoidable.

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    17 days ago

    Humans are the cause of almost every problem on the planet and wont and don’t deserve to survive the great filter. The universe is better off without us.