• DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world
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    Like I always say if you eat enough rich people the other rich people might think the money isn’t worth their lives anymore and we could get back on track in the progression.

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    The best thing that the average person can do is to stop reproducing. No, it won’t save the planet or anything. But will prevent them from being victimized.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    While us poor saps blame each other and tell the other to use paper straws.

    This is why I’m honestly done taking any blame for the environment. I can conserve and become the Greta Thumberg of environmental causes and a billionaire will undo my work with one weekend getaway trip.

    You want to help the environment? Start building gallows for billionaires

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      This is why I’m honestly done taking any blame for the environment.

      Why were you ever “taking blame” for the environment and what does it mean to “stop” doing so?

      Serious question, because this sounds like the excuse my hick neighbor used to use for dumping used motor oil directly onto the ground so I wave fingers at this kind of rhetoric.

      Just because corporations are the primary offenders, doesn’t mean you don’t have responsibility or accountability for at least the most basic measures. And more so, the accountability for allowing corporations is squarely on us as people who feed them massive amounts of money and then complain there’s no alternatives.

      My suggestion for both helping the environment and ending billionaires is the one nobody wants to hear: stop spending so much money. Especially if you live in the EU or America, your money is the most valuable currency in the world, and every time you buy the latest model of iPhone or order Doordash, you’re harming the world and paying for the next CEO’s weekend getaway trip. Every time you pay for the newest game or go watch the latest movie, every time you pay for convenience, you’re feeding the system in a massive way.

      It’s far to much to expect any kind of actual “revolution” to take place. We could literally cripple capitalism overnight with a general strike, but nobody wants the inconvenience. So the next best thing is we start hoarding money away from the grips of these liches and undead dragons.

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    “You have to respect the democratic process, otherwise you’re literally a terrorist!”

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    That handful of people also know how to make an uprising difficult, they realised tiktok was dangerous because people could (and were) using it to inform people about stuff behind the veil they’ve constructed using their media monopolisation. People were showing war zones atrocities in real time, conflicting with the handfuls narrative, so they hostile takovered it, like the do everything else they want to use to serve their narrative and further their interests. There’s power in boycotting, and block lists, but when they monopolise and cause manufactured high cost of living to force you to give them your money (serve them in slavery) it’s pretty hard to boycott. I often switch between two daydreams, one where I Thanos them out of existence, and the other where us 8 billion people combine to form “people of the earth” Chuck in a dollar each and systematically buy up all our politicians so they serve us again. Then we all collectively buy everything and share it, so everyone has the basics to be able to live comfortably. Every billionaire is unethical. They’re the ones causing destruction of our planet. We kinda need that! If it’s not prolonging fossil fuel use and mining, it’s creating “ai” that burns triple the power of the whole UK in one data centre. Like fuck!

    Side note ai is tripping me out, a little. There doesn’t seem to be the costs associated with the levels of usage costs it generates, it’s also super not capable of what they’re trying to use it for, are they all just super fucking stupid, or is there some nefarious under plot going on?

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      We get the shitty version which is just an unreliable shortcut to wikipedia. Meanwhile, they get the real stuff making military plans in the background

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      Matrix films: The machines turn humans into batteries.

      More realistic: The rich humans turn the poor humans into batteries for the machines.

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      AI seems to be the only thing propping up the American economy which is essentially one giant pump-and-dump scheme right now.

      It’s not actually supposed to lead anywhere, just make a few people a ton of money on the road to enshitification.

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    You don’t have to convince all 8 billion people to put a stop to it. It’s just a few thousand evil people. Even a fraction of a percent of the people would be enough to put a stop to it.

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    Yes please, but not before we perfected humanoid servants and the trillionaires are done with the preparations of their lairs.

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    We’ve been doing that for quite some time now (beginning from industrialization? Early knowledge about the environmental impact)

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    Be the change you want to see. Make sure you’re legally armed and be ready to defend yourself and friends from neo nazis.

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      There are many places you can’t be legally armed. In Canada for example firearms are legal for hunting purposes, but even using one for genuine self defense will lead to lengthy legal battles at best.

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        one gets attacked, one uses what one has to defend themselves . That way one lives long enough to see court.

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        Then sit there, do nothing, and be a forced bottom.

        There are plenty of ways to defend yourself without guns and explosives.

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          No need for that talk. You have no idea what youll do until it happens. Donf act like you’ve seen this happen. You haven’t. So hold your judgment until your sure that you can back up your bravado