• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world
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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

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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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      Exactly. Billionaires should fear for their lives every day.

      Hopefully we will see a new word in the English language that ends in -icide and means killing someone solely because they have too much wealth.

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    Because of climate change? That’s not even on the ballpark when it comes to the worst case scenario estimates of the excess deaths because of it. No wonder young people are so stressed out…

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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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    “The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”

    ~Utah Phillips

    Inb4 pedant quibbles that “the planet itself is not dying.” Yeah, but we and our fellow creatures are. It should be understood that is what Mr. Phillips meant.

  • uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club
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    I don’t have any expectations of any of you.

    If any heroes want to take matters into their own hands and deliver some vigilante justice to these parasites, I’d support them.

    We can’t use the system to fix the system.

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    You’re only expected to “sit idly” by the people who want you to stay out of the way. Ideally, you should be expected by society to organize and speak out against it. But getting a bunch of people to organize and fight back is difficult.

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      People have organized and spoke out. At this point I feel like the only practical option is to [redacted]

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      The system has trained the peonies to push down any peon that voices any complaints. They all believe that they have a plan and their plan will take them to retirement and anything else isn’t their problem.

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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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    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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      Tiktok banned accounts that were saying 9/11 was caused by US support of Israel and citing Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to the American People.”

      We’re being herded like sheep.

      Every time I see a useful idiot recommend proprietary social media, I immediately think “oh, another dumbass that doesn’t realize what’s going on. Sad.”

      The fediverse is fast becoming the only social media to find actual humanity instead of corporate puppets.

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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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      They don’t even want to talk about the fediverse, because they know how much of a threat it is to their power structure.

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    Isn’t that what usually happens with humanity?

    the current god pantheon does something that kills billions. Everyone cheers and worships the gods.

    Repeat and profit

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    Well, sad reality is a good percentage of 8 billion people are cheering. They dont understand it or are in so deep in whatever propaganda they believe in, have made they apathatic and or just defeatist.

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      It’s the 0.1 percent being supported by the 1% who are a lucky day away from joining them, and the 9% who live pretty good lives as rewards for helping the 1%.

      Pyramid scheme all the way down

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        Yeah, I know people who are in the top 10% and they take pride in looking down on everyone else poorer than them.

        It’s a big reason why I don’t think the wealth cap and reclamation should stop at billionaires.

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        I am talking about bottom ones who are working their ass off neck deep in debt. Who are not benefitting anything but still cheering them making there own pride in religion or straight up licking ass of likes of musk on social media. Personally ive been very demotivated (not defeated) as i try to explain the situation and dangers of insta to my school buddies only to meet with my brain exploding logics and ignorance.

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      ‘Cuz they all think they can win the lottery too. Or if someone sets up barriers to prevent wealth from being absurd that somehow the regular person doesn’t get any money or has to live in Soviet Block housing or something.