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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (14 children)

And capitalism is a creation of what?

Humans you say?

Your comic is shit

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

humans invented capitalism, soooo....

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (5 children)

humans also invented socialism, communism, fascism, monarchy, democracy so on and so fourth.

like, you can't just take the worst and be like "you see this is why we need to get rid of them!". its literally the point of the post. thats what is going on right now in the US with literally any person below the top square on the family guy race card. Would you say just because less than 1% of immigrants that are in the US have committed violent crimes, that all of them are violent criminals? If you do, I have bad news for you.

Famous screenshot from Family Guy episode "Are You There God? It's Me, Peter (Season: 16 Episode: 20). The screenshot depicts Peter in his car wearing stereotypical Muslim garb, while being stopped at a bridge checkpoint. The guard at the checkpoint who is not in frame is holding a card which is in frame that showcases 6 race "color squares". The lightest 3 are separated into the "Okay" category on top, the darkest 3 are separated into the "Not okay" category on the bottom.

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[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

As we all know, communist countries would never harm the environment for productivity.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world -2 points 7 hours ago

Of course, thanks for admitting it

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago (12 children)

A bunch of people thinking they outsmarted the meme by asking "who made capitalism".

A better question is "when you say humans are a virus, which humans exactly do you propose to exterminate in the name of saving the planet?" Because the bunker-state ethnonationalist, the trumpists, the Peter Thiels and the Mark Andreesens, the Dark Enlightenment and Network State and Tech Zionism neofascists, they know exactly what they mean.

The earth is big enough to support modest human life. It's not big enough to support billionaires' delusions of singularity. So they imagine to purge the parts of humanity that are not their particular version of white.

Don't fall for their fascist propaganda.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago

It's easy, mulch all the sociopaths. Problem solved

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A better question is “when you say humans are a virus, which humans exactly do you propose to exterminate in the name of saving the planet?”

I don't propose to exterminate anyone. I think it's inevitable that the human virus will eventually kill its host.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago

If you think we are getting out of this worldwide authoritarianism surge without violence, you are a shitty student of history

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Can I achieve something by exterminating myself? It should do something, right?

Maybe not having to live in depressing world itself would be a great achievement.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

I'm sure the rhetoric stems from propaganda, I won't disagree there. But I don't think that trying to logic the analogy itself is the way to outline the problem with it.

Calling humans a 'virus' may not mean an extermination is the intention of the person regurgitating it. You can control a virus instead of just exterminating it, for example. It's just a term people are familiar with that they associate with abusing resources and multiplying beyond a sustainable level, thus creating a toxic environment around them.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Yep, those are all capitalist states.

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[–] H1jAcK@lemm.ee 86 points 1 day ago
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