[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 33 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Israeli warmongers like Netanyahu perverting what it means to "learn from history," and dishonoring the struggles of those that came before them by taking on the methods of those that tried to snuff them out to snuff out a different people. (and it wasn't just camps, they starved them in the ghettos they locked them in as well.)

The I'm sure intentional lack of self-awareness is darkly cartoonish.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 67 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If you force the peasants to stayed paired off and breed, especially in desperate, abusive conditions, they will produce the best kind of exploitation livestock for our glorious capitalist owners: the desperate kind that tolerates any abuse.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I mean, the nice thing about screwing this up is that you'd be dead before you ever realized you screwed up.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

What a lovely metaphor for the self-created doom our species is sleep walking towards.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 65 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

We're patient zero for the world's current greed disease.

Not only won't we go along, our purchased government will internationally war against this. Never forget we destabilized the South American continent, a government at a time, to keep their markets open for capitalist exploitation and snuff out any potential examples of an economy that serves its people, as opposed to a society that subsists in service to an economy as it is here and increasingly everywhere.

We're a big reason the global owner class has so much unelected, unaccountable power that needs to be fought to begin with, our government has spent decades convincing other governments to "turn the bull loose" to open their markets to unchecked capitalist exploitation and betray their people under the promise that their elite can live like gluttonous modern Pharoahs for their betrayal. The UK has fully fallen to this as just one example.

This initiative for all intents and purposes is an attack on the United States and everything its people THAT MATTER, not us, stand for.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 39 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

A smiling face made from living human skin could one day be attached to a humanoid robot

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago

TODAY THEY LEARNED FACEBOOK IS CITED AS A FACTOR IN 20% OF US DIVORCES!

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"It's just business"

-Sociopaths

It's amazing the inhumanity that little thought terminating cliche validates. Basically "Just following orders" for capitalists.

The reality is hurting others for money as the motivation makes hurting others worse not better. I might hurt someone to save my child's life from certain death in some odd hypothetical, or to avenge my child's death in another, but hurting people... for money? That's as monstrous a reason as doing it for fun.

It's like we're taking crazy pills. "Oh, they were cruel and hurt that person? Let's get them! Ohhhh they did it for private profit, well that's ok then nevermind!"

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here in Murica, with insurance, if you need a surgery for a knee or hip replacement, news flash, the doctor usually schedules your surgery for several weeks to months out. Almost no American will be diagnosed as needing a knee replacement, and have said knee replacement that day or that week.

Herp derp wAiT LiSTs!!!!111 right here in the US.

Defending our gold plated shithole country, especially with false talking points, doesn't help you or this gold plated shithole country.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 65 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Jesus Christ of the New Testament was a dark skinned communist who belabored loving and helping immigrants to his followers, whipped the greedy, and informed them they would go to hell if they didn't stop being selfish fucks.

If the Jesus of the new Testament both existed and returned, the "Christian" right would be first in line to kill him again so they could get back to worshipping this guy:

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Whenever I dare to hope about the lofty, admirable star trek future, I remember that space is completely unforgiving and we just aren't up to the task for anything more than a token selfie by the best dozen humans we can possibly produce with great effort and training.

As a species, we aren't going to spread out there. Still too primitive, and probably too self-destructive to make it out of this phase of evolution. This might be one of those great filters scientists postulate as to why there aren't signals from innumerable civilizations out there.

We aren't even capable of caring for one another, let alone the EASIEST to maintain, most naturally human friendly habitat we would ever encounter in the cosmos as we evolved to fit it. No airlocks, the air/water/waste recycling was already fully automated, all we had to do was not recklessly grow/metastasize to the point we strain the absolutely massive system out of greed and glut, and stop carelessly shitting where we sleep. We all know how that's been going since we figured out how to make dead animal poison rocket us accross town.

Master space? Master planetary defense? We can't even defend this world from our own habitual consumerism. We'll be lucky if we aren't scattered tribes living near the old hardened structures of the before times for emergency shelter from the new normal weather events in a hundred years. We're already starting to argue over the resources it's taking to rebuild population centers from the current new normal. We have played pretend we were since human civilization began, but we are NOT and never have been this world's owners or masters, and we are still very much its subject.

And Reminder, what we're doing and have been doing in decades won't be undone for millions of years. The Earth is a self-correcting system, and the damage we're doing is inconsequential to its 3.8 billion year old, beautiful story of life growing out of every crevice, just not on a timescale humans can benefit from or even truly appreciate.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - Great Filter

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Allonzee@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

Would I hurt other people in some strange hypothetical to literally save my family's life from certain death? Maybe, and I'd be guilt ridden about it for the rest of my life.

Would I hurt people to make more money? Of course not, and that's not a defensible reason to hurt others... at all, and it makes you deeply broken at your core, especially as habit.

Really the only thing I can think of as a more horrifying reason to be cruel to others than "for money herp derp" would be "because its fun!"

Hurting others for profit in the name of business shouldn't be a defense, it should be considered an admission of guilt and come with consequences.

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