• grue@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    That’s because they do intend to depopulate the US by force.

    (Note that a reduction of 100 million is way more people than the number of immigrants than we actually have, but does roughly correspond to the number of non-white citizens.)

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if they also intend to depopulate the world. With careful engineering they probably have ideas how to pull it off. Crime, wars, plagues, neglect, economics, from the perspective of a billionaire the world would be a lot better place with a lot fewer people on it, solving pollution and global warming, providing much less strain on all the limited resources that all their fun projects could use instead while turning more of the Earth into their personal “nature preserves” with all the carefully cultivated charm and ecological desertification of a freshly mowed lawn or a lake stocked with fish.

      Remember that these are people who are very selective about what sort of lived human experiences they choose to value. And most of us aren’t on their list. We are only here because we are useful, for now. But they’re working hard to make it so that we’re no longer useful, and I’m sure they’ve already thought that through. They don’t want a society of leisure for us. They want a society of leisure without us.

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      8 days ago

      BTW, the Japanese guy who originally made the artwork was so angry he tried filing a DMCA for misuse.

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      8 days ago

      This is why the rumors of there being a Department of Remigration is so alarming. It really looks like they EVENTUALLY want to get rid of all non-white people.

      Which won’t come as a surprise to anyone paying attention, but there’s a depressing number of people who insist on keeping their heads in the sand.

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      8 days ago

      Jesus fuck. I hate this timeline. I couldn’t dream this nightmare up myself.

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      8 days ago

      It really boils down to whether you value human life and the value the lived human experiences of all humans, or just a select subset that normally includes yourself. Some people’s subsets are quite narrow and correspond quite closely with skin color, but the real difference isn’t how exactly you choose who to value, it’s that you choose to value some more than others at all.

      Some people call this selfishness. Some people call it practicality. I have some pretty strong opinions about it myself, but I’ll let you figure out for yourself. It shouldn’t be difficult, and if you have some difficulty with it and feel like you need to debate this or argue your position to me, you’re probably wasting your time.