• SuperDuper@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That’s a good point, but let me offer this as a counterargument: Mammon demands that we offer up the planet and all living species at the sacrificial altar of capitalism and he shall not be denied

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        8 months ago

        I’ll second the book… read it in highschool,

        It’s a bit sick-puppet-ish, but it’s still a good read.

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          8 months ago

          “sick-puppet-ish”. Haven’t heard that one before. Checked urban dictionary but… I’m guessing that’s not what you were going for?

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            8 months ago

            Sorry that should have been sock puppet.

            It’s a (usually bad) way to make an argument; you stand up a false opponent to argument, but because you’re writing both sides they tend to come around.

            You’ll see it a lot in “FAQs” put out by, for example, religiously minded folks “Sinners always ask how Boba Fet got out of the Sarlac pit”

            (Answer: he didn’t that’s a Disney myth to sell more merch.)

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    8 months ago

    So what? is the maker of this meme saying we need to do a “great reset” and start doing eugenics and culling of human beings?

    There’s several billionaires that literally say that on the reg in the WEF. Those are the people who started saying “you will own nothing and be happy” and want us to eat bugs and have obedience chips in our brains.

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      8 months ago

      Why does this discussion immediately turn to culling and eugenics? It’s like you can’t even admit there could be a problem. Fixing it will be hard, but few suggest those steps are the solution. Instead, it starts with realizing everyone can’t have the standard 2.5 kids. We cannot just keep going. Earth is finite and has finite resources. Adding people means less and less is available to everyone else. But people that want a ton of kids hate hearing that. So it becomes solution aversion (if you don’t like a solution, deny there is a problem) and strawmen, like claiming anyone that thinks there is overpopulation wants eugenics.

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      8 months ago

      Sensing motive: “Damn, I’m pretty sure that this wannabe capitalist is either a troll or a bot.”

      Edit: “oh look, I rolled a 20.”