• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

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      When I said “humans are the virus,” I think people heard “so we should kill the people I don’t like,” and missed the part where I don’t like all humans.

      I don’t say it anymore, because I don’t want to be overlapped with fascists who apparently say the same thing.

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      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.

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      1 day 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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          I disagree, there are some psychotic people in power and they don’t care one iota about anyone but themselves and maybe a small handful of like minded people. To me they should be wiped from the earth.

          You are correct that the planet can support a certain number (whatever that number is), but not with these people in power.

          Now will we be able to truly figure which ones are the correct ones, probably not but we need to keep looking and root them out, expose them to the world and then let nature take its role once they are all hanging from the highest most visible place for all to see what happens when you are the virus that is continuously trying to destroy the world.