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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

These useless techbros have all decided that they are the best humanity has ever produced and their genes should be the only ones to survive while everyone else dies off. Meanwhile it's glaringly obvious to all the rest of humanity that philosophically ignorant fascist eugenicist techbro narcissists are among the worst humanity has produced.

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, not to play devil’s advocate, but they do own and control virtually every facet of global society…

Granted, probably not for much longer. But, it is pertinent that we live in the status quo we do.

Over the years we’ve gradually seen this ratio in society of wealth vs the size of the population it is concentrated getting more and more grotesque. First we had the 1%, then the 0.1%, then the 0.00001%… shit recently we saw that some ridiculously small number of individuals you can count on your hands own over half of the entire globe’s wealth.

Does this mean these people are somehow superior superhuman specimens? No, of course not.

I’m not so willing to accept that the increasingly small circle of people who control society is decided by lot, either, though. When global wealth is further concentrated, how do they even decide who gets kicked off the island, so to speak? Everyone has their snarky answer of how they can so obviously see how this works, usually based on their life experience or something they’ve read, but I genuinely don’t think anyone public is privy to the true nature of this system. And you or I are in no place to even ponder it, or make wild conjecture, as it exists in a world so far removed from us as to be alien. We couldn’t even know where to begin.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

lol. Fuck off.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Elon would look better 6 ft down in a hole

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Cool cool cool just one more god I don’t believe in. Throw him on top of the pile

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" -Mike Tyson.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's a reason he has bodyguards

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And a meat shield in the form of his youngest son.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Doesn't seem to protect him from getting a black eye.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

I mean it doesn't have to be physical. Look how he collapsed into a quivering little hissy fit when he got kicked out of the inner circle thinking he was going to be president with his doge plan.

[–] makki@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

He recently posted a totally real ^/s^ drug test result showing he’s not on any drugs.

Of course, it makes explaining his behavior really difficult.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

That's between him and the little green man who thinks cheetos are the secret to life, the universe, and immortality

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

some people are better for every living and nonliving thing in the universe if they are dead.