• TOR-anon1@lemmy.world
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    fortune:

    We know next to nothing about virtually everything.  It is not necessary
    to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know.
    Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition
    to crave knowledge.
                    -- George Will
    

    or

    What fools these mortals be.
                    -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    
  • CarlCook@feddit.de
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    Everything is connected with everything and therefore reacts to everything, so treat you and your surrounding with kindness and empathy.

  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    There are only a couple thousand billionaires. Their locations are listed here. Today is a World holiday. The official end of colonialism. Redistribution day. The purge.

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      I don’t want to kill billionaires. I just want them to pay for their fair share based on their exploitation of the broken system we’re forced to live in.

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        I’m not inciting any particular outcome. Send them all to be little emperors of Corsica or to a reunion on Reunion. Billionaires are all criminal parasites. That kind of money is not possible when treating people rights and working honestly. Everything that is wrong with the world right now stems from this corruption of a few people that have been left completely unchecked. They bribe and fund more and more corruption in a spiraling feedback loop that will never stop. Their social position must be eliminated. Whatever that means for the human under the surface is what it is. 2k people are irrelevant to the lives of 8 billion humans.

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        Their fair share would be everything. All they have.

        Killing them is not out of spite. It’s because we know they will never give up all they stole.

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    Maybe I’m not an amazing perfect person. Maybe I should try some introspection and look critically at my own thoughts and actions.

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        No, the opposite of that. Blows my mind the effort people put in to help people that dont deserve or dont want to be helped.

        But when it comes to animals that dont apply anymore.

        You can eat good food without hurting anyone.

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    If it is that I’m planting an idea in people’s heads, then it’s that I’m their king. World peace is only minutes away! Climate change addressed immediately! Corporations stripped of their power in the face of new labor laws!

    If I’m just communicating, then it would have to be something absurd, like “bite my shiny, metal ass.”

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      Just because you’re their king now doesn’t mean there wouldn’t almost certainly be a revolution. And even if their wasn’t, you would most likely find managing 8 billion people quite stressful, and you might become consumed by power.