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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 4 weeks ago

The bad guys also learn. They learn how to replicate shit while having a plauible deniability baked in to avoid any real consequences.

It's the cult that wholesale buys into these tactics that create a barrier for any progress or justice.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

[drinking intensifies]

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's always astonishing to me how we have record lows of alcohol usage while everything burns around us.

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 34 points 4 weeks ago

We're so fucked

[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's hard watching the people around me make the same mistakes they always make and complain about the same mistakes they always make.

It's hard watching large organizations and states make the same mistakes they always make and blame everyone else for the mistakes they always make. Even when history proves them wrong.

I can never understand why people argue for 8+ billion people on this planet when we collectively refuse to learn from mistakes.

I'm tired...

[+] wheezy@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago (24 children)

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[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

before I jump to conclusions.

Population control is not a solution.

I didn't state anything about population control.

I'm merely exhausted by the complexity that people must deal with for each person we add to this planet. That complexity would be far more manageable if humans didn't reproduce exponentially.

Yes we can support support 8 billion people. But why? From my understanding we got here mainly because capitalism and war has a high demand for warm bodies.

Maybe we can learn from our mistakes and deal with them rather than making excuses to remain on course for pain, suffering and disaster. Us humans learning and overcoming our current situation has the benefit for all life on this planet.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

We got here pre-modern medicine has a high demand for babies (most of whom will die before reproducing). And agrarianism has a high demand for children (who become productive workers on the farm young).

Developed countries almost universally have birth rates below replacement levels. Their populations have internalized the facts that babies will almost always survive into adulthood. And children are a massive economic cost for decades. And that cost is often never paid back to the parents who incurred most of it. As long as contraceptives continue to make children typically a choice, and you get sub replacement levels of reproduction.

Sure, the capitalists would like for there to be more children to grow into workers and keep the machine humming along. However, they would also like to not pay for that; and by and large haven't been.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

This, we have the ability to support everyone anyway.

People like solving problems with killing and death because they've been taught to do this, and it is such an easy cop out. Don't want to train you dog? Kill it. Problem solved. Don't want to trim your tree or pick up leaves in the fall? Kill it, chop it down, problem solved.

This provides enough serotonin and dopamine when faced with issues, that it conditions people to use "kill it" as an easy solution for everything. Even if it isn't the solution they settle on, it is such a habit and so comforting neurochemically that they will make like reflexive quips to keep it as a fantasy option even. Too many people in their opinion? Kill em, feels great, problem solved, easy, never even had to think but I feel as satisfied as if I DID think

[–] canajac@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All society needs to do is stop having babies for 20 years.....

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago

It's honestly agonizing.

Some of it is just natural aging and realizing fellow adults don't grow up intellectually with you. Like how can a 35yr old not know that Alaska isn't an island?

But then some of it is societal regression via memes and lack of pursuing further education.

So the 2 things together have me pretty pissed

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Time is a mother fucker of a flat circle and it only has around 100 years on it.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

You can tell it's about to start repeating itself when kids start getting called the names of your great-grandparents.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

looks at climate graph

I WISH TIME WAS A 100 YEAR CIRCLE.

[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

I never thought I would see anyone else say it, finally!

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Problem with learning history is that if you have the bare minimum of morals and concept of fairness, USA ends up looking like the root cause for many current global problems. Look a bit further back, and UK and parts of Europe gets iffy.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, let's not give China a free pass here.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Those who know are doomed to know that it's repeating.

Somehow, I like their phrasing a little better. Feels more like what I experience reading the news.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or science. Or technology. Knowing things is so fucking depressing because you'll have your family members saying/believing the most damning things and there's literally nothing you can do to teach them.

[–] groovyplane@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Joan is a real treasure of common sense, We luv Joan from mastadon🥰

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Beer Hall Putsch

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You should learn history and fo lots of unhalants and wear a toga so you can nail yoyr Cassandra larp.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

u ok?

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

No. I learned too much history and hurt myself saying itoldyouso too hard.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

😑 — Yang Wen-Li

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

I wish it was just ignorance.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Were already trying to one up Hitler.