• snoons@lemmy.ca
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    14 minutes ago

    I would kill people that don’t deserve it (no one deserves it really), but those people, or rather groups of people, are inherently intertwined with the maintenance and proliferation of global power structures that feed off of inequality and suffering.

    Their sudden absence will have unforeseeable consequences of course, but the world will be incredibly more based without them.

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    4 hours ago

    The sci-fi version of that is “we built the torment nexus from that famous book ‘don’t build the torment nexus’”

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      if you’re doing that don’t forget the non gop that jump ship and conveniently vote with the gop in minimum quantities to win the vote. or just be lazy and all the politicians that aren’t demonstrably not evil

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        6 hours ago

        Why? It dealt with the obvious themes of post 9/11 crime and surveillance with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, the main characters were exaggerated views of what a stupid person thinks a clever person is like, and everything was contrived.

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          4 hours ago

          … because of those things you said. Mid being very high praise as it was clearly less than that.

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            3 hours ago

            I stopped at exactly the halfway point, as there’s clearly a reflection point downwards from that point on. Almost like some invisible hands at the editorial twisted the authors’ hands.