• CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    None of the women I’ve dated have enough post apocalyptic potential either. One of them said they would kill themselves if a zombie apocalypse started. It takes a strong person for that, man or woman.

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      Are you implying suicide is a weak option? I don’t believe so. It’s not a stronger stance to side with a survival instinct; you could say it’s actually the easiest thing to do. It requires nothing more than to exploit our biology (adrenaline, aggression, etc.). Not to downplay the complexity of all of us animals, but it’s not extraordinary to behave like that, just as a lion or a rat would do too.

      The other option requires something unique to humanity (until now and as far as we know) that is to question our actions, to reflect upon them, to give them a personal value, and to make decisions upon all of this. Few animals commit suicide and probably most do so due to a pathological state and not a philosophical argument behind. To embrace this is very hard; it goes against our body’s program.

      I won’t say it’s necessarily stronger, but neither is it weaker. I admire the honesty and bravery of doing such questions.

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        Suicide is definitely the weakest option someone can take. Maybe you’ve never been suicidal, but I have, and that feeling is so strong. It wouldn’t feel like anything to end it, just a release. But it takes absolutely everything to keep going.

        You may have a point about surviving being instinctual, and therefore someone who is too dumb to even consider suicide I’m any situation, isn’t stronger for not having the thought. But I really don’t think that’s most people. I think most people that would have to struggle to survive an apocalypse, would absolutely be pushing through the urge to end it. Unless all that’s left is savages, suicide is weak as hell.

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    17 hours ago

    Lmao. In a post apocalyptic setting, Elon Musk is a trophy.

    He’d be paraded around on a leash.

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      Elon’s wealth comes from the value of Tesla stock - an overvalued PoS stock that has never paid a single dividend. His twitter loan was secured by Tesla stock, so the more the price tanks, at some point you’d think the loan would be called due.

      But hey, Elon is now in charge of government contracts and spending, what luck.

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      I keep saying that all the billionaires are imaginary. All their money is tied up in concepts. ;ie stocks, bonds etc. hell even land will be worthless in an apocalypse. At most their maybe worth a couple hundred in mill in cash liquidity. Which will also become worthless in an apocalypse…

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    I just want to remind everyone that those who call for war have never experienced it, and the closer you experience it, the less you want it.

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      The folks who come back from war and get folded into the police state are still hungry to relive their “glory” days. The dime store torture goons that have climbed up the rectum of the political system and now occupy Governorships and Senate Seats are sadists who long for the rush of hot blood splatter and the siren’s song of human screams. The gangs of rapists unleashed across Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq by their IDF commanders are like locusts - they’ve been created to destroy and that’s all they know how to do.

      The closer you are to war the more is transforms you into a creature of war.

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      I’ve always liked the idea that people who get a country into a war have to have skin in the game: either go to the frontlines, or have a family member there.

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    Like, we all joke. But Musk’s a carnival barker at heart. He’d fit right in alongside the Colonel Qaddafi and General Butt Naked crowd. The Northern Alliance was overflowing with ego-bloated horn dogs. The Columbian cartels are rife with tin pot business goons.

    You could change Noriega or Pahlavi or Bong Bong Marcos out with Elon Musk and nobody would notice a difference. Hell, there’s a reason a guy like Milei is bro-ing out Elon every chance he gets. They’re the same kind of guy.

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      You underestimate the atrophy having no financial needs or stress concerning any real aspect of survival can create. If we go back to caveman times, no one that has never experienced a blister on their feet is going to be surviving very long.

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    So is he just coming out and saying he’s driving the country into the ground? Is that the point of this? How does this idiot still have any support?

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    Moron billionaire class. Think they’ll survive the collapse of humanity in their bunkers. The reality being they will be murdered by their staff on day one.

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    I’ve probably got twice the warlord potential he has. Which is to say, I have really shit warlord potential.

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    "I am setting this country up for anarchy with governance by warlords. "

    I wouldn’t even pick Elon in a fight with Meal Team 6.

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    He’s since deleted the post, but in a followup comment he mentioned the irony of talking about becoming a warlord using a picture of Max, a noted warlord killer.

    As typical for all right-wingers, Musk is utterly incapable of critically examining art.

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        Cyberpunk IS cool as long as I get to experience it as a little mental retreat, a neon colored view of the what-if from the comfort of my chair in my paid off house in a country with universal healthcare and strong worker rights.

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    Yeah, because when the world crumbles, it’s going to be that walking bag of mayonnaise and bile that people are going to want in charge.

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      when the world crumbles,

      when? shit’s on fire yo.

      that walking bag of mayonnaise and bile that people are going to want in charge.

      well put. unfortunately I think we’re here, now.