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I was bordering suicidal this morning due to some of the dark feelings I felt. Slowly coming away from that now, but still feel like hangovers just destroy me now

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

If aging didn’t exist Kissinger would yet live. I’m willing to die so that the people I hate also share that fate. Just wish it wasn’t so slow and humiliating.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes but consider - Countless millions of people victimized by Kissinger would have remained young, virile, healthy, and capable of carrying out unlikely political assassinations. Imagine a world where every old, broken communist could bench their own weight and run a ten minute mile and would bring all their hatred, rage, and sorrow to war with all the vitality they had when they were 20?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There would be more permanently young ghouls.

Our main obstacle is our lack of numbers. Granting eternal youth to all would only magnify that.

So long as death and crippling are on the table it advantages us because asymmetrical warfare and terrorism are our tools: a stratagem that allows a single person to affect hundreds.

Look at that anarchist who had a convoluted shoved and accomplished nothing, dying doesn’t matter unless you get an x+1:x ratio out of it.

Just my opinion though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's just vaush an "anarchist" youtuber who this forum despises. For good reason, he's basically a liberal calling himself a leftist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought Vaush ID as a different ideology. Good to know next time a certain acquaintance annoys me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Oh God my condolences you have someone in your social circle who watches Vaush.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Worse, a nato anarchist. This bastard had Gulag archipelago on his nightstand the last time I came overs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it's not your opinion it's objectively correct

old age is the only reason we don't live in a perma-giga-fucked up kingopoly of the first guy to ever take power

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

we don't live in a perma-giga-fucked up kingopoly of the first guy to ever take power

They had to shoot Nicholaus and he claimed he was Caesar of the Romans, a guy who died 2,000 years ago I do not see our actual situation being different.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint I wanna vibe forever and I need to be young and healthy to do it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Counter counterpoint: there are less comrades than ghouls. If one of us being forced to be mortal is true, like a hindered of them have to die too. For the greater good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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What if we make a special exception for me?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I you rock currently, are you sure an immortal you wouldn’t become worse?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think I’d get really zen with it. And probably could help people better investing and shit long term

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, I’m that case I hope you get the chance to test it out. A failed immortal comrade is better than no immortal comrade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you for your support comrade 🫡

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

counter counter counterpoint - it's been 99 to one in favor of re-distributing all the land to the peasants since they invented peasants, it only seems the other way around now because of a fluke of propaganda and, i cannot stress this enough, because all the people who actually lived under communism either died already or weren't old enough to remember it. Plus, there are 1.3 billion Chinese people and while they're not all ideological communists there's still a lot of them. The whole thing with the left is that it benefits the vast majority of people, while every other system by design only benefits like 5 specific people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All true, I easily grow discouraged living in land of the lumpen. I need to keep more of a global perspective. Thanks for the reminder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Totes relatable my immediate social environment has been disheartening for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

For real people not dying is part of the reason society is upset right now, and Altered Carbon takes this to an extreme.