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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Joke's on you. We're thinking about that all the time anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Any argument for your freedom is an argument for everyone's freedom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Whatcha out! He is behind you.

Billions of people turning back at the same time....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I am Lord Vishnu. I am your God

Just to see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pinky was the real star of pinky and the brain

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pssst, hey. You're in a simulation. Wake up!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

β€œIt has awoken, and it is coming.”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Buy a as much of xyz stock as possible. Plant thought "buy xyz stock".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

more happiness is more happiness for you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"I've seen that!"

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

Degrowth now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"Aspire to be Jessica Rabbit."

I wanna see what happens.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A really intense urge to fart. Let's see who acts on it lol

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hear me out first.

'Gender critical' theory. Everyone should have this theory, as originally defined, planted in their head. Men would only associate 'masculinity' with their role in providing semen for procreation. Women would only associate 'femininity' with their role in providing eggs for procreation.

There would be no gender-non-conformity because there would be no ideas about gender to conform to. A minority of men would, as an everyday thing, wear dresses. It would be impossible to verify that someone was a woman or not (short of x-raying their uterus).

The important thing, is that if this happened, the people currently claiming that they're 'gender critical' would lose their freaking minds.

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

This.... sounds very distopian.

Humans on earth would provide their recreational organs to a common cause.

There would be no physical sex (if I am right about what you wrote).

Freaky

[–] freamon 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha, no, I didn't mean it like that. The 'role of providing semen' and the 'role of providing eggs' would be during normal intercourse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's wild how threatening people find this idea. I really can't get understand why it is so hard to just imagine seeing each person as an individual. No one is walking around dividing the world a priori into "hockey fans or not" and thinking our society would collapse of if you couldn't do that all of a sudden.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Some would say Love is always the answer for everything. I think that would be a higher state for many. At the very least kindness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is "kill yourself immediately" too dark? Probably. But if like three billion people died suddenly and without a massive environmental impact like nukes or some other poisoning of the world, could solve a bunch of problems.

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

"A spectre is haunting Europe β€” the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact:

I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.

II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read the first sentence and was hoping you just wanted people to fear a vengeful ghost.

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