• Hayduke@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Curious what the end game is here. What is ultimately driving the desire to effectively accelerate preventable diseases? The nihilistic side of me is on board, but the realistic and empathetic side of me simply cannot spin a single positive goal out of it.

    I guess it’s the whole MAGA “it doesn’t have to make sense, it just needs to stay on message” thing.

    Crazy

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      1 day ago

      The nihilistic side of me is on board

      What is it that you think nihilism is? Kind of bullshit that it’s so often used as shorthand for “person that does a dark depraved thing”.

      That’s not what nihilism is.

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        Not sure how that was misinterpreted there. Basically the exact initial core definition of it. The belief that nothing fundamentally matters, the values of life in general are cosmically irrelevant, that coupled with the idea that humans are a plague on the planet. Should the population become halved or eradicated by diseases that could have been prevented, I wouldn’t protest.

        But it was a tongue-in-cheek comment, on the internet, on a random post on a little used social media platform.

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      @Hayduke @vegeta

      The end game:

      “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.” - Nikita Khrushchev

      “The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.” - Nikita Khrushchev

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      2 days ago

      They’re trying to increase their own power by squeezing the existing power entirely into the least amount of oligarchs possible because less people is less people they have to care about to get paid. That or the less people they have to kill to own everything themselves… or both.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I see it as likely either:

      1. Wanting to murder wide swaths of the population so that they are less worried about uprisings.
      2. The Evangelical Doomsday Cult wanting to maximize harm to humanity so that they can bring about their Armageddon.