| ▲ | vlan0 2 days ago |
| Exactly this. They live in houses with glass windows. We could take this world any time we choose. |
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| ▲ | pavas 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Chill out brother. Life's good. |
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| ▲ | vlan0 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | That is exactly the type of pacificity that plays into their hand. Life is good and bad at the same time. It is important to hold those two at the same time. | | |
| ▲ | pavas 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | I donno for me life's just good. I'm living that Asterix lifestyle lol. |
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| ▲ | lyu07282 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Don't worry nobody here said anything even remotely political, it wouldn't even occur to them, so your status quo is safe. | | |
| ▲ | pavas 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ah, "status quo", that's a Latin phrase! I'm particularly fond of "carpe diem": seize the carp! |
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| ▲ | scottyah 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But then you'd have to live in it, and it sounds like you'd have a world where people with nice things don't live long |
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| ▲ | vlan0 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Nah, nothing wrong with nice things. But if those nice things only exist because someone else on the planet had to suffer.... |
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| ▲ | jubilanti 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| But the people almost never do, and that reason is power. |
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| ▲ | mrguyorama 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The reason is gambling. The vast majority of people don't want to take the bet of a tiny chance of doubling their lot in life for the downside risk of literally being tortured and dying and probably ruining the life of any loved ones. Most people aren't degenerate gamblers. The workaround is organization. With sufficient organization, you can start to drag the tiny chance to a slightly bigger chance, and slightly reduce the downside risk maybe. Some parts of American society are absurdly bad at organizing, and basically gave up 60 years ago. |
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