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bdonvr@thelemmy.club to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

This is really how they see the world

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This is really how they see the world

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bdonvr@thelemmy.club to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    yelling at every cat i see “get a fucking job”

    • goatbeard@lemm.ee
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      My freeloading orange roommate refuses to pay rent and makes me clean his shit

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        garf-troll yes-hahaha-yes-l

  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]@hexbear.netBanned
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    you go up to a baby like “what is your commercial purpose??? ANSWER ME” nad it’s all goo goo ga gah

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      That’s a big part of why children and especially babies basically do not exist in Ayn Rand fantasies. There’s some (ableist slur) children in The Fountainhead that are guilty of the crime of existing in a sacred rich asshole building without pulling their weight, but that’s it. porky-scared

      • Magician [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        All that said, the Ayn Rand School for Tots is one of my favorite bits from the Simpsons

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          agony-yehaw

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    God that’s disgusting. And even if I were to be as entirely self-serving and utilitarian as this person, we need our ecosystem as stable as possible for our own survival. Do these people think we live in a vacuum?

    • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Yes

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Do these people think we live in a vacuum?

      They believe in a version of the Happiness Monster that requires all the happiness in exchange for more happiness trickling down later, so the Happiness Monsters promise. It’s why a core belief of “Effective Altruists” is that climate collapse and environmental decay are irrelevant because they are looking billions of years into the future, where all those billions of years ahead require in the present is that billionaires get even richer, faster, so they can ostensibly build the robot god. lord-bezos-amused

    • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      smuglord The vacuum of space

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Commercial purpose is FUCKIN’ POLLINATING YOU ABSOLUTE KNOB

    • Vode An@lemmy.ml
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      I deeply despise people who flippantly dismiss entire swathes of existence for the sole reason they can’t profit off it. Imagine thinking plant pollination as a concept is best addressed by allowing the destruction of nature and having the tech industry engineer a solution that can be parceled off and sold after deciding it wasn’t profitable enough to prevent the pollinators going extinct.

      • jungekatz [comrade/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        I have seen the same argument against planting trees too , that tree planting is not profitable and hence it is not a good way to combat global warming ! I mean …

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          no see we have to financialise forests via carbon tax credits as industrial offsets. this is good for the environment.

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            Ignore the monoculture that results due to “best” financial practices.

        • Vode An@lemmy.ml
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          Carbon offset through tree planting is an objective good given the facts of modern existence, any opposing it should become a carbon offset by entering a pit. Just saying.

  • wopazoo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Fellas, what is pollination?

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      idk sounds gay

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        It kind of is crush

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          tag yourself i’m pollen receipt

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            bottom-speak

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              sicko-blur 🌻 🐝

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    I hate yellowjackets because they are little demons that try to sting you.

    You hate yellowjackets because they are unprofitable.

    We are not the same.

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      We can resolve this contradiction by setting up a fund to pay for the training of yellow jackets to mercilessly sting reactionaries.

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        Wasps against WASPs.

        • StalinwasaGryffindor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          speech-r kelly

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        sicko-laser

    • KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I felt so bad recently. Had to destroy some near my side door because delivery people were starting to put stuff there for ??? reasons. They also were starting to fly into the garage and get stuck and mad.

      Like guys can’t you go colonize a log or maybe the flower pot I put upside down explicitly for bumble bees.

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    “What Good Is a New-born Baby?”

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      I used to be a psychotic little Randian, trying to make sense of Objectivism’s ridiculous contradictions, until I realized I couldn’t square the circle of why people should have kids.

      Babies have absolutely no value in a purely individualistic profit-seeking world. Why would anybody have a kid if they can’t even send it to work in the uranium mines for 5 whole years?

      In other words, I realized that if everybody acted the way Ayn Rand wanted them to, that would be the last generation of a species that chooses to extinguish itself.

      Which is why children are as absent as the Working Class in all her books.

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        In other words, I realized that if everybody acted the way Ayn Rand wanted them to, that would be the last generation of a species that chooses to extinguish itself.

        No wonder so many Randroids openly hate children and have power fantasies of living forever.

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    Honestly, people in general need to be sat down and told that bugs are important towards a functioning world. The bumblebees, spiders, and potato bugs serve a vital role in the ecosystem of you having literally anything other than shit made of metal or plastic. Sorry, I tend to soapbox on this kinda stuff.

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      The bumblebees, spiders, and potato bugs serve a vital role in the ecosystem of you having literally anything other than shit made of metal or plastic

      For a lot of techbros, that’s the problem. They want nothing but shit made of metal or plastic or some bazinga VR heaven to escape to.

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        AI will find a way to eat metal

        • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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          If by AI you mean fungus, then yes

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    Uncritical support to non honey bees in their heroic struggle against the ecocidal human race 🐝 red-fist

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    me, a farmer, pointing to EVERY FUCKING THING OUTSIDE

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    Once again a comment I made on my bit account gets stated plainly without the irony, I think it’s impossible to do a good bit on Reddit or Lemmy because any ghoulish take you can think of ironically is something that some amount of users believe completely. Absurd.

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      “Ebenezer Scrooge and the Galactic Empire were good, actually.” smuglord

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      Wait so is it you in the screenshot?

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        No, it’s not. I made a similar comment about how I always carry a flyswatter with to take care of any useless stingers I see at some point, but it was meant to be obviously a joke. I think the person in the screenshot is being serious.

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    Talk to Silicon Valley computer touchers enough and sooner or later they’ll tell you that “meatspace” is so full of “inefficiencies” such as endangered species that should just die already in favor of more e-products taking their place. very-intelligent

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    Those bees won’t increase my profit margins, exterminate the competition porky-point

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    In bad country, the intelligentia have contempt for life itself and expect everything in the universe to serve some industrial end… or perish. amerikkka-clap

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      Color doesn’t have a commercial value, but they always show communism in grayscale

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        berdly-actually a number of specific hues of color are considered copyrighted by pompous rich assholes already!

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          I hate this country so goddamn much

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        Color doesn’t have a commercial value

        Some colours are actually trademarked. The exact shade of grey used on Amazon delivery vehicles is trademarked exclusively to them.

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          It’s great to know that if it was more profitable to apply a sepia filter to the US, capitalists would do it in a heartbeat.

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    lowkey i think im a sweat bee whisperer. whenever one is nearby it wants to just chill on me. im not even sweaty, maybe they think im a flower

    bumble bees are probably my favorite though, theyre so chubby and cute

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      goofy fluffy ass mfs

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