Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*

• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  oh yes i forgot about canada and greenland somehow, sorry

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  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Right wing ideologies hinge on distracting people from their problems instead of solving them.

    This arracts exclusively con men and dumb marks.

    And the distractions they choose always end up being the erasure of minorities.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean

  It’s been happening for the 99.9% of human existence

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    proof?

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    • williams_482@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There was organized violence deployed by groups of humans against other groups of humans long, long before anything we would recognize as warfare. Particularly brutal violence too, because the objective was not to conquer other people (something which only makes sense once agriculture is the dominant mode of sustinence), but to either drive off or exterminate a rival group so you can use their territory for yourself.

      And we don’t even need to talk about people here: we have records of chimpanzees fighting small scale wars of harassment and extermination against neighboring groups.

      Pre-modern, pre-civilization, pre-aggriculture, pre-you-name-it human life was far more violent than what we deal with today.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        We aren’t chimpanzees. As persistence hunters, our kinds of territorial disputes would have been very different and early humans were likely very nomadic rather than settling into territories that fight. In times of scarcity we’d just move on to different lands.

        Which, notably, is why humans spread over the entire planet. We aren’t really built to be fighters.

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  • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Doesn’t make it right. This is a civilized age and we must forever push for progress.

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    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No one said it was

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      • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fair enough

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  • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We also didn’t have modern medicine for 99.9% of human existence. Want to return to that?

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    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who said that?

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      • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Basic history told me that?

        Here, check under modern - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine

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  • shaggyb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same with smallpox.

    And we’re capable of better now.

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