Comment on An alien invasion
D_C@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
“Cheers. Can you zip back in about a 100 years and do it again?”
“… Ok, but why?”
“See, we humans, well, we really are a bunch of fucking morons.
Every hundred years or so we do the same moronic things. War, fascism, Nazis etc. It’d be great if you could do us a solid and revisit every 100 years or so. Also, kill all the billionaires on your way out. Nice one.”
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Tbf if we had ever made any attempt to not immediately put the fascists/slavers right back in power as soon as possible, and maybe kill them instead, things might not have gone this poorly.
What im saying is: end some family lines this time.
shneancy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
this will sadly still create power vacuums that the first moron who thirsts for power would leap at :(
just killing isn’t the solution, we need an already oiled up machine ready to take that space the instant they’re gone, you’d have maybe a week to figure all things out before people start grumbling about how things were better duing [regime] because at least they knew how to handle power
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
This is a concept that is treated as universal, and its really not. Its treated as unavoidable even in situations where it could occur, and it’s really not.
And in fact, killing all the hyper-authoritarians (or at least all of that kind of authoritarian-the irredeemable monster kind) and dismantling everything they built is the best way to stop that.
I find this phrase is almost without exception deployed to justify keeping momentum on horrible shit. It’s a massive red flag, almost a logical fallacy in itself.
Nope, gotta destroy their institutions and hunt down survivors, dispossess their heirs completely, at minimum, but i think if they’re old enough to talk they’re old enough to hang in this case. The harm of letting them live is too great.
Yeah thats optimal, but humans do actually have pretty good instincts for that. Like, shockingly good. Enough to bridge major gaps.
It’s usually tjose fuckers or their heirs doing the grumbling. Kill them; it wont be an issue.
I can’t help but notice you’re broadly suggesting we should avoid the result we’ve gotten every time by nit behaving too differently than we have every time in the past. I think we should try something different.
Natanael@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
In theory yes, the problem is you can’t identify them all ahead of time