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The Aliens did a little trolling

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While saying, “stupid assholes there are no proper races of humans just color variations”.

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    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Human “races” are Functionally more closely related to dog breeds than anything else, but far less extreme in variation of features.

      A chihuahua is more different compared to a great dane than you are from any other ethnicity of fellow human.

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      • effward@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Who is downvoting this??

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  • SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess we can eliminate formula one. Seems kinda boring to me.

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    • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll take F1 over Nascar any day.

      Disclaimer: I’ve never sat down to watch either, but if the choices are “turn left” or “winding, twisting course” I think I’m going with the one that has more variety.

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      • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Massive F1 fan here.

        It’s more of an engineering sport than a driving sport. Don’t get me wrong– the drivers are absolutely top notch and do an incredible job and it’s entertaining to watch. But since it’s sooooo engineering and development based, you cars that perform different on different tracks (cuz of elevation, temperature, track design, surface).

        It’s pretty neat; worth a watch sometime!

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s the difference between a marathon and an obstacle course.

        Nascar has some really crazy shit, like building a twisted car to turn left, canting the engines to perform better in turns, making the car as flat as possible on the right to get better aero when up against the wall. They do some wild stuff with the cars, and stretching the rules or “cheating” was, and probably is, a huge part of the sport.

        When it comes to the racing itself, the track layout is usually designed with top sustained speed in mind, which means that a lot of the driver’s finishing position is determined by their ability to battle it out with the other drivers, instead of their ability to optimize the course. Not to mention, that simple “left turn” is deceptively complex. Drivers account for track conditions, like foreign debris, rubber “marbles”, bank angle, and temperature, atmospheric conditions like air density, car conditions like damage, fuel, tire wear and tire temp, and race conditions like remaining laps, position and proximity to other drivers, when they make that “simple left”. Throw in make-or-break pitstops, where the car gets fuel, tires and repairs in less than 10 seconds, and the fact that almost all of this is happening at 170+ MPH, and you realize that oval racing isn’t just a bunch of hilljacks turning left, but a modern gladiator-style chariot race.

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    • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He said a race, not a racing series. Get rid of Abu Dhabi and we’re good.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guess I’m post-racism because my first thought was “mosquitoes”.

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    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mine was NASCAR

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    • yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fuck yeah Mosquito Genocide crew!

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    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …race of mosquitoes?

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        After some research prompted by your comment I think my French/ignorance might be showing, as the correct word would be species.

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    • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Aren’t you fucking enlightened.

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  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is only one race.

    [writes down "humans" on ballot]

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    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, in this scenario we’ve established that there’s at least one alien species as well.

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      • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But does it have subraces of the species?

        (technically there are no human races in biological terms, by the way, there’s not enough difference)

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    • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      False. There is also 3-legged.

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      • SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In Hungary it’s a singles event.

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      • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We’re not playing Sons of the Forest over here.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is rich a race?

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I had to choose a race to be eliminated to get the alien tech, I’d go with potato sack. Some people might miss it, but I feel like it’s time to let that one go.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree. The three legged race is too much of a classic. The feeling of flow state when you and your partner get moving quick is too good. Sack races never feel fun. Just painful.

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    • Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Potato sack > 400m, change my view

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    • BluesF@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agree 100% I embarrassed myself thoroughly in the sack race as a child and would like all future examples banned.

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  • satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Human race 💪

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    • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      we have a thinker

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I am not voting.

    If they were really a benevolent species, they wouldn’t play this mind game to begin with.

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    • Varan1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They sound Abrahamic as fuck

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    • gearheart@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ThiS says more about humanity than the aliens.

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      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well it might make perfect sense from their perspective, there might be a million alien species on the galactic council who all agree they don’t want to deal with a species that won’t purge at least one race.

        It’s unlikely but possible, we have literally no way of knowing or really guessing anything about how an alien race or empire might think. They might be shocked and confused we don’t kill our enemies children, bemused that we ended slavery, disgusted that we don’t torture criminals for sport…

        An even scarier thought is that we might agree with them in a hundred or thousand years, it seems impossible to imagine but to me it seems impossible to imagine slavery was ever a thing or that they put criminals heads on pikes for everyone to see.

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    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t they?

      Maybe shit like that is the kind of wake up call our species would need to finally get us on the path to a post-race society.

      Maybe they know we need a bit of a nudge and they decided they’d be the one to give it to us.

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Look if Covid-19 wasn’t an effective enough wake up call, I don’t think anything will be.

        Pretty sure this is just going to start off a race war

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    my answer is the same as bill burr’s, people who go on cruises, nothing of value is lost

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is Finnish genocide

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  • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    my choice would prob be a 15k. at that point I’ll just do a half marathon, thanks.

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    • teuast@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      how about the Abu Dhabi Tour? A week-long stage race on the least interesting terrain on the planet. The first stage frequently has a finishing straight that’s 60k long.

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think they would say, “Ok you all voted for synonyms of human race so lets start the killing”

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  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would 100% read this book

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m wait for the Netflix show

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      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They will release one episode a month to milk your $99 per month introductory rate. The runtime will be 21 minutes with 39 minutes of ads interspersed.

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      • 1847953620@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ew

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  • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of that Black Mirror episode when people could post names of people they wanted to be killed and every day the most posted person were killed. After some time, the man behind that killed all of the people who voted for anybody.

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    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So in that killer’s mind, wanting someone killed was the morally indefensible crime but actually killing ludicrous numbers of people is not? And he nor anyone else questioned that? 🤔

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      • MasterPraetorian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bit of context and spoilers - He was making a statement about social media threats/harassment

        The first part - using social media - whoever people vote to be killed, gets killed. Trying to show these actions have consequences. The people voting feel immune to these consequences. They just voted, they didn’t kill anybody.
        He goes through 5 rounds of voting, with more votes every time. After each round, the most voted for is killed.

        Up to this point he’s exposing people trying to use social media to try and harm people Eventually he turns it around, and kills everyone who voted

        The whole thing kicked off because his friend/romantic interest tried to commit suicide from cyber bullying. He’s pushing that these actions have consequences, even if you hide behind a screen.

        The killer himself is a psycho, so the morals aren’t exactly impactful to him. As for anyone else questioning, the definitely do.

        Disclaimer - been a while since I watched the episode. It’s pretty good, definitely need some suspension of disbelief (but that’s most episodes)

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      • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah people don’t think too deep about TV shows

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ah yes the “I’m covered in bees!” episode.

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    • Magrath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which episode is that? I must’ve missed it.

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      • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think it’s S03E06 Hated In The Nation

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      • fosho@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        the bees episode.

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    • Perfide@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Name of episode?

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      • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think it’s S03E06 Hated In The Nation

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  • CosmoNova@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aliens would be really disappointed to find out we already have blue checkmarks invented and people don‘t care nearly enough about it.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Chinese would probably vote Japanese

    China’s neighbours would for China

    Majority white and black would vote for each other

    And nothing we didn’t already know would be revealed

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You really think the majority wouldn’t vote for “none”, given it’s an option?

      Even if one were to think practically about it (if we all vote none, they won’t share the tech or whatever, for the sake of they hypothetical), wouldn’t most people just choose a super small ethnic group?

      Like sorry Inuits, hate to say it but ya’ll shoulda tried imperialism lmao

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      • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Based on the way the meme plays off, the only practical way to get the tech would show you value life over technology, hence the option for none, if it’s not a consensus for none how could you expect that species to act responsible with the tech and hence the tattooing and leaving.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m saying none wasn’t given as an option so it should be assumed to not be

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      • ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Right, that’s what I was thinking : just try to pick the smallest race. I’m guessing the majority would try to do the same thing. Obviously you have people who hate other races, but I’m hoping that even if 30% have the same idea, maybe it limits casualties… unless we’re all allowed to Google though, I’m guessing most of us have different guesses as to what the smallest race is

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    • FUBAR@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Neither Chinese nor Japanese are a race. They’re the same race with different nationality

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      • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I feel like a lot of us (myself included) would vote for things that aren’t races because we don’t understand the difference

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There are a lot of people that treat it as such

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, if “none” wins then no one is killed and you get no technology. That’s my interpretation at least.

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      • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Based on the fact they tattoo your answer afterwards, the only way you would have gotten technology is by voting none in a consensus showing you value life over technology, therefore your more likely to be responsible with it, vote on anything other than none and you have voided your ability to be responsible hence no technology. The fact this is not a more common interpretation is honestly disheartening.

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  • Chr0nos1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m concerned about the amount of people in this post that aren’t just saying that None is the correct answer, but are instead trying to come up with a race to pick.

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    • LostWon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was once among a group of (fellow) university-educated expats, during a stint living abroad in the 2000s. While we were socializing, somebody asked everyone to say what group of people they would make disappear. (I can’t remember if it was kill/erase/nuke/remove from a map that was said, but something along those lines.) People’s answers that day (and their insistence that I, too, should “jokingly” hate some group of people and want them to die) taught me a lot. On top of that, I also am part of one of the groups that was named (no, I am not mixed race-- it was just ignorance the guy’s part).

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    • Darorad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the premise of the question means none wouldn’t be an option, but yeah, entertaining it is weird.

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      • constantturtleaction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        None is specifically called out as being an option.

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      • desconectado@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s an option, but if “none” wins then there’s no shared knowledge of anything.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I vote for eliminating the greyhound race

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    • Hank@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah you mean racing. For a moment I wanted to argue that it's more humane to eradicate pugs due to their miserable health problems.

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  • daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “uhhhh I would just say none. uhhh I would just say the indie 500.”

    Really? Not the british? Come on I thought this one would be easy

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  • XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    pedantic_mode 1

    As there’s only one race, I guess everyone who chose anything but none gets the human race symbol (???) tattoed on their face. Still would be fun to see who chose to have other humans killed.

    Now, if the OP in 4chan meant ethnicity, that’s a different story.

    pedantic_mode 0

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Half of Africa is going to have “French” tattooed on their foreheads, and they’ll be even angrier for having a French symbol part of them.

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  • tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can I select all races?

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  • Atlas_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I vote to be rid of rat race

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  • phx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d try and convince them that politicians are a race…

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  • Evilsmiley@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everyone who chose to purge the aliens are going to start a goddamn crusade

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  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is just the beginning of what could be a great movie.

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  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The result would be a genocide, but this time you can identify the jews by not having a star of david anywhere on their body.

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  • SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What if, instead of a tattoo, everyone who voted just becomes that race?

    The logistics would be tricky. Aside from the fact that race doesn’t exist, people within an ethnicity don’t all look the same. And would they still have the background of however they were originally born?

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That might be kind of convenient actually - racist assholes of all colours will label themselves and probably kill eachother while (hopefully) most of the population’s foreheads will read “None”.

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can I write in “mosquitos” for extermination, or is it a multiple choice ballot?

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aliens observing will think this already happened here. The chaos is real presently. I’m checking this off list of things to worry about.

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  • melooone@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Products and services that hide/remove that tattoo would skyrocket. Tattoo removal places would probably become super rich.

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