I, for one, support Musk and Trump using their respective cudgels of capital and government to beat one another bloody.

If we’re going to burn, and it looks like we absolutely will, why not have a little entertainment?

We never left might makes right, we just dressed it up all pretty. I was referring the the equality of extinction.

Lol, in the end capitalism will bring social equality 💀

Guess the capitalists were filthy commies all along.

Them lazy socialists will use any excuse to avoid work!

“boo hoo we’re tired! We’re starving! Our lungs burn when we breathe! This is a recorded message, We’ve gone extinct!”

No one wants to work anymore…

I think you’re confusing misanthropy based on the data with eco-fascism. Eco-fascists want to destroy heavy industry attempting to save humanity from itself. I’m saying we aren’t worth saving, and the earth doesn’t need saving from us because it has a mechanism to deal with us.

It isn’t advocating violence, and therefore isn’t fascism of any stripe, to acknowledge the reality that we are subject to our habitat, not the other way around. Our species has lost respect for the very ground beneath our feet, and we aren’t the first problematic mutation that altered the climate that the planet had to correct for. See the trees of the carboniferous period. We’re merely the first species that had the agency not to, but chose to anyway.

You might want to look at your biases if you think there’s a dirty accusation to be thrown for anything less than rah rah homosapiens! That’s just base tribalism.

Palestine was genocided by fascists, who won, and are winning elsewhere.

I think I’ve just switched sides, I’m on team climate change extinction. We inflict cruelty on all other life on this planet… And OURSELVES. Literally no one is happy, even the capitalists who are most responsible for human misery trying to fill the black hole in their chests with ever moar capital, even they can’t be made happy in victory as they’ll never have enough.

Earth needs to shake us off its back for the sake of terrestrial life. To put it in terms the rest of my species understands, we’re a liability to the larger organization, and bring no redeeming value to the planet. As such, we should be summarily terminated.

Look at all that “efficiency.”

I’ve yet to discover a conservative “Christian” that possesses even a passing familiarity with their own self proclaimed testaments.

Like seriously, you claim to take your belief seriously, it’s 1 fucking book! It’s not a page turner I grant them, but it’s ONE book.

Oh just like how the American private health insurer confidence scheme seeks the death penalty when their customers marks actually need life saving healthcare and become a threat to the capitalist’s quarterly metastasis expectations.

Neat.

When we have a side that rejects the corporate bribe take and has an overt agenda to fight the capitalist profiteers in defense of the people, sure.

Until we dig ourselves out by rejecting private profit/growth/metastasis at the expense of the people at the bottom of society, nothing can improve.

Since Reagan got his former opposition party on the take, all we’ve been voting on is the speed of decline as good cop(D) and bad cop® encourage us to hate one another and be divided over the social issue symptoms of the captured economy we don’t get a vote on.

I vote blue out of harm reduction. But democrats still don’t give a shit about mass murder for private profit, mass homelessness, income inequality, on and on. They affirm your identity instead of scapegoating you, which is nice, but is also free for their mutual donor’s quarterly profit expectations.

What good is being free to be who you are when you’re dying of exposure and police brutality under a freeway for failing to produce enough value for the owners?

If there’s another real presidential election, and if a democrat gets elected, we’ll get four years of relative quiet but the situation will continue to grow darker as the DNC will not allow the capital markets to be reigned in, which means even if we avert this fascist march, the table will still be set for them to continue their march in four years. Wall Street must end. And it will, by our hands, or capitalist made climate change in a couple decades when it no longer matters for our species.

If only Democrats were that cool, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

The one that started it all.

In 1999 Blockbuster video had a contest, giving away 1 full size episode 1 Yoda made by Industrial light and magic in every state. I didn’t know about the contest until the last day, put in my entry, and he’s been looking over my room, now office, ever since, keeping me contemplative ever since.

Either that or a trap used in Ghostbusters 2 that I had signed by Dan Aykroyd. But probably Yoda.

Yet another thing that is beyond our willfully ignorant American Republican’s comprehension.

Adults cooperate with others who are open to mutually beneficial cooperation. Babies (and largely seniors past 70 as we become very similar to our sunrise at the sunset of life) kick and scream demanding to get their way the way they want it.

I’m a 40 year old manchild who collects movie props and even I know that.

They were right to be talking down on us and we have been trash since at least Reagan though.

Most European nations are societies. We’re a bunch of deluded fools playing pretend we’re rugged individuals at each other’s throats for oligarch scraps.

We can’t even agree as a society to feed or invest in educating our kids. We let millions of our worst off neighbors die of exposure out of economic tribalist spite. We’re a loathsome country worthy of ridicule. Honestly if we weren’t so good at marketing, the art of bullshit, we could have saved a lot of potential immigrants time, shown them who we really are, and they never would have crossed a desert to come here. This is a cesspool.

Because we glorify and often lie about what individuals can do, and literally villanize cooperation as somehow wrong and evil in western society.

You can’t build a skyscraper individually, yet we applaud the owners of them for their asset, when it took a collective of hundreds of laborers and engineers to build it who will never benefit from the fruits of it commensurate with they work put into the collective project. Which works for the sociopaths pushing individualism as they can create a collective through capital to accomplish what they want credit and profit from and then be dismissed, so they can propagate it’s their skyscraper that “they” built. cue Steve jobs coming out on stage to take credit for the new kind of phone HE implies having made without a drop of humility.

Then they use that as a cudgel to tell individuals without their greed disease, who don’t have the means to call on flash collective employees, that if they’re struggling they must be lazy or incompetent because the right people built skyscrapers all on their own by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.

Toxic individualism is a virus. Anything worth anything our species has accomplished has been the work of many, but the self-serving sociopaths that control the means of production and propaganda and state violence want you to be hostile towards the concepts of a social contract, and social equity, and society being judged by how it’s most downtrodden are treated. It’s destroying us, and it’s murdered millions of neighbors we betrayed to die under freeways of exposure for the crime of not producing value for sociopaths, aka “pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.” Easy to say as a nepo baby on a mega yacht barking dictates at assistants.

I’m aware, that’s my Fandom, I know the lore intimately.

Being a “battery” is in the vernacular though, and most understand what a capital battery means.

I even see the Architects nod to the supposed answer requiring a “lesser mind” albeit a more human curious mind in the oracle was a nod to that original idea the studio mandated the Wachowskis change, from bioprocessors to batteries. Would have worked on so many levels, even with the machines falling victim to repetition loop breakdowns without processing from imperfect minds, but that was on the Studio, the writers were vocal they didn’t like the change, which makes it easy for me to look beyond.

We have one habitat we’re terraforming against ourselves. As much as I’d be willing to lay more blame at the feet of this shithole called the US, the same doom is coming for all of us, accelerating beyond models of years past, and none of the global superpowers are going to use their power to stop it.

Our global crops are already feeling the squeeze.

What Tesla sabatours?

Sorry, I was there, they all spontaneously caught fire out of being poorly built junkers. All of them. Everywhere they caught fire.

especially the ones that caught fire after a Tesla humanoid Robot clearly must have graffitid “Musk is a Nazi” on them.