• vathecka@lemmy.radio
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    Probably try to figure out what the hell happened. the majority of the population of earth vanishing would be a bit alarming

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    Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”

    He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”

    He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”

    Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.

    • Emo Philips
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    Check to see if the Asian people are still okay.

    A more cynical answer is to buy as much property on the south side of Chicago as possible before the prices skyrocket.

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      Asian people will divide themselves by skin color, features or nationality, too. Not immune to racism. Its partly a survival instinct from the past that is rearing its ugly side.

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        Absolutely. I was just laughing at the original post forgetting that half the planet doesn’t exactly fit into the black/white classification.

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    Okay, aside from the obvious “what the fuck happened to all the people” racist Thanos snap of it all, my real question is this: who is left behind? Because “white” is a made up category. I have 2% African ancestry, do I stay or do I go now? I have some level I don’t remember if Asian ancestry, less than 5 percent. I also have higher than average neanderthal DNA. Does that part count as white? They’re likely European Neanderthals… Go far enough back, obviously, and all humans are African descended.

    Where do we draw the line? Because honestly, if there’s some weird racist god out there snapping away people based on their DNA, I need to know the rules so I can make proper arrangements!

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      Was just about to say “You reckon the magical racist thanos snap would finally recognize north african and middle-eastern and azerbaijani and circassian and… groups as white now or still no?”

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    I can already hear this world’s Charlie Kirk claiming brown eyed people are responsible for 9001% of the violent crimes.

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        Yeah so basically he had this procedure done that drained all the toxicity out of his personality just over a year ago and ever since then he has become the very model of “the only good kind of fascist”. Incredible growth. I wish all fascists could improve as people in the exact same way he did.

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          I’m gonna come out and say it, mask off. I’m tired of pretending “Oh I disagreed with Kirk but he didn’t deserve to die.”

          Robinson deserves a fucking medal. Fascists like Kirk can’t be reasoned with, when they’re put down we should applaud.

          Kirk was a dangerous person, if he had his way myself and others like me would be stoned to death for being queer.

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          Sounds like a very successful program! If only it were more widespread so it could reach racists everywhere!

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      Dude, the grieving process just gets prolonged because of how hard it is to make new friends as an adult. Like, great, now I’m sad AND lonely.

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      Had my wife look for this exact comment. Was going to have her post this if no one else had.


      He thinks he’s so clever. A Stormlight Archive reference, how original.

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        Yeah, but at least I made it subtle and confusing for non-fans, unlike the other dude who has since just posted a picture of the WoK cover…

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    Only white people.

    Asia: empty

    Africa: empty

    Maybe southern Europe also empty

    Does this fix climate change?

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      No, we’ll just consume more.

      We’re doing a lot of bullshit. Research shows we could maintain our effective lifestyle while cutting consumption by up to 60%

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      No, because 10% of richest people on Earth (majorly Western Bloc, including Europe) are responsible for 50-66% of global emissions.

      For example:

      Ethiopian is responsible for 0.14 tonnes of CO2 emissions yearly on average.

      A Swede on average is responsible for 3.43 tonnes of emissions.

      An American is responsible for 13.83 tonnes.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

      The issue isn’t overpopulation, not at all, but that we have a bunch of countries with hyperconsumerist economy, a car in every household, high electricity usage, accessible red meat, air-conditioning etc.

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        White is about 10% of the population. It doesn’t matter much that the 7 billion gone used less than them. 8 billion to 800 million. It feels like it can’t help but reduce the world CO2 output significantly

        And then the economic damage of losing Asia is unimaginable. You’ve never seen a depression like that would be. No manufactured goods would be available until Europe and the remains of America bring up industry

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    Nah, more realistically they’ll just went back to say Italians aren’t really white, then irish people and so on.