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  • Another minor point of contention: Lamborghini’s are at best 4-5 times faster than a shitbox car. A single-billionaire earns 20 000 times more than the average person. The scales are all out of wack.

    A closer comparison would be the difference between a private jet and a person walking. Even that would only be a 200x difference. A snail and private jet is much closer to that 20 000x difference.

    It’s so absurd a difference in scale that the comparison is hard for people to imagine.

    A world where the difference between the average person and the richest people is only as large as a shitbox and a Lamborghini’s speed would be actually be a pretty palatable society to live in.


  • Presumably this is satire, as these are clearly not equivalent statements.

    We don’t share limited horsepower, but we do share limited wealth, and it can be redistributed.

    This anaology also implies there is an essentialism to people’s financial situations. That rich and poor people are inherently different. In reality rich people have been allowed to be rich by current societal structures.

    Looks like I have over-analyzed the meme. If you are a troll, you’ve got me.















  • Well, I’d summarise the X-Files as (no spoilers):

    • Mulder has his sister (purportedly) kidnapped by aliens as a child.
    • As a result, Mulder is an occult nut who wants to spend all his time investigating supernatural stuff.
    • For some reason the FBI lets him spend all his time doing that. (Kind of nepotism maybe?)
    • They send Scully to go watch him, but she does a terrible job of that.
    • Every episode there’s a different monster or paranormal thing. Mulder says something like “It’s Bigfoot”, Scully says “That’s silly, Bigfoot isn’t real”, then they see it is Bigfoot but Scully tries to rationalise it away.
    • At some point Mulder gets tangled up in government conspiracies.
    • He makes it his side job to try and crack those conspiracies, but continues his monster-of-the-week formula of normal paranormal investigations for the most part.
    • As time goes on, there’s more and more conspiracy unwinding stuff, but they never fire him or kill him because one of the secret cabal members has a soft spot for him.

    More stuff happens in the later seasons, but I’ll leave it out for spoilers.

    TLDR; Mulder is not anti-government / FBI, he’s anti-secrecy and anti-conspiracy. He’s an occult nut who just wants to engage in his hobbies on the government dime.


  • Armand1@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlLiberal Double Standards
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    When a country does war crimes, the entirety of its populace is not to blame, the systems, power structures and people in charge are.

    Most people in a country are not for wars or other attacking other countries. This is true for America and Russia alike, to the best of my knowledge (which granted, is anecdotal).

    More people should be engaged in activism and should push back against the inhumane actions of their state, and people should be less gullible to the promises of their leaders.

    Both America and Russia are overdue for major reform. Their systems are broken and many of their people brainwashed. Wishing harm on them does not help and imo is not a constructive approach. If anything, hate just begets more hate, making things worse.

    If you are going to have hate, it should be more focused on the people in power.


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    4 months ago

    Splitting hairs. If you think a group of people are intrinsically worse than others, you are effectively racist.

    We can come up with new names, but ultimately it’s all the same. If you think racism means black vs white then your understanding is kindergarten level.

    If you prefer, we can use the term bigoted. That term also covers other intrinsic groups like trans, gay and disabled people among others.