It only constitutes 99.86% of the mass in the solar system!

Imagine thinking that all the secondary stuff does nothing to improve or encourage life. But I guess expecting imagination or thinking from some people is too much to ask.

"What if we just use our binoculars to watch flowers bloom?"

"You're not gonna believe this..."

Being told that they can have their base desires without deep consideration, that the people from which they would take what they want aren't really people, or are beneath consideration for various reasons, is a hell of a drug. It's the kind of state in which pretty people get to live, offered to the ugly masses. Combine that with overlords who keep those masses in a state of struggling to survive, and you have an army ready to do as you command. It's fucking insidious.

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Funny, we don't know that masked thugs are actually ICE agents.

We are once again being presented the lesson that we didn't learn every previous time a tyranny has been overthrown: That the overthrow must be total, that the power and influence the tyrants wielded must be entirely destroyed, that those responsible can't be allowed to survive their crimes, and that the ideas that enabled their rule must become warnings taught to all from birth.

Until we learn the lesson, we're never going to grow out of this insane cycle.

This 100%. The sad truth about true greed is that greedy people don't want to have things, they want to live in a continuous state of obtaining more things. They are black holes of desire that can never be satisfied with what they've already acquired.

Those people have always existed. I'm just talking about how changing conditions are causing people who might otherwise have children to prioritize survival or ethics instead. Authoritarians are always harping on about falling birthrates in the countries they've ruined, blaming anyone other than themselves for the decline.

Maybe Congress should do something about the environment they enabled, in which nobody can afford to raise children and many feel it's unethical to have one? Just spitballing here.