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Leaders and political groups from around the world seem hell bent on choices that don't make any sense. Even if you take into account stupidity, greed, narcissism, religion, rascim, hate, ect. there are constantly things happening that don't fit.

If inst, you reframe the shit being done with the thought that while none of them may agree on a final destination, they all agree that a fast drop in population is the "fast and easy" solution, then suddenly it all starts to make a lot more sense. Then everything going on is a rush to secure power and position in the post apocalypse world. And things like antivax become their own filtering mechanism to self-select stupid people out of the gene pool.

Unfortunately, once you begin thinking about things with that mind set, then it also becomes really difficult not to see COVID as a test of the system, or at least the tipping point that pushed everything into high gear.

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[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, the rich and the powerful are the rich and the powerful in every society because of a psychopathic ability to step on others.

In the Soviet Union, the average person wasn't really much more prosocial than the average person in the US. The people with any sort of power ranged from skeevy fuckers to open psychos. Just like in the US.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is ahistorical, and is exactly what the capitalist ruling class want you to think.

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Capitalist ruling class or not, I've lived in the USSR and I've lived in the US. Same people in both places. Neighbors are generally decent folks, cops are insecure assholes, and rich/powerful people got there by screwing people over.