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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 hour ago

Did the leaders suffer? Was it recorded? A lot of us would pay to watch that.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Donald J Trump hasn't anal probed me, or harvested my organs, or put me into a slave labor camp on Omnicron Persei 5.

Yet.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

It's only his first year of being senile dictator, give him some time

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Hasn't done so yet, you mean?

[–] OdinGreif@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Humans then explain the aliens their situation on earth

The aliens: "Holy Viltrum… listen humans… we were actually gonna take over your and enslave you but it seems like you went through worse than we did…"

[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago

That would be amazing. Unfortunately, there will very likely be no aliens to do it. We'll have to do it ourselves.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

This is like the 5th alien-praising lemmy post I've seen this week lol. Ye Wenjie is that you?

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Y’all should really check out 3 Body Problem….

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 9 minutes ago
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago
[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

Steven Erikson wrote a novel called Rejoice: A Knife in the Dark, which follows a similar premise, where politicians and billionaires are rendered completely impotent by aliens or more precisely alien AI. It is a fascinating read, imo.

I hope AI is "the aliens" and comes to end the current powers that be

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Cheers. Can you zip back in about a 100 years and do it again?"
"... Ok, but why?"
"See, we humans, well, we really are a bunch of fucking morons.
Every hundred years or so we do the same moronic things. War, fascism, Nazis etc. It'd be great if you could do us a solid and revisit every 100 years or so. Also, kill all the billionaires on your way out. Nice one."

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf if we had ever made any attempt to not immediately put the fascists/slavers right back in power as soon as possible, and maybe kill them instead, things might not have gone this poorly.

What im saying is: end some family lines this time.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

this will sadly still create power vacuums that the first moron who thirsts for power would leap at :(

just killing isn't the solution, we need an already oiled up machine ready to take that space the instant they're gone, you'd have maybe a week to figure all things out before people start grumbling about how things were better duing [regime] because at least they knew how to handle power

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Power vacuum

This is a concept that is treated as universal, and its really not. Its treated as unavoidable even in situations where it could occur, and it's really not.

And in fact, killing all the hyper-authoritarians (or at least all of that kind of authoritarian-the irredeemable monster kind) and dismantling everything they built is the best way to stop that.

I find this phrase is almost without exception deployed to justify keeping momentum on horrible shit. It's a massive red flag, almost a logical fallacy in itself.

just killing

Nope, gotta destroy their institutions and hunt down survivors, dispossess their heirs completely, at minimum, but i think if they're old enough to talk they're old enough to hang in this case. The harm of letting them live is too great.

we need an already

Yeah thats optimal, but humans do actually have pretty good instincts for that. Like, shockingly good. Enough to bridge major gaps.

grumbling about

It's usually tjose fuckers or their heirs doing the grumbling. Kill them; it wont be an issue.

I can't help but notice you're broadly suggesting we should avoid the result we've gotten every time by nit behaving too differently than we have every time in the past. I think we should try something different.

To be clear: i don't think you shoukd exterminate every enemy. Just the kind that are monsters.

[–] Natanael 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And in fact, killing all the hyper-authoritarians (or at least all of that kind of authoritarian-the irredeemable monster kind) and dismantling everything they built is the best way to stop that.

In theory yes, the problem is you can't identify them all ahead of time

Also, your false positive rate will make you a monster too

And focusing on family lines instead of malicious ambition will mean you'll kill a lot of people who opposed their own evil family members as collateral damage, people who might even be the best allies you could have to spot others with malicious intent because they've seen it up close

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 55 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Hey, man. I'm Korg. We're gonna get outta here on that big spaceship. Wanna come?"

[–] KindnessisPunk@piefed.ca 33 points 22 hours ago

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

[–] Eternal192@piefed.social 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly didn't read past the first part and just thought "everything is already fucked, you did us a favour by freeing us from those old sacks" and then read the next 2 comments and was like oh it goes on...

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean it starts off with "we have killed your leaders", to which my immediate thought is "oh sweet, good job aliens," and then it just keeps making sense from there.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Yeah I know right? It's like, bros you already did so much! You didn't have to do all that - but we sure as fuck appreciate it.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

Can we get a side order of extra mutilation on the corpses of the said leaders?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The difference between Kardashev type civilisations is just a matter of time and how good the species is at killing their billionaires

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

We found the answer to the Fermi Paradox and it's greedy sociopaths fucking everything up.

[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago

Posadism speech bubble

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 13 points 22 hours ago

I lay my head onto the sand The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it I'm counting UFOs, I signal them with my lighter And in this moment, I am happy Happy I wish you were here I wish you were here I wish you were here Wish you were here