• Salmarez [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    I think probably a lot of people who parrot the virus stuff have not given it much thought, just think it sounded cool in the Matrix.

    • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      just think it sounded cool in the Matrix

      The whole line was spoken by the arch-cop during an interrogation. Sometimes I wonder if that scene is an unintentional political Rorschach Test.

    • toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      I think it is just Christianity making people hate humanity but also love and extoll all of its virtues so thqt they can simeltaeneously be a martyr and a misanthrope.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Christianity has been around for thousands of years, climate change has only become an issue recently. Capitalism is the problem.

        • MCU_H8ER [none/use name]
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          11 months ago

          Modern mainstream Christianity (in the USA at least) is very pro-capitalist. There are some other parallels I've noticed, such as the rise of mega churches.

          • duderium [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Right, but that’s because of capitalism, not Christianity, because one has existed for thousands of years, while the other began in England in the 16th century.

            • MCU_H8ER [none/use name]
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              11 months ago

              "Listen! Hear the cries of the wages of your field hands. These are the wages you stole from those who harvested your fields. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of heavenly forces. You have lived a self-satisfying life on this earth, a life of luxury."