• jackmarxist [any]
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    5 months ago

    NATO demonstrates why the solution to the Fermi Paradox is that civilisations destroy themselves before they become an interstellar civilisation.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        5 months ago

        What if humans are famous galaxy-wide as one of the most brutal species on record and we've been under an age old quarantine so total and extensive that if we learned even a fraction of the details it would make our heads spin

          • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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            5 months ago

            In that case I hope someone pulls a Sentinel island on their goofy ass, the quarantine authorities are 100% correct, humans at this level of development cannot escape the earth

            lmao imagine this virulent strain of capitalism rampaging across the stars, fuck that nightmare

            • huf [he/him]
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              5 months ago

              it'd explain all those scifi stories in which every other sentient alien species is better at stuff than us but we nevertheless win the war. it's cos nobody's as relentlessly and institutionally brutal as we are.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        "Should we check on those bipeds that haven't achieved global harmony yet? Maybe they finally overcame their individual and regional differences"

        "Sure"

        "...oh"