Also, both allegedly religious men presumably chosen by God to lead their people. Sawing people apart or poisoning their tea when they speak against you is just God’s will.

I guess when the argument is convenient, it pivots to their brute strength and willingness to do things most people find unspeakable being what allowed them to gain/maintain power. Putin at least got his his hands dirty for the KGB before he came into power, and grew up poor. But, if it came down to him actually maintaining power in a battle that relied only on brute strength would he actually be the victor?

I kinda doubt he or the Saudi royal prince would last 5 minutes if either had to face the general public, in order to defend their titles, without intervention of loyalists rushing to protect and defend them.

#8 Michael Bloomberg: $40 billion

#7 Larry Ellison: $43.6 billion

#6 Mark Zuckerberg: $44.6 billion

#5 Jeff Bezos: $45.2 billion

#4 Carlos Slim Helu: $50 billion

#3 Warren Buffett: $60.8 billion

#2 Amancio Ortega: $67 billion

#1 Bill Gates: $75 billion

I don’t even buy these are the richest men bc I’m sure the richest men in the world would: A. never be named in a magazine list like this without suing, B. Likely have more wealth and assets that are unreported than they do reported. Also, didn’t Peter Thiel recently become a trillionaire?

Regardless, I do just want to point out what most of the richest men in the world have in common, is a strong belief in natural heirarchies and social darwinism.

This list is supposed to exemplify survival of the fittest, or those “chosen by God” to rule over the rest of us…? I can’t even imagine how sickly the men on the real list would look.

The masses wouldn’t be able to function without them guiding the way and making the rules…

Does this look like a list of men put together by God or nature? As in, survival of the fittest rules where nature allowed this or God considered every human being on earth before selecting who he ordained worthy of steering the reigns of society, and this list was the final result?

This is really interesting but I have to say this dude also did sound legit nuts.

His vision quest in the woods started bc he was grieving his family leaving him. But, his wife took the surviving kids and left bc she blamed him for the death of their 2 yo daughter who died of diphtheria. She blamed him bc he had “corrected” or “disciplined” her right before she died. Maybe this is jumping to conclusions but that honestly sounds pretty awful, and I really can’t imagine a rational reason you would need to “discipline” a 2 year old suffering from diphtheria… Honestly, good for the wife.

Then once he started telling people about his visions, he was sent to a mental institution but escaped. After he escaped, he said he had another vision that God would destroy that place. Several weeks later it was “struck by lightening” and burned to the ground… K.

Then he re-married a lady with her own children. His step kids would recount to their own kids their memories of their step dad, and how he would often need to leave and go out into the woods by himself for a while to have his visions…

I’m sorry to judge, but when reading between the lines being presented about the legend, I have to say he kinda gives off bad vibes. It is definitely an interesting story though.

Giddyup

Knock on wood

My bad article just says abortion pill. Not sure what drug it is

Remember that guy from Trump’s first administration that looked like he’d been copied and pasted from a late 90s video game?

Not him

This one:

He brought his pregnant girlfriend a smoothie with a Plan B abortion pill? crushed up inside of it to force her to abort without her knowledge.

Then he tried to sue for libel when the story was published, but a judge ordered that he had no basis and made him pay the other party’s legal fees instead.

Trumpworld’s Jason Miller Must Pay Gizmodo Thousands for Accurately Reporting Insane Story About Him

So prolife he had to pretend to be doing something thoughtful for her and the baby when he straight up poisoned his girlfriend without her consent.

Apparently this is just a thing China and Russia have been accusing each other of doing for decades. Like a rumor or an urban legend of sorts spread by governments to make each other look ridiculous.

However, the fact that we keep finding out governments have always used the money and resources they exploit from their citizens for these kinds of secret crazy ass stupid sci fi experiments (in addition to the resources necessary to spread rumors and propaganda about each other), in order to test the boundaries of human existence, should tell us that it’s never really been a problem of “those people in that country” as much as it is apparently human nature to allow certain kinds of people to keep coming to power.

Does humanity even have a reliable and affordable cure for most cancers at this point? Do we even have flying cars or robots that aren’t complete shit?

“Oh don’t you worry about all that, I have this idea for how we can make a man that is part chimpanzee and part human.”

Like honestly given the kinds of things we have found out decades after the fact governments actually did to other humans and sometimes their own citizens, it’s not even that hard to see how a rumor like that would be spread.

An example of something ridiculous a government might actually attempt updated for 2025: “I have this idea for achieving immortality using AI. The level of artificial intelligence necessary to take even a baby step towards succeeding doesn’t actually exist yet, and we might just end up tearing a hole in the fabric of reality while we try, but such is the cost of greatness and being the first (and in this case if that was the ultimate outcome, obviously the last).”

The fact that we keep allowing these same kinds of people to end up as our rulers without some kind of a global uprising is legit more surprising to me than it would be to learn that a government actually attempted to create a human chimpanzee hybrid in recent history. However, going by the source on the Wiki page, it just links to a quote apparently taken from an old Soviet news article from the 80s which is not even immediately available. What a shocker.

There’s been blips of uprisings like the Arab spring, but there’s really never been a global movement that I’m aware of. We’ve had two world wars fighting on behalf of these kinds of people. Like accepting complete chaos and destruction to help them hold on to their power, and we’re definitely on the brink of fighting a third one. It seems like most people loathe and resent them, and they’re always replaced with somebody new, but it’s just kinda surprising humanity has never had a world war or uprising fighting against them. I know that sounds pretty “I’m 15 and this is deep,” but that’s just something that’s literally never really occurred to me.

Yeah, that’s why it’s just my dream home. But if I could design and furnish a home that is what it would look like

Me too. My dream home would be inspired by Forbidden Planet

Fuck organic chemistry in particular. That is the only class I’ve ever taken where it felt like I was arguing my grade before a judge who had already decided I was guilty. Like even if you’re right, you’re still wrong. You know it and the judge knows it, but what are you going to do about it? It’s his courtroom.

I hope he just continues like that everyday for the rest of his career, even once he gains confidence to know what he’s doing.

Like every class his students have to talk him off a ledge, and then when he nears retirement after 50 years he’s just known as “that crazy professor” every campus seems to have.

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But all armies=bad and propaganda, no?

😂 so anyway, who is the aggressor?

With Love, Libshit

Yeah idk, who do you believe is the aggressor in that situation?

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🤔 Interesting. China Military Calls for Efforts to Repair Image after Scandals

Got any hot takes about this army?

I thought about asking how would state controlled media be able to publish anything about an image if it’s banned. Then I figured that’s pretty obvious, and didn’t want to ruffle any feathers. Should have known better than to try and go against the narrative. My bad.

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