The British Empire

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48 Comments

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 293d (9 replies)

A) bring back third spaces where people can meet up and socialize without money. Decent wages so people have free time. Unions so people have breaks and rights. Walkable cities where you can run into another person and have a chat without being run over by a car.

B) authoritarian police state where porn is banned but the government has 10gb of photos of your genitals and sells it to advertisers who send you coupons for diapers when you fuck.

reev@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 293d

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 292d (5 replies)

....what are the diapers for?

...and why are they only sold to you when you fuck?

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 292d (1 reply)

I think he's referring to invasive unethical marketing shenanigans like this

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d

This is exactly what I was talking about, and its crazy this was 13 years ago.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 292d

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LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d (1 reply)

I vote Fedizen for President/King/ Ruler of Everything.

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d

I promise to be only the most mediocre tyrant.

obinice@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 293d (6 replies)

That's not why they're doing it, they want to tightly control and track what everyone does, limit their freedoms and so on. But yeah.

etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 22 pts · 293d

Shit starts getting real when they start cracking down on VPNs.

ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 292d

I only ever saw it as controlling the spread of the horrific and anti-human terrorist philosophy of “believing the mass internment and murder of Palestinians is not a good thing actually”

sunbytes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 291d

They're really upset we keep organising protests about things they don't want protests about.

Like climate or g-cide.

Much better to sabotage or intimidate them in the organisation phase.

Silly plebs should trust in Keir.

xxam925@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 292d

Nah I disagree. They don’t care about anything specific so long as the population of sheep is robust. They need to shear at their leisure.

They don’t actually care what the sheep do, who the sheep fuck or who fucks the sheep. They are just sheep. There isn’t a moral component at all. It’s a sham to get the sheep signed on.

Capitalists see themselves as a different species.

And yes I understand that I am a sheep.

jimmy90@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d (1 reply)

god save the queen

chuck@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 292d
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 48 pts · 293d (20 replies)
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Dicska@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Nononono, you don't get it: looking at the past 4+ governments, I think they want to increase the birth rate of the right people.

I was so naïve back when had I thought the Labour would be any different from the Tories...

finitebanjo@piefed.world · 3 pts · 292d
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HereIAm@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d

If they wanted to increase the birthrate if already wealthy people they wouldn't remove the 2 child cap for benefits.

And009@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 292d (16 replies)

So you want to remove half of the population, like Thanos?

Katana314@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 292d (2 replies)

I mean, Thanos’ plan may have been popular if he used the infinity stones to reward mothers for limiting their children, using societal pressure and other tools to limit populations for a generation.

And009@lemmynsfw.com · 11 pts · 292d

Would vote for Thanos

Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 289d

He just had to convince males to not fuck with their cum active (e.g. doing vasectomy and reverse it as time comes). This would make hormones of women less fucked with, and male people would learn that it is not “she is just being woman”, but realise it was fucking hormone engineering.

🫣 but how should males learn that in a society where sexual education is shown as evil (like yea, we changed everything on this world and teach our children anything, but o noo please don’t tell them how reproduction works, so they just try something out and are fucked for live).

Same goes for drugs, if you just ban and say it is evil rather than why, you will always have bad experiences and shady cycles around drugs.

shiftymccool@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Whenever population control is mentioned, this inevitably comes up. No, not looking to "remove" anyone, just prevent more births than the natural environment can handle.

Paddzr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d
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finitebanjo@piefed.world · 8 pts · 292d (1 reply)
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Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 289d

Isn’t there a book with such a story that they investigate some dangerous bomb thingy that turns out to just make about half the population not able to have babies?

I think they made a movie which sucks out of it

I think it is the same writer as has written davinci code

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d (8 replies)

2/3. gives you an extra generation before things are back where they were

And009@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 292d (7 replies)

Or just limit1 baby per couple, same effect. Population halves every life cycle

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 292d (4 replies)

if memory serves, last time that was attempted it did not work.

And009@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 292d (2 replies)

See China

finitebanjo@piefed.world · 1 pts · 292d (1 reply)
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And009@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 292d

The law had plot holes, just needs to be long sighted with human behavior in mind.

What's happening now is different story. Maybe it'll come full circle.

arrow74@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 292d

Carrot vs stick.

Just give incentives to voluntarily have less kids. Heck, even just education, high wages, and social mobility (particularly for women) typically drops the birth rate at or under 1 child anyway.

angrystego@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 291d (1 reply)

Better ensure perfect women/men equality before doing that, otherwise it leads to a big gender disbalance and high infanticide rate for girls, as was demonstrated in China.

And009@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 291d

Absolutely, that's a bigger fight altogether

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 293d (3 replies)

Literally hundreds of studies showing that if people can buy a house before they're 40, they will have more children.

You can't legislate your way into a higher birth rate. Even authoritarian countries have tried and failed. But you can legislate systemic changes that help people with housing, childcare, and groceries.

pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d (1 reply)

In today’s standards, that is awfully a left leaning suggestion… some would would even say extreme leftist.

finitebanjo@piefed.world · 2 pts · 292d
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Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 289d

And maybe acknowledge that having a child is fucking labour and not a treat that pays for itself

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Can't tell if that's Robotnik or Farva.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 293d

Brigadier General Robotnik, Farva (Mrs.)

pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 293d (4 replies)

We should all stop having kids and stop feeding their machine. Watch it all burn

bearboiblake@pawb.social · 6 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Or we could take a shortcut and just burn them down directly.

pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

That is also a viable option. I just don’t see that happening.

Paddzr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d (1 reply)

So fuck the youn g generation even harder? You think what? The old which will continue to outnumber them, won't fuck over the younger generation because they can't outvote them?

If the "cycle" breaks, the young get turbo fucked. Either you somehow offload the old dependables or you meet the demand. No one in their right mind wants to cull the elderly.

IzzyJ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

Noett suggesting we cull the elderly, but what's being in our right mind gonna do for us? The enemy is fucking insane, may as well fight fire with fire. Let's have a left that isn't passive yeah

etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 293d

Your country doing that too?

hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 293d (1 reply)

When I first read this I was confused about whether OP meant Minecraft or Roblox,

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 293d

VoXXXels

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 293d

Not the way I misread "block" to replace the o with an a. "I see this as an absolute win"

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 292d

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