• Avicenna@lemmy.world
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    Sometimes it blows my mind how naive some people have to be to buy into this shit. Almost everyone who speaks of their war against their self described Antichrist is acting like one in major ways. This guy literally conflicts himself by the minute, first calls government control as antichrist and scapegoating as a very dangerous social dynamic and then signs surveillance deals with Trump so that he can blame the immigrants and poor people for USA’s problems. For fucks sake, you don’t even need the subtly misleading evil anymore, anything goes.

    Perhaps it is not naiveness but more like the pleasure of having a powerful billionaire regurgitate a century long propaganda embedded in the centre of your life philosophy back at you, the comfort of being affirmed by someone “deemed successful” and not having to face the many contradictions of the stories in your head.

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    There was a time where making a public statement this deranged would mean that nobody would ever consider you a serious person ever again.

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      When? Religious people have always been morons.

      There was a small period 15-20 years ago on the internet where religious bullshit was always laughed out of the room, but then technology improved and more religious dipshits were able to get online and support each other.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    Me just reading the title:

    Oh nice, are we finally calling Trump the antichrist? Fantastic!

    (Although, in that case deregulating AI would hasten him.)

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      He’s been told his entire life he’s better than everyone else, it’s no wonder he convinces others.

      He spent part of his youth benefiting from apartheid and being a German kid in an African town that literally glorified Nazism until the 1980s.

      He got all of the $100,000 he first lost in bad investments from family and friends.

      Celebrity billionaires, they’re just like us… lmao

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      Hold on let me ask the rich politicians to see if they want to tax their buddy’s more and whilst they are at it pay extra tax themself.

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        Yeah, can we stop being collective idiots and nominating the enemy because we’re afraid of the enemy?

        How stupid are we? Especially when we lose and do the same thing again?

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      Oh, yes, please, he should live in Russia and say annoying sh*t to their prez for one time too often… I have heard their tax is slightly above 100% then :-)

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    He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist, but her name is not thought to have come up at the talks so far.

    So the billionaire building autonomous weapons and spying technology used for genocide who also injects the blood of young men to rejuvenate himself is here to warn us about the dangers of young climate activist trying to deliver food to starving Palestinians?

    It’s sad that we’re at a point where people will actually listen to him and think he is anything other than a terrible person

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    Sorry can’t do the laundry because that would hasten the anti-christ

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    Regulating AI hastens the antichrist says the world’s leading antichrist candidate