The hits keep coming. Get that guy going on overpopulation next.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:31 pm The hits keep coming. Get that guy going on overpopulation next.

I would like to see the "appearance" of a virus that only attacked testicular tissue, being specific to infecting the SSC cells that undergo meiosis I and destroying their ability to further divide and develop into spermatozoa. Ideally this would randomly render about 90% of the males on Earth permanently infertile, and result in an appropriate depopulation of the planet in less than 2 generations. Ideally this virus would circulate rapidly and do its damage long before any vaccine could be discovered and distributed. Ideally it would take at least 2-3 generations to even develop such a vaccine.

Who's the fucking ghoul now, cocksuckers!

I like how some guy posting “a vote is a transaction actually” brings out the freaks so fucking fast. You get the gen-x kiwi brothers sniffing around and baying at some post in a thread about American politics and then the most 50 year old guy in Chicago starts quoting Malthus within a 10-post page.

Part of the beauty of an infertility virus like that is it would ideally produce no otherwise detectable symptoms other than some evidence of a mild immune response. Perhaps a slight fever and slight histamine response and then nothing - until attempting to have kids. Something like that might go undetected for quite some time. Perhaps even a few years - at which point the damage is done.

The real question would be how to make it wildly contagious, while at the same time only impacting the gonads and not causing other symptoms of illness usually associated with respiratory or blood-borne viruses.

Curry Pervert wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:58 pm

Of course Capital would produce a film like that. Any suggestion that population control or depopulation would be a good thing would be antithetical to Capital. Capital must ensure there is adequate dystopian mass-media porn produced to thoroughly dissuade the populace from ever entertaining the notion that a world without surplus Labor could be a good thing - perhaps dare-say utopian?

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 10:42 pm I like how some guy posting “a vote is a transaction actually” brings out the freaks so fucking fast. You get the gen-x kiwi brothers sniffing around and baying at some post in a thread about American politics and then the most 50 year old guy in Chicago starts quoting Malthus within a 10-post page.

I really don’t get the malice here. All I’ve said, and you can check this, is my personal opinion regarding political action is you start with as wider net as possible for The Good Stuff. For more targeted issues go nuts but frame them within that wider project to create an actual coherent narrative that creates solidarity.

But as I’ve said multiple times, I’m not policing anyone, do what thou will. I’m just expressing my opinion. Evidently that makes me a monster. I could get snarky and personal like the above, but I don’t. Why because nothing any of us say to each other will change the others mind. It just becomes a pointless dick swing contest among people that mostly agree. The left split again, job done.

It’s entirely possible to have these disagreements without deliberately making it personal.

PS first person to say The Personal is Political gets an honorary Gen X G Man badge.

One for the kiwi brothers: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/09/16/t ... e-to-them/

Meanwhile our former Prime Minister:

Car industry succeeded in getting lower tailpipe emissions standards rushed through Cabinet against advice of NZ Govt officials. Influence on current govt from range of such lobbyists is cause for concern. Information prized out of Govt via OIA requests: https://t.co/uwZC0J4Sbr

"Influence on current govt from range of such lobbyists is cause for concern"

Bought and sold by the oil, tobacco and gun lobbies. The place is going to shit.

Geiginni wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:05 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:58 pm

Of course Capital would produce a film like that. Any suggestion that population control or depopulation would be a good thing would be antithetical to Capital. Capital must ensure there is adequate dystopian mass-media porn produced to thoroughly dissuade the populace from ever entertaining the notion that a world without surplus Labor could be a good thing - perhaps dare-say utopian?

While I don't disagree with anything you've said, I saw this film as more of a comment on attitudes to immigration and dystopian authoritarianism.

Anyway, I only posted that because it seemed to fit with your bollock consuming virus theory.

Gramsci wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 2:17 am my personal opinion regarding political action is you start with as wider net as possible for The Good Stuff.

Personally I have found some of the responses to your stated position quite baffling. It has often looked like people are misunderstanding, or perhaps even misrepresenting what you've said. I understand their position, but don't get how they can't see the logic in what you propose. This seems to often be the left's problem.