• DessertStorms@kbin.social
    3·
    9 months ago

    Many people like to say that if they had a time machine they would go back and kill Hitler or some other valiant act of heroism that would prevent the death of millions.

    Yet when faced with the real possibility of killing (or even just properly holding accountable - removal from society, redistribution of resources of) an individual now, who is already responsible for millions of deaths by virtue of withholding resources alone, never mind the active oppression and exploitation of billions that go in to maintaining the system that allows them their power, people suddenly become squeamish.

    But not even at the idea of them doing it, but at the idea of anyone doing it (to the point of actively opposing it), and that’s just so fucking frustrating, that people can’t see the glaringly obvious dictators “of tomorrow”, who already literally control everything and are actively getting away with a lot shit directly out of the fascist playbook today, how anyone can still deny it to themselves just blows my mind.

    We’re never going to get a better future as long as so many people refuse to accept that we’re never going to be given it by those living the high life off of our backs.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      21·
      9 months ago

      The difference is that I can look up a moment in history when Hitler was vulnerable and then kill him with zero consequences.

      There would be a lot of consequences for killing anyone today, and it’d be really hard to kill anyone that matters.

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        1·
        9 months ago

        That begets the question, why do you feel okay with murder when there are no consequences?

        Were you to find yourself in such a situation with say the CEO of Nestle or Nike, or Rupert Murdoch, or whomever you fancy, where you suddenly realize you have an opportunity to murder that person without consequence, would you do so?

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          11·
          9 months ago

          I’d prefer they be sent to work camps to pay for their crimes - execution is a waste of resources

          But if you’re talking about a situation where “press this magic button an Elon Musk dies” well~

          • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
            0·
            9 months ago

            It was a rhetorical question meant to prompt you into a moral or philosophical justification.

            But for the record, I more or less agree with your position.

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
              01·
              9 months ago

              Okay, but like, I don’t want to outright say it because I’m pretty sure the people I hate are watching for that sort of thing 😅

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    0·
    9 months ago

    This is such a stupid idea on so many levels but mostly because it’s functionally impossible. The amount of satellites that would need to be launched in order to be able to form a visible image from the surface of the Earth would be prohibitively expensive and complicated to organise. They would all crash into each other within about 15 minutes - because orbits are inherently chaotic, and because of the ultra low altitude they’d have to maintain to make it remotely visible, they would burn up in the atmosphere almost instantly.

    Basically no one with even a high school level education is actually proposing this.

    This is basically just rage bate.