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Irene and 22 others said:
If you don't believe in a system of infinite growth then you naturally must believe that it will at some point stagnate or decline. No actual person will accept this and we collectively strive to improve our lives and further enrich ourselves. GDP is just a simple (if imprecise) numerical measure of this.
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Not accepting that our energy consumption and population size has an upper limit is like not accepting that you're going to die some day, and it's led to insane policies like replacing the native population with poor foreigners to keep the GDP going up. It doesn't actually improve the lives of the natives, but it makes the numbers look good.
 
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JayseeDenton said:
What is your guys' initial gut reaction to this face? I've been getting more interested in atavistic responses lately instead of data and rhetoric. This face just bothers me at a deep level, like somebody who cannot hide their absolute hatred for me but knows she's supposed to try. Those eyes and eyebrows are fucking angry she just can't turn them off.
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Sanpaku eyes.

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If you go by the chart, the best fit are the last set.

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Amelia Troonheart said:
Anytime I get an off feeling from a facial expression and can't place why I just cover up the mouth and look at the rest of the face in isolation.
If you do that here, it looks like the face of someone right before they push you off a cliff to your death.
Rage and disgust.
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Go a step further and try to make the face yourself. Human beings regardless of culture have a shared set of emotional responses and our faces are ways of conveying this to other people. You can work backwards and figure out how a person is feeling or where their mind is at emotionally by putting on the same expression. Go look at yourself in the mirror and adjust your expression until you look like that. Your brain will associate it with emotional states that you would be in to make it naturally and subconsciously. No one pulling a face like that has any good intentions or feelings while making it.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Not accepting that our energy consumption and population size has an upper limit is like not accepting that you're going to die some day, and it's led to insane policies like replacing the native population with poor foreigners to keep the GDP going up. It doesn't actually improve the lives of the natives, but it makes the numbers look good.
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We're so far away from that limit that it's hardly worth thinking about. What distinguishes your views from those who already think we've past it and that we need to massively depopulate the planet? I won't at all be surprised if humans are living on the moon, Mars, or otherwise out in space before I die. We're not going to stay contained to just this planet or even our own solar system.

Keeping illegals out and making the native population of any country more productive also makes GDP increase. There's no sense in throwing out the baby with the bathwater just because some shitheads found a perverse way of making the line go up. The line can go up for a lot of different reasons, which is why I said it's an imperfect measure in isolation and needs to be broken down into more detail.
 
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Irene and 22 others said:
We're so far away from that limit that it's hardly worth thinking about. What distinguishes your views from those who already think we've past it and that we need to massively depopulate the planet? I won't at all be surprised if humans are living on the moon, Mars, or otherwise out in space before I die. We're not going to stay contained to just this planet or even our own solar system.

Keeping illegals out and making the native population of any country more productive also makes GDP increase. There's no sense in throwing out the baby with the bathwater just because some shitheads found a perverse way of making the line go up. The line can go up for a lot of different reasons, which is why I said it's an imperfect measure in isolation and needs to be broken down into more detail.
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we are absolutely going to stay contained to this solar system (unless physics is wrong about ftl being an impossibility)
 
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DumbDude43 said:
we are absolutely going to stay contained to this solar system (unless physics is wrong about ftl being an impossibility)
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I said this before elsewhere and I'm gonna say it again:

You're basically saying "there will never be a time where people are so sick of niggers that they decide to leave for another solar system, at great cost. This will never, ever, ever happen in the entire future of Humanity, until the end of time, in perpetuity. Not one single group or subculture in the teeming masses will ever say 'Damn the costs in time and resources! We hate everybody else, let them all rot', and decide to leave, and ever succeed, whatsoever, in any capacity, forever, until the sun explodes and the earth boils alive, killing the last roach-people on Earth."

But, that's besides the point in a Captain Planet and Stargate based thread, apologies.
 
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Hungry Wes Borland said:
Lol not because they're anti white, foreign subversives, homosexuals, etc etc but because they correctly and, mildly but consistently, criticize the state of Israel.

Americans live under foreign occupation. A Jewish colony, for their enrichment over all others.
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If we can get any and all faggots deported for any reason, that's still a win.
 
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Core Theorist said:
I said this before elsewhere and I'm gonna say it again:

You're basically saying "there will never be a time where people are so sick of niggers that they decide to leave for another solar system, at great cost. This will never, ever, ever happen in the entire future of Humanity, until the end of time, in perpetuity. Not one single group or subculture in the teeming masses will ever say 'Damn the costs in time and resources! We hate everybody else, let them all rot', and decide to leave, and ever succeed, whatsoever, in any capacity, forever, until the sun explodes and the earth boils alive, killing the last roach-people on Earth."
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i'm not saying nobody will ever want to leave earth, i'm saying it's impossible to carry out.
you're infinitely more likely to see someone enact TND on earth than to see someone reach alpha centauri.
 
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Irene and 22 others said:
We're so far away from that limit that it's hardly worth thinking about.
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The population is already unable to sustain the current GDP and is in the process of collapsing.

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What distinguishes your views from those who already think we've past it and that we need to massively depopulate the planet?
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Because "I cannot fit infinitely many items in a container" and "we should destroy the items currently in the container" aren't logically equivalent. Why would you think they are?
 
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Hungry Wes Borland said:
because they correctly and, mildly but consistently, criticize the state of Israel.
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That's not what happened. Harvard knew that Jewish students were being harassed and discriminated against but did nothing to stop it. They're losing money because of constant title 6 violations that they refuse to correct.

It's always been clear that this is the case if you bothered to look into it instead of making assumptions.


Jewish students were subjected to pervasive insults, physical assault, and intimidation, with no meaningful response from Harvard’s leadership. Recent reporting has exposed the Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) pattern of endemic race discrimination when evaluating articles for inclusion in its journal. Even more troubling, the HLR awarded a $65,000 fellowship–meant to “serve the public interest”--to a protester who faced criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student on campus. The decision was reviewed and approved by a faculty committee, demonstrating just how radical Harvard has become.
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Hungry Wes Borland said:
Lol not because they're anti white, foreign subversives, homosexuals, etc etc but because they correctly and, mildly but consistently, criticize the state of Israel.

Americans live under foreign occupation. A Jewish colony, for their enrichment over all others.
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Dude can’t take a win because muh israel. Would you rather them keep on having muslim terrorist sand nigger palestine parades?
 
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