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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      it’s still far too early in baytime (hell, it’s barely morning in eagleeast), gonna check back in on this in 2~3h for when the real fun starts

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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          6 months ago

          two from the same esteemed poster:

          That sounds very “leftist” in circular-logic where more money means you are axiomatically automatically the most guilty regardless of level of harm caused. Which means that if you were to become the first trillionare by curing 95% of all forms of cancer then you are clearly history’s greatest monster.

          Alright then so when do we go from it being tax deductible to outright banning private charity as “undemocratic”?

          • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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            6 months ago

            so true, there’s nothing conceivably wrong with making… a trillion dollars… ? on the backs of cancer patients …?

              • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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                6 months ago

                taking all people with cancer in the world right now it’s at least a couple thousands of pure profits, but if you account for all future humans it’s basically giving it away for free!

                • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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                  6 months ago

                  Yeah but this doesn’t make you immortal so for the person to become a trillionaire in a reasonable timeframe (lets say two decades) that is a lot of dollars per treatment which goes to this inventor. Which compared to the payouts other inventors get would make him an asshole in their own class in exploiting sick people.

                  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
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                    6 months ago

                    The hypothetical here is interesting in that it shows this commenter basically being a money maximiser. Say you’re the inventor of this cure - you’re the only one who understands it, basically it’s magic. You have 2 choices:

                    1. squeeze every patient and healthcare system for as much as they can bear. After all, this is a cure for cancer, there’s an upper limit to how much people and governments are prepared to spend, just put the price $1 below that. Profit!

                    or you can

                    1. offer the invention for free, still live a good life as a consultant or employee of a drug company, or just spend your time handling speaking engagements at $200,000 a pop, and get remembered throughout history as one of the saviors of humankind.