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[-] KimJongGoku@hexbear.net 49 points 10 months ago

You'll have to ask a tougher question like "If there is a cat trapped in a house with a button that kills 8 billion people when pressed and the only way to avoid the cat stepping on the button is to let it outside, would you do it?"

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

Schrodinger's nuke threat

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Oh shit oh no

[-] blight@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago

why yes, hello fellow leftists, we sure love killing random people for no reason and we are definitely the aggressors sus

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago
[-] DornerFangirl@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

Stalin killed at least twice that many people, so it's a loss that I'm willing to take

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

I am become Stalin, destroyer of worlds

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am become Stalin, ~~destroyer~~ devourer of ~~worlds~~ grains

stalin-spoon

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh god

It's the spoon

Nooo

[-] Omegamint@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago

No, also fuck off

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE MALTHUS

GET OFF THE INTERNET AND STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO COMMIT OMNICIDE

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Absolutely not, why would you even ask such a ridiculous question

Take your two day old account and fuck all the way off

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

I don't think there's that many fascists...

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

This is just posadism but the button is magic instead of the nuke button.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Yes. I would push the button. Communism is when you kill lots of people.

[-] gobble_ghoul@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Can I kill one person 8 billion times instead?

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago
[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Dreaming of Kissinger being thrown down a mine shaft and respawning at the top for eternity.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

If there's any contemporary figure who has earned not just hell, but Super Greek Hell, it's that one.

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[-] shath@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

stupid question, eat my entire ass

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thats all humans lmao

What a stupid question

[-] booty@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I think there's enough more than 8 billion humans that a stable population could recover. It'd take a while though.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Woah I thought the world population was still around 7.something billion. Crazy.

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[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

Effective Altruism, amirite? First, you must merely comit the greatest act of evil possible... after which, utopia awaits for infinite future hypothetical people!

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

It doesn't have to be 8 billion at once right? We can keep deleting 8 billion fascists for centuries with that button, after which we will have communism

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago
[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

I'd press it if it killed melon-musk 8 billion times back to back.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 17 points 10 months ago

Not a goddamn chance. Killing that many people all at once essentially wipes out humanity.

[-] allnaturalanthrax@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

70 million people would still be alive.

[-] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

they already did it in the 1600s when capitalism was invented

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

Carl Marks killed like 100 trillion people with only his piss and that still wasn't enough to bring about communism so I don't know why your plan would work

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

Yes, but not for the communism

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

But for the lulz

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Only if you promise I'll be one of the 8 billion.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

Fuck it, why not 9 billion? smuglord

[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago
[-] booooop@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

Make it anarchism and I’ll push it twice.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

If it was a button press I don't think there would be any sort of the saving the state for transition so in this scenario, I'd assume it would just be some sort of tiny pockets of anarchist societies for whoever remains.

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Communism is guaranteed to happen anyway.

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[-] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Ofc not, why the fuck would anyone do that

[-] spauldo@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

You would kill billions of people just to make the rest conform to your ideals? Congratulations, you've graduated from communist school and will receive your diploma in the mail shortly.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Notice how the majority of replies are just "no" or something that obviously shows that the question is not taken seriously?

(Yes I get that you may be doing a bit, but I'm kinda bored)

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Piss off with your bs, everyone's saying no or treating the question like the joke that it is (unless this is sarcasm, in that case sorry)

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

good bit, you gottem all cranked up

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

Nah, we'll win this struggle the hard and right way lenin-shining

[-] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I would not press the button.

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