We are in a climate emergency that must be drastically dealt with immediately.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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I might even go so far as plant a few policies in their heads. "We are in a climate emergency, and we should address it immediately with policies such as carbon tax-and-dividend, ending subsidies for harmful industries such as fossil fuels and industrial agriculture, investing in both established and promising renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and tidal and geothermal, reducing our dependence on cars with more electrified public transport and denser urban design, and encouraging better urban land use patterns with land value taxes." One sentence = one thought, right?
Knowing humans, if we didn't use this magical power to guide them to good solutions, a good number of us would conclude, "That's it, we need to nuke China and India to save the Earth!"
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I'd go with "Hey, it's God. I actually AM real, but I'm heading out. You guys are on your own from now on, no more afterlife or anything. So be good to each other! Alright, I'm out. (oh, and just some advice? you might want to get ahead of this climate change thing)"
Sounds like a recipe to stir up religious backlash on insert group here for driving god away
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"MothBookkeeper is the dictator of the world, and I completely trust his decisions."
Nevermind the logistics of that; power lives where people believe it does.
Then I could make multiple beneficial changes, such as:
- Heavily taxing the rich
- Enacting drastic climate policy
- Banning paper stickers that rip as you try to take them off
- Sending Mitch McConnell on a rocket into the sun
Considering our names start similar and that you going to do something about stickers that rip off, I give you my support
I also choose this man's Moth
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Don't be a dick
Problem with that is that many people are being dicks while thinking that they are not being dicks.
Used to have this as the only rule for my Discord server, and it obviously wasnβt clear enough for people to get.
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Honk honk itβs the goose
Can you imagine the amazing headlines.
"City Agrees Spirit Spoke To Them; Was A Goose"
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Global Γ§onfusion is imminent.
Everyone! I am Son Goku and I need your energy to defeat Majin Buu!
Lol as a kid me and my sister raised our hands to the ceiling to give goku our chi in solidarity, while watching tv.
I'm pretty sure if I hear this in my head, today, as an adult, I'd do it again. No questions asked
ΰΌΌ γ€ β_β ΰΌ½γ€
βThe purpose of your life is to make others happyβ
Put that in the head of all the βplayersβ.
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Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.
βYou develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, βLook at that, you son of a bitch.ββ
β Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
The irresistible urge to consume at least one billionaire. They would think that if they donβt eat a billionaire they would die. Hilarity would ensue.
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The experience of being the victim of real violence. It's pretty clear most people don't really get it. And it's weirdly common for people to have romantic ideas about fighting, revenge, punishment, war, and even torture. I think it would be eye opening.
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It's a good idea to have government programs to take care of citizens without requiring any strings to get help.
"On the count of 3, jump!"
I'm just curious to see what would happen.
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βAll you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.β
"BE KIND"
REWIND
Seize the means of production
Reject your humanity become a catgirl nyaaa
"Send Squirrel money." (With details, of course. Can't have them giving money to some random squirrel.)
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"Dammit I just lost The Game"
Be friendly to someone today.
The signal your brain gets when you really have to take a shit, right now, or there will be dire consequences.
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Start caring about your privacy, governments and corporations are spying on you
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Protect those weaker than you.
Any argument for your freedom is an argument for everyone's freedom.
"hmm, I should try LSD."
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