• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works
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    if minions were real who do you think they would follow today? Trump? Tim Apple? netanyahoo? Sam AltMan? Putin?

    edit: lesson learned, don’t try to spell politicians names while high

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      21 hours ago

      They seem to be wowed more by flash than anything, and the villains don’t seem to be particularly competent or bright. That rules out Larry Ellison and AIPIC.

      Various congressional Republicans, Elon Musk, or Javier Milei.

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      Peter Tiel I think. Trump and Altman are more like grifters. Net Yahoo and Putin are contenders, but they’re using mass murder to solidify their own power… It just feels too pedestrian

      But Tiel is like a hardcore death cultist or something. He gives speeches warning about how AI will be the anti-Christ, then goes around putting up AI cameras everywhere. He’s the type that reads 1984 and pays people to build the torment Nexus

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        13 hours ago

        He also says the antichrist will be a “self-described protector who promises peace, safety, and an end to technological risk” and sites Greta Thunberg.

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        He’s probably the closest thing to a Bond style supervillain that exist, if alchemy were real he would be trying to create a global transmutation circle to sacrifice humanity and gain immortality

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          I’m pretty confident Putin is the number one backer of immortality age reversal research globally.

          He does all sorts of things, as is tradition among Russian Tzar’s, to halt his aging. The joke is the anti aging gurus tend to die before turning 70 and it has scared every Russian leader in history when they’ve observed that

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          I decided not to use the word supervillain, but I was certainly thinking it loudly

          Hold on, I need to check deflock and make sure the cameras don’t form an alchemy circle

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          19 hours ago

          That’s what he says in public, he’s said different things to a captive audience of billionaires apparently

          I think he’s actually just pro antichrist and so tries to sell his positions as the opposite

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          19 hours ago

          I’m not, Steven Miller is a creepy little piece of shit

          But capability and reach are part of my moral framework. Miller is basically a coach for the brown shirts… He just yells at them to hurt more brown people faster. His words are vile, but they don’t change much

          He lacks the influence to be in the running

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        2 days ago

        In a list with Netanyahu and Putin, complaining about glasses is a bold choice.

        Nazis? Hmmmm, I didn’t like their mining policy, very polluting!