He claims what he is proposing is “less morally questionable” yet in the very next line he states he wants something “truly horrible” and “evil itself.” morshupls

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    There’s a writer called John C Wright and you can read the narrowing of the Basinga’s hope for the future from libertarian hyper optimism and pretensions to godhood, to vaguely tradcath “we’re all part of a Noosphere communion of all humanity but everyone is somehow still in capitalist patriarchy 200,000 years from now” to “The future will be exactly like today but with bigger guns.”

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      That’s a common “singularity” nerd rapture fantasy: that the future would involve immortality and superpowers but not be “woke” in any scary way (unless they can sexually fetishize it, maybe).

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        It’s just so shocking how they went from "Jupiter Brains! Entirely new non-neurotypical ways of mind! Complete and total gender and Morphological freedom! Spend a year as a Tree for tax reasons! To “I only suck the blood of the young from women because to do it from the same gender is woke actually”

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          Look at my-hero : in only a few years he went from peddling techno hopium to peddling fear and siege mentality crybully shit for aggreived nazis.