Charlie StrossFeb 2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/115998586927326681

You know, if you're a white supremacist and your goal is to deniably exterminate the untermenschen in camps by negligently letting plagues rip through them instead of gassing them, it shows a REMARKABLE lack of foresight to put an anti-vaxx nutcase in charge of your master race's public health policy, doesn't it?

These guys are evil but they're not terribly smart.

@Green_Footballs

Show threadSteveg58Feb 2
@cstross @Green_Footballs
I think it makes sense if your ultimate target is most of the population. After all the nutcase made sure all his family was immunised.
Show threadChristian Praetorius
@Steveg58 @cstross @Green_Footballs What these idiots haven't realized is that they need quite some amount of population to keep things going.
Feb 2 at 11:34amWeb
Show threadSteveg58Feb 2
@snaefell @cstross @Green_Footballs
I don't think they have any idea at all about such things. Modern business philosophy, workers are an expense not an asset.
Show threadChristian PraetoriusFeb 2
@Steveg58 @cstross @Green_Footballs My guess is that these guys have no intent in emptying their trashcans themselves. Or making sure streets stay in a usable conditions all year long.
Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 2
@snaefell @Steveg58 @Green_Footballs I think "keeping things going" is meaningless to them. They'd be quite happy with an 1850s level of prosperity and infrastructure as long as they themselves were still kings of the dung heap.
Show threadSteveg58Feb 2
@cstross @snaefell @Green_Footballs
Yeah, that's my feeling as well.
Show threadHighlandLawyerFeb 2
@snaefell @Steveg58 @Green_Footballs @cstross
They'd be satisfied with a 1350s level of prosperity so long as they're the kings & nobles.
Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 2
@HighlandLawyer @snaefell @Steveg58 @Green_Footballs Yeah; that resolve will last until the first time they need a root canal, 1350s style. (Oh dear, how sad, never mind.)
Show threadChristian PraetoriusFeb 2
@cstross @HighlandLawyer @Steveg58 @Green_Footballs Or anything else from the catalogue of modern medicine. Let alone drugs which will not be available for just a few million people.
Show threadDavid SFeb 2
@snaefell @Steveg58 @cstross @Green_Footballs why do you think they're such big fans of AI?
Show threadChristian PraetoriusFeb 2
@Pionir This will not empty their bins. Nor will AI plow a field.
Show threadDavid SFeb 2
@snaefell agreed, but that's not what they think though!