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ezbnsteve t1_ja0suli wrote

People have always been the means for spreading a biological agent. Stupid or otherwise. There were some test with mosquitoes…

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ReallyDumbRedditor t1_ja0uen9 wrote

Yup, look at the US education system. Our government is intentionally underpaying the teachers so that no sane person will ever pursue teaching as a career in the future. With no teachers, we will eventually have no schools. Stupid people will be the only people left, easily giving the government complete control over them.

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Bierbart12 t1_ja0vdhx wrote

Probably. Or they help build crowd immunity faster through their stupidity

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HesThePhantom t1_ja0xjsc wrote

So it was the Chinese who invented lead paint and gasoline? /s

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TossAwayGay92 t1_ja0z7h8 wrote

No, they're just the ultimate means of transportation. The Enola Gay isn't regarded as the reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were blown up, but rather the means of transportation for the tragedy.

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shottylaw t1_ja145xz wrote

I'm pretty sure the ultimate biological weapon is the air in daycare facilities

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thedarkracer t1_ja150zk wrote

Agree and it is not confined to diseases only. They never listen to reason and just argue endlessly whilst putting others in danger. Take someone on the road for example. They would cross signs and ignore traffic lights saying it is just government controlling them and they are meant to be free. And then they cause accidents.

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FranKing0807 t1_ja16tu0 wrote

Replying to shottylaw (#2,011,170)

>the air in daycare facilities

Have you been to a daycare, like ever? What the f🦆k kind of health inspector just allows the daycare to constantly smell like someone just opened 20 diapers on a summer day at the dump? Are your kids and/or you ok, u/shottylaw?

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Dissastronaut t1_ja1d6sd wrote

China gave the united states tic tok algorithms for this reason

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VagabondStarr t1_ja1d8ti wrote

Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare more or less operate on this assumption.

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Velvet_Pop t1_ja1jh43 wrote

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

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_meshy t1_ja1jnrc wrote

I dunno. I've lived for decades around stupid people. I don't think I'd last as long around weapons grade anthrax.

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zacablast3r t1_ja1k9j2 wrote

Warhammer orks if you just add a little bit of collective psychic power

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WyattTheOak t1_ja1lvxg wrote

Did you ever hear tale of the Confederate 'dead man's switch'?

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WuTang360Bees t1_ja1ptxq wrote

Stupid is not an infectious disease and it doesn’t make your insides melt into a puddle. So no

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sbringel74 t1_ja1rzbh wrote

I think its greedy people. But theyre still stupid, so your point stands valid.

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Pacman_Frog t1_ja1salw wrote

"You can never completely idiot-proof something. Because God makes the idiots, and he's a better Engineer than you."

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duskull007 t1_ja1v2xd wrote

Or just average people. Too dumb to realize they're being manipulated, but just smart enough to think they're coming up with these "clever" ideas on their own

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Chewbacca0510 t1_ja1vxeh wrote

I’m legit waiting for world war 3 to be fought over whether we should vaccinate or not, are there other genders, is Karen as bad as the n word and so many other stupid things like that 😂

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xxxsur t1_ja1x273 wrote

Replying to Dissastronaut (#2,012,812)

As a Hong Konger, whom have been reminded over and over again is Chinese by CCP, cannot use tic-toc since it is banned.

Come to think of it, CCP some times do good work to their people

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The_BrainFreight t1_ja1xi9p wrote

What do you mean easily manipulated people can do your bidding?

This mechanic has been abused for as long as humans banded into larger groups

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Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho t1_ja1xnn5 wrote

Replying to 0r0B0t0 (#2,015,561)

Shit bro, last year August. We send the 1 yo to daycare 5yo to kinder, 10yo to 4th. We had:

Stomach flu. 2 times

Flu. 1 time

A covid virus ( not 19)

Cold 2 times

We mask at home when someone is sick. This week is the only one we haven't been sick, one gets sick 3 days later the next one... just keep going

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HWNY506 t1_ja1zalq wrote

Well they don’t put “Do not immerse in water” on new toasters and hair dryers for nothing.

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LiamTheHuman t1_ja1zs8p wrote

Replying to Bierbart12 (#2,009,459)

I actually wondered something similar. Like if countries are using mental warfare on each other, are they hurting one another or just teaching the populous how to defend against it in the long run. I guess just like other organisms the strong cultures that can withstand the pressure survive and the weak are controlled or die off

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My_Username_Is_What t1_ja20bjs wrote

A country could, hypothetically speaking, spend around 800 billion dollars on their military and be the strongest country on the planet. You can't beat them in a fight, ever.

But you don't need to. Just get this hypothetical country to rot from the inside. You start introducing your ideas into pop culture, massage the media for a decade or two, and buy politicians. Convince those politicians to fleece their constituents, destroy the education system, and simultaneously get the public to think it's, once again hypothetically speaking, say a minority population that is at fault. Not the politicians.

Then you have uneducated stupid people running around killing each other and tearing up history in some "morality" based purge and tada, that once homogeneous and united country is now divided into city states busily attacking each other.

A wise man once wrote "in the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

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KickBassColonyDrop t1_ja20lhc wrote

Replying to mrfitty (#2,015,242)

Tough call. They don't develop object permanence for several years. I think you need that in order to qualify as someone being stupid. If their brains can't remember that because their eyes can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there, then it's impossible to claim they're stupid. In fact, claiming that they're stupid is on of itself stupid. You neeny.

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SuddenlyElga t1_ja20s08 wrote

A few years ago I heard about the train theory that kept humans from progressing as fast as we could.

I don’t remember it exactly, but it kind of went like this:

The locomotive represents science and people wanting to make life better. But that locomotive is held back by train cars full of religious people and other dumbasses.

I’m sure the real theory is a lot more politically correct but that’s the gist.

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Prime_Mover t1_ja20xzz wrote

Actually, it's period pains. Will absolutely incapacitate you for days without medication and often with , every month for decades. If they could weaponize it, god help us all.

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jagdpanzer45 t1_ja21lmb wrote

Replying to Velvet_Pop (#2,014,116)

Reminds me of a remark from someone working with the US National Parks “the problem with designing a bear-proof trashcan is that there is significant overlap between a dumb tourist and a smart bear”

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iren33 t1_ja23f3m wrote

Imagine spreading stupid people in the air or in the water lines

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Bhodi3K t1_ja24ewz wrote

The biggest threat to humans long term survival, is that IQ is inversely proportional to the number of offspring.

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Forsaken_Jelly t1_ja26y8a wrote

They're too stupid to be weaponized.

A sword that harms the wielder is not a weapon.

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MagroMalo t1_ja28c9v wrote

Ever wonder why TVs are insanely cheap and have depreciated year over year while everything else is more expensive? Or why billion dollar companies find ways to facilitate people buying phones on payments when they can't get credit for literally anything else?

This post. That's why.

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DandyLion23 t1_ja28x5g wrote

It's greedy people. While stupid people do stuff wrong by accident, greedy people actively do evil for their own gain.

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urawesomeniloveu t1_ja29xs4 wrote

Replying to Dissastronaut (#2,012,812)

That sounds like my Tiktok, and i'm in Australia. I believe Tiktok just feeds uaers what they're intetested in and I guarantee that there are plenty of users in America that get educational and business related feeds.

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Wizzle_Pizzle_420 t1_ja2a5c0 wrote

Replying to Poopoopug (#2,018,545)

Sometimes the characters in that movie don’t seem as terrible as what we’re dealing with. I had to stop reading/ watching dystopian movies, because some of them don’t seem as bad, and it made me angry that we’re in the age of douchebaggery.

We’re probably a horror movie for those in another dimension.

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MisterFixit_69 t1_ja2ag99 wrote

That's why china sends unrestricted TikTok to the rest of the world. And its working.

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santz007 t1_ja2atn2 wrote

Republicans primary strategy is to defund education to keep their voter base stupid, it makes it easier to fool them with their lies

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One-Step2764 t1_ja2bq3p wrote

Replying to My_Username_Is_What (#2,017,205)

Futurists worry about rogue AI for pretty good reasons; we've already experienced a primitive form of the problem in our social bureaucracy. Those politicians and powerholders do horrible things as they optimize toward a misaligned reward function, whether that's votes in a unrepresentative majoritarian polling system, leverage in an absurdly lopsided legislative system, or financial tokens in an economic system that rewards hoarders.

What's happening now in the US is not dissimilar from a game AI spamming some useless behavior that runs up a counter to no useful purpose. Unfortunately, the dollar-counter gives our social AI ever-greater power to perpetuate itself. Millions, billions, trillions of dollar-points, all redeemable for more and more human labor to be spent on accumulating more and more points, absolutely disregarding the humanitarian or ecological cost.

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Prince_John t1_ja2dyxf wrote

Replying to Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho (#2,016,795)

CRT is a university level specialist topic that they will never study outside of that field and the Tulsa massacre isn’t part of the curriculum.

Do you expect them to have genetically encoded history or something? Get Uncling/Aunting and tell them about it!

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Breakfest-burrito t1_ja2icgl wrote

Replying to kai325d (#2,019,838)

I'm saying he's an idiot for thinking it's not geographical and that simply being Chinese grants you access to the Chinese version of TikTok. Your region determines your viewing, it's like if someone says everyone in the UK watches BBC but I chime in saying "I have a neighbor from England and he watches CSPAN"....like yeah, you idiot, because he's your neighbor here in America

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DinoRaawr t1_ja307q4 wrote

Replying to Breakfest-burrito (#2,019,895)

Lol what? Why do you think I wouldn't have considered that? Obviously I asked follow up questions. It's almost a completely different app for them. You can buy things off of it by swiping, and it has a few fundamentally different features like a new UI. It's not like they're just using it in Chinese.

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WettWednesday t1_ja38fxm wrote

Replying to Wizzle_Pizzle_420 (#2,018,801)

>we are a horror story to those in other countries

Ftfy

In Germany they don't just learn about their past to prevent becoming nazi germany again, they also learn in their version of high school, about current American propaganda. And not only is Germany well aware how fucked up we are over here, so are most of western europe. And they're seeing a lot of same overlap in the UK with very similar propaganda and internal destruction.

When Americans stopped aiming for a better future for all Americans, and started only focusing on ourselves and the "I got mine fuck you" mentality, we started accelerating this process beyond a means of fixing it.

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Batman_AoD t1_ja3aurz wrote

Replying to Velvet_Pop (#2,014,116)

Adams also wrote a Hitchhiker short story, "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe", that is essentially about a particular person being treated as an extremely dangerous biological weapon because of his personality and behavior.

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