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[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm not even joking when I say some individual humans, much like cells in a person, start becoming severely harmful to the whole organism - attempting to spread chaos across the whole body.

We have several of these "human-shaped cancer cells" around the globe, and unmistakably, Trump is one of them.

Him, Musk, Putin and the whole lot of them who think themselves Gods on Earth are the species' very cancer manifest.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whenever I entertain the idea of us being in a simulation and think what the purpose of the simulation would be, I could see the goal being to make… like… t-cell souls that are willing to stave off the disease that is greedy, selfish bigoted souls. Y’know?

…brb gonna take another bong hit.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

We're just one of millions of simulations of the same size and complexity that are used to train the next iteration of LLMs

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

You’ve essentially described meme theory except your blaming the products of memes for the memes themselves. Trump isn’t the cancer, nor is musk or Putin or whoever. They all have supporters and a lot of them. Trumps approval rating is still near 45-50%. And the supporters aren’t something he grew or cultivated.

Trump is the product of a meme. Conservatism isn’t the end point results of a meme, it’s an expression of an underlying cultural phenomenon where after much progress is achieved, people begin to miss the familiarity of the past and wish to stop making progress for a short time.

And so the real thing being spread and what needs to die is the meme itself. And the only way you kill a meme is to change it into a better version of itself. Better meaning beneficial. Whereas what memes naturally do is become larger and more popular ideas until they are out competed by another meme.

You can’t kill a meme by turning conservative people liberal. All you can do is make people better conservatives and help them criticize and improve their own memes. Same way with religion and it’s been happening for millennia for most of them.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump is already a tumor sprouted by the cancer of unchecked far right demagoguery. Him getting cancer would be very much a hat on a hat.

So what I'm saying is that I hope that the hat puts on a hat as quickly as possible.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a phenomenon called "supercancer" where cancerous tumors can themselves develop cancer and die to it. So this wouldn't be the first time something fortunate like this happened.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

supercancer

If ever a medical term sounded like something toxic gamers came up with.. 😄

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

After the Sonic hedgehog protein I'm no longer surprised by anything

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

He's taking medical advice from RFK, so that is not impossible .

[–] doug@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago

Trump is cancer manifest. Every time he gets any of its iterations he just absorbs it like osmosis.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

He can do it. I believe in him.