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If you could erase the existence of 3 people, who would they be? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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No CEOs or politicians

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[–] 33 points 10 months ago (5 children)

No CEOs or politicians makes it hard. Can we do people from the past? If so I choose baby Donald Trump, baby Elon Musk and baby Peter Theil.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    If you're doing consideration of past people, give consideration to baby Thomas Midgely Jr.

    He's the dude that effectively invented leaded gasoline AND chlorofluorocarbons. It can be argued that no other single human in history did more widespread damage to the environment than he did.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Bro contracted lead poisoning, was informed of TEL's toxicity in 1922, and was still stupid enough to deliberately give himself lead poisoning again in 1924 to trick people into thinking it was safe.

    Not only irreparable and frankly incomprehensible levels of environmental damage, but his products are cumulatively estimated to have stolen at least 824 million IQ points from people born during their use.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Making the argument that you should kill scientists for their inventions is short sighted, dumb and morally dubious

    1. Its Science, if Thomas didn't invent leaded gasoline someone else would have figured it out, an interesting parallel is Fritz Haber, discoverer of the habers process(iykyk).

    2. Even if he invented it, it was the corpos who heavily pushed and kept it in circulation for their own benefit.

    3. Attacking Science in any way compromises human progress, CFC's were the stepping stone to less harmful refrigerants.

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    • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    no ceos or politicians??? then whats the point!?

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    • [–] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Stephen Miller isn't an elected politician. I'd also like to nominate Rupert Murdoch and Andrew Tate.

    EDIT: In my cups, I'd probably nominate my son-in-law and daughter-in-law as numbers 2 and 3 instead.

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    • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    The fathers of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos.

    Erasing the existence of anyone would have to be done in the past so that shouldnt be an issue.

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    [–] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    β€œNo CEOs or politicians”

    Ridiculous. Anyone worth killing will either be a CEO or described as a politician in some capacity.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Remove OP first, then two CEOs.

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    • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    Alex Jones

    Steve Bannon

    Stephen Miller

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    [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Myself Γ—3

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    [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Adam, Cain, and Abel

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Lucy, if early hominids count.

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    • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Peter Thiel isn't a CEO, so he's #1

    Leonard Leo, Trump / Project 2025 dark money donor

    Joe Rogan

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Joe Rogan

    It really is astonishing to see a guy thoroughly fun to watch on NewsRadio, across most of his standup routines, and even early-on in his podcasts go from left-leaning, sympathetic, and genuinely curious person about all kinds of things, all the way to a naked sellout, whose usual defense of being a right-wing asshat is to proclaim "I'm just asking questions!"

    On a parallel note, I understand that Kentucky's Mitch M. went from left-wing politico earlier in his career to essentially Darth Vader in the last few decades. Which is why I'd think it would be both fascinating, horrifying and hugely revealing to learn just how that happened, in as much detail as possible...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe too many blows to the head after getting into MMA?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Nah, he's a long-time MMA commenter, not a participant. In fact, her ladyship Ronda Rousey called him out on that just recently. OTOH he actually does hold two legit Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts, so the man is no fraud in terms of martial arts.

    Like his master Dana White though, it seems he's heavily in to nootropics and performance-enhancing shizzle. Along those lines, it seemed to me that both of them were fairly handsome men only a few years ago, and these days they just look... weird... Like, sort of greasy-faced, with enlarged heads, and sunken facial features.

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Jake Paul and Logan Paul do count as CEOs?

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Thomas Midgely Jr., Richard Nixon, me

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Myself, St.Paul, Henry Ford.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    John J. Schlummeister, Jan Mooi and Sue Tirami.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Emperor Constantine I

    Then save the other two to see how that played out.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    This fellow for starters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Barbie, G.I. Joe and Jesus Christ

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Philip II of Makedon, Qin Shi Huangdi, and the person who invented salted caramel.

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    John Alfred Hammersmith

    Steve J. North

    Marcelo Henrique de Oliveira Lima

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Trumps parents. No parents no trump. Elon's aswell as Hitler's etc. you get the idea.

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    [–] 0 points 10 months ago*

    Assuming currently living people

    I would start with whoever made that Transformer research paper in 2017 which paved the way to this LLM craze

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