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TommyT139

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23. Bizarrely, magats conflate transhumanism with transgenderism.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 01:37 AM
Oct 2025

They are convinced that an endpoint of the trans movement is that we want to turn into something other than human. It must be the "trans" prefix that confuses them, I guess.

For most trans people I know, the opposite is true: people who transition medically do so because we want to live in a body that fits who we are, as much as possible. Embodiment matters.

And frankly, good luck (not!) to the people who want to upload their consciousness into a device. Every single computer, smart phone, tablet that I have ever owned just stops working, either because something inside goes bad, or because the internet standards have made even a basic browser obsolete. The broligarchs are still going to need serfs to change their batteries or whatever.



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Billionaires Endgame [View all] clevergrrrl Oct 2025 OP
Yes they have some sort of end game along these lines. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #1
"Why not let the peasants live a bit longer in ignorant bliss?" clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #2
Yes of course. They are done sharing THEIR resources. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #16
Just now reading Ed Zitron's latest erronis Oct 2025 #17
Jebus. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #19
As many have said, the AI bubble will put the 1929 crash and 2008 subprime mortgage debacle to shame. erronis Oct 2025 #20
And not a damn thing we can do about it. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #21
Anybody watch Alien:Earth? JBTaurus83 Oct 2025 #3
They have had a lot of practice clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #6
As a matter of semantics, if you can download your mind/brain/self/soul into a set of memory banks ... Intractable Oct 2025 #4
That's the big debate among the transhumanists clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #5
If you were fully aware JBTaurus83 Oct 2025 #7
I've always thought it was a ridiculous notion. clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #9
They can't even JBTaurus83 Oct 2025 #11
Ironically, all they're really perpetuating are their egos misanthrope Oct 2025 #14
Not very practical. dickthegrouch Oct 2025 #8
Yup, like playing a videogame clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #10
Billionaires should fear their souls, they can't control or change it. pwb Oct 2025 #12
One caveat misanthrope Oct 2025 #13
Ira Levin canetoad Oct 2025 #15
As frightening as all that sounded to me when I first read about Yarvin, Thiel, et.al... Marie Marie Oct 2025 #18
Is that living? Would we really want to live forever? Why? IcyPeas Oct 2025 #22
Seriously róisín_dubh Oct 2025 #24
Bizarrely, magats conflate transhumanism with transgenderism. TommyT139 Oct 2025 #23
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