Image stolen from LinkedIn, too good to not share with Fedi.

@magdalenahai cheap ageism there though, ignoring the crux (i.e. the age is not the problem, being terrible humans is.)

@mawhrin @magdalenahai Also note that baby booms don't happen at the same time in different areas of the world.

(Edit: I'm also pretty sure things are not great on Africa, it's just no one gives a shit...)

Listen, guys. About this meme. We ALL know there are plenty of assholes in this world, and many of them are currently in power and causing all different kinds of havoc. I know this meme captures only three of them. Even so, imagine a world without these three in power. Just, imagine it.

@magdalenahai Problem is there are more assholes waiting in the wings. And the alternatives we’re being pitched are also assholes. What I’m trying to say is that the asshole problem is systemic.

@aral @magdalenahai The problem is that too many of us conflate "leadership qualities" with the same behavior we attribute in other species to apex predation, then we wonder meekly why we're all on the dinner plate.

@magdalenahai The real danger are poeple behind them, such as Peter Thiel, who was The "teacher" of Vance; Musk, Zuckerberg, Bannon, others of Silicon Valley and other rich far-right people all over the world.

@magdalenahai this misses Ali Chamenei from Iran who’s funding and using Hezbollah and Hamas and the Huthis and sending Drones to Putin.

And ordering the Revolutionary Guard of Iran to butcher his own population.

Remember ”Woman, Life, Freedom”?

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@magdalenahai All on trump's stupid board of peace BS

@MikeImBack @magdalenahai

"It looks like the bar in Star Wars"

or as I would call it, a target rich environment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXsn058opUg

@IreneMoews yeah, I've been thinking this a lot lately. The people in the background are part of the problem and dangerous as hell, but on the other hand it seems like destructive power of this kind always comes into the Big Man system, where there is one man, one face, one king that people want to follow. So it's not only about power, it's about gaining the following of the people as well. Heavens know why some people think these are the good guys, but so many do.

@magdalenahai Because they are telling lots of lies and people believe them.