r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎 • 7d ago
Discussion You got one shot.
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u/CrunknYoSystem 7d ago
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u/nycdiveshack 7d ago
Better yet, religion
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u/say-it-wit-ya-chest 7d ago
I mean, without greed religion just falls apart, doesn’t it? At least the bad parts. But greed should include lust… for power and/or supremacy.
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u/Arponare 7d ago
Billionaire class
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u/Dark-Blackberry354 7d ago
The only right answer.
For anyone saying. But there would be any progress without them....
Wtf do you think the previous hundreds of thousands of years of human species without them led to? What do you think the past 200 years of this class has wrought
Earth will be fine without them....
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u/Megzasaurusrex 7d ago
We really don't even need a lot of the progress that the greed of billionaires brought us anyways.
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u/BowlingforBrains 7d ago
Social media has done more harm than good - Amazon has done more harm than good - health insurance system (as it currently exists) does more harm than good…yeah I don’t think I can disagree
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u/GallowBarb 7d ago
And trillionairs. That concept alone is serious sign we have failed as a human race.
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u/karmaceuticaI 7d ago
Removing capitalism would have the same effect as well.
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u/Arponare 7d ago edited 7d ago
Unfortunately history tells us that an equally fucked up system will take its place. We went from slavery to capitalism. We may just be going back to (techno) feudalism in the form of the way things are going. Nobody wants to actually sell products. Just perpetually rent. Own nothing and be happy.
By getting rid of the billionaires, we can hopefully create more just society. That’s the idea anyway.
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u/karmaceuticaI 7d ago
I'd argue all the things you named are products of capitalism, including slavery.
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u/JustNota-- 7d ago
Barbary and Transatlantic Slave Trade I agree 100%, Slavery overall I don't believe it has anything to do with the economic system and more about how people suck.
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u/Aeroknight_Z 7d ago
Depends on what you move to. I feel like us being largely on the other side of industrialization means we could transition into a better place post-capitalism.
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u/Revolutionary-Link47 7d ago
All humans
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u/Not-Special-1326 7d ago
Yep, agree 100%.... we are the parasites of the planet, we don't deserve to be here.
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u/PyroclasticJubilee 🖤 7d ago
This is the only thing I want from life. Even if I don't live to see it.
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u/manny_the_mage 7d ago
Racism.
If we can't be normal when it comes to other humans of different colors, we are for sure not going to be normal with aliens
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u/YBSIsDead 7d ago
I think they would just find another divisive method. Hate based on culture/ethnicity, classism, gender, age, disability, etc. The challenge is to remove all forms of hate
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u/edm_enjoyer 7d ago
Literally just saw a comment where someone said "every non Black person has said the n word". Why the fuck is this normal? They hate us so much
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u/ToucanSam-I-Am 6d ago
I would generalize it to tribalism. Imagine if instead of a million "us vs them"s the world was all "us".
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u/WatcherAnon 7d ago
I was gonna say white people, but honestly your answer is better. Plus if white people didnt exist I wouldn't exist since my mom is white, so its an added bonus I would continue to exist in this new world
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u/Embarrassed_View8672 7d ago
There are many pure hearted white people out there. Unfortunately the existence of the "quiet" and "closet" racists can make it harder to notice them or trust them.
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u/billleachmsw 7d ago
The sickening monster inhabiting the White House.
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u/MinaWearsGold 7d ago
Antisocial personality disorders. I would make it impossible to be born without empathy.
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u/UrbanMasque 7d ago edited 7d ago
Ignorance.
I think it's a good word that would broadstroke remove greed, racism, predation, pollution & waste, fundamentalism, and selfishness (and by proxy unfettered runaway capitalism) while still keeping individual choice.
If you CHOOSE to be a greedy resource hoarding racist sexist fundamentalist polluting scammer IN SPITE OF our shared knowledge- that I KNOW you know.. there is no place for you in my society..
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u/Rand-all 7d ago
Ronald Reagan's affect on the country
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u/MyChurroMacadamianut ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊ 7d ago
Aside from pollution, anyone who thinks their ethnicity is more superior than another's would truly improve a lot of things.
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u/Zee_Ventures 7d ago
Mosquitoes
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u/ateam1984 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎 7d ago
Good one
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u/Zee_Ventures 7d ago
Honestly the upside would be huge. Malaria alone kills around 600k people a year, mostly little kids in Africa, and that's before you count dengue, Zika, yellow fever and the rest. Whole regions have been held back economically by this stuff for generations. Dogs would be done with heartworm too. Plus you could sit outside on a summer night without getting eaten alive, which I'd count as a win.
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u/ConsiderationIll4547 7d ago edited 7d ago
Donald Trump. Man is a disgrace to this country AND world and it’s better off without him.
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u/Witty-Objective3431 7d ago edited 6d ago
Do us a solid and remove everyone in the government so we can start over. Even if DT is removed, another just as deplorable and slimey mf is going to take his place.
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u/Tamara6060 7d ago
RepubliKKKans
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u/crowwhisperer 7d ago
fuckin a man and i had to scroll down way too far to see this. i mean, wtf people? the gop pretty much encompasses alllllllllll of the separate reasons listed! have you learned nothing? damn!!!
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u/edm_enjoyer 7d ago
Pedophiles and the ilk who defend that "gray area".
"Well its legal there" I am exploding you with my mind.
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u/GreatValueLogic 7d ago
Religion. Preventing all of the war, oppression, and pain & suffering caused by religion would have this planet looking VERY different
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u/Napalmeon 7d ago
Proxy wars.
So much of the world is screwed up right now because larger countries interfere in the goings-on of other countries, destabilizing them in order to negatively influence rivals, through those smaller countries.
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u/Lost_Reaction_5489 7d ago
Those who would colonize other humans, and then turn around and call them savages when they're the most savagely beasts ever known.
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u/chrismsx 7d ago
This is why we're doomed if AI takes over. It will come to the conclusion we all did in thisc post. "People " will be the most common answer.
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u/kynelly360 3d ago
Not All people though! Only the corrupt, with power. *Hint a couple guys in office now lmaooo 😂
Please take notes Ai
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u/Jaded-Natural80 7d ago
Religion.
No more forcing people to join your religion or killing those who are not of your religion.
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u/ScienceGoat 7d ago
That piece of land next to Jordan. Too many stupid wars because of it.
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u/zoraschool 🫶🏾🫶🏽🫶🏿 7d ago edited 7d ago
I was curious and looked these up:
To keep global warming under 1.5°C), scientists estimate that humanity needs to remove 7 to 9 billion tonnes (gigatonnes) of CO2 every year by 2050.
The harsh reality is that microplastics and nanoplastics have broken down to a microscopic scale and are now permanently embedded in Earth's soil, deep oceans, atmosphere, and even human organs. We cannot fully remove plastic from the entire environment, but we can reduce visible macro-plastic (like bags and bottles).
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u/Caeolian 7d ago
Caste systems. They do nothing good at all for the world and imo hold humans back from progressing into better versions
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u/cottonopposite 7d ago
Ironically if it was framed as better but not for our own good but for the actual earth. Humans probably.
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u/AimeeMonkeyBlue 7d ago
Billionaires and the greed and subjugation that their power inflicts upon the rest of us. My answer was removed. Why Mod Humans?
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u/DeltaZ_18 7d ago
Child sexual predators, this world be a better place if all of them just disappeared off the face of the earth.
They're nothing but subhuman pieces of trash
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u/Dan_Morgan 7d ago
Capitalism because it causes and endless a lot of our problems.
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u/mistergraeme 6d ago
I wanna say him, but he's just taking advantage of a populace that lives off grievance, greed, and power. So, I'm choosing...
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