• @[email protected]
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    69 days ago

    It is suspension of disbelief, that somehow, there was only one practical solution to defeat Thanos. And they do not involve Thor going after his head, or Thanos educating the population of the universe about family planning and contraception.

    ThanosWasRight is just a meme. Thanos could have gone for the latter option but his faux concern about overpopulation is a cover for his egomania.

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      58 days ago

      Yeah, that plan wouldn’t work. There are plenty of people today on earth, where we have endless access to education and contraception, who go out of their way to have like 12+ kids. They know what they’re doing and simply don’t care.

      Someone telling people “Hey, be real cool if you like, had fewer kids” just isn’t going to accomplish anything.

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        68 days ago

        Just because there are outliers, it does not mean the whole trend is represented by it. That is to say, the population growth is already slowing down and may even decline after it plateaus. Education and access to contraception works.

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      59 days ago

      I joke about Thanos being right cause i think we should be reducing the population but I don’t actually think killing half the world is a solution

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        The overall human population growth is actually slowing down and expected to plateau by 2050. Who would have thought that the more educated the population is, the less likely they are going to have tons of babies.

        It is now the opposite, actually. Governments now want people to have more babies! But seriously, in this economy? And the future of the earth is not even certain it will be habitable for our descendants! Why bring life into the world that will soon be dead!

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    58 days ago

    The comics kind of address this:

    Killing the holder of the Infinity Gauntlet usually results in someone equally bad picking it up.

    So just killing Thanos often isn’t a complete solution, after the stones have been gathered.

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      29 days ago

      Seriously, why didn’t they stick his arm through one of those portals and then close it? Wouldn’t that sever the arm and separate Thanos far from the gems?

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    29 days ago

    Thor is too stubborn. Strange probably couldn’t find out a good way to tell Thor to aim better without him taking it as an insult.

    Also, Thor was in space for the most part. It’s possible Strange didn’t know where Thor was, so good luck getting the message through.

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        19 days ago

        The women are unlikely to think so.

        It’s like the reverse of the well known statistic that nine out of ten people approve of gang rape.

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          48 days ago

          I think the saying is “9 out of 10 people that have ever been involved in a gang rape approve of gang rapes.”. Because the way you said it is, well, a much rougher neighborhood.

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    19 days ago

    14,000,605 is about 1 billion less than a billion, so 4 billion is an extreme exaggeration