• @TankovayaDiviziya
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      651 month ago

      He could have snapped and make everyone to be smarter and learn about contraceptives and family planning.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        511 month ago

        Galactic population also would have been right back where it was in, at most, a few centuries. It was a stopgap solution at best. And his comics motivation wasn’t anything noble; he just wanted to bang Death and thought omnicide would turn her on.

        • @[email protected]
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          Thanos spending decades trying to become the most powerful being in the universe in order to make sure life doesn’t outgrow the resources it depends on without once thinking that there was a solution other than murdering half of all life is not a convincing storyline.

          Thanos spending decades trying to kill trillions of people because he was horny is a 100% convincing motive.

          • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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            91 month ago

            Disney would rather villainize environmentalism than incels.

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          141 month ago

          same, I went into the movie hoping for a relatable “need goth gf” motivation and not the nonsensical Malthus stuff

        • @TankovayaDiviziya
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          91 month ago

          I don’t know about the comics, but there is real life result from having better education curtailing overpopulation. The Earth’s population as we speak is expected to plateau, as the rest of the developing countries are catching up economically and becoming better educated. I don’t see why the galactic population can’t be the same.

          • @Matriks404
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            Except that we are going to get fucked globally when developing countries become richer and have better standard of living while producing a shit-ton more waste and fucking climate even more.

            • @dovahking
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              11 month ago

              Only if every developing country becomes like America.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 month ago

        Thanos’ motivations should be seen more as a fanatic rather than the hard but necessary choice. Tons of ways to achieve his goals without killing half the universe.

      • @[email protected]
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        131 month ago

        I think it’s a teen / young adult thing. The proscriptive asceticism of it has a certain appeal before you have much in the way of life experience.

        But then you realise we don’t actually have a resource problem.