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An alien invasion

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"Cheers. Can you zip back in about a 100 years and do it again?"
"... Ok, but why?"
"See, we humans, well, we really are a bunch of fucking morons.
Every hundred years or so we do the same moronic things. War, fascism, Nazis etc. It'd be great if you could do us a solid and revisit every 100 years or so. Also, kill all the billionaires on your way out. Nice one."
- Tbf if we had ever made any attempt to not immediately put the fascists/slavers right back in power as soon as possible, and maybe kill them instead, things might not have gone this poorly.
  What im saying is: end some family lines this time.
  
  this will sadly still create power vacuums that the first moron who thirsts for power would leap at :(
  just killing isn't the solution, we need an already oiled up machine ready to take that space the instant they're gone, you'd have maybe a week to figure all things out before people start grumbling about how things were better duing [regime] because at least they knew how to handle power
  
  Power vacuum
  This is a concept that is treated as universal, and its really not. Its treated as unavoidable even in situations where it could occur, and it's really not.
  And in fact, killing all the hyper-authoritarians (or at least all of that kind of authoritarian-the irredeemable monster kind) and dismantling everything they built is the best way to stop that.
  I find this phrase is almost without exception deployed to justify keeping momentum on horrible shit. It's a massive red flag, almost a logical fallacy in itself.
  just killing
  Nope, gotta destroy their institutions and hunt down survivors, dispossess their heirs completely, at minimum, but i think if they're old enough to talk they're old enough to hang in this case. The harm of letting them live is too great.
  we need an already
  Yeah thats optimal, but humans do actually have pretty good instincts for that. Like, shockingly good. Enough to bridge major gaps.
  grumbling about
  It's usually tjose fuckers or their heirs doing the grumbling. Kill them; it wont be an issue.
  I can't help but notice you're broadly suggesting we should avoid the result we've gotten every time by nit behaving too differently than we have every time in the past. I think we should try something different.
  To be clear: i don't think you shoukd exterminate every enemy. Just the kind that are monsters.
  
  And in fact, killing all the hyper-authoritarians (or at least all of that kind of authoritarian-the irredeemable monster kind) and dismantling everything they built is the best way to stop that.
  In theory yes, the problem is you can't identify them all ahead of time
  Also, your false positive rate will make you a monster too
  And focusing on family lines instead of malicious ambition will mean you'll kill a lot of people who opposed their own evil family members as collateral damage, people who might even be the best allies you could have to spot others with malicious intent because they've seen it up close

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