• bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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    15 days ago

    Underestimating your enemy is never a good strategy.

    Post like these are just opium to keep you passive.

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      14 days ago

      Lower cognitive ability doesn’t imply that they are any less intentional or malicious. They just have no empathy and cannot see the value in others that don’t belong to their prescribed bigotry.

    • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Some scientists believe that neanderthals were more socially advanced than homo sapiens. They theorize homo sapiens may have systematically exterminated neanderthals, who ultimately underestimated a stupider and more vicious enemy.

      Tale older than the concept of time.

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          right? afaik the best consensus we have is “they seem to have struggled with climate change and maybe they just found homo sapiens way sexier than their own species, idk”

          My pet hypothesis is that neanderthals were way more monogamous, whereas our species is fundamentally made to be swingers, so you can imagine what might happen when the twain meet…