Human race 💪
we have a thinker
If I had to choose a race to be eliminated to get the alien tech, I’d go with potato sack. Some people might miss it, but I feel like it’s time to let that one go.
Potato sack > 400m, change my view
Yeah I am not voting.
If they were really a benevolent species, they wouldn’t play this mind game to begin with.
They sound Abrahamic as fuck
This says more about humanity than the aliens.
Well it might make perfect sense from their perspective, there might be a million alien species on the galactic council who all agree they don’t want to deal with a species that won’t purge at least one race.
It’s unlikely but possible, we have literally no way of knowing or really guessing anything about how an alien race or empire might think. They might be shocked and confused we don’t kill our enemies children, bemused that we ended slavery, disgusted that we don’t torture criminals for sport…
An even scarier thought is that we might agree with them in a hundred or thousand years, it seems impossible to imagine but to me it seems impossible to imagine slavery was ever a thing or that they put criminals heads on pikes for everyone to see.
Wouldn’t they?
Maybe shit like that is the kind of wake up call our species would need to finally get us on the path to a post-race society.
Maybe they know we need a bit of a nudge and they decided they’d be the one to give it to us.
Look if Covid-19 wasn’t an effective enough wake up call, I don’t think anything will be.
Pretty sure this is just going to start off a race war
There’d be a 180° and people would start claiming that the political leaders were controlling the aliens rather than the other way around
Mosquitoes. Definitely those fuckers.
my choice would prob be a 15k. at that point I’ll just do a half marathon, thanks.
my answer is the same as bill burr’s, people who go on cruises, nothing of value is lost
This is Finnish genocide
I think they would say, “Ok you all voted for synonyms of human race so lets start the killing”
“uhhhh I would just say none. uhhh I would just say the indie 500.”
Really? Not the british? Come on I thought this one would be easy
the british and french need to be in equilibrium. if the british are suddenly removed, the french will have no natural predators, and begin to breed uncontrollably
shit man as long as it’s with me that’s probably fine
i need to study you
Picking the British or French would probably be ok. We should be able to get a decent breeding program set up in zoos and start releasing them back into the wild within a couple of decades.
There should be enough left in America to repopulate them within a few generations.
Yeah-- at worst, folks would say “I don’t agree, but I GET where you are coming from”
According to a DNA test I’m like 2% British, I don’t know what those genes control and I’m not gonna risk it.
I would 100% read this book
I’m wait for the Netflix show
They will release one episode a month to milk your $99 per month introductory rate. The runtime will be 21 minutes with 39 minutes of ads interspersed.
And then we will pirate it and once again experience joy
I’m halfway there, except my wife wants me to procure nonsense shows, and so I’m stuck between supporting Netflix or supporting my wife’s love for trash TV.
Tell her pirates don’t tend to have bad taste in shows
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I’d try and convince them that politicians are a race…
I vote to be rid of rat race
This is just the beginning of what could be a great movie.
I don’t know what the actual direction the story goes based on this premise, but I wanna see it.
Honestly I’m surprised that studios have never bothered filming multiple endings and releasing them all into the theater chain so people would basically go see the same movie multiple times just to catch the different endings, and the studio getting more profits.
They did that with the movie Clue, showing different endings at different theaters. At the. Time, it pissed people off, and it got called a cash grab.
Ah, ok.
Clue (1985) did exactly that
Mostly cost, a lot of movies already run on thin budgets and timelines, extra filming and editing from having multiple endings cuts into that
You would like the movie Circle (2015)
I did like that movie. I saw it years ago, but every time I tried to describe it to someone I couldn’t think of the name. I can’t remember how it ended exactly, but I’ll probably throw it on when I go to my brother’s place.
We’ve been catching up with a lot of culture we missed out on due to being stuck in an overly religious household growing up. So we take time each (well most) Sundays to watch something we know Mom would hate. It’s therapeutic in a word kind of way.
The ending could be a great south park episodes.
I’m concerned about the amount of people in this post that aren’t just saying that None is the correct answer, but are instead trying to come up with a race to pick.
I think the premise of the question means none wouldn’t be an option, but yeah, entertaining it is weird.
None is specifically called out as being an option.
Nevermind, I’m just illiterate
It’s an option, but if “none” wins then there’s no shared knowledge of anything. The question really is, do you prefer to cause genocide but have new tech, or keep old tech with no genocide.
Half of Africa is going to have “French” tattooed on their foreheads, and they’ll be even angrier for having a French symbol part of them.
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As there’s only one race, I guess everyone who chose anything but none gets the human race symbol (???) tattoed on their face. Still would be fun to see who chose to have other humans killed.
Now, if the OP in 4chan meant ethnicity, that’s a different story.
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