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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's like a trolley problem. If you do nothing, an RFK shaped train will speed down the tracks and kill untold innocents (and some maga assholes). If you pull the lever to try to stop it, you'll almost certainly die, and it's possible another train will be placed on the tracks later anyway.

So I don't know what to do. I pray to saint luigi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ideally, as many people who try to kill that many people are stopped.

RFK specifically can't be allowed to fuck with vaccines. That isn't, like, an industry shifting around. It's worse than life and death, it's brutal, chronic illness--preventable horrendous individual suffering on a mass scale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah we thought guardrails were in place with covid but here we are