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Solving the Trolley Problem, the 🦅 🇺🇲 🦅 American® Way™ 🦅🇺🇲🦅 (fedia.io)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The American interests are testing the drone in the field.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Oops it was a wedding, sorry can you blame us there were a bunch of brown people together and it scared us

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

The American Way: no one on the trolley tracks ever gets run over, because Ford and GM lobbied to get rid of them all to sell more cars

[+] [email protected] -58 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I unironically will.

and you will too, once you get away from your edgy "America bad" phase.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Some people have to believe they're the good guy so badly that they'll kill hundreds of thousands of people to prove it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not a phase, it's based in reality. Take Vietnam and Iraq for example and the civilian casuilities that came out of that. And oh of course we lied about weapons of mass destruction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Or the many, many coups that the USA was directly or indirectly involved in, like in nearly every South and Central American country (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama, etc), or the "humanitarian intervention" of Yugoslavia, or any entry in that very big list of atrocities they committed.

Just because there are "worse" countries forcefully imposing their wants, that doesn't make USA good, something that other poster fails to acknowledge.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s not edgy, it’s realistic and uncomfortable.

[+] [email protected] -32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Literally the only Force that isn't worse than the US is the EU. As long as they don't want to step up and take the Mantle, the US "defending its Interests" and spreading democratic Values across the globe is the best Thing that can happen.

Do you think that the US defending its interests in Ukraine and helping them is a bad Idea? Or that defending their Interests in Taiwan and helping them is a bad Idea? Or did you think that the US ousting the Taliban and giving Girls an Education and Future was a bad Idea? Or that defending global Shipping from Houthi-Terrorism is a bad Idea?

stop with this edgy "America Bad" Mentality. It is not representative of our world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Do you think that the US defending its interests in Ukraine and helping them is a bad Idea?

Yes

Or that defending their Interests in Taiwan and helping them is a bad Idea?

Yes

Or did you think that the US ousting the Taliban and giving Girls an Education and Future was a bad Idea?

lol how did that work out

Or that defending global Shipping from Houthi-Terrorism is a bad Idea?

You mean defending Israeli shipping from sanctions, in order to support the genocide in occupied Palestine? What kind of answer did you even expect to this one?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Unfortunately, it's always "defending US interests" which is the problem. Historically, US interests have been counter to strong local independent governments. The US has interests in low cost labor and natural resources. There are still a lot of people in the US gov. that are only incentivised to do the right thing if they get a major perk or kick back from doing it. I like to think that we're getting more progressive, and stepping away from the abhorrent shit our grandparents did to South/Central America, but then we get shit like trump withholding support from Ukraine unless they are willing to smear his political rivals. Then it becomes clear that there is still a very influential "old guard" in the government that prevents the US from actually defending the welfare of the many from the benefit of the few.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

America? Never heard of the place but it does sound like a shithole.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

It literally says "There is no problem". All the examples you give are problems. You're arguing for drone strikes for shits and giggles

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Weren't the Afghan Taliban backed by the US in a proxy war against the Soviets?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

ahhh yes, the Soviets, the bringer of liberty and happiness. Funny how every Country that was Occupied by them talks about how it was the worst time they experienced and how they had / still have much higher suicide rates than other Countries. Truly, how could we (the free World) have opposed them?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago

This is somewhat of a myth by exageration, the US supported the mujahideen, people seem to equate the Taliban and the mujahideen but only a small subset of them became the Taliban, a good number of them would become the Northen Alliance who would resist the Taliban. And it must be said while the US had been the masters of imperialism lately that's no excuse for Soviet imperialism

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, the above poster is a very patriotic idiot who doesn’t know anything about their own country. Not entirely their fault, however. America bad, after all.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Just say there were terrorists in the trolley.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How would you proof the opposite?

disclaimer

I am not really defending drone strikes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean it’s a trolley, only extremist socialists and people who understand mass transit is way more sensible than cars use those so I think that alone qualifies it as a target to the FBI/CIA.

I mean ok maybe some people die who just like commuting to work without the massive headache of maintaining and driving a car, but we can’t let those people stand in the way of progress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the spirit!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I press the button to launch missile at somebody on the other side of the planet who I know nothing about and have just decided to kill because my boss and their boss and their boss all say this is existentially important to the survival of western democracy.

Satisfied I step out of the shipping crate into the barren Nevada sun.

Yes I said yes I will Yes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If there are 20 people in the trolley and 10% of males of fighting age are affiliated with an extremist group, the likelihood that at least one of them is Fuck You Stop Asking Questions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Your sound just like a terrorist to me *taps at controller*

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Do you get to use the fancy ninja sword missiles?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Americans reinventing British Knife Crime for $250M per knife.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol when did "unmanned Areal vehicles" become "remotely manned". They are not manned that's the whole fuckin point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Remotely manned means that there is still a human in control and not a computer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

As has been the case for all UAVs of the past and they are still called "unmanned". Manned used to mean "person on board" and it obviously does not mean that anymore. A remote controlled drone is still unmanned.

Yes they want to differentiate it from a AI controlled drone but it's a stupid way to do so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To shred you say?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

And his wife?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I really wanna stab that motherfucker but he's a few miles away...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just strap the blade missile to some missile. Shoot it with a bow or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Pictured: San Bernardino circa 1940