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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I legit was thinking of the trolley scenario what I was doing laundry earlier today. Great minds think alike

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

I was going to make this, but put Palestine before the fork. And then put the person away from the lever refusing to participate when pulling the lever would move it to a track with nobody on it. Or pulling a different lever that does nothing (labeled Jill Stein).

Palestine is and will continue to get run over regardless who wins the presidency, so they aren't exactly relevant to the choice. It's not a real trolley problem because it's not a trade for different people. It's just "let the trolley run over Ukrainians, lgbtq+ people, minorities, and immigrants" or... don't. And then refusing to touch the lever because it somehow makes you "love genocide" to have anything to do with the trolley, even if to mitigate the damage.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Please also put someone on the trolley with control over the brake and label them: Israeli leaders, military, and citizens. Since the trolley doesn’t actually need to go anywhere, regardless of whether the US track-switching money/arms are sent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Please do, I'd love to be able to just slap that image down whenever "bUt tHe gEnOcIdE!" comes up around here.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Derail the train don't accept a false choice not to mention democrats also are terrible on policing and immigration for example so more should also be on the democrats track.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Either the Dem or Rep nominee will become president. It’s going to happen. There’s no “derailing the train”.

You can doubt me now. You’ll see soon enough.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

The point is nobody is saved by electoral politics instead do actual organizing and actions.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

No, really. Q says there's a super special session of the real Congress that happens on February 7th with jfk jr presiding to choose the real president, but it only happens if you don't vote. Trust me, bro.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What's the difference between the first two flags?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trans flag and the pride flag

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

No, that's the progress flag

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Wtf. I've never seen so many people annoyed that their fellows are protesting genocide. How do you take a situation like this and make it a fucking trolley meme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine you're strapped to an operating table, incapacitated. There are two other people in the room strapped to tables with you.

In walk two psychopaths, let's call them Al and Bob. They explain to you that they've decided to let the three of you choose your fate: Al wants to chop off your right hand, Bob wants to chop off all four of your limbs. They give you five minutes to decide, and then they'll come back to take a vote, majority decides whether Al or Bob gets their way. If you refuse to vote they'll flip a coin.

Immediately one of the other victims starts saying how terrible Al is and how horrible it is to chop off someone's right hand. Non-stop protesting the inhumanity of Al, how important it is to deny Al the opportunity to take your right hand.

For whatever reason they seem oddly quiet on the fact that Bob also wants to take your right hand, and arm, and the left, and both legs. Whenever you try to interject with that fact, they accuse you of being pro-handchopping and how could you even suggest voting for Al the evil handchopper. And now the other victim seems to be taking this anti-Al rhetoric quite seriously.

Would you find that annoying?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I don’t think people are saying you shouldn’t protest the genocide. You should! But it’s stupid to not vote for Harris over it because letting Trump win doesn’t just throw women, LGBTQ people, etc. under the bus, it also makes the genocide of Palestinians even worse.

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