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Ben Horst (bluecheck.jpg) @moriamarmalade.bsky.social · 9 days

Tag yourselves I'm on the tracks.

The blue one harms less, so we’ll use that one.

This is one of the scenarios where you can be technically correct while also wholly missing the point

Tbh I always interpreted this meme image as the people on the tracks being placed farther apart rather than there's less of them (because voting for the lesser evil just slows down fascism somewhat rather than truly fights it) so I don't even know if that part is technically correct.

That’s a very interesting interpretation of it. We don’t know how far these tracks go down.

Do the cheerleaders keep going too?

Oh I understand that. It’s just that a better solution does not exist, at least in this diagram.

Then why did you feel the need to speak

Because I see all these doom posts on bluesky and I’m thinking “wow, this is an absolutely terrible state of affairs, but is there anything that I can do?” And then I see this diagram, and I felt compelled to just declare “I’ll choose the blue one. It hurts less people.” It’s all I can do.

I would argue it’s less than nothing

Well, pick the red one then I guess. 😕

hope this helps

What’s the solution you propose then? Has a third option because possible?

Sorry for the typo because >> become.

Why not same amount of bodies

I know right. Same same.

Because this is bad faith criticism.

Lmao

Not pictured: cheerleaders of "red" throwing "blue" cheerleaders onto the track...

One is definitely worse

The cheerleaders need to be on the tracks a bit further, too.

No way out

Oof …Good luck with that We’ll be having our own battle with this soon but it’ll be younger men. One is just as wildly of a lying attack dog as Trump; the other’s party has been demonstrably corrupt and he himself is a nepo baby, and he’s still the better option to avoid a full on Fascism… so 🤷‍♀️

eventually the red side puts the ones cheering on the tracks too tho

Hey one of those things is objectively better than the other.

I take the red one, as I imagine that these are the assholes I have to deal with every day! 😜

I don't get it. Could someone explain the joke to me ?

some helpful information is that it's the trolley problem, and usually there's a lever that changes which track the trolley goes down to kill people. The red and blue trolleys are self explanatory.

Yes, I am a little familiar with the trolley problem, and I was familiar enough with US politics to suspect the colors were related to the main polotical parties there. Still failing to understand the joke.

Perhaps you'd like to have a political conversation.

Perhaps I'd enjoy having one. But I was mainly reacting to a confusing picture in my timeline and was hoping someone could explain it to me, thinking that there was a possibility I was missing something.

If you don't want to do that, I can respect that, and I'll end it right here if that's the case.

Of course I don't want to do that. But hey maybe someone else will.

Hi autistic US person here so I get the lack of understanding. Blue for Dems Red for Republicans Either 'choice' is gonna result in a buncha dead folks. Lack of lever indicates no real choice, bc both parties choices end marginalized lives, but slower w Dems in 'power' @ national lvl.

Yup, except a lot of the people are tied up on both tracks.

Incredibly powerful "I follow back" energy.

Well, other things being equal...

Needs more Travoltas

looks like the trump trolly running over the trumpers who he did not like (mainly minorities since he wants to deport them all ) he also took the dems trolly just another crime he plans not to be punished for

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