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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Do you not care about GENOCIDE???

/s

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Genocide Joe!

Making sure the party that continually starts new wars in the Middle East gets elected will surely help my cause!

“Yeah but you support GENOCIDE!”

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You say 'Genocide Joe!' like he didn't actually support and enthusiastically aid a genocide.

[–] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good thing he wasn't on the ballot then

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good thing the candidate that was on the ballot wasn’t associated with him or his administration in any way and also vigorously denounced genocide at every opportunity! Right? … right??

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, Harris sucked. So glad I didn't vote and Trump won instead. That has worked out so much better for Iran and the rest of the world, too. Could you imagine even trying to justify voting in the last election?!?!

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oops, that damn goalpost keeps moving around! Better tie it down!

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

the goal post has never moved from "try to leave the world better because of me or worse in spite of me, rather than better in spite of me or worse because of me"

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What goalpost? The goal is to make things better than other alternatives. Harris was better than Trump. It was a choice between the two. It's very simple. How do people not get that?

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com -1 points 1 month ago

It's okay to admit if you made a mistake, it actually shows human growth when you can recognize that maybe the right course of action wasn't taken.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You probably also don't know that Kamala was the only one who could legally step in once Biden dropped out.

But sure, blame her for the handcuffs that were placed on her. Fuck that bitch.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

More like supported and slightly reluctantly aided.

I expect there were guardrails that Israel was careful not to cross. You know, like completely flattening Gaza and demolishing southern Lebanon.

It's still AIPAC fueled genocide, but I definitely preferred the slower version to what we have now.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

"If it hadn't been for Genocide Joe, I'd been married long time 'go..."

[–] galacticbackhoe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Yes. We must bring genocide to the U.S. and maintain the genocides overseas!

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It must be so nice having worldviews that can be fully encapsulated by trolley memes

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well first you gotta gimme an example of one that wouldn’t fit.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I guess the view that I want to articulate could be represented as a trolley meme with the following changes:

  1. The lever has only some unknown probability of steering the trolley's path
  2. Millions of other people also influence the lever to degrees which are unknown
  3. The track splits into at least 10 different paths instead of two
  4. There are more splits off of each subsequent path
  5. Each path also produces benefits to some actors (not sure how we'd represent that)

If I try to simplify these changes, though, then maybe I could depict my view a bit like this?

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ngl I seen trolly memes set up like this before :p

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

Perhaps I should have said "worldviews that can be encapsulated by single-junction trolley memes", lol

But hey, that's just theory...

GAME THEORY

[–] Godric@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Either way, you gotta have your hand on the lever!

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, despite my sassiness towards you in this thread this is a true and wise observation that goes ignored too often. My disagreements are not pertaining to the idea of inaction constituting action

[–] Godric@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No worries, I would 100% prefer the proverbial third track, but it isn't connected yet. In the meantime, I'll have extreme disdain for the jackasses standing around moralizing while the train is actively running people over.

Political power is gained via votes! Vote! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, yeah, this is why I think my picture turned out pretty good, Because the blue option is the better one in every single junction, but the best outcome cannot be reached by always traversing the blue path. It's interesting to try to figure out which path in that diagram produces the best overall outcome, and then compare that with what produces the best outcome if we only consider the most immediate results. I'm curious which colors you'd vote for if you were at the first junction in my diagram, knowing that your vote does not guarantee the outcome?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Needs to be updated to add the Iranian flag to the GOP track. Man, do I wish there were a realistic way to choose that bottom track!

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Can you explain this to me like I'm dumb? Cause I am. Is this making fun of the people who choose someone who's literally not connected to the track?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

EDIT: RIP Master of All Science, apparently.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

funnything in rick and morty, the very same episode supernova says"what is is-rayel" referring to israel, rick and morty and FAMILY guy are 1 of the 2 shows that poke fun of the ridiculous of hte gaza/palestine conflict.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So, actually that question though? Genocide used to be a really, really bad thing, and here you're making light of it. I feel like people have lost the plot a bit if they talk about an actual genocide like this. "Yeah, sure they committed a bit of genocide, but have you seen the other guy?" I feel like I'm losing my mind

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, genocide is bad. You know what's worse? MORE genocide. That's what we got from people not voting because of it.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you market yourself as being against fascism, maybe don't vehemently support a different fascist regime and shout down anyone who questions it.

The fact that people like you are spending your energy getting pissy with the voters and not the fucking Democratic party who refused to change their stance is fucking insane.

[–] neatchee@piefed.social -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

surprise: I can hold two thoughts in my head at once

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thoughts, sure. You've chosen to spend your time attacking those who wanted change, not the ones who refused to not back the systemic murder of an entire people.

Priorities.

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't realize I'm a different person.

The two thoughts I hold are "on election day, it's self-gratifying not to vote for the outcome with the highest lows, raising the floor" and "before and after election day, do whatever you can to make the lives of politicians who fail miserable and support better candidates, up to and including civil unrest"

Not voting is categorically ineffective. There may be plenty of things more effective than voting, but not voting isn't one of them.

People love to present this scenario like it's a lever with three positions: candidate A, candidate B, or civil unrest. But it's not. It's one switch with two buttons (candidate a, candidate b) and another separate button for civil unrest. You can do both

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have had years of constant video footage of it happening. Being desensitized is bound to happen.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know what kind of person could look at parents being handed the remains of their child in plastic baggies and at any point in their life go "oh wow are they still going on about the genocide?"

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That isn’t what they were saying tho.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

No, no one is saying those words exactly. But I see the sentiment be expressed in threads like this over and over, and it just doesn't compute.

[–] grue@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only ones making light of genocide are the ones who helped make more of it happen through their refusal to vote for harm reduction.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's the people like you who are going: people should have voted for some genocide to prevent more genocide, instead of saying something sane like: maybe the fucking Democrats shouldn't have been promoting a fascist in Israel while running on being anti fascist

[–] grue@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

instead of

LIAR! Of fucking course the Democrats shouldn't have been doing that! Nobody's disputing that! You are inventing a false dichotomy out of thin fucking air!

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who's lying? You, right here in this thread, are ragging on the voters. Not the genocide supporting Democrats who refused to stop supporting fascist Netanyahu.

You have decided to spend your energy not attacking the corrupt shitbags, but the people who are stuck STILL asking them to change their stance. What the fuck are you fighting for?

[–] grue@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

You are cherry-picking only the things I said in this thread to try to crucify me for being on-topic. That's disingenuous bullshit and you fucking know it.

And besides that...

Not the genocide supporting Democrats who refused to stop supporting fascist Netanyahu.

What part of "of fucking course the Democrats shouldn’t have been doing that" did you not understand? I did, in fact, criticize genocide-supporting Democrats right in the very comment you replied to!

And moreover, EVERY SINGLE OTHER COURSE OF ACTION SUPPORTED FASCIST NETANYAHU EVEN MORE.

You have decided to spend your energy not attacking the corrupt shitbags, but the people who are stuck STILL asking them to change their stance. What the fuck are you fighting for?

I'm fighting for you to quit being delusional accelerationist dipshits who cause more genocide, among countless other catastrophes, through your sheer stupidity!

I ALSO fight for replacing the genocide-supporting Democrats with something better, IN OTHER TIMES AND CONTEXTS WHERE IT'S ACTUALLY APPROPRIATE! And fuck you for telling lies, falsely claiming I don't!