• Funkwonker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    I still can’t get over how they were essentially presented with a simplified version of the trolley problem and chose to not pull the lever.

    By their own narrative that “the democrats are complicit in a genocide in Gaza”, they were aware that Palestinians were metaphorically tied to both tracks, yet decided to not pull the lever when America itself and every marginalized person living within was also on the track the trolley barreled towards.

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      41 minutes ago

      It’s almost like single-issue voters aren’t very good at logic problems…

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      I suspected that many of the accounts were Russian plants or Trump supporters trying to divide the Democrat vote. Most of the time when I checked account age they were made either that day or the day before.

      I know that Lemmy is new and all but still was sus.

      I haven’t gone back to accounts to see if they are still active. I suspect that they aren’t.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 hours ago

        I suspect that what we saw here on lemmy were actual people who had been indoctrinated elsewhere.

        Lemmy isn’t really big enough to be a target for bots and so on.

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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          3 hours ago

          Bots are cheap to write. That’s naive to think there wasn’t a disinformation war going on with bots being on the forefront of it.

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      5 hours ago

      Calling it simplified does a disservice of the real world impacts of the “trolley” - especially since unlike a thought experiment - this trolley problem is physically constructed by people to achieve imperialistic goals - so expending energy blaming random lemmings for this - instead of figuring out who built, maintains and presents the trolley as the only option and how to dismantle it seems useless.

      I believe we should avoid infighting and actually organize to do something so we don’t have to choose if we pull the lever or not every 4 years (if there even is another election…)

    • Iceman@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I find it scary how easily people where fine with having genocide on both sides of the ticket.

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        2 hours ago

        Not having a choice and being fine with with the choice you have are drastically different situations, and it’s concerning how many people are incapable of unwilling to tell the difference between the two.

      • RenegadeTwister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 hours ago

        The real world isn’t black and white, like in your morally superior fantasy. I hope your satisfaction lasts through the takeover of the nation, you shortsighted twat.

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          1 hour ago

          We are enjoying the fruits of constantly lowering our moral standards. We see more anger towards those who where critical of the genocide than those who needlessly insisted on perpetuating it.

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        2 hours ago

        No sane people were fine with it, but sane people have to live in the real world and not believe some fucking fantasy that there was another option at the time.