[a character holds a lever connected to rails, on which a train is approaching fast]
A train is approaching fast…
Many people are tied to the tracks…
As a bystander, I can do only one thing in this current moment: flip a lever, which would send the train to another track where it would also kill people, but less of them
[next to another separate railway track, someone is trying to get the first character’s attention]
Hey you, over there, look!
There is a third track here!
It is not connected to the other tracks, but there are zero people tied to it, so if you do not choose to send the train on this third track right now you are an evil genocide enabling liberal
https://thebad.website/comic/third_track
“Well, obviously, the dilemma is clear…how do you kill all 19 people?”
lol I posted that in the last version of this type of post. Glad to see the Initial D vibe staying strong.
See, and whenever I make up bad guys that only exist in my shower argument fantasies, you guys all get mad about it. Is it the colours I use?
Oh shut the absolute fuck up. At least conservatives go all-in on their stupidity, fucking centrists are just a bunch of cowards who spend more time making trash like this than anything useful. You’re not clever, you’re just a little bitch.
People voted for Mamdani pretty easily, and it’s been going great. People voted “center” here in Canada and it’s gone…predictably fucking awful.
My version:
The artist got it right in that the third track is not even connected to the rail, and the guy couldn’t select that track even if he tried. He’s missing that if you try to select the third track the genocide happens anyway.
I don’t think it was missing, I think it was a “read between the lines moment”, a “skill” that seems to be becoming rarer these days.
The only thing I disagree with in this comic is this part:
I can do only one thing in this current moment
You can do a bunch of other stuff. Voting and direct action are not mutually exclusive.
In this specific cas you can only vote cause the train is already barelling towards hundreds of people. What you shouldve done is stopped the train at the station four years ago with the help of other people when it was predetermined that this train would kill people either way. Also you have another four years before the train reaches the next switch and you could organize against it, connect the third track later on so you can switch it, or probably the bes lt option to burn the whole fucking thing down. Third parties are not a solution and ive had enough of people saying they are. The system is broken, you have to change the system not elect someone who is still slightly just somewhat better and will probably capitalize on their win immidiately after.
Two years ago but yeah
If only we’d elected a cop, we could have stopped this train lmfao
Are cops known to shoot trains more often than minorities and dogs?
Unfortunately people think voting is the be all and end all of action. They make no effort to dismantle the system because they naively believe they can reform it as long as they can stop it killing everyone.
No.
What people think is that there is still some hope to avoid massive violence by protesting and voting (effectively) instead.
If you think the system is broken beyond the ability to affect change, then you need to be in the streets burning shit and being ungovernable. You are saying that a violent revolution is the only way to get the changes needed to put this country back on track, but you won’t start shit, and you use it as an excuse not to pull the lever of power that is right in front of you. It’s idiotic, it’s cowardly, and it’s the main reason why we’re dealing with the orange turd (for a second fucking time).
As long as you people keep talking down revolution and working against it, it can never get the traction it needs. No individual can achieve it, so my singular direct action is irrelevant.
You will wait until after they have stolen the election and further solidified power before you even allow people to entertain the idea.
Liberals are cringe as hell.
And if it WAS Connected it would be UNAMERICAN to Use it!
-Democrats CAMPAIGNING FOR REPUBLICANS right now!
We can’t move toward a future without trolleys as long as we keep voting in fucking trolleys. Short-term harm reduction is not worth long-term harm multiplication.
Short term harm reduction is a delay tactic meant to be used to buy you time for actual effective grass roots actions.
Local municipalities, mayors, school boards, state governments and up from there building a movement for house then senate then president.
On its own harm reduction will never fix the problem but it is a very important tool that should absolutely be used in conjunction with real effective action.
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Is it actually used to buy time for effective grass roots actions? Because I don’t know that I’ve ever seen actual progress made for socialism under a Democrat president. It seems to me that socialism gains the most traction under (and in direct response to) republican presidents.
Yeah but that other track was built by a woman.
Collectively organizing to derail the train and/or build a bridge towards the third track is the only ethical solution by the way, but it takes time and effort, so let’s get started.
Derailing a train takes no time, it’s a violent quick act.
The only ethical solution is to end the harm asap while working on building alternative support networks.
You don’t need a fully fleshed out replacement before you start removing the bad. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
It takes no time to derail?
You have 5 seconds and nothing in your hands, are you going to throw yourself in front of the train?
After those 5 seconds, you have no option of choosing to derail. So you better pull that lever. Otherwise all those extra deaths are on you.
This comment is about the primaries.
Taking a long time and requiring some degree of preparation are two different things. If you have 5 seconds and a funky piece of metal, the train is derailed by the 6th second.
How many people are on the train and will die when you violently derail it?
This depends on how many members of governors you have. Some have one passenger, some have hundreds of them.
Small price to pay for when we are at stake.You’re forgetting all the regular folks, citizens and noncitizens alike, who are packed into the cars behind the government officials in the engine car. The violent act harms everyone. And you aren’t offering any way forward they can access, even if they survive the train wreck.
You’re forgetting all the regular folks, citizens and noncitizens alike, who are packed into the cars behind the government officials in the engine car.
Who?
The violent act harms everyone
Then why aren’t you condemning the government itself? The very monopolist on violent? Why are governments allowed to commit violence on everyone?
And you aren’t offering any way forward they can access, even if they survive the train wreck.
What are you talking about? Are we in the same metaphor?
Only the conductors and a couple thousands ton of war machinery
And the people packed into the boxcars
Won’t somebody think of the poor innocent government.
I’m talking about the ordinary people being pulled along behind, whether they’re in the dining car, regular seats, or packed into a cattle car.
The ordinary person is the one on the tracks.
Ordinary people are everywhere, on the tracks and in the boxcars
It’s called a metaphor, socio politics don’t work like an actual train.
Not voting for an imperfect but lesser evil
Perfect example of how to moralize electing the greater evil.
So you’re the guy at the bottom, got it
Must be a Dump fan to enable him
This is almost a great analogy. The artist just needs to tie the third rail to the main track, and change the lever so that the third track is easily selectable.
We don’t have the means to select ranked choice voting though, and 3rd parties will never win until we do, by design.
And then add a few hundred people all pulling the lever in different directions. The reason the trolley is necessarily going to kill some people is because we keep putting up with the “kill less people” party instead of forcing them to take the “kill no people” track
Easily selectable just it goes slightly near a billionaire who is fine once it passes
What lead in Gasoline does to a mf
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