"the blue trolley would have ground up people more humanely!"

That's not quite true. While the trolley is red, it's also actively accelerating; rapidly increasing the harm being done.

Changing the color to blue means that it's only passively accelerating.

that is the dumbest fucking thing I've heard all day, and the fact that you typed it out thinking you sounded intelligent leaves me wondering how you manage to wipe your own ass without pulling your head out first.
- Participation in the leaderless, lateral organization necessary for an anarchist society requires an ability to understand the praxis of both yourself and of others. You don't necessarily need to accept and adopt it, and consistently challenging each other's goals and methodologies is going to become the bedrock of the movement.
  That being said, stone-wall history to a comrade working towards similar goals is how authoritarianism creeps in. Ultimately, you're among friends, here. Talk on the actual points, we'll participate in good faith.
- Do you not understand your own joke?

Hurry up and do your fucking revolution then. Until you start burning down buildings, you can quit complaining about me voting for the party that doesn't want to bring fucking polio back

if you don't like people "complaining", then stop coming to communities where leftists make fun of you for being generally useless and spineless. you came here, I didn't go to whatever insipid little milquetoast beige colored liberal circlejerk comm you democrats frequent. so don't fucking slip into my mentions because you wandered into the wrong part of fedi and got your widdle fweelings hurt.
- I'm browsing /all, silly
  Lmao at you calling me useless and spineless. Big tough Lemmy mod saying mean words on the internet, you're so fucking brave. I reiterate: burn down some buildings, or acknowledge your impotence
- generally useless and spineless
  You are useless and spineless. You do not do any actual revolution, any actual overthrowing, you sit there and talk the talk but you aren't willing to actually walk the walk.
You don't give a shit about anything but your own comfort and safety, you stand for nothing, fuck off
- Neither do you. Pure hypocrisy to say this kind of thing without action.
- Burn down a building or shut the fuck up

Know what else goes from red to blue and kills people?

It slows down a little temporarily when it’s blue

I want you to understand how fucking insane you guys sound when you say shit like this, like it makes it a little better or something.
- It was a joke. Lighten up

- Tbf, our two party system is truly awful. We need to fight for a modern multiparty democracy with proportional representation
Welcome to db0.
- goodbye from db0, to all of you lmao
and the other party is... also fascist, unconstitutional, and doesn't respect the law. but on the plus side, they sell pride merch every year!

If we were more civically engaged as a population it would not have gotten this bad.
Yes and no. Yes, if everyone fought tirelessly for years to force our politicians to actually represent us then our system could be much better. But, our system is so deeply and unfathomably undemocratic / corrupt that it is cruel and unfair to put all the blame on the people. Humans are finite creatures so pouring more of our life into politics takes it from other aspects of our life. If everyone is over worked and exhausted then they often don't have time for politics.
- You're not wrong, the 'fight like hell' approach would have worked if we applied it in the 1900's-1930's. In America, at least. Back before the cult of wealth was properly established and the average Joe still gave a shit about the poor and the needy.
  Today, you can really only expect coordinated civic participation to be able to fix small local problems. Which is still absolutely necessary if we're going to fix larger issues, because our neighbors will believe in the thing they see as putting food on their table and a roof over their head.
  Even just working at the individual-to-individual level is still worthwhile. Bringing one person into the fold, protecting one person from harm at the hands of our economy, or at this point even just dragging one person out of fascism, makes an admirable comrade.
- Things really got fucked when the same folks who brought us the great depression signed the Permanent Apportionment Act that permanently capped the number of representatives at 435. Representation has shifted from 1 representative per 280k people to 1 per 760k.
Where's the lever that derails the train?
Why do you help distract people from finding the derail lever by shaming them for not pulling the "kill more people" lever?
- There's no lever to derail.
  There's no reason to kill people quickly while you two to derail the trolley in the meantime.
  Of course, now the trolley I'm guessing you're referencing in the meme has the lever jammed to red, so either it doesn't matter any more. The point is moot.

Isn't there non party candidates?

With FPTP? Nope

It's a meme, not a political dissertation devoid of flaws. As such I find it hilarious. I'd still vote for the lesser evil while trying to help in other ways between elections.

It's definitely not just a meme to OP, check his post history.
- he's right, I legit think democrats are as bad as nazis due to overwhelming evidence going back decades.

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