• Cleggory@lemmy.world
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    Why do neoliberals bring up the trolley problem as if it is some settled debate among scholars that there is one clear possible answer?

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      The trolley problem isn’t “settled debate” for the same reasons that Kamala vs Trump isn’t “settled debate”.

      The point of the trolley problem and why it’s analogous is that it’s coming up fast and you must choose to either pull that lever or not. Whichever choice you make, that’s the moral character you’ve chosen to exhibit.

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        What is the moral character of someone incapable of questioning the validity of orphan crushing trolleys?

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      I’m not a neoliberal, I’m a socialist. I’m just not an idiot who will give a fascist free rein just because his opponent has the same shitty foreign policy as every politician in the whole fucking country has. There is a difference between the status-quo level of bad and catastrophic.

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          Harris supporters on Lemmy have called for me to be put in a concentration camp.

          Lol no they haven’t.

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              “I hope I get to watch you suffer the consequences of your actions since you doomed me too”

              “That’s a death threat!”

              Sure buddy.

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                Lazy quote changing gaslighting.

                I hope people like you are the first people put in the camps

                I will look forward to the order to launch on your nation

                Mode removed some of your fellow Harris supporter’s threats, but not before you all upvoted and clapped.

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                  Lazy quote changing

                  Literally changes the quote

                  You have to be trolling.

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          Harris supporters on Lemmy have called for me to be put in a concentration camp.

          Yah, I’ll take “Things that didn’t happen” for a thousand, Alex. Let me guess, they did the “you’re going to be the most _____ person in the camps” joke and you took offense to the harsh, practical truth of it, so rather than reconsider whatever performative BS you were trying to use to justify voting against a clear and present danger, you decided to do exactly what the right does, and spin natural consequences and hurt feelings to make yourself a victim.

          edit: I was absolutely right, 100% accurate. Lets just ignore the clowns, shit’s too serious out there to fuck around with this performative BS.