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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 134 points 1 year ago

You know, if you just kill everyone, there will be nobody left to accuse you of supporting atrocities.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Humanity is going to humanity.

What you propose is the only solution.

The final one, even.

[-] SoftScotch@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Death solves all problems...

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Upvote for death

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Except for death...

Unless you're Jesus.

[-] Banana@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Or a Buddha's

[-] AliceTheMinotaur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Judge death does.

The crime is life the sentence is death.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Dark Urge up in this bitch.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

I literally thought of this yesterday.

"Hold up. Why have I been put in this situation? Where's those responsible? Has anyone gone after the bridge guy, the brakes guy? Is anyone trying to get the sick fucks tying people down on tracks? What's being put in place to prevent this? Fences?Cameras? E-brakes? Who has liability and are they getting investigated?"

"Just Shutup and choose."

"I guess B is most logical."

"Oooh, you're a sick murderer and just want people dead!"

It's hard to participate when most people only have an A/B, us/them, left/right, right/wrong mentality view on things when it's obviously more complex when viewed from a few steps back. It's being stuck in either yard or on the fence, but if you climb a tree you'll realise there's many more yards and fences to the street to consider.

[-] Defenestrator@aussie.zone 72 points 1 year ago
[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

How dare you kill that person, that makes you a murderer!!!!1!

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's trolley problems all the way down.

[-] Banana@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Batman and the Justice League be like :

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[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Enough with that! You can't question the trolley situation, it's been like this for generations. Get on board. We have flags!

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Your last paragraph is so good - thanks

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I rather think you're missing the point.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well, that doesn't mean I can't share something I thought of the other day before seeing this reminder :)

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[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

Your first problem is giving a shit what anyone else thinks.

[-] Darken@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago

According to this I can go naked in the streets

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Second problem: too many people give a shot about what you do or look like

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Well, what will you do if you had one shot, one opportunity?

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

In principle, in a free country, you should be able to. But you can't, so it's not actually free.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

How far does that freedom to do what you please extend? Am I not actually free because I can't beat up people I disagree with? Personally I feel the freedom to disagree without the threat of violence is more important.

There is freedom to, and there is freedom from. Don't undervalue freedom from.

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[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I don't give a shit about your opinion!

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Good for you. I'm happy for you. That's a good way to live.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What about two shits?

They're could be a manure opportunity in here

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago

The issue, which is obvious to most people that aren't Euro-American, is that if you view generations of colonial violence as a normal baseline, then calling for "both sides" to "stop fighting" whenever colonial subjects resist isn't actually calling for peace. It's calling for the colonized to submit and go back to being quietly exterminated in an orderly fashion so you can go back to not thinking about it.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Which goes back to the saying "you can't use the masters tools to tear down the masters house." Which I disagree with, you can't use the masters tools to build your own house but you can and should use any and every tool available to you to tear down the masters house.

With that said, us being observers at best, you can just feel bad about the whole thing. It's okay to just feel bad that bad things are happening, you don't need to force that feeling to pick a side. There is no both sides argument, but people on both sides are getting hurt and it's okay to not feel okay about that.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Is conquest exclusive to euro-american history?

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

No, but modern settler colonialism is largely limited to the Euro-American present. White Euro-Americans built the empire they now live in on a centuries long campaign of ongoing brutal extraction against the rest of the world, then turned around and said “This is just the way god made the world. Why would anyone want to disrupt this natural state of peace?”

Peace for a slaver is not peace for a slave.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Brutal extraction isn't unique to colonialism either. Colonialism is just ancient imperialism with boats.

That said, imperialism has never been moral and we shouldn't excuse contemporary imperialists, just like we'd probably be appalled at the exploits of Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars if we weren't so far removed from them.

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No but colonizing generally is.

With the exception of Japan.

[-] teichflamme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, really?

What about the middle eastern empires? Or the turks? Or the Aztecs?

Or literally any other force in history lmao

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[-] robocall@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago
[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

Oh no! I knew this would be controversial.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago

The best part is you can edit the title and none would be the wiser

I'm still getting used to being able to edit post titles after years of being unable to

[-] Darken@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's no dilemma. If the goal is to express disapproval to people, then do what people think is disapproval... Which is doing nothing covered by some acting to appear as trying to do something

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah! In the form of acting like we care while doing nothing, like mentioned in the prior comment.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

The lever has two settings .... FAST .... or .... FASTER

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

In fact is FAST-ER so it just takes you to the emergency room at the end of being mangled by a train

How does it take you there? Well, where do you think the train was going in the first place

[-] Banana@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

Twitter be like :

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Hypocrites! The ones in the trolley are the one in motion

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