The trolley problem has always been really interesting to me, not because of the problem as it is usually considered, but because of the framing of the problem.

We could stop the trolley, derail the trolley, hop on board the trolley and take control of it. All of these, and more, are within our power.

But those are not valid choices. The trolley must not be stopped, even if the trolley will end all human life.

We can only choose whether the trolley goes left, or right.

We must never ask who put the people on the track, or why we can’t protect people from the excesses of the trolley.

This was a trolley problem in real life, and these voters all selected the most immoral and unethical choice.

Ah yes, the trolley problem, a philosophical thought experiment which famously has a moral and an immoral choice.

make me president for 30 days, I have some really exciting ideas I would like to try out. what was it that the supreme court ruled, immunity for the president or something? hold my fucking beer, I’ll get that overturned real quick

edit: actually, I just remembered, since one of my first official acts would be for all members of the supreme court to be put on trial in front of a citizen’s court for crimes against humanity, I don’t think they’d be overturning anything anytime soon

Their continued refusal to properly deal with their cognitive dissonance will always prevent the majority of liberals from realising how outrageously hypocritical they are

I want you to die because you do not have as much empathy as I do.

I am an anarchist - anarchists (as far as a monolithic ‘anarchists’ exists) do not hate communists. Anarchists are likely to disagree with some aspects of Marxist-Leninist ideology - they may even hate some aspects of it. But they do not hate communists - many of them would even identify as communists. Essentially all anarchists and communists share the same common end goal - a moneyless, classless, stateless society. Anarchists and MLs disagree on the implementation details - the best way to reach our goal.

The question as to why an anarchist would come to be in opposition to the ML approach for implementing communism - it’s not really about an “information source”, it’s just application of ideology. It would require the creation of a hierarchy. If the anarchist believes that hierarchy to be unjustified, then they will oppose it.

I couldn’t really point to any sort of individual source for my ideology. I came to realise over time that the one common thread that exists for all forms of oppression is power over others - wherever one group has held power over another group, oppression has occurred. If we want to prevent oppression, the answer emerges: get rid of as many imbalances of power as possible.

An anarchist knows that the risk of having a transitional state is that those empowered by the state will abuse that power to betray the people and the revolution. How likely that risk is, and whether it’s viable (or even possible) to achieve communism without a transitional state is the most important aspect which will define how (un)willing the anarchist would be to work with marxist-leninists.

Hope this helps, happy to answer any other questions you have about anarchism.

TIL Hitler was a learned professional in one or more certain topics

They love to put their enemies into little categories and assigning them a symbol and colour, like a yellow star, or a pink triangle. I’m not sure where that may have originated, someone should look into it.

C’mon guys, we need to stop sucking liberal and fascist cock. Sometimes they’re hot but it’s not worth it!

god I hate that you’re right

Thank you for bringing it back online, I was worried it might be down for a while! Welcome back :)

Nice to meet everyone by the way, I’m new to SDF, just getting to grips with stuff.

I actually did not interact with the community whatsoever, I just read it because I was fascinated by how overwhelmingly cringe it was, sorry.

A highlight of the story for me was when the self-insert character used logic and reason to teach the racist white boy that racism is bad unless you have a sound logical, rational basis for your racism.

Oh, I know… I’ve actually read the entire thing. AMA. :P

no author is as synonymous with tech bros having bad ideas as ayn rand

I work in tech. The average tech bro is of average intelligence.

i am smart (for proof, please see my tweet and note my use of the word ‘conversely’). therefore, anyone who disagrees with me is stupid. anyone who agrees with me is smart.

everything about the word choice is cringe. he’s massively overcompensating. “conversely” is a classic giveaway

I wouldn’t say they did a bad job. They achieved their goals.

looking forward to jill stein dramatically revealing that she was secretly evil all along! if you vote for kamala then you know that you’re voting for someone evil but with jill stein, she’s evil and she tried to cover it up! such a trickster.

nothing ever happens

but yeah, the story is a bit too perfect, it strains credulity a bit, but there’s nothing about it that is truly unbelievable