You’re missing an important facet of the lever here, bud. Flip it red and it accelerates. Flip it blue, it still runs, but it runs slower. We ultimately need to derail the thing, but if we can slow it down at all we have a moral obligation to.
Go learn about the politicians running for offices that affect you. Vote, and more importantly, talk to your peers about your neighborhood, city, and state governments. If we were more civically engaged as a population it would not have gotten this bad. You can’t slay a beast you refuse to look at.
I’m not shaming anyone for trying to derail the trolley. I’m shaming them for pretending there’s no way to slow down the mayhem while they look for that permanent solution.
As far as the lever that derails the trolley, we haven’t found it in the over a century we’ve been aware it exists. It is somewhere, we will find it. But it is a very real possibility that you and I will not live to see it flipped. So for today, we drag individuals off the rails and slow the machine down where we can. Because it is what is clearly within our power. In those actions, we may find the lever. But we willsave lives.
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.
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.
You’re missing an important facet of the lever here, bud. Flip it red and it accelerates. Flip it blue, it still runs, but it runs slower. We ultimately need to derail the thing, but if we can slow it down at all we have a moral obligation to.
Go learn about the politicians running for offices that affect you. Vote, and more importantly, talk to your peers about your neighborhood, city, and state governments. If we were more civically engaged as a population it would not have gotten this bad. You can’t slay a beast you refuse to look at.
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?
Motherfucker.
I love it, almost missed the IU520 credit. Workers of the world unite!
I’m not shaming anyone for trying to derail the trolley. I’m shaming them for pretending there’s no way to slow down the mayhem while they look for that permanent solution.
As far as the lever that derails the trolley, we haven’t found it in the over a century we’ve been aware it exists. It is somewhere, we will find it. But it is a very real possibility that you and I will not live to see it flipped. So for today, we drag individuals off the rails and slow the machine down where we can. Because it is what is clearly within our power. In those actions, we may find the lever. But we willsave lives.
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.
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.