spujbMar 27, 2024

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https://lemmy.cafe/post/3822302

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Show threadLemmyKnowsBest
I’m pretty sure they left the Electoral College out of this hypothetical scenario. Because the reality is, no matter how the general population votes, the Electoral College makes the ultimate decision. So the electoral College mightve decided to go for ice cream even though most people wanted to go off a cliff or didn’t care at all.
Mar 27, 2024 at 6:36amWeb
Show threadExcrubulentMar 27, 2024
Also, you vote for going off a cliff or the committee to investigate driving off of cliffs, with a moratorium on steering, braking or accelerating because hey Jack, settle down, we’re trying. Then when the committee gets into power they tell you to look out the right hand window at the lovely view whilst they edge closer to the cliff on the other side. Then the bus bursts into flames because it’s horrifically out of service and unsafe no matter who’s driving.
Show threadKidplayer_666Mar 27, 2024
Now there is a candidate in Texas who changed his name to Literally Anybody Else
Show threadLemmyKnowsBestMar 27, 2024
That’s who I’d vote for.
Show threadSerinusMar 27, 2024

Is this PsyOps to keep people discouraged?

The OP has a point and for some reason you don’t like it. I wonder which of the people you’d be in this analogy.

I understand feeling angry and dejected, but if you act like there’s absolutely no hope, then there won’t be. Votes still matter in this country. Maybe they’re not counted in exactly the way you’d like, but they’re still important, and they make a difference.

Show threadLemmyKnowsBestMar 27, 2024
The OP said the option was between going off a cliff or going for ice cream. I’m telling you in reality our options are going off a cliff or bursting into flames. And THAT is why people don’t vote.
Show threadSerinusMar 27, 2024
Right. They do all the campaigning and Fox News propaganda just for fun.
Show threadLemmyKnowsBestMar 27, 2024
People like you think it’s fun to watch. And you think it’s meaningful. So they’ve got plenty of audience in people like you.
Show threadmeyotchMar 27, 2024

Why do you keep insisting that the only race that matters is for the Presidency? You keep hidng behind your superior moral stance based on the Electoral Colleges flaws. The electoral college only pertains to the presidency.

What’s going on in your local school board or city council races? If you can’t answer, then perhaps reconsider who may be falling for a psy-op.

Show threadPsychadelligoatMar 27, 2024
That’s the race that’s being discussed, were not talking about local elections in this bus metaphor, it’s very clearly the presidential election being discussed, which explains the mentioning of the EC
Show threadmeyotchMar 27, 2024
Please read the original post and let me know where the presidency is mentioned.
Show threadspujbMar 27, 2024
fucken 10/10 comment and i want to unabashedly praise you for your correctness
Show threadspujbMar 27, 2024

  • this analogy still applies if the electoral college is in place, it just alters (worsens) the demographics of the situation. not sure why you think it invalidates the whole model; that is simply incorrect. the model still applies it is just more complicated in reality.

  • harm reduction is a last minute decision. it’s not the strategy for political action. yes i agree the situation is fucked. but at least let’s do our due diligence, and if we find that the explosion has a higher survival rate than the cliff, i’m going to to my damndest to stop the bus before i have to make that decision, but i will always choose the one that has even a marginal chance of saving more lives.