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[–] paf0@lemmy.world 44 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe, but the pager thing was definitely terrorism.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 13 points 20 hours ago

100% correct

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 19 hours ago

Stop funding Israel's unjust wars.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Very odd to be a vassal state to a mooch ethnostate with 1/100th your population numbers...

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Iron law of institutions. Institutions do not make decisions by the rational calculus of the institution. Institutions make decisions by the rational calculus of the decision-makers.

Israel has managed to quite thoroughly exploit that little detail in capturing our political system.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Voting in America has literally become the trolly problem.

[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Half the population would do nothing, just take out their phones to record it, then pretend they could've never changed the result. "I can't believe the trolley did that! Yeah, I caught it on video!"

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

The thing about the trolley problem is that the onvious answer is, when going purely by the numbers, to pull the lever. Too many people don’t pull it(don’t vote) and act like they did the morally correct thing while the several people get smushed.

And the thing about it is that it’s not a trolley problem at all but simple harm reduction. It’s the same pool of people getting hurt, not two separate tracks. One party won’t protect as many as they should, sure, but the other party will happily throw gasoline on the lot and light ‘em up to keep themselves warm while they wait for the train to come.