[a character holds a lever connected to rails, on which a train is approaching fast]
A train is approaching fast…
Many people are tied to the tracks…
As a bystander, I can do only one thing in this current moment: flip a lever, which would send the train to another track where it would also kill people, but less of them
[next to another separate railway track, someone is trying to get the first character’s attention]
Hey you, over there, look!
There is a third track here!
It is not connected to the other tracks, but there are zero people tied to it, so if you do not choose to send the train on this third track right now you are an evil genocide enabling liberal
https://thebad.website/comic/third_track
The only thing I disagree with in this comic is this part:
I can do only one thing in this current moment
You can do a bunch of other stuff. Voting and direct action are not mutually exclusive.
In this specific cas you can only vote cause the train is already barelling towards hundreds of people. What you shouldve done is stopped the train at the station four years ago with the help of other people when it was predetermined that this train would kill people either way. Also you have another four years before the train reaches the next switch and you could organize against it, connect the third track later on so you can switch it, or probably the bes lt option to burn the whole fucking thing down. Third parties are not a solution and ive had enough of people saying they are. The system is broken, you have to change the system not elect someone who is still slightly just somewhat better and will probably capitalize on their win immidiately after.
And if it WAS Connected it would be UNAMERICAN to Use it!
-Democrats CAMPAIGNING FOR REPUBLICANS right now!
Collectively organizing to derail the train and/or build a bridge towards the third track is the only ethical solution by the way, but it takes time and effort, so let’s get started.
Derailing a train takes no time, it’s a violent quick act.
The only ethical solution is to end the harm asap while working on building alternative support networks.
You don’t need a fully fleshed out replacement before you start removing the bad. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
It takes no time to derail?
You have 5 seconds and nothing in your hands, are you going to throw yourself in front of the train?
After those 5 seconds, you have no option of choosing to derail. So you better pull that lever. Otherwise all those extra deaths are on you.
This comment is about the primaries.
Taking a long time and requiring some degree of preparation are two different things. If you have 5 seconds and a funky piece of metal, the train is derailed by the 6th second.
What lead in Gasoline does to a mf
What’s the third track? A free Palestine? “Let’s be mad for people calling us out for not demanding more when children are murdered at industrial scale.” That’s how you sound.
This, except the the lever doesn’t actually control which track the trolley goes down, that is controlled by the trolley corporation. The third track is being built by people who understand this, in order to connect it with the other tracks so that noone has to be run over, but the person pulling the lever thinks they are pulling the track-switch.
The trolley corporation rigged it so that when the person pulls the lever, it actually bombs the other track, so that it won’t connect to the rest of the tracks, killing a few track builders in the process. The lever puller is told by the trolley corporation that the track would have switched except the track builders are terrorists who blew up the switching mechanism because they hate freedom. But not to worry, keep pulling the switch because it is actually individual switch pullers, not trolley corporations, and definitely not track-building “terrorists,” who make all the decisions, and that switch pulling is a sign of a healthy and civil society.
Liberals are cringe as hell.
State of discourse.
It’s more like the people tied to the top rail are also tied to the bottom rail.
This is almost a great analogy. The artist just needs to tie the third rail to the main track, and change the lever so that the third track is easily selectable.
Easily selectable just it goes slightly near a billionaire who is fine once it passes
