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Lemmy's political discourse when Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act yesterday: (lemmy.world)
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[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 3 weeks ago

It must be so nice having worldviews that can be fully encapsulated by trolley memes

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well first you gotta gimme an example of one that wouldn’t fit.

[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess the view that I want to articulate could be represented as a trolley meme with the following changes:

  1. The lever has only some unknown probability of steering the trolley's path
  2. Millions of other people also influence the lever to degrees which are unknown
  3. The track splits into at least 10 different paths instead of two
  4. There are more splits off of each subsequent path
  5. Each path also produces benefits to some actors (not sure how we'd represent that)

If I try to simplify these changes, though, then maybe I could depict my view a bit like this?

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

But hey, that's just theory...

GAME THEORY

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Either way, you gotta have your hand on the lever!

[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, despite my sassiness towards you in this thread this is a true and wise observation that goes ignored too often. My disagreements are not pertaining to the idea of inaction constituting action

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