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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Do you not care about GENOCIDE???

/s

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Genocide Joe!

Making sure the party that continually starts new wars in the Middle East gets elected will surely help my cause!

“Yeah but you support GENOCIDE!”

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You say 'Genocide Joe!' like he didn't actually support and enthusiastically aid a genocide.

[–] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Good thing he wasn't on the ballot then

[–] sweetiesweetie@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Took 6 comments to loop right back around to the meme

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

More like supported and slightly reluctantly aided.

I expect there were guardrails that Israel was careful not to cross. You know, like completely flattening Gaza and demolishing southern Lebanon.

It's still AIPAC fueled genocide, but I definitely preferred the slower version to what we have now.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

"If it hadn't been for Genocide Joe, I'd been married long time 'go..."

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Can you explain this to me like I'm dumb? Cause I am. Is this making fun of the people who choose someone who's literally not connected to the track?

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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?

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ngl I seen trolly memes set up like this before :p

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

Perhaps I should have said "worldviews that can be encapsulated by single-junction trolley memes", lol

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i'm somewhat of a centrist so i think it's gotta be somewhere between these two:

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Those are both encapsulated at the bottom of the meme!

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

Needs to be updated to add the Iranian flag to the GOP track. Man, do I wish there were a realistic way to choose that bottom track!

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

So, actually that question though? Genocide used to be a really, really bad thing, and here you're making light of it. I feel like people have lost the plot a bit if they talk about an actual genocide like this. "Yeah, sure they committed a bit of genocide, but have you seen the other guy?" I feel like I'm losing my mind

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, genocide is bad. You know what's worse? MORE genocide. That's what we got from people not voting because of it.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you market yourself as being against fascism, maybe don't vehemently support a different fascist regime and shout down anyone who questions it.

The fact that people like you are spending your energy getting pissy with the voters and not the fucking Democratic party who refused to change their stance is fucking insane.

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[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have had years of constant video footage of it happening. Being desensitized is bound to happen.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know what kind of person could look at parents being handed the remains of their child in plastic baggies and at any point in their life go "oh wow are they still going on about the genocide?"

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That isn’t what they were saying tho.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

No, no one is saying those words exactly. But I see the sentiment be expressed in threads like this over and over, and it just doesn't compute.

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