4w ago

I updated the trolley experiment now that the never ending flood of public shootings found a target...

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I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned all the public shootings, but a lot of mass shooters just want to be remembered for something. Turning the New York shooter into a folk hero is going to inspire a lot of armed crazy people.
Makes me wonder if now we get reasonable gun control.
- CEO shootings are now just a fact of life in America...
  
  Don’t do that, don’t give me hope
  
  Nuthin we can do about it, I guess. 🤷
- Maybe if the mass shooters realize that killing innocent people isn't gonna make the people like them, they'd change their targets?
  Maybe... 👀
- If I recall, gun control laws in nazi Germany were loosened, but only for nazi party members.
  I'm sure they'll craft something that keeps them out of the hands of everyone but the SA and SS.
  
  3D printers hadn't been invented yet.
- Hmmmm...
  Mass shooters stop targeting schools and start going after the 0.01%?
  That's one way to get gun control.
- I'm thinking 2 more CEOs and we get the Republicans calling for gun control.
  
  I'd give it 3, just to be contrarian.
- Ugh, and what you just wrote makes me think that the right wing is probably predictably talking about how much of a leftist the killer was and trying to find any way to play up just what a Democrat they must have been. Because it must be thrilling for them to have the rare kind of political violence happen: the kind not perpetrated by a right winger.
- Nah, that's silly, clearly the situation didn't have enough guns. /s
- No, America never will. The NRA lobby is too strong. You'd have to completely outlaw lobbyists first.
  
  Exactly. Republicans will just push for more funding for police officers.

I think the meme needs to be changed with the guy with the lever also being strapped to the bottom track.

oh rats it's the trolley problem
- "i didn't consider the trolley"

Isn't the trolley problem meant to be a dilemma? Not seeing a dilemma in this version.
- In this case it's a metaphor

Why is the guy at the switch frowning???
- They hit their lifetime limit for insurance and have cancer.

You fooling yourself if you don't think we'll go down either way, we just gotta force the corporate class down with us

No dilemma here, but good meme I guess?

it needs like a whooe group of people pushing the lever...
clear gap in the tracks with "sound waves" like 'click' indicating they're all switching to the side track collectively.

Well the people are still gonna get run over, but that might change if enough of the corporate class get run over too. Worth a shot

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