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But what if I don't want a typical Democrat in office either?
What if you really want a warm hug but you only have the choice between a poke in the eye with a sharp stick and not a poke in the eye?
You still choose "not a poke in the eye", dumbo.
How about the people who keep voting against the warm hug in the primaries get some of these lectures? Is that an option at some point?
Yes, during the primaries.
David Attenborough voice: "We see here an 'internet troll' employing a strategy known as 'whataboutism'. It shows that it's desperate, and feels threatened by a stronger opponent."
What stronger opponent? You and Biden want me to vote for him again. I'm not going to.
Refusing to make the optimal play when lives are on the line isn't brave, good, or noble. If you increase the danger of others to preserve your sense of pride, innocence, or purity then you commit a deep evil.
I don’t want Biden to be president. So I’m not going to vote for him. It really is that simple. If the Democrats want my vote, they need to earn it by running a worthy candidate. My vote shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Hey me too.
Anti-fascism means doing everything we're able to stop fascism Being against genocide means doing what we can to shift the probability of genocide increasing as low as possible. If you can't put your petty feelings aside for long enough to push a few buttons, you shouldn't call yourself either. It's not about you.
Wait which one is the genocidal maniac? I can't keep up
What happened to Lemmy being a leftie safehaven?
Thinking that all information has been revealed, and therefore that anyone who plays a different move must have deliberately avoided the optimal one, is called “totalitarianism”.
One of the important pieces of information that should not be ignored about the universe is that there is more information than can be process by the available information processing mechanisms.
Also, there is no logical way to prioritize information for processing (at least in part because logic requires complete information).
To deal with the fact that life is not even qualitatively like a textbook optimization problem, and cannot ever be due to limitations in how information works, we have developed cultural heuristics that ensure relevant information is not lost.
One of those heuristics is having respect for others’ opinions, even when you think they’re wrong.
The opposite of the totalitarian viewpoint is the humble viewpoint. That’s the one that says “I know I don’t understand this completely” and behaves accordingly.
Tic tac toe is a good scenario to behave in a totalitarian way. It’s damned easy to see if a move is optimal or non-optimal in tic tac toe, because the number of possible permutations is pretty small.
If an ongoing game of Tic Tac Toe were somehow linked to whether people lived or died, and I saw someone was about to make an un-optimal move on behalf of the rest of us, I’d say tie that idiot up and override his rights because he was about to kill us all.
But games more complex than tic tac toe are harder to commit. Tic Tac Toe has nine spaces, so you have like 9! paths the game can take. But reality’s bigger than that. Hundreds of orders of magnitude bigger. I can’t be computed or grokked or boiled down to the point where you know what optimal is.
Even deterministic small game like systems get hard to optimize quickly.
It’s hard to get total knowledge of real life, so behaving in a totalitarian way is wrong, in real life. If real life were just one game of tic tac toe, maybe totalitarian attitude would be correct: “You are making a bad move, it’s going to cost us everything, it’s worth it to violate your rights because your rights are worthless when we’re all dead anyway”.
I'm a mathematician; I too am aware of game theory and the principles of logic. Furthermore, you've made several mistakes.
Bullshit. This is a common tankie word game.
This is wrong
Partially because this is wrong. Logic can operate with incomplete information. Heuristics and the standard of "cogency" exist for this very purpose.
Furthermore, this criticism entirely ignores the context of:
Which is a blatantly immoral thing to do, regardless of how much information is available because they have decided not to regardless of available information.
Furthermore, this is an internet argument; I'm not threatening violence, and so it's absolutely asinine of you to act like I'm "violating [somone else's] rights". I'm making a argument online about the morality of someone else's choices. Your entire argument is sophistry.
What if the options are sharp stick or dull stick?
Do you really want me to answer that for you? Is it really that hard to think for yourself?
Alright then... You get either one or the other, there's no way out of that whether you make a choice or not. Wouldn't you still want to influence the choice so you get the one that hurts a lot less?
I mean at that point you struggle to escape, but assuming that's definitely not possible, then sharp sticks hurt less. 🤷♂️ "Optimal" does not necessarily mean "good" or "desirable".
Sharp sticks hurt less...
What?
Yeah, equally deep and long injuries with a sharper implement destroy fewer cells (since they have a smaller cross-section), cause less trauma, and are less disruptive to the surrounding tissues. I know it's unintuitive, but it's true.
Thank you. That's what I was trying to say.
The dull stick is going to gouge your eye out entirely. I have no frame of reference of what would hurt more, but I guess that would be it.
No a dull stick would probably fuck your eye up, a sharp stick will absolutely destroy your eye.
That entirely depends on how deep the stick goes into your eye - though at some point it won't matter anyway.
Yes if fired the dull stick out of a fucking cannon it would destroy the eye, how many bits of criteria are we going to add to this (what should be anyway) very straightforward analogy?
There are times when a clean cut hurts less than a crude one. We're not talking about actual damage done, which wasn't part of the analogy to begin with.
Voting for someone in an election in the US is not an endorsement of that person. You have effectively two choices in many of the elections due to how the system is designed. You vote for the best choice of those two.
Not voting, or voting for a non viable candidate, is a signal that you Do Not Care who is in power.
Voting is a tool, and a civic duty. It's one of the few ways US society allows direct input from citizens.
If you actually are against facism, don't use misguided idealism to encourage people to throw away the little political power they have.
Advocating that people vote third party supports genocide more than quietly voting for Biden because you increase the probability of more genocide, while voting for Biden decreases the probability of more genocide.
This relies on the assumption that Trump wants to commit more genocide.
I don't think Trump will enable more genocide in Gaza than Biden. In fact, I think Trump will withdrawal all support for Ukraine and Israel to focus on starting to genocide the Chinese.
So, in other words, you're saying that Trump wants to commit more genocide, and the assumption is correct?
Clown
Okay here's my input: I don't vote for people who support genocides or block strikes.
If you want my vote work for it.
Boycotting is also very patriotic
Then go run for office and be better. Until then, unfortunately, pick the FAR lesser evil
Millions are unsatisfied. Should everyone run for office?
Yes
A ballot sheet with thousands of names is not the answer
Yes
A ballot sheet with thousands of names is not the answer
Nothing is ever "the answer"
All yall want to do is complain
So allowing babies to be bombed is not that evil got it
Nice leap there
Give it a rest.
No.
Yes.
I did. Marianne Williamson was shut out of the conversation and smeared by the media. Not my fault the left cannibalizes itself every election cycle. Biden might as well be a Republican
Right now the Democratic Party's convention and local election Primaries haven't happened. Best that can be done is to influence the party platform through this primary season to influence or change what a 'typical' Democrat may be.
There's a massive influx of money right now going towards keeping typical Democrats in line with Israel. So it appears that will predictably be a prevailing issue one way or another.
So like: most of my local elections usually feature Democrats v Democrats so I'll likely opt for the non-Zionist or at least the less Zionist of the two. That may send a message for the winner of the Presidential ticket, if anything.