[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

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    As long as you people keep talking down revolution and working against it, it can never get the traction it needs. No individual can achieve it, so my singular direct action is irrelevant.

    Translated: “I need other people to start the revolution before I’ll join in”

    A valid position couched in caution, but not voting in the interim because you don’t agree 100% with the collectively chosen candidate (that statistically speaking, you refused to have a part in selecting) is idiotic and cowardly, as per my previous statement.