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[-] [email protected] 228 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago

This post is about student loans

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

And video game piracy. Also free housing. Pretty much anywhere where finances are involved, some people want to fuck the next generation instead of helping them.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait why piracy all of a sudden. Didn’t we agree that people who don’t buy games won’t buy them anyway even if piracy didn’t exist? Thus the denuvo lack of purpose because it doesn’t raise sales. Yet many of those same folks are willing to pay to indie devs even if their games are often laughably easy to pirate. It’s about the principles.

For example Hollywood is such rotten hive of misogynist assholes that one may not want to fund them. Or not get royalty to Rowling for the potter game.

By starving bad companies we have a personal freedom to leave generations with only the best devs and brands such as Larian-motherfuking-Studios.

Hell if it wasn’t so risky IRL I’d probably steal Nestle food by tons and share it too. Let’s leave generations without that company.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

"You guys should install denuvo into your game because console players have to pay to play it but on PC you can just pirate it. It's not fair for them to get to play it for free while we had to buy it"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's why we should decriminalize pirating because it's unfair for those who did it and didn't get caught (which is the majority) or rather the companies who suffered from that.

You wouldn't criminalize drinking clear water

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How about slowing the trolley down then, instead of stopping it. Would that be a deal?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and most wars

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

... I hate how accurate this is. Very impressive.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

Goddammit this is brilliant in so many ways, and no we are not the ones pulling the lever, in real life trolley problem.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I wanted to come into the comments to gush the same thing! Enthusiastic agree/upvote!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In real life, there is no trolley problem. Because the folks at the top don't give a shit about being ethical.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That one deserves a repost in leftymemes!

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Them being red and blue is a nice touch

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Somehow I don't think choosing between money and lives is a problem for that guy in any way whatsoever. The fact that the money would probably be salvageable even if the trolley hit it makes it even worse.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it would be all scattered around and stuff. Some horrible poor person might try to pick some of it up. We certainly wouldn't want that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A lot of capitalists regularly make that choice, and they choose money.

Be it warmonger sharks, heads of private militaries and military manufacturers, or, idk, Nestle executives.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Needs a punchline. That last panel is completely pointless and wastes a good setup imo.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I think it's fine as it is. It's trading funny for poignanncy

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

How about "Welcome to reality"

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

"Don't worry! The money will trickle down!"

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Don't worry, I think he's gonna pull it!"

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Worse, you could be the train driver with no control panel

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You are in a trolley problem. Everyone is wearing a hat. No one sees their own hat. There are 2 red and 2 blue hats and everyone knows this. The guy to your left is wearing a red hat and the guy to your right has a blue one. The guy at the lever is too far away for you to see if he wears a hat at all and it doesn't really matter since they will no pull the lever no matter what.
What do you do?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

What can you do you stupid fuck? You're tied to a train track.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Congrats! You solved the riddle!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I’ll try spinning. That’s a good move

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've seen enough western movies to know that I'll succeed in untying myself before the train gets to me.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Happy go lucky guy is fine - they expected it and are just rolling with the punches.:-)

In the USA, the leopard about to get his face eaten off would normally be colored red I believe... :-P

image saying Karma is not a bitch it's a mirror

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The guy at the lever represents the oil execs and we all know they would rather kill people than sacrifice money.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and we all know they would rather kill people

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes I feel like it’s the new generation memes. Straight from the shelters, getting taste of real life out there and making memes. But then I already knew the world is hell when I was 13 yo.

Adult world was actually less cruel because everyone masks their primal insticts behind a facade of politeness and any violence is passive, systemic. Much easier to cope with in the short term but ultimately maybe more insidious. Money is violence.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

only thing wrong with this cartoon is the capitalist is touching a lever. those guys dont do such menial work

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

True, but the keys of power, the ownership, the control are in the hands of capitalists.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Finally! Sweet release...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Multitrack drifting

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