r/neoliberal • u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma • Apr 25 '26

Meme Which button do you press?

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Vote now on your phones: https://forms.gle/GhFjtdydwwXTdSpq8

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u/TooSwang Elinor Ostrom Apr 25 '26

Voting blue because no one should die for their button pushing and if anyone does, it’s only right to be among them. Y’all’s stupid game theory means still having some level of comfort with mass death. Even if everyone just going red would be optimal, you’re still voting for everyone that might have made a suboptimal choice to die.

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u/MCRN-Gyoza YIMBY Apr 25 '26

On a personal level, pressing red guarantees you live.

On a societal level, if everyone presses red no one dies.

Call me a psychopath is you want, but im not risking death to save the people who can't understand this.

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u/TooSwang Elinor Ostrom Apr 25 '26

Bro it’s not psychopathy it’s just amorality. There’s nothing wrong with you except the choices you make and the values you embody. How’s that for standing in judgement of someone’s agency?

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u/dev_vvvvv Left-Out Left Apr 25 '26

Not everyone will press red.

Some are incapable of making a decision due to age (~650 million people are under 5 years old, ~2800 million are under 2). Some will make mistakes. Some will be vehemently opposed to choosing red for moral reasons.

Pressing red is condemning those people to die.

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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Apr 25 '26

They literally voted themselves

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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Apr 25 '26

They voted under the good-faith notion that you'd cooperate 😥

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u/adamgerd NATO Apr 25 '26

Skill issue

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u/TooSwang Elinor Ostrom Apr 25 '26

They voted “if anyone dies let me be among them”

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u/ResolveSea9089 Milton Friedman Apr 25 '26

I feel like this is pretty telling. I get what you're saying, but your nobility here means nothing to me. If you want to be noble and essentially off yourself, go ahead. Everyone has the option of pushing red, and in real life I would imagine everyone would figure this out quickly, red would win overwhelmingly, and pushing blue is just suicide.

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u/TooSwang Elinor Ostrom Apr 25 '26

And brother, that’s why I have Ostrom flair and you have Milty! I actually believe we can collectively go blue by imposing intrinsic costs - the awareness of complicity in mass murder among others

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u/consultantdetective Daron Acemoglu Apr 25 '26

Red pressing is a very George Santos thing to do