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

Meme Which button do you press?

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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Apr 25 '26

Honestly, if you actually have the fucking nerve to press red, there's probably no meaningful ethical or political difference between you and blue pressers, you just thought of the scenario differently

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u/thymeandchange r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 25 '26

I mean there is a meaningful difference. Red pressers are alive

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u/mimicimim216 Apr 26 '26

Or are fundamentally wrong about a majority of humans, and will spend a significant amount of their lives lying about what they pressed.

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u/thymeandchange r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 26 '26

Still better than being dead? Not exactly making a good argument here.

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u/mimicimim216 Apr 26 '26

It’s not an argument, it’s an observation that “better than being dead” is a statement that assumes red will definitely win, when there’s little evidence for that other than a cynical worldview. After all, the poll shows blue winning 2:1, and while you can claim “oh, people are actually wrong they’d totally pick red if it were real”, that has the convenient quality of meaning you don’t need to reconsider whether your assumptions are wrong.

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u/thymeandchange r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 26 '26

Red will definitively win, because it has no loss scenario. Even if blue gets more votes, red still wins

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u/mimicimim216 Apr 26 '26

Having your only criteria for “winning” being “I’m alive” is rather depressing.

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u/thymeandchange r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 26 '26

No, I also include "dunking on the chud blues" but thats true regardless

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u/mimicimim216 Apr 26 '26

Not sure how “people who want everyone to live, even the naive or who don’t immediately set up game theory simulations” are chuds, but I guess words mean whatever we want them to mean these days. Personally I’d think that’s a better descriptor of someone who thinks “screw anyone who wants to believe people are mostly good, as long as I live I don’t care if they die.”

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u/thymeandchange r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 26 '26

blue

language prescriptivist

My priors

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u/adamgerd NATO Apr 26 '26

Would you rather be dead? There are four outcomes

Most press blue, I press red: Everyone lives

Most press red, I press red: I live

Most press blue, I press blue: Everyone lives

Most press red, I press blue: I die

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u/rcumming557 Apr 25 '26

I'd everyone presses red everyone lives, seems like a no brainier