"Well, obviously, the dilemma is clear...how do you kill all 19 people?"

The only thing I disagree with in this comic is this part:

I can do only one thing in this current moment

You can do a bunch of other stuff. Voting and direct action are not mutually exclusive.

State of discourse.

Kind of an accurate comic since a lot of people would love to send the trolly to the third track but since it's not connected we can only watch. And somehow people believe this is a failing of the person at the lever for not being able to teleport the trolly or something.

My version:

The artist got it right in that the third track is not even connected to the rail, and the guy couldn't select that track even if he tried. He's missing that if you try to select the third track the genocide happens anyway.

It's more like the people tied to the top rail are also tied to the bottom rail.

And if it WAS Connected it would be UNAMERICAN to Use it!

-Democrats CAMPAIGNING FOR REPUBLICANS right now!

See, and whenever I make up bad guys that only exist in my shower argument fantasies, you guys all get mad about it. Is it the colours I use?

Collectively organizing to derail the train and/or build a bridge towards the third track is the only ethical solution by the way, but it takes time and effort, so let's get started.

Derailing a train takes no time, it’s a violent quick act.

The only ethical solution is to end the harm asap while working on building alternative support networks.

You don’t need a fully fleshed out replacement before you start removing the bad. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Yeah but that other track was built by a woman.

This, except the the lever doesn't actually control which track the trolley goes down, that is controlled by the trolley corporation. The third track is being built by people who understand this, in order to connect it with the other tracks so that noone has to be run over, but the person pulling the lever thinks they are pulling the track-switch.

The trolley corporation rigged it so that when the person pulls the lever, it actually bombs the other track, so that it won't connect to the rest of the tracks, killing a few track builders in the process. The lever puller is told by the trolley corporation that the track would have switched except the track builders are terrorists who blew up the switching mechanism because they hate freedom. But not to worry, keep pulling the switch because it is actually individual switch pullers, not trolley corporations, and definitely not track-building "terrorists," who make all the decisions, and that switch pulling is a sign of a healthy and civil society.

Liberals are cringe as hell.

Oh shut the absolute fuck up. At least conservatives go all-in on their stupidity, fucking centrists are just a bunch of cowards who spend more time making trash like this than anything useful. You’re not clever, you’re just a little bitch.

People voted for Mamdani pretty easily, and it’s been going great. People voted “center” here in Canada and it’s gone…predictably fucking awful.

We can't move toward a future without trolleys as long as we keep voting in fucking trolleys. Short-term harm reduction is not worth long-term harm multiplication.

What's the third track? A free Palestine? "Let's be mad for people calling us out for not demanding more when children are murdered at industrial scale." That's how you sound.

oh this again. more farming.

if you actively argue against building that third third rail, your an ass hole.

“but what about the short term” the short term does not matter vote for who you will. but the ones who scream “vote blue no matter who” never stop screaming it, the SECOND the election is over they will be in the wings to screech at everyone that talking about third option, or demanding progressive candidates is not an option. that we should vote who ever the nominee will be and voting for progressives in the primary will lose us the election. gouls.

to all the “vote blue no matter who” people who get upset because your neo liberal canidate loses the election because they are thinly veiled republicans, get over it. its the dnc’s fault they are so fucking unvoteable.