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The analogies democrats use to defend genocide are getting more and more unhinged
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this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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both picked the wrong bus, sad
I'd rather walk, thanks.
Cool so I can vote PSL?
Right? This analogy is bad because there's no room in it for "I picked this bus and then my bus lost so now I am just sitting here sulking."
Nononono see taking that bus is going to make the uh other bad bus win
I'm so tired of stupid lib analogies trying to liken politics to contrived interpersonal situations
This bus is going in the opposite direction of where I'm trying to go. Why would I board the bus????
In fact, it could easily be argued that it would be in your best interest to do everything in your power to stop the bus
This is why analogies are useless as arguments
Analogies are pretty great as arguments, in my experience. Bad analogies are obviously bad. And you can't use them against redditors because their answer is always "ArE You rEAlLy coMpARInG thoSe TWo tHiNGs?" Like, yes, that's the point of an analogy.
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That's when the people throw the bus driver onto the street and take the bus where people actually want to go.
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there are only two buses. both buses are going to hell! and you better get on one of them or else the other bus will win the bus contest and be declared the king of all the buses.
Me taking a bus straight to a concentration camp: “well, what are you going to do? I couldn’t wait for THE ONE!”
NONE OF THE PEOPLE SAYING THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN ON A BUS OR ANY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN 30 YEARS
Why are liberals obsessed with using fanciful analogies when they could simply discuss the real things themselves? (I know why)
I Drive the Bus That is Running Over Thousands of Palestinians Every Day. Here's Why That's a Good Thing:
In this essay, I will-
I can respect that. So I'm voting 
. Critical support to Jill Stein though. I've loved her since I was a kid.
Telling this to the kids getting hit with rubber bullets in a state run by a liberal governor in a city led by a liberal mayor.
Voting isn’t marriage - it’s public transport.
- under constant destruction in amerikkka
- has hostile architecture meant to make doing it as uncomfortable as possible
- the mayor is going to send in the national guard to make sure citizens must pay to do it and can’t do it for free
- melon husk is enacting a worse alternative by burying cars underground to make sure no one can do it conveniently
- the infrastructure is rotting, causing ecological disasters
- technically pete is in charge of it but he won’t do anything about the system except let it continue to rot
No matter how i try to plan my route online it takes me through the seventh circle of hell??
Not getting on the bus to Auschwitz, sorry not sorry
so if i want to get to my local library i should hop on the greyhound to LA? great plan, I'll get right on that
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Worst Trolley Problem Solution Ever
Just 
harder folks! You'll voot so hard that you'll defeat the evil forces of communo-fascist Trump!
This is a good analogy because if both buses are headed in a direction you don't want to go, you wouldn't get on either.
Look, the only two busses that run from here are the ones to the Death Zone and the Ultra-Death Zone. Do you want to go to the Ultra-Death Zone? You like Ultra-Death? I didn't think so. Get on the Death Zone bus and stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Both busses are driving towards doing a genocide, I want to go the opposite direction of not doing a genocide. Which bus should I get on in this tortured metaphor?
They've been using this one for the last 3 elections and I've always pointed out that when both buses are going in the opposite direction of where you want to be you simply do not get on the bus.
They can only get by by question begging the whole "Is not being Trump enough?"
As it turns out, the bus that promotes genocide does not get me closer to where I want to be, especially since this bus was what people took last election and it got us here. There is no such thing as adequate evidence for these people, only religious dogma.
I wonder if anybody sharing that image actually uses and likes public transportation.
You already know they don't and we know their reason for hating it is because they may encounter a poor and/or homeless person
I think it makes more sense to compromise in a marriage than it does to deliberately get on the wrong bus.
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My Uncle Rim-Shot told me the best voting advice I ever heard.
You see, voting is like riding a bus with a fine lady.
You don't need to marry her in order to get off at your destination.
And that's why there's no such thing as a perfect bus stop.
Fine, I'll walk.
So.. is cycling activism, or?
I for one always take that bus, even when it drives the opposite direction from where it said it was going, crashes, and explodes
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I'm not trying to get to genocide and US global dominance, so fuck right off libs
And if there's no lines going anywhere near where I'm going? I'm not jumping on a bus for the sake of it. If there's only two lines in town and they're both taking me further away from my destination, then I most certainly won't waste my money on a ticket to nowhere.
I'm probably going to walk instead.
And if the bus doesn't go in the direction I want to go, I simply don't get on.
Voting, which we ruin, is just like public transport, which we also ruined.
That's fair. The third party is the one doing that.
"no, not like that..."
Something something sexual pathology
What if all the transport goes in the exact opposite direction of where I want to go?
In a democracy, it's really important to publicly announce that you intend to consistently vote for people that don't ever do what you want them to do. That way they'll feel as free as possible to fish for votes from people that want really shitty stuff to happen.
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