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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button”
i feel like people in real life would be far less likely to press the red button, because twitter is almost wall to wall nazis and real life is not
Sounds like the winning move in that scenario is to purge the button enthusiasts before they cause any damage lol
like i said, the actual value of that little exercise is finding people who are fine with killing up to 50% of the population for no reason whatsoever.
@mawhrin Sadly, they exist. And there are too many of them! I guess this means we should kill people who are fine with killing up to 50% of the—
HEY WAIT
:-)
there's this. (though i find it useful to know who not to rely on if/when things get worse: for example i already know our neighbour from the apartment a floor below did write many missives to our cooperative's administration, without having a single reason.)
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tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.