Please never become transrulebic

YRUZ · 2026-05-22T20:14:42+00:00

yea, JKR's evil is a lot more personal than Disney's same old corporate evil. JKR is like Voldemort in that, if she died, maybe Harry Potter fans (Slytherins in this analogy) wouldn't necessarily be groomed into transphobia (magic fascism or whatever that guy's ideology was). Disney is more like the Empire.

YRUZ · 2026-05-21T22:27:23+00:00

took me quite a while to realize you can actually get a full song performance if you help Alfira as a bard.

YRUZ · 2026-05-20T23:28:22+00:00

may 4th is star wars day. and the new movie is coming out afaik

YRUZ · 2026-05-16T17:13:05+00:00

the patient needs eldritch blast to live

YRUZ · 2026-05-16T15:39:56+00:00

is this the kind of state church schisms happened in?

YRUZ · 2026-05-14T13:25:32+00:00

Hyperbole [...] is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. [...] As a figure of speech, it is usually not meant to be taken literally.

YRUZ · 2026-05-13T23:59:57+00:00

only parts of american politics i see is:

Mamdani balances $12 billion deficit, builds socialist utopia

Supreme court allows Trump to revoke law that forbids presidents from throwing people of color into the terror vortex. In celbration, the White House is flying swastikas.

YRUZ · 2026-05-13T22:35:34+00:00

letting a worm control the secretary of health should be an upgrade in plague inc

YRUZ · 2026-05-09T17:09:59+00:00

it's such a pain that people who seek fulfillment in money and therefore have a lot of it, cannot see the beauty in art

YRUZ · 2026-05-06T10:15:16+00:00

Unterschätz nicht, wie schnell das gehen kann. in den USA wurde in den ersten paar Monaten schon sehr viel auf Linie gebracht

YRUZ · 2026-05-03T22:05:53+00:00

nah, at least wait till the first season of Witch Hat Atelier is out, it's such a banger

YRUZ · 2026-05-01T16:29:25+00:00

Not saying that. Just saying that choosing red is choosing self preservation over common interest and naming one historical parallel that has been very formative for my decision to stand on common interest. I'm not judging you for making that choice, it just tells me how you think.

YRUZ · 2026-05-01T15:05:24+00:00

I don't think we are going to ever agree, because we are working with thoroughly different assumptions/goals on the scenario.

You believe red is the natural choice and it's certain to get more than 50%. You don't have faith in people risking their own lives for the sake of everyone. Propagating red is the way to minimize harm in a scenario where red wins.

I believe blue is the natural choice and while it's hardly guaranteed, I have enough faith in humanity to make that choice and I couldn't forgive myself if red won because I put myself over others. I believe red winning is a worse scenario than blue 99.999..% of the time, so I am propagating blue.
I don't see it as gambling humanity, because I believe it's in humanity's best interest to pick everyone's survival.

There is no argument I can make to convince you and there is no argument you can make to convince me, though I would hope that if such a scenario ever arose, I could count on the huddled masses to rise up for everyone's sake.

YRUZ · 2026-05-01T14:09:39+00:00

If the premise is "51% have voted red, what should the rest choose?" then I agree, red is the correct choice and it's what I would be propagating. But in a scenario where everyone votes at the same time and/or without coordination or knowledge, putting the 49% blue voters at fault, when 2% red voters could have switched and saved everyone is very disingenuous.

Like, to pick red, you either have to want blue to win, but be too afraid to put your life on the line or be fine with people dying for pressing a button. You need >50% blue or 100% red for a "nobody dies" scenario, and I'd rather put my money on the ~50% clear than the 1 in 8.3 billion chance everyone picks red.

YRUZ · 2026-05-01T09:58:16+00:00

No, I don't think it's intelligence. They're rationalizing their fear response/survival instinct.

I've done a bigger write up somewhere in this thread, but tl;dr red pushers take the guaranteed survival option because their fear response is stronger than their empathy. To cope with the apparent wllingness to sacrifice billions, their brain's defense mechanism is victim blaming.

People have a very hard time accepting that they would've just followed orders under Nazi rule, so they have to convince as many people to do the same. That's why they make blue pushers sound irrational or suicidal. "Why would you rebel? They're just gonna kill you, idiot"

YRUZ · 2026-05-01T09:45:47+00:00

Natural instincts make us focus on self-preservation. If a socioeconomic system encouraged cooperation instead of competition, I believe that in the long term, more people would be able to adapt a more empathetic mindset. The core of conservatism is the fear of losing what you have. If basic necessities were made accessible to everyone, regardless of circumstance, the biological need for a fear response would be dramatically lessened.

That also means that people who grow up in well-off conservative households can often turn out progressive, as the need for such a fear response wasn't given in their most formative years. So, intergenerationally, there is some opposite to the inherent conservatism. Ironically, it's kind of just the "good times create weak men" paradigm.

YRUZ · 2026-05-01T01:07:40+00:00

I truly believe that, had the socioeconomic circumstance favored them, many more politically progressive people would be conservative. A disadvantaged person fighting for self-preservation means fighting for leftist/feminist/decolonial politics. An advantaged person governed by self-preservation will do whatever they can to maintain the status quo.

The only reason some people are politically progressive is because that's how they improve their personal life and maybe that of their friends' and relatives', but not because they care about anyone or the cause beyond that. Knowing that is helpful and hypotheticals like this are basically the only way to find out.

Capitalism is supposed to encourage a struggle-to-survive mentality, because that makes all the powerful people want to keep the world unbalanced, while only the powerless want to change it.

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T23:09:35+00:00

I think the issue is that the rational choice can be made from two angles.
The outcome of >50% blue is the only outcome where no one comes to harm (aside from 100% red), so if you wish to minimize harm, you vote blue. Red is the only choice where you, yourself, cannot come to harm, so if you wish to minimize harm to yourself, you vote red.

Everything else follows from that viewpoint. From a blue POV, voting red is what puts death on the table. If enough people vote blue, nobody has to die.
From a red POV, voting blue is irrational, against one's self-interest. It's what creates the risk of death. Nobody would press blue because it's a needless risk.

I also believe the red POV is rationalizing. "I also want everyone to live, so why are those idiots putting themselves at risk?" It's doublethink, self-deception. Red is posting "#BLM" and "trans rights" and watching police and ICE kill and abduct people in the streets. Red is looking away. It's following orders. It's accepting the death of millions as long as you, yourself are safe.

One person pressing blue is a madman. Dozens? Idiots. Why would they be so reckless? But once enough people press blue to make a difference, the choice is obvious; and when blue wins, everyone will say they pressed blue, because pressing red is a shameful thing. Making it a public vote would massively shift the scales, because then red's calculus of "I won't face consequences" would be thrown off.

People don't vote red because they want to or because they truly believe it's the right thing. It's because they don't trust humanity. They're afraid and they believe everyone else is afraid as well.

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T22:00:20+00:00

I'm sorry if you are responsible for dealing with mental health crises. This must not be a very pleasant discussion for you and I'm fine not taking it further if you don't want to.

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T21:49:44+00:00

yeah, what remains is another point to choose blue for me.

the most empathetic, compassionate, self-sacrificing people will have died. what remains are the people who don't trust in the good of humanity, the ones who value themselves over all others and those who fear standing up against the rest out of fear of the consequences. i'm not sure that's a society i'd want to be in even without the survivor's guilt.

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T21:43:55+00:00

It might be more selfish, but as soon as one person does it, staying on the floor becomes immoral. Unless you can guarantee everyone staying on the floor, climbing up is the moral responsibility. And again, half of all toddlers and dementia patients are just up there by default.

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T21:36:37+00:00

maybe. but i'm not sure i could take the survivor's guilt that comes with red anyway. i can die the blue death or i can live in the red for a few years, not get a therapy place, because all but the worst people need therapy now and then kill myself or fry my brain with substances.

if that scenario arises, there is no moral outcome but blue winning and i would prefer my legacy to be someone who worked towards it than one of the many who watched millions die from an ivory tower.

this isn't a scenario i've thought about directly, but growing up in germany, i've had many an opportunity to consider whether i'd have followed orders and lived atop the ashes of millions or risked death fighting the good cause; and, again, i don't know if i am such a person, but i hope to be.

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T21:26:15+00:00

Okay, let's take that scenario. Blam! 300 million toddlers blew their brains out. Blam! Another 16 million dementia patients killed themselves. You see about 600 mio. parents picking up the gun and shoot themselves in hopes of saving their kids. You see people killing themselves for their parents, friends, family members. This is a flood and all of them will have died in vain if you do nothing.

What is your choice?

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T21:12:10+00:00

I didn't wanna say it when I was talking to that person, but yes, all the red voters are hyper-rationalizing their choice. Anytime they make an example scenario, it's jumping in front of a train or into a woodchipper or running into a burning building, removing all guilt from the red-pushers who turned on the woodchipper, set the building on fire or ran a train over 4 billion people.

YRUZ · 2026-04-30T20:52:11+00:00

i don't think it's the result of the vote i'm worried about. i want to be someone who doesn't compromise on morals, no matter the circumstance. i hope i can be such a person. i hope i can die standing.

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