Forest Swords - Thor's Stone (Lee 'Scratch' Perry Remix)
https://youtu.be/SZAE8TOiZAs

#AlternateFridayMusic #Remix

Re-read the part about the cyclical nature of elections vs the one-off nature or the choice in the Trolley Problem.

Elections in a fucked up anti-Democratic power-duopoly electoral system like the one in the US are a lot more like a Cyclical Ultimatum Game between voters and the party supposedly closest to their own principles and very little like a Trolley Problem. A “punish now to get a better choice offered in a later round” strategy is not only viable but often the best choice in a Cyclical Ultimatum Game, i.e. when the side that has to accept or reject the candidate put forward is offered a bad one and they know they will play the same role (i.e. vote) in later rounds, but it is not at all a valid or even possible strategy in a Trolley Problem.

The relentless insistence in framing it as a Trolley Problem and thus as a unique once-in-a-lifetime choice which will result in a forever the same outcome that cannot be changed (yet another way it differs from a Trolley Problem - you can change the choice every 4 years), rather than a situation were punishing those choosing the available candidates in one round can change which candidates they put forward in the next round, is a self-serving piece of propaganda from politicians who don’t want voters to punish them for always making available only bad candidates.

Last I checked knowingly presenting a false or misleading simplification, whilst not an outright lie, is deceit

Specifically for elections, this specific false simplification by hiding their cyclical nature can steer people away from the idea that you can punish a dominant political party in one electoral cycle when they put forwards deeply unsuitable candidates to incentivize them to put forward better candidates in the next electoral cycle, something that has happened in the past even in America and is more common in other countries.

Whilst right now given just how shit Trump and the present day Republican party are, such a “punishment” strategy against the Democrats would be an incredibly bad idea, had it been used in previous elections it’s quite likely that America would never have become so extremely Far-Right.

That kind of false simplification was very much the political propaganda strategy of the mainstream Democrat politicians over the last 3 decades to steer voters away from punishing them as they moved ever more Rightwards alongside the Republicans creating the current political reality in America were the politics of the present day mainstream Democrats are to the right of the politics of Roosevelt, a Republican.

I believe in NOT being purposefully deceitful when trying to convince other people, which is what people misusing the Trolley Problem for this situation are.

This is especially so because the logic of the Trolley Problem is an hypersimplification which does not include the kind of things that might actually work in the totally fucked up anti-Democratic system in America - voting in Primaries and being part of Civil Society movements.

The Trolley Falacy is nothing more than thought closing political propaganda.

Those who really believe in harm reduction have been long talking about voting in Primaries and direct political participation supporting Primary candidates who are different, not parroting simplistic bollocks

I suggest you go read more about the Mathematical domain called Games Theory if you think casting one vote amongst millions once every 4 years in a Voting System Mathematically designed so that not all votes count the same, with the only information before casting the vote being what the people who can benefit from your choice say they will do (with no mechanism to enforce their promises), is anywhere near the same as an individual direct choice with guaranteed results between two actions whose possible outcomes the one making the choice knows upfront with absolute certainty.

There should be a special Falacy for pulling out the Trolley Problem for situations where it’s Mathematically not applicable.

@prutser@mastodon.bsd.cafe They seem to just have similar UIs. Kallisti looks like it's a frontend for Mumble, whereas Harmony is a full-fledged client and server setup with ActivityPub federation. Harmony also features a microblogging component.

Even more #alternateFridayMusic 🎉

and the cue this week is: #remix

I couldn't choose which version was best, so I'll leave it up to you to choose which version you prefer:

Crass - So What (If It's Reggae?) (Neale Muldowney Remix)

or

Crass - So What (CHRØMATIKA remix 2022)

Another classic punk track re-imagined. The latter remix has a great video to go with it

🎶 I'm just a person, a human being!
"No you're not, you're a part of the machine!"
"You're a part our machine because we want you to be!"
"We've got you now and you'll never be free!" 🎶

@dgar @electric_gumball @Bishopjoey @fc

3/4

#AlternateFridayMusic is upon and this week the cue is #Remix

This track was on repeat in my mid-teens. The Wild Pair remixed Paula Abdul’s Opposites Attract and blew our minds.

Opposites Attract
~ Paula Abdul and The Wild Pair
[3:44 Music Video on YouTube]
https://youtu.be/xweiQukBM_k

#music

Sleaford Mods - West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys Remix)
https://youtu.be/2jN7nccLNjY

#AlternateFridayMusic #Remix

Curve - Foetus (aka JG Thirlwell) Remixes - Ten Little Girls (Tragicision Mix)
https://youtu.be/sOelE8wZWAg

#AlternateFridayMusic #Remix

That’s the meme.

Thank you for falling for the propaganda and blaming people who didn’t want to support genocide rather than placing the blame at those in power who refused to take the most basic moral stance we can demand of our politicians.

Sorry mate but “sending to a nation comitting a genocide for use in an urban environment bombs so big and with so much collateral damage that your our own military refuse to use them because of that” is totally “being onboard with genocide” and “we’ll do everything in our power to help them”.

Even the fucking Brits who have been arresting their own people as “Terrorists” for demonstrating against that Genocide weren’t giving Israel the second largest conventional bombs in existence to drop in a very densely populated urban environment.

Unwavering unlimited support for Israel no matter what they do is the one policy that didn’t at all change when Trump replaced Biden.

Literally the subset of American top politicians who are against this shit are the Democrat Progessives (a small minority even inside their own party) and some of those still voted to send arms to Israel as long as it was claimed they were “for self-defense” so the jury is still out on those specifically.

Europe is very much politically divided on the question Israel and its Genocide, but not so America were the anti-Genocide politicias are a small enough group to be called a “fringe”.

Sabotatge.