• GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldOP
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    13 days ago

    lets teach through parable.

    A drifter has been walking through a desert for five days without water. if he doesn’t get water in the next hour he will die. he happens upon a small oasis.

    the drifter rushes to find water and all he sees is:

    • a small murky puddle covered in muck and grime
    • a bucket of watery shit
    • a camel
    • a dried out corpse

    he looks at his options and is debating which would be better. he starts to move towards the puddle to drink from it when suddenly the camel begins to relieve itself.

    he stops to consider drinking the urine.

    you are the drifter. the shit bucket is trump. the puddle is kamala. the piss is stein. the corpse is the abstained voter.

    which would you have chosen?

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      13 days ago

      The choice is obvious, we eat the sand in hopes it will quench our thirst. Thats basically what we did.

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      13 days ago

      A murky pond of still water might not be a good choice no matter how thirsty you are. The bacteria in it could kill you. If you’re thirsty and lost at sea, I hope you won’t drink the salt water. That’s the issue with the insistance that people should vote for Harris “to stop trump”. It’s short sighted and does nothing to address the long-term problem of, election after election, being presented two shitty options and told it’s critical that you eat shit instead of voting for the person that will actually fight for your values. Sorry the Democrats keep refusing to learn this lesson, but they are just as much to blame for Trump’s victory as the people who voted for him.

      Out of your options above, the camel might actually be the safest option. You’ll at least get some hydration out of it if you don’t cook it to shit.

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        13 days ago

        If you’re an hour away from dying from thirst, then a murky pond of water filled with bacteria, is better than a bucket of shit or camel piss.

        bacteria may kill you in days. But you will die of thirst in one hour.

        You completely missed the entire point of the exercise. If I make it any dumber, I’ll have to write it in crayon.

        You were so close though. Go enjoy your cup of sand.

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          13 days ago

          Lol, yeah, you’re right. My bad for assuming we would have to make the decision with information that a person would likely have in that scenario, like one has to do in real life… I think you’re still wrong, both in the example you attempted and the point you’re trying to make.
          Democrats will need to work on offering people something more than murky water that might kill you if they want to get people to come out and vote for them. And why would I risk a deadly bacterial infection when I have piss available that I am reasonably certain is sterile? I’m honestly not sure why you think that’s not a good course of action, though I’ll admit I’m not a scientist and would be interested to hear a scientist/doctor’s take on this survival scenario.