The problem is that the act of pressing a red button makes up a significant degree of the appeal. It throws the math all off. With the right button, you’ve got MLK and Mother Theresa taking turns to punch it.
If they had to mush an old resistive touchscreen like some 2001-era carrier-branded slightly-pre-smart phone to trigger a genocide-- the ones willing to go that far are the truly bloodthirsty.
With the right button, you’ve got MLK and Mother Theresa taking turns to punch it.
Well yeah, “the right button” could be anything. The button could have been “push this and Jewish Israeli people can live anywhere on earth safely and perpetually at peace with their neighbors.” It doesn’t even have to be anything about Israelis, religion, the region, it’s a fucking hypothetical.
Instead, the button is “kill millions of people that inconvenience me”. It doesn’t resolve anything for the country - they’re still at odds with a large number of neighboring countries. It doesn’t completely remove their inconvenience - settlers would still need to settle the stolen and destroyed land (even if the button just evaporated humans, Gaza is effectively uninhabitable).
They just want to talk about killing an entire people on their, apparently, large platform.
Mother Teresa’s entire career was ensuring that poor people died in as much agony as physically possible, she would only push the genocide all Palestinians button if it killed them slowly and painfully.
The problem is that the act of pressing a red button makes up a significant degree of the appeal. It throws the math all off. With the right button, you’ve got MLK and Mother Theresa taking turns to punch it.
If they had to mush an old resistive touchscreen like some 2001-era carrier-branded slightly-pre-smart phone to trigger a genocide-- the ones willing to go that far are the truly bloodthirsty.
Well yeah, “the right button” could be anything. The button could have been “push this and Jewish Israeli people can live anywhere on earth safely and perpetually at peace with their neighbors.” It doesn’t even have to be anything about Israelis, religion, the region, it’s a fucking hypothetical.
Instead, the button is “kill millions of people that inconvenience me”. It doesn’t resolve anything for the country - they’re still at odds with a large number of neighboring countries. It doesn’t completely remove their inconvenience - settlers would still need to settle the stolen and destroyed land (even if the button just evaporated humans, Gaza is effectively uninhabitable).
They just want to talk about killing an entire people on their, apparently, large platform.
You’re reading too much into the “people love to push big red buttons, regardless of what they do” joke. :)
Mother Teresa’s entire career was ensuring that poor people died in as much agony as physically possible, she would only push the genocide all Palestinians button if it killed them slowly and painfully.
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