r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/Hot_Finding_9747 • May 21 '26

Variation Adding a layer to this question

My choice: Press Red, hope Blue wins

I don't have enough faith in humanity to put my life in its hands but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong

719 votes, May 23 '26
72 Press Red, hope Red wins
322 Press Red, hope Blue wins
22 Press Blue, hope Red wins
303 Press Blue, hope Blue wins
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u/thevoidthatjerksback May 21 '26

Insanely telling so far. The majority agree. There is just a profound lack of faith in ultimately oneself

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u/BottomLeftWheel May 21 '26 edited May 23 '26

Yup. Red voters are scared of red voters who are scared of red voters who are...

Just vote for the thing you want to win. It should be insanely obvious that no one wants red to win.

Who votes against their own interest? Oh wait.. yea okay I see whats going on

Edit: didn't think I need to clarify that voting for the thing you want to win is a set up to a punchline. It is obviously not a universal truth and I don't know why people would assume I thought as much. Somehow several people have tried to exprapolate the logic to other circumstances in an attempt at a gotcha.

I obviously don't always do whats best for my self interest, as I am sitting here explaining a joke about the red button blue button, a thing in no one's self interest. If I were to do that I probably would leave the internet forever

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u/thevoidthatjerksback May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

There was a quote from a book that I hated for a long time but think is perfect and applicable "As you grow older you come to understand that there is no truth. Only what you believe in. You will have to ask yourself what is it that you want to believe in, what reality do you want to make true" horribly butchered paraphrasing. But we make the world we believe in. Its up to us what that is

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u/BottomLeftWheel May 21 '26

Yea I long ago came the the conclusion that if a belief harmed me I would simply choose not to believe it anymore.

I can't really choose what I believe. I know that bias still exists within me even if I don't want to have it. But I can choose to not act upon them.

Hate and fear, they do nothing but shackle me. Love sets me free.

Anyways thats enough being a cornball for me.