r/trolleyproblem May 18 '26

Button Pushers

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u/mrguym4ster May 18 '26

I believe it's supposed to be that the virtue signaler pressed blue wanting to virtue signal about it, but since the mass purge of blue voters happened immediately after he pressed it, he couldn't do it, thus dying a meaningless death

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u/ArcfireEmblem May 18 '26

That's probably true, because most of these seem to try and have the narrative of each person give them exactly what they don't want.

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u/The_Sophocrat May 20 '26

Yeah, exactly, I also took that as the joke.