• emptiestplace
      154·
      14 days ago

      unlike OP

      This is fucking stupid. The artist’s details are included in the image OP shared, exactly as the artist left them. You didn’t “go find” shit, you googled a couple words from the image. Grow up. Share a link and say thanks for the post.

      • Joelk111@lemmy.world
        35·
        14 days ago

        Not going out of your way to crop the artist’s info out is the bare minimum. Friction is everything, if there’s a link, there’s a way higher chance folks will visit.

        • emptiestplace
          61·
          14 days ago

          Ok, double down on the sanctimony—you wouldn’t’ve seen the comic if OP hadn’t shared it.

          • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
            21·
            13 days ago

            Homie just needed that win and to be able to pat themselves on the back before they went and huffed some farts they canned in 2023.

          • Joelk111@lemmy.world
            22·
            14 days ago

            I’m glad I saw it, but that doesn’t mean OP (and others) can’t do better.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldOP
      1625·
      14 days ago

      Thank you for sharing the artist’s information, but you didn’t have to be an asshole about it. It’s a crosspost with the artist’s information included.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        8·
        14 days ago

        The Tau are a Warhammer 40k faction that is notably full of less evil shittery the norm due to their adherence to “The Greater Good,” a utilitarian philosophy that for all the flaws the society has is practically utopian by 40k standards.

        Their fatal flaw is that they are a growing power in a setting already approaching doomsday, they simply do not have the time or power to stop such things as the Tyranids or Necrons… But, hey, neither does the Imperium, and those guys are definitely fucked in the head

        • Mango@lemmy.world
          8·
          14 days ago

          This is the second time I’ve accidentally expressed interest in 40k, but at least this time it didn’t take me 10 minutes and some googling to digest the response. 🤣🤪

          • Narauko@lemmy.world
            5·
            13 days ago

            To fit with the grim dark setting, the greater good may or may not be foisted upon the Tau masses by a ruling caste through some sort of mind control. The utilitarian space communists might be unknowing slaves, dedicated not to an actual greater good but the ruler’s good. And if that is true, that ruling caste may or may not be actually perfectly benevolent truly working for the greater good, having raised the Tau from warring tribes into enlightened space communists. Can’t have nice things in the 41st millinium, gets in the way of all that “only war” you know.

            • frezik@midwest.social
              2·
              13 days ago

              There’s a “Brighthammer” fan creation out there that turns 40k into a Nobelbright setting–more like Star Trek. The Tau are bad guys by staying exactly as they are.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    6·
    14 days ago

    Thomas the tank engine says:

    “We have left a phrase incomplete in “No masters, no kings!” We neglect “No owners!” We must right the wrongs of history and form a revolution for the proletariat! Eliminate the ownership class! Toot toot mother fucker!”

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    14 days ago

    Since a healthcare system does not have to be designed in such a way that people inevitably fall by the wayside, this depiction of the trolley problem seems to me to be a pretty US-American thing.

    I see it like this: the guy on the lever is also the CEO of a health insurance company and chooses the option of eliminating a competitor, accepting that his even more profit-optimized approach will lead to even more helpless people dying, which would not have been necessary if he had left everything as it was and not eliminated the competitor. The US thing about this is that there is no third option in the first place, where nobody dies because of the healthcare system. This very basic fact is not noticed, addressed or even criticized by anyone. Instead, even those who will die unnecessarily agree with the guy in charge in his decision to sacrifice them on the altar of higher profits because a hated person will die with them - they even agree with his statement that it would be for the greater good, instead of asking why it is even necessary for them to be tied to the tracks and run over.

    This seems odd to me, but is probably only logical if you’re used to seeing the healthcare system as a business like any other. I don’t really get it tho.