passenger 1 - “Oh crud. Our boat is sinking. We are in great peril indeed.”

captain - “We’re going to be okay everyone, just get into this liferaft.”

Pulls out liferaft with a huge fucking hole in it.

passenger 1 - “Is this the only liferaft we’ve got?”

captain - “Yes, but don’t worry about the hole, it won’t sink and we’ll be fine I promise.”

passenger 2 - “Hey guys, I have a liferaft over here that doesn’t have a hole in it.”

captain - “Guys, that’s not important right now. Our boat is sinking.”

passenger 1 - “Eh, I guess I’ll go in that one.”

passenger 3 - “Sure me too, captain says we should - wait where’s captain?”

Looks up, in the distance sees captain floating away on functional liferaft.

captain - “So long fuckers!”

Passengers board remaining liferaft, liferaft sinks, the passengers die.

This is question-begging a number of critical elements, e.g. that the “rafts” cannot be influenced by “passenger” input, and that there is only this one, totalizing crossroad of literal, immediate survival.

We can do it too:

You’re in a runaway train accelerating toward a cliff and the break only really stops acceleration, it doesn’t decelerate. You can sit in the engine room and hold down the break, and you’ll live longer, but you aren’t changing the fundamental dynamic of the situation, which ends in your eventual death. Conversely, you can jump off the train, surely injuring yourself, possibly crippling yourself, maybe even killing yourself, but it’s the only potential way to change the dynamic of being doomed to fall off the cliff.

Does this prove anything? No, it’s just a model of how some people think of the problem, not an argument. It would be really obnoxious and disingenuous to present it as an argument.

This except the raft has a bunch of holes in it, is covered in blood, and by setting foot in it you are implicitly giving your consent to fund a genocide on the other side of the world, and then the raft sinks anyways in the last panel.

edit: Bright side, the water may not actually be that deep. At least it’s certainly not as deep as the peoples’ whom you would have sacrificed by getting on the raft. That’s just what people tell you, but they also told you the raft would be perfectly seaworthy in its battered state.

A more accurate metaphor would be if the raft was uninflated and full of holes.

I will note your liberal dem in this comic also didn’t get in the raft through their own inability to take the correct path regardless of the choices of others. which I think is pretty spot on for individuals like yourself.

“We get it, you like Trump, stop with all the games.”

Pot meets kettle. So I guess all of that talk about “strawmen” was just projection. Okay. I see what you did there.

I’m not voting for genocide. In fact I already voted against genocide.

The Dems nor Republicans have a candidate that is against genocide.

buddy, half of the comments on this post are libs fantasizing about mass deportations, and acting smug the whole time. they cannot wait to say “I told you so” when the camps get built. stop kidding yourself.

They’re in this thread, from your instance. Just scroll up.

No average dem is fantasizing about Republicans hurting people

You were in this thread though, lmao.