Veritas
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@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca This just isn't true in the scenario
It isn't worth your life to vote blue on the infinitesimal chance your 1 vote changes the result
Plus you don't even know which colour your child picked
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@Veritasweb3 @TerraDraca Every majority is made up of tiny pieces. Every single vote is significant when the stakes are life and death, your just trying to avoid the moral responsibility of being part of pulling the trigger
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Today's thoughts on the red and blue button question.
People who pick blue claim reds are killing people but is that actually true?
If 60% of people have already decided to pick red, does me picking blue actually change anything? No, aside from my own death, it changes nothing because nobody knows my vote and I have no ability to influence other people and change their mind. I can only control my choice and nothing else.
In fact, there is only ONE scenario where my decision could be argued to matter beyond my own survival: If the vote was completely deadlocked and I was the deciding vote.
The odds of that happening: Basically never.
So no, I am not basing my decisions on a scenario that will never happen anyway.
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@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca Its just a logical fail to believe your single vote matters in the context of a completely private vote where there is no way to generate consensus beforehand
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Veritas@Veritasweb3
@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca I will provide the real answer There are 8.4B people voting, your single blue vote won't save your baby Vote red to ensure your safety and hope blue wins
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@Veritasweb3 @TerraDraca So you hope blue wins but are unwilling to help it get there? In fact, you’re pushing it further from your desired outcome. You want everyone else to be brave enough to save the world so you can benefit for free.
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@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca Don't think that can be inferred from anything I said
I hope blue wins
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@Veritasweb3 @TerraDraca So you want red to win and anywhere from 10-49% of the population to be wiped out?
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@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca I wouldn't view it that way
The odds of blue losing by 1 vote would be in the trillions
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@Veritasweb3 @TerraDraca Your okay living knowing your choice further pushed your kid from living? I would absolutely want to be there for him and hope people push blue but if only one of us can be there i would rather it be him than me.
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@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca You don't feel an obligation to be there for your kid?
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@Veritasweb3 @TerraDraca I’m aware of that. And if i died with the intention of trying to save him I’m okay with that. I couldn’t live knowing i picked a button that further distanced him from also living. Him surviving is still a win for me.
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@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca In this scenario you wouldn't know which button your baby picked
50% chance they pick red and could be left an orphan due to your choice
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@Veritasweb3 @TerraDraca I couldn’t live with myself knowing i contributed even in a small part to him dying.
8.4B people voting, only 4.2B people are needed to ensure all 8.4B people survive including the babies. Much easier number to hit than needing all 8.4B
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@Dr_Wobbegong @wokenessucks @PurpleMrPopo Not even about trusting the omnipotent power
Its just by definition you would be powerless and have to follow their dictates
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@wokenessucks @PurpleMrPopo You don’t trust the Human race, but choose to trust some omnipotent power.
How can you be sure they aren’t testing if humans can cooperate and think beyond themselves.. a test to see who joins the galactic family?
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Blue people, I’m going to give you the exact same scenario but in a much clearer format. Tell me if you would still choose blue.
Imagine you’re suddenly ripped out of your normal life. Whatever you were doing stops instantly, and you appear wide awake in a big, empty white room. You know you’re not dreaming. A red door and a blue door appear in front of you. For all you know, every single person on Earth is in the exact same situation. No phones. No communication. Total isolation.
Then a message appears:
“You have two choices. If more than 50% of people go through the blue door, everyone survives. If fewer than 50% go through the blue door, only the people who chose the red door survive.”
By walking through the blue door, aren’t you literally volunteering to play in this twisted game? You’re betting your life that a majority of terrified strangers will all take the risky option at the exact same moment. Zero communication and no second chances.
If you wouldn’t actually do that in this crystal clear scenario, why are you still defending the blue choice in the original?
Hugh Janus@wokenessucks
The problem with the red button/blue button thing is that blue button people still live with this filter over their eyes that distorts reality. They lack the self-awareness to realize that if they were actually in that situation in real life, they’d push the red button too. That’s exactly why they get so mad and take it personally when we don’t see it their way. They call us immoral and evil. But we see the world realistically. They don’t. When you factor in the other 8 billion people on Earth and the raw fear of possibly dying, there’s zero chance 51% hit the blue button. 95–98% of people would take the guaranteed safe option and choose red. We know this because we deal in reality, not fantasy. For us red-button people, pushing blue is suicide. Is it sad that out of 8 billion some will inevitably hit blue and die? Yes. But if blue is suicide, I’m still hitting red. The vast majority of blue button people lack the self-awareness to know how they’d actually react under pressure. They’re the morons who die first in horror movies.
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@MalgeoTwitch @TerraDraca I will provide the real answer
There are 8.4B people voting, your single blue vote won't save your baby
Vote red to ensure your safety and hope blue wins
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@TerraDraca How do you account for infants in your red picking brain? If your baby is also teleported into the room they could pick blue accidentally because they are a baby. You’re just fine with hitting red cause it saves yourself and that’s all that matters? Even if your baby is gone?
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@whatsontapnba Dont agree with Derrick White of Jamal Murray (pre 2026 😂)
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In Economics 101 you learn comparative advantage.
Jaden McDaniels is a perfect example.
It’s not about whether he can be a scorer. It’s about opportunity cost. On a winning Timberwolves team, his elite defense provides more value while others carry usage.
That doesn’t mean he can’t scale offensively. He just hasn’t needed to yet.
When that role comes, I believe the offense rises to legit star-level impact.
Wilder Adams@whatsontapnba
Notable players I think Jaden McDaniels is better than Derrick White Mikel Bridges Og Anunoby Alperen Sengun Jamal Murray Jalen Duren Brandon Ingram Paolo Banchero Lamelo Ball Darius Garland Tyler Herro Ja Morant
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@RatioNChill @NBA__Courtside He was shitting on Giannis WHILE he was winning
And he has definitely criticised him since
As for the comparison in slander when losing early in the playoffs, tbf I think this Jokic defeat is much worse than any Giannis has had since his ring
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bro what kind of weird ass example is this?
you're talking about people shitting on giannis BEFORE he won
I'm talking about people shitting all over jokic AFTER he won, not being able to wait to tell people "I told you he's not as good as you think"
and saying that he never said that shit about giannis in the 5 yrs since he won his ring...
You know why? I'll answer it for you, because he's black in case it's still not obvious
Perkins has had a thing against white players, especially white euros, for years
Do you know how many times he's voted Jokic for MVP in his media career since 2020? ZERO
I'll let you figure out why he couldn't wait to talk about how Jokic shouldn't be amongst the greats after this 1st round loss, but never said the same thing about Giannis after his first round loss
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Kendrick Perkins GOES OFF on Nikola Jokic 👀
“We’re not in Serbia, we’re in America and he got punked yesterday. We have to hold him accountable like we do every ‘all time great’ — I jumped the gun just like everybody else when it comes to disrespecting all time greats. We were so ready to put this man above all time greats because of certain numbers he was putting up in regular season. He has 1 NBA championship. Matter of fact, I don’t think Jokic is going to win another NBA championship. He got exposed…. Jokic has never sniffed an all defensive team as a center… Rudy Gobert out played him!”
(Via @FirstTake)
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@RatioNChill @NBA__Courtside All this moving the goalposts
The point is he has gone off on Giannis as well unlike what you implied
It became so biased he was finally forced to apologise after Giannis scored 50 in the finals
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@Veritasweb3 @NBA__Courtside oh yea
Perkins definitely believed he was so good and so much the best in the world
that he never voted for him MVP EVEN ONCE in his entire media career
talk about not putting your money where your mouth is
actions over words ... and his actions revealed his true feelings
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@RatioNChill @NBA__Courtside Shitting all over him during his title run is worse
Atleast Jokic had Perk calling him the best in the world for 3 years
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@Veritasweb3 @NBA__Courtside has he shit all over him for not returning to even the ECF in the 5 yrs since and says everyone was rushing to place him among all time greats?
Never
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@RatioNChill @NBA__Courtside Perkins call Giannis Robin during his 2021 championship run
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@NBA__Courtside Guarantee you Perk has never gone off on giannis like this getting bounced in the first round with only 1 ring
I’ll let you guys figure out why and what’s different about giannis and jokic
Perk couldn’t wait for this
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@LittleScaredy @EaglePole_ @leo_the_rat @AuraHaver @Molycuddle The funniest thing in this back and forth is thinking your 1 vote will impact the outcome among 8.4B
Should choose red and hope blue wins
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@EaglePole_ @leo_the_rat @AuraHaver @Molycuddle I apologize if I acknowledge the nuance and complexity that is entailed with 8 Billion individuals, and that I’m not comfortable with the prospect of millions/billions being wiped from the earth to preserve my own life. Not the society I want to live in.
GIF
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am I going mental why would anyone ever choose blue there is absolutely zero incentive
Rock Solid@ShitpostRock2
Dumbest fucking hypothetical ever posted
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@DamienPetersNBA If you aint gonna win the ring should just rest up 😭
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If you think nostalgia doesn’t exist in the NBA just remember that we glorify Michael Jordan having the flu in the playoffs, but we’ll forget very quickly that Joel Embiid is out there gutting it out with an open wound after just being in the hospital, and Cade is struggling to breathe at his full capacity after a recently collapsed lung. This generation is “soft” though, I guess…
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@LionRiver3 @zezepeters @candlecav Would argue its still illogical voting blue
Should vote red to guarantee your survival as your individual vote isn't going to impact the final outcome
Plus in the worst case scenario you are there to support the family members that voted red
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@zezepeters @candlecav 🔴 is still logical for individual self-preservation, which was what I focused on in my initial thought process.
I’m guilty of selfish behavior in a situation like that.
Then you realize your kids/family/community might not do the same. So I switch to 🔵.Which is also logical.
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Okay, I've gone round-and-round on this, and I'm still a Red-button voter, and here's why.
The situation is this: you are suddenly in a booth, with the buttons in front of you.
You know all 8.3 billion people on earth are voting.
You know at least some will vote each way, including children and mental incompetents for whom it's basically a toss-up.
You have no idea what the outcome will be. All you can do is make a prediction based on what you know of human nature.
My prediction, based on what little I know of human nature, is a majority-Red vote.
This is because most ordinary people, faced with the dilemma, will see it simply as
A - I will definitely live or
B - 50/50 chance I die.
The kind of complex moral calculation you have to make to see the argument behind a Blue vote is simply not going to occur to or persuade the *majority* of *ordinary* people, globally.
Now, if I am *right* about human nature, then a Blue vote, for me, is simply suicide. I die, I save nobody, and whoever of my family is left alive have to face the new world without me.
But if I am *wrong* about human nature, then the Blue vote gets the majority, and nobody dies, including me.
So for me, in that moment, behind that veil of ignorance, knowing that my ONE vote will NOT be the deciding one among countless millions, the ONLY sensible choice - is Red.
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@HarrietEve9 Tbf don't think either of them named her
Megs fans been wildin
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This really weird viral breakup story between Klay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion, in what many have suspected to be a PR relationship — has once again exposed the black feminist and black liberal women’s pseudo campaign of “Protect Black Women.”
WNBA player Lexie Brown is the daughter of former NBA player Dee Brown — and she’s been thrown into this media nightmare as the villain who is the cause of the breakup between Klay and Megan…
There is zero evidence that Lexie was in a romantic relationship with Klay, but she has had to hire armed security after death threats were made against her and her family…
Klay and Megan are NOT married, they dated for about 8 or 9 months — and the behavior from delusional unhinged stans must be met with criminal charges and prison sentences…
Meanwhile, Klay nor Megan has publicly spoke out to the media stating that Lexie had nothing to do with their suspected PR relationship… But, it’s “Protect Black Women,” right???
Jackson Thompson@JackThompsonFOX
WNBA player Lexie Brown, who was the subject of recent viral affair rumors with NBA star Klay Thompson, spoke out to me against Klay for not disputing the rumors himself. Lexie says she has received death threats and even her family has been harassed after the rumors started.
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