• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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    My great grandfather lived in a place where they pushed the switch and he had to flee the country.

    Everyone who has ever pushed the switch has failed!

    Turning the nob just a little to the right is just like pushing the switch actually.

    Only authoritarian dictators and totalitarian governments push the switch, is that what you want?

    Listen, the only way we can push the switch is by having continuous switch pushing.

    Only the third world can push the switch, anyone else trying to do that is a nob turner in disguise.

    One day aliens will arive and push the switch for us.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      “Pressing the switch will make us grow decadent! We need everything to be broken to protect our souls!”

      “Have you ever considered just BEING one of the people benefiting from the problems?”

      “Hey, my investment will be ruined if you press the switch! How could you be so inconsiderate?”

      “Didn’t you learn in middle school that one of the government’s enemies are switch-pressers? We don’t believe in switch-pressing here! Think for yourself!”

      “What if…good is the real bad and bad is the real good? Don’t press the switch!”

      “Wow, you want to press the switch? Get a load of mr sanctimonious over here. Who like, caaaaares man? Don’t ask why keeping the switch unpressed is so important to me though.”

      “You’re just jealous the problems like me and not you! Pressing the switch is just you having sour grapes! Neener neener!”

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      I would say that fascist thinks there’s one switch that can be pressed to save the world, while socialists are working towards a world where everyone can flip their switch and when everyone does it you get communism.

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      Switch isn’t a good analogy for building socialism either. Fascists already have a base built on hatred. We’re stuck have to convince everybody to stay the course towards something better.

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    One party accuses the other of wanting to press the switch, the other party spends millions on ads that say they’re definitely not switch-pressers.

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    The middle ground, like the real life counterpart, is reached when you seem to switch just a little bit, but not enough to actually change anything.

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      Pressing it just hard enough that the circuit arcs unstably making an ominous buzzing sound, at which point you use the scary noise as an excuse to release it again.

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      The “left” party: We’re rubbing the switch very gently, why can’t you see that we’re nothing like the anti-switch-touchers!