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    1 month ago

    This is the most correct explanation, but the first panel is still written poorly.

    “Not to be racist, but” implies he’s about to do something that could be interpreted as racist. They both know it’s the watermelon candy that would carry that baggage. It would make more sense to say “I’m not racist, so here’s a blue jolly rancher.”











  • One’s “own best interest” can take a lot of different forms. Especially when the number and variety of plausible candidates are finite. Your preferred candidate for a given office will rarely line up perfectly with your own values. There’s a compromise there.

    If I vote for my own finances, it may come at the cost of my morals. It I vote for my own moral interest, it may cost me more. If I vote for my own power, it may cost someone else their freedoms. How heavily do I weight my own interests against those of a wider society? Political identities and philosophies are complicated, and can’t necessarily be reduced to a single binary choice that is “best” in every scenario.