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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What I don't understand is what harm is being reduced by doing "harm reduction"? I get maybe one or two election cycles the candidate isn't ideal but after decades of horrible candidates that increasingly become more right wing over time it seems that no real harm is being reduced. Working class people are are still starving under Biden and likely will under Kamala, simultaneously the Capitalist class continues to aquire obscene amounts of wealth. Meanwhile we're all supposed to go along with the idea that Neoliberalism is the only option while so called "radical leftists" (social democrats and social liberals) are too extreme for government. This election cycle we're offered a candidate that has promised to encourage fracking, likley will not offer any federal protections for women and other minorities, openly supports Israel, and is overall a spineless corrupt career politican that for some reason we're all supposed to nod our heads to and say "yup shes the face of the American left". If we keep doing "harm reduction" soon we will all be reduced to nothing.

It's not about harm reduction, it's a slow boil towards fascism. We're all just frogs in a pot of slowly heating water, except frogs actually will jump out before they boil to death; humans aren't that smart.

Every four years the centrists say "vote for us, because the Other Guy is worse!" And they're not wrong, especially since 2016. But they're also not even pretending to be on our side anymore. Everyone says the Republicans have taken the mask off and aren't hiding their evil, but it is the Democrats running a candidate who is openly working with members of the party of greater fascism, it's the Democratic candidate who is pro ~~fucking~~ fracking the earth, and it's the Democrats (as well as the Repubs) who aren't even bothering to lie to us about wanting to stop the genocide that our tax dollars are directly funding.

However, I have to say that I'll be voting for the party of lesser (or at least slower) fascism come November. Not because I agree with a single thing they're doing (since their platform is still "We're not as bad as the Other Guy"), but because they threw us exactly two bones in dropping Biden and giving the VP to one of the few Ds who actually looks progressive (where he can do the least damage, of course).

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

"You" in this context, is reffering to over 200,000,000 individuals.

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is assuming that the dems are anything but Captialist lapdogs, and willing to do any of this. They will not I am sorry to tell you that

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

It's crusty as hell but checks out.

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