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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (31 children)

Lol like "harm reduction" is going to save us.

Bad analogy anyway bc the effects are immediate anyway.

If we taxed everybody who didn't vote there be a lot more can you spend your money voter since there is an immediate consequence for not voting.

I'm going to engage in local organizing. I feel like that's much better and I'll be able to protect my community and my family

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

More like two options: one runs the bus off the cliff while the other sets it on fire. Sure, we'll live longer in the fire scenario. Maybe we can even put it out!

But I'm still looking for the fucking exit.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Interesting... but the ice cream is supporting genocide. Some would rather die than vote for that. And I guess it could be argued that at least the people dieing by going over the cliff had a chance to vote. The ones dieing from genocide didn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except in this analogy, the cliff option includes a rider that they will genocide even harder.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I bet a lot of people living in Germany in the '30s said "I don't do politics" too. Oops.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (12 children)

This is why the Democratic Party sucks so bad. The never offered people something to vote for. They didn't even offer something harmless - they only ever offered to drive off a cliff more slowly. When in power, they never did anything against the DHS, the MIC, ICE, the Patriot Act. They didn't even talk about fighting landlords, the bosses, the rich. The Dems even refused police reform, instead increasing budgets. The only thing the party elites ever fought fiercely is Bernie Sanders and the progressive caucus.

The Democratic Party is just as much to blame for Trump as the GOP. Stop blaming progressives for this miserable one party state - start holding your politicians accountable.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

FPTP is the real winner here. It's why we have Trump. Why can't we vote for proportional representatives or ranked choice?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem with this is that the choice isn't cliff or ice cream. The choice is the cliff in front of us or the cliff around the corner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ice cream won't fix our problems either, but I agree that a more dire comparison is apt. In either case, one option offers immediate and unconditional death and destruction, and the other option offers a little more time before the next crossroads of that sort. It seems intuitive to me that, unless one is suicidal (and on a national scale, that is, necessarily, advocating for the deaths of millions other than yourself, personally), choosing not to immediately drive the bus off a cliff is the unambiguously correct and necessary choice any time your choices are reduced to those two options.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Another day, another Pug punching left to cover for ranking democrat mistakes. Do you ever get tired or do they reward you for your allegiance? Perhaps you get left nice little scooby snacks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Punching left is when you advocate for harm reduction in elections in countries that haven't fallen to fascism yet."

What a bizarre notion of leftism you have.

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