I wish you had never learned the term “harm reduction”. To apply it to an ongoing genocide is grotesque beyond description. There is no bargaining. No nuance. No complex structural analysis that can cast shadows upon such a bare moral outrage. Is there any bridge too far for you? Is there any atrocity you won’t co-sign so long as double it is threatened? Draw a line and stand behind it.
Convincing the 2024 non-voter of the error of their ways is as fruitless of a task as convincing a Trump voter of the error of their ways.
The non-voter would have to accept the fact that their not voting directly contributed to worsening the situation and literally has gotten people killed, which they will never accept despite it being factually the case. They would rather continue to pretend they have an ethical high ground
This is no different than a Trump voter having to come to terms with the fact that their vote for Trump is factually the reason why they cant afford rent, food, healthcare, lost their manufacturing job etc. Likewise, the Trump voter will rather pretend that they did not do that to themselves by voting for Trump, and maintain cognitive dissonance as if the two things are unrelated
Are you seriously letting some bad policies prevent you from endorsing the movement that has the best chance of defeating Trump in the coming years?
If you can vote for people that choose to make genocide worse, you can support people that vote in a way that makes genocide worse.
If you can vote for people that would rather hand the election to Trump than prevent genocide, you can support people that would rather hand the election to Trump than support genocide.
So why are you wasting energy in-fighting in a way that undermines our big tent opposition to Trump? Isn’t the most important thing to join together in a single front to stop him?
Is your pride and self-righteousness so precious that you would throw more bodies onto the fire?
Voting is the absolute least we should do. Voting is not democracy.
Voting is a poll. Voting will not get us what we desire.
We should vote, then we should do the organizing for a better future. Unionizing your workplace, feeding and housing your community, whatever is needed in your community.
“Why are you wasting your energy fighting in a way the undermines our big tent opposition to trump?”
You have a point with this question, so I will delete my earlier comment. But I think it applies to you too.
I wish you had never learned the term “harm reduction”. To apply it to an ongoing genocide is grotesque beyond description. There is no bargaining. No nuance. No complex structural analysis that can cast shadows upon such a bare moral outrage. Is there any bridge too far for you? Is there any atrocity you won’t co-sign so long as double it is threatened? Draw a line and stand behind it.
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Convincing the 2024 non-voter of the error of their ways is as fruitless of a task as convincing a Trump voter of the error of their ways.
The non-voter would have to accept the fact that their not voting directly contributed to worsening the situation and literally has gotten people killed, which they will never accept despite it being factually the case. They would rather continue to pretend they have an ethical high ground
This is no different than a Trump voter having to come to terms with the fact that their vote for Trump is factually the reason why they cant afford rent, food, healthcare, lost their manufacturing job etc. Likewise, the Trump voter will rather pretend that they did not do that to themselves by voting for Trump, and maintain cognitive dissonance as if the two things are unrelated
Are you seriously letting some bad policies prevent you from endorsing the movement that has the best chance of defeating Trump in the coming years?
If you can vote for people that choose to make genocide worse, you can support people that vote in a way that makes genocide worse.
If you can vote for people that would rather hand the election to Trump than prevent genocide, you can support people that would rather hand the election to Trump than support genocide.
So why are you wasting energy in-fighting in a way that undermines our big tent opposition to Trump? Isn’t the most important thing to join together in a single front to stop him?
Is your pride and self-righteousness so precious that you would throw more bodies onto the fire?
Voting is the absolute least we should do. Voting is not democracy.
Voting is a poll. Voting will not get us what we desire.
We should vote, then we should do the organizing for a better future. Unionizing your workplace, feeding and housing your community, whatever is needed in your community.
“Why are you wasting your energy fighting in a way the undermines our big tent opposition to trump?”
You have a point with this question, so I will delete my earlier comment. But I think it applies to you too.