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Harm Reduction Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago by ToastedPlanet to c/196

There are no ethical choices under first-past-the-post voting. We must instead make a decision that reduces the most harm.

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[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago

You can either choose to give a little support to the better part of our awful system in our awful world

Or you can stay in your fantasy land where the 2 parties are absolutely identical and your Itty bitty push back is more effective

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 6 points 7 months ago

Oh my mistake, the party that capitulates unceasingly to the christo-fascist party and in some cases even extends their fascist policies (more immigrants deported under Biden than under Trump, etc.) is absolutely so much different than the christo-fascist party itself! We should be very grateful for all they've done for us

[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 9 points 7 months ago

I'll be sure to save this for when my trans ass is thrown in a gulag by trump and I can show the immigrants in there with me that you thought everything would be same either way.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 5 points 7 months ago

I'll be sure to let you know when Biden deports my gay immigrant husband

Got a secret for you: The Democrats would run us over with a tank if it were politically convenient. You think a party that's ok with child murder will protect our marginalized asses? Think again.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 months ago

Got a secret for you: The Democrats would run us over with a tank if it were politically convenient.

And the fascists would do it gleefully, likely finding additional ways to incorporate cruelty and torture. Anti-electoralism is statistically indistinguishable from supporting the fascists or accelerationism. Accelerationism has no hard data showing that it actually works, only that it increases suffering.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 5 points 7 months ago

Good thing I'm not suggesting accelerationism then

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

pLeAsE vOtE fOr 99% FaScIsM tO sAvE uS fRoM 100% fAsCiSm :(

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

If that 1% means local LGBTQ+ people not being subject to mass murder, why wouldn't you pick 99%, especially if those are the only realistic outcomes?

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Biden doesn't give 2 shits about trans rights...

You genuinely think the old-ass catholic man cares (outside of expanding your future military drafts)?

[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

He isn't trying to kill me. He opposes bans of our medical care. If trans rights ended up on his desk, I think he'd sign it. So yeah, I do like him a lot better than the other candidate who literally wants us dead. The difference is subtle but I would rather be alive and lightly supported instead of dead and hated

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