A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank. but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive. “harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.

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[–] abracaDavid@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This entire post is just about keeping things the way they are and never allowing anything meaningful to change.

Also I love that in this analogy that Biden is ice cream. Very genuine post.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 15 points 7 months ago

wrong

Q: why not organize and stop treating the bus as a legitimate entity? why aren’t you working to stop the bus?

A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank.

but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive.

“harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.

[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the way things are, we are capable of taking direct action. Under dump, itll be much harder when we are a de jure dictatorship with anyone left of reagan criminalized.

[–] abracaDavid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am completely disillusioned by the Democrats. We got out and voted our asses off and won everything for them, and then things get even worse under their power.

I have zero faith in this system. It doesn't work. We have the same problems under Biden that we had under Trump. In fact, you could say things are much worse because we're running a goddamn genocide now.

[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Things got objectively better compared to trump. We got student loan forgiveness, an acknowledgement and some minimal climate action along with children being reunited with their parents at the border. And dont @ me with its not enough. Under trump the left will be out right persecuted ala nazi Germany.
The problems are being acknowledged and not exacerbated under biden. Biden is a dinosaur appealing to dinosaurs. The old democrats i work and have worked wouldnt be swayed by anything else. Too bad for them theyre dying just like the rest of the maga boomers. Meanwhile, the youth drifts further left (as evidenced by the younger dems in office). In a decade, the neolibs, in order to stay in power, will have to cater to young neolibs which will be inevitably much more progressive. With the (modern) right in utter decline, if those of us on the far left can finally fucking unite, you can actually get a chance to be the other competitive faction. Right v left in 10-20 is going to look starkly different than it does now.

If we choose donnie dump instead, we get what i said. The biggest boot youve ever seen right up ur ass.

sigh for the 294846th time, we arent the ones "running" the Gazan genocide. We are selling "goods" to a long term ally that we were never going to abandon just bc of moral complaints. Israel was wrong 30 yrs ago just as 70 ago and just as now. But not selling arms means we not only lose soft power on the world stage, but we make our remaining allies, that already mistrust us bc we are fickle, fear our support hinges on which party is in power. Like it or not geopolitics is real, and while it hasnt affected us directly the way it has the people of Gaza bc of our very privileged position, there is an enemy agent running for office. We get him, we will be in danger from him, and all the more the enemies he serves.

And on that note, my family in Poland would very much enjoy not being run over by imperial tanks the way putin has very very repeatedly suggested they, and Ukraine obviously, should be. Gaza is being dangled in front of u to keep u from seeing the bigger threats.