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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (16 children)

Look, I really appreciate the sentiment, but it's time to acknowledge that those non-voters are not "misinformed future allies" any more than the MAGAs are. They are either accelerationists or fundamentally broken logically, and which form their indecision takes makes no difference -they are enemies of progress all the same, and to the extent there is ANY hope for the future, it relies on building a path AROUND them, not WITH them.

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[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network -4 points 3 days ago

...yeah, f*ck off, plutocrat...

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (21 children)

This is a bad analogy. Harris wasn’t fucking ice cream. A better analogy would be the trolley problem. People get killed no matter what choice you make.

But you know what? The solution to the trolley problem is to not play. I’m not to blame, the people who laid down the track, strapped down the people, and sent a train hurtling towards them are entirely responsible.

Edit: as others have commented - the real solution is to blow up the train before it hits anybody and go hunt down the sick bastard who set up the problem. (In other words - direct actions like sabotage and revolution).

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -4 points 4 days ago (14 children)

One one hand harm reduction is nice, but on the other I have seen exactly nothing from Western politics these past few years to convince me that any harm is being reduced. The principle of harm reduction requires serious, productive action (so not canvassing and voter drives, for the love of God stop doing voter drives) to be taken during the period when the harm is reduced to push democracy off its collision course with fascism. When progressives don't take that serious action—or worse, actively shut down said action—they're simply kicking the can down the road, turning harm "reduction" from a credible strategy to a farce. I don't disagree with the principle, but where's the action necessary for any of this to make sense? Because as far as I can see, harm reduction in America was the farce version.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago (12 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.

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