• HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Or

    Here me out

    Its more like a trolly problem

    But the difference is the one is going to die

    You didnt stop it by not voting

    We arent going to stop Israel either way

    But

    On one side you have more death.

    “You only care about your community.”

    Im not Hispanic. I voted to try to keep this from happening to them.

    Im not black. Theyre gonna ramp up slavery. I voted to at least help stop the Republicans from doing that

    Women are going to due even more fron lack of Healthcare. Its not going to be states anymore. Its going to be federal.

    Im not on Medicare or medicade. If those go, thats millions more…

    Food stamps. People are gonna starve

    Social Security. When people are too old to work but can’t afford rent, even more deaths

    Farmers. Did you know that the last time Trump was president and they had to bail out farmers with our tax dollars, that money mostly went to corporate farms who then used that money to buy the land from farmers who were losing their farms and that this leads to hundreds if not thousands of farmers commiting suicide?

    Do I love the democrats? No. Despite the no true Scotsman arguments, I dont like capitalism. Im pretty fucking against it.

    But its amazing how many people are telling me Im only for my group. All of these groups are even more fucked than before.

    Harm. Reduction.

    I dont like meth or heroine. Ive seen the damage it does to people. Ive lost friends to it. But I also realize that just making it illegal has done nothing. Instead we need to take steps to help whole get off it. We need to do things like legalize it.

    “So you love it!”

    No. You legalize it, but then you also get places for people to get help. You dont just lock them up in prison and then set them free years later.

    Voting isnt the only step. Its one step. Its harm reduction. It took me 1 out of 1,461 days to vote. That still leaves 1,460 days to do anything and everything else.

    If dems stop progress but they arent the ones ratcheting, then a good step is to get rid of the ones ratcheting.

    Its not the final step. Its a step.

    You reduce the harm being done as you work for the final goal

    But sure. Lets say I only care about my community and I votes to help only save us

    That means you dont.

    You dont care about any of these groups.

    Wait, let me guess: youre gonna help save them in the revolution

    After millions are dead

    Are you getting prepared? Have you been practicing at the range? Are you in a militia? Are you ready to kill? Cause the 4th reich is here. Theres not really many other options. Especially if they make protesting illegal like the Republicans said. Trump said hes going after home grown next. You go to a protest in another year and you will likely be in the camps.

    Or is the revolution like the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ where we just hear about it? Cause if you wont even try to just slow it down with 1 day, then how can I trust you with the rest?

    When you see us begging people to vote to help save all of us and you talk shit, how am I supposed to beleive you wont talk shit as we get rounded up?

    Its hard to fight for Palestine when I have to worry about the fact that my trans brothers and sisters are losing their passports, meaning they wont even be able to leave the country.

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      6 hours ago

      Im not Hispanic. Im not black.

      That’s interesting, given that you were declaring yourself the universal spokesman of marginalized groups elsewhere.

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      7 hours ago

      We arent going to stop Israel either way

      I’m going to have to stop reading from here, I skimmed through 5 times anyways and couldn’t get any semblance of a coherent point. Clearly you don’t actually care about the marginalized groups you speak of, otherwise you would’ve understood why nobody takes your Western “democracy” seriously, you just continue to come off as the “I can’t be a genocide-loving Islamophobe, I have an Arab friend” type (or similar).

      No amount of pearl clutching will wash away your depravity.