Harm reduction, bro. This time it will be different, bro. 
I do see value in harm reduction, TBH. Dems are shit but, statistically, anti-electoralism is functionally equivalent to voting for the far-right. So, I see it as a way to at least make it take some work for politicians to pretend that the tenets of neoliberalism and fascism are supported by as wide a group as claimed and attempt to reduce their influence in local elections (ex. the coordinated efforts to subvert school boards and have [further] right-wing propaganda taught as fact).
Don’t mistake this as actually thinking that Libs are going to help unless forced, though. They’re absolutely Lucy in the picture.
I do see value in harm reduction
Categorically, regarding the still-open concentration camps across the southern border, the murderously neglectful lack of a meaningful covid response, the expanded oil drilling and permissive retention of the previous regime’s planet-burning deregulation policies and the tax cuts and kickbacks to the rick being maintained, harm is not being reduced at this point.
Relatively speaking, it really still is. It can always get worse. And it would currently be much worse for LGBTQ+ people under a further right-wing government.
It can always get worse.
The more you milk that, the less milk you will get out of it when things are getting worse even after they do what you say.
You’re all just better off blocking this user. He’s been trolling hard lately.
This is why I’m a leftist not a lib. I vote Democrat bc no choice but I want more progressives in office…
but I want more progressives in office
You’re not getting them because that’s not what the ruling class wants from the DNC.
Then stop voting for libs
Better than voting for gqp. I vote progressive in primaries and forced into the other bc no one has the spines to fix the system to ranked elimination voting. I’m leftist bc at least they’re not actively trying to unalive me like the right
No you don’t understand, their alternative is not to vote red, the alternative is not to vote and then complain that the results are fucked because no metter what they voted it would be fucked so they need a revolution, blood will flow, yada yada.
I get that but I’d rather vote and revolution at the same time. Not voting gives the gqp more power imo and just ugh 😑
I agree, I also think that not voting is the same as voting to whoever wins, since effectively it does the same thing. I was just trying to explain you their viewpoint.
I’m leftist bc at least they’re not actively trying to unalive me like the right
They’ll just kneel in Solidarity with you as the right tries to unalienable you.
Progress.
That’s the moderates of the “left” that’s actually the right lol
Those are your progressives, honey.
Hahaha no. The moderates are conservatives in sheep’s clothing. Nice try tho
They’re progressives and if you think otherwise then you’re helping the fascists win
You probably believe a bunch of countries are communists or socialists despite their leaders preventing them actually going there fully. Once you have a dictator or similar leader it defeats the purpose 🤣
Imagine being mad enough to double comment
As someone else posted on this site
“there are two types of democratic voters, centrist conservatives and hostages”
I mean yea sounds about right. The moderates are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Esp when they randomly flip parties and screw us over on rights and encourage the gerrymandering to get worse 🙃
There’s progressives, as well as a good breakdown of demsocs. You can be pleasantly surprised about some parts of Biden’s presidency without being a centrist conservative who would have had him near the top of your list
Bernie is an independent, though he has been invited to join the Democratic Party. He has refused. Why would the DNC spend its resources on Bernie when people spend considerable time, effort and money that are actually party members? By rule, an independent cannot run for nomination for the Republican party.
This is why. The DNC is trash.
Sure. You’ve got to agree with a person with such great logic.
This is the real reason. Bernie refused to meaningfully cooperative with the party who basically have a policy of allowing members across the widest political spectrum of any party, and then was shocked that they did completely legal and defensible things that might have affected his odds of winning the Primary, a Primary that was still ultimately decided by vote counts that he lost by a landslide. Nobody alienated Bernie (just look at Warren who writes half the bills he supports), he alienated himself.
Do people know why Bernie caucused with the Democrats? Because only about 9% of Americans identify as far left as progressive, and we only win something if we can compromise it with the only political party that works in good faith.
ITT tankies pretend they don’t know that legal arguments are meant for court and are made to argue from every angle.
No, this isn’t an admission that the primaries were rigged. They weren’t. It’s a hypothetical argument meant to progress a legal case to summary judgment, where the lawyer argued that even if everything the plaintiff said was correct, the DNC would still win the case.
Essentially, what the lawyers for the Democrats were doing was “if I grant everything you claim for the sake of argument, you would still lose, and here’s why.” That doesn’t admit anything. OP knows it, but since he’s a literal Stalin-humping fascist who just wants to see anyone who wishes for a better world fail, he doesn’t care.
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It may not have been an admission that the primaries were rigged, and I know nothing about the OP, but nevertheless, the primaries were rigged.
Which means you got actual evidence right? And this isn’t some sort of assumption based on the stats not choosing the candidate of your choice, right?
Unless you mean gerrymandering, but everyone knows that is rigged.
Did you not watch the Iowa primary? It was all out in the opem. They didn’t expect Sanders to make a strong showing so they dragged the vote count out for days. There were videos of districts choosing candidates with a coin flip, and visibly turning the coin over if Sanders was chosen. Their cronies at MSNBC and CNN were announcing a landslide against Sanders to sway public opinion even though it hadn’t happened. They set up the districts so that even though Sanders had the overall vote count, Buttigieg still won the delegate count.
And this isn’t even getting into the super rigged element of superdelegates.
ITT people still salty that Pete won Iowa 🤣🤣🤣
I’m not really a fan of Sanders, so I watched it objectively, and he was clearly shafted.
But go on with the attitude of treating important elections like highschool insult contests.
He clearly wasn’t. The Buttigieg campaign focuses on turnout in areas the Sanders campaign ignored and won the contest because of the rules of the Iowa caucus, which allocate delegates to each individual precinct not based on their turnout but on their overall population. Sanders did well in highly attended precincts, Buttigieg beat him by outperforming him in less well attended precincts.
It’s the way the rules were. Bernie could have employed the same strategy, but he didn’t.
So you’ve nothing to say about the strange extended vote count and the switched coin tosses.
The primaries weren’t gerrymandered, that only applies to the US house general election.
Sing it with me now, folks: 🎶… o’er the laaaaaaand of the freeeee🎶
Ok Hillary sit the fuck down.
Ok, I get this, but let’s take a closer look:
Have you ever seen such a high resolution Pikachu meme? Such a shame it’s been wasted on more political rhetoric that no one asked for. More pixels in the damn quotes text, how wild!
If you don’t want politics go back to Reddit.
Unfortunately in the two party duopoly, they’re the best we’ve got.
We don’t ‘got’ them. They’re the enemy. This is a post about them showing you that they’re explicitly hostile to you, your politics, and the concept of democracy.
- Harm reduction, bro. This time it will be different, bro.
Fully aware, but it’s either that or allow the other party, which has become increasingly more fascist, back into power.
The differences between them are getting less and less apparent over time.
Biden rolled back next to nothing of his predecessor’s policies and executive orders. The border concentration camps are still open for business.
Bruh Republicans are open about backing trump even if he goes to jail. Trump has openly talked about how he wants to get rid of the constitution. They could have prevented him from running again after his failed coup attempt and they let him off the hook.
At least some good has come from the Biden presidency, which tbh I didn’t expect at all. Some progress is better than no progress. 15 min wage for federal contract workers, an NLRB that is more pro-union than ever in my lifetime, an actual attempt at student loan debt reduction (which he should just nix via executive order but I digress), a 15% minimum corporate tax rate, bring back microchip manufacturing, and there’s more that I can’t list off the top of my head.
Babysteps sure, but it’s better than nothing and way better than the backwards trajectory we got during the trump presidency and beyond the trump presidency due to his SC appointments.
Perfect? Hell no. But something. We need to take the wins we can get while still hammering him from the left to do more.
Bruh
yourself.But something.
Your “harm reduction” president has not reduced much harm at all, no matter how you scramble in the dirt to try to hold up shiny things to wave at me.
It’s just
We need to take the wins we can get
The last three years, especially with covid and climate change, were not wins. Even the pretense of slowing the damage down is weak to false now.
Jesus Christ might as well just give up on everything with your attitude lol
We came to the conclusions because we want to avoid giving up. Once you realize that settling for “harm reduction” is also a form of giving up, you learn to think strategically and read people who think strategically about these things for real improvement. Like Lenin.
Being a leftist is coming to grips with how bad the situation is
Oh shit guess I’ll just vote third party, then.
lol no
Our First Past the Post Winner Take All voting system is demonstrably the worst voting system. Any form of preference polling like Ranked Choice Voting (fairvote.org) is significantly better. No voting system is perfect, but the current one used in most of the US is the shittiest one on the market today.
Any system like RCV opens the door to more parties and candidates who don’t 100% toe a party line. It also filters extreme position candidates out of primaries.
We can do better.
