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this!! harm reduction is harm reduction is harm reduction!!
i would rather incrementally make things better than wait my whole life for a political messiah to wave their hand and make the united states a utopia.
sorry for resorting to a meme about this but people are making me mad đź‘Ť
"Voting for Biden is voting for genocide!!"
Yeah? Well so is voting for Trump. Or not voting at all. Not to mention, he will not only make things worse in Gaza, but also for minorities here in the states!
Voting for Biden is really just voting for a lesser of two evils. But your vote matters nonetheless.
listen, i hate how biden has responded to the crisis in gaza as much as the next person, but for i cant bear the idea of withholding my vote in the upcoming election… trump just said in the debate that we should “let israel finish the job”
how HORRIFIC. how DISGUSTING. i get that voting for biden feels like we are settling, but the alternative is just so much worse
Hey, Psyop asses who keep coming into my fucking comments and inbox, I have one question and if you can answer it effectively, I'll straight up shut the fuck up.
What's your plan, to prevent Trump from not only sending larger amounts of aid to Israel, but also to prevent him from criminalizing LGBTQ+ people's existence, deporting even natural born citizens of immigrant families he deems not white American enough, stripping social security and medicare funds, etc.?
Like what's the plan homies, how are we stopping the fascist dictator from being a fascist dictator?
Protests aren't effective on his behavior, while Harris and Biden have inched further toward at least voicing sympathy and taking action toward supporting Palestinian civilians, (just look it the fuck up, it's like two google searches, yes they still support Israel but they did attempt to halt bomb shipments and they do continue to push for a ceasefire and Palestine's recognition as a state.) he's outright said he thinks he should be allowed to give the word to send in the military to kill, arrest, and deport all protestors regardless of decorum.
Boycotting isn't effective if you aren't already spending the money on his backers, and something tells me most of us Aren't a big fan of donating to christofascist organizations or dumping any money that isn't absolutely necessary into oil executives and mega conglomerates' pockets, so that's not really super useful in this instance.
Violent revolution is An Option, I suppose, sure, but leftists on average own less firearms and have less survival, and combat experience than the right, of which make up most of our police force and military, and believe it or not we actually don't outnumber both the right, and moderate crowd who would rally against us for that violence, not even mentioning the hefty amount of disabled and chronically ill people you'd be throwing to the wolves to either die of lack of care or be outright targeted in this brand new violent 'utopia' you've built, OR the amount of actual fascists who will see that violent revolution as an excuse to go out and murder as many marginalized people as they can, regardless of their participation in your revolution.
So what the fuck is the plan, when Trump wins, if you decide not to vote??
"Well what's YOUR plan for stoping aid to genocide if Harris wins??"
I'm so glad you asked!
I've already started campaigning on a grassroots level for city officials, congressmen, and senators in my area who have spoken out against Zionism, I plan to get public opinion on them up so that when midterms happen, I have a better chance of actually electing someone I fully agree with and who can help push our presidential cabinet into doing better. I already voted for a regent of university who made student's right to civil disobedience and protection against excessive police force a large part of his platform, and city council members who campaigned for police reform in the form of a more stringent application and screening process, and a longer training period that includes sensitivity training and civil education testing.
I participate in and organize pro Palestinian protests, and make graphic materials to help spread public awareness of who to effectively boycott and who to donate to in order to help.
I am in the process of sorting through Democratic National Committee backers, to find those that are Zionist, and their businesses, to effectively organize a boycott that will Directly pull money out of the democrat party's pockets and continue to put pressure on all of them to actually make changes.
I regularly, as in almost daily, send emails to my senators, congressmen, and the Whitehouse, making my expectations for my government representatives clear, of which I actually have gotten a few non-automated replies on the state level, expressing their understanding of those expectations.
So again. What the fuck. Is your plan. For if Trump wins? You gonna sit on the ground and cry some more about not getting your way Right Now with no actual effort on your part? While millions lose their lives and livelihoods?
You have to actually understand our fucking government, and understand that your vote isn't supposed to be a tool for picking the candidate that will fix everything Right Now, it's a tool to pick the candidate most likely to make changes based on your other actions of resistance. Not voting, or splitting the vote, does not fucking help anyone except for the actual fascist dictator who will win if we don't unify, and the far-right Israeli leaders (among OTHER far-right world leaders,) he shows complete and utter full support for without even an Ounce of criticism outside of "I think they should be doing worse."
Get the fuck up and vote. It's the LEAST you can fucking do. Stop doomsaying and actually put in some god damn effort.
VOTE JESSIE IN THE PINK HAIR SWAG TOURNEY GRAND FINALE NOW!!!!!!!!!
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Do it for her:
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Never mind guys. This is the person that actually LIED.
Remember to drink water and VOTE JESSIE <<<3
Pink Hair Swag Tourney, Grand Finale
Scab behavior.
Look, if you wanna make a difference just vote for Jill Stein.
If the Green Party gets just 5% of the vote then they get federal funding and more ballot access. So even if Jill Stein doesn’t win you can still make a difference in ending a never ending war between two corrupt Parties.
And also I believe that Jill Stein CAN WIN because she is what most liberals want the Democratic Party to be and I know that people genuinely want hope, and to them I say trust in Gill Stein.
I am already seeing y'all fucking make excuses not to vote if Kamala Harris is nominated so let's clear shit up real quick:
Number one: Harris has a harsher tone on Israel, and has demonstrated more willingness than Biden to push for the halt of all offensive weaponry aid to Israel if they continue their no-holds-barred assault on Palestine, and has been far more critical of their blocking of humanitarian aid. She also states support for a two party solution, but you will be hard fucking pressed to find any major candidate willing to say they want to help abolish Israel outright to the general public. While Biden has closer ties with Israel, Harris has more personal leanings on American progressives than anything else, and is far more likely to listen to criticism on the subject of Palestine. She demonstrates better diplomacy toward even countries we are not currently allied with and is in general, more likely to push for humanitarian change, she's objectively the best bet for both winning the election and getting reform on the Israeli bombardment of Palestine.
Number two: Harris is not fucking transphobic. The actions of the state attorney general office and state of California corrections, to deny transgender inmates gender reassignment surgery, was not her personal choice, she was a lawyer requires to do her job as a lawyer, she was not involved in writing the original briefing that used transphobic language or minimized the necessity of gender affirming care to inmates, in fact her involvement at later stages is part of what removed a lot of the repugnancy of the arguments and she was personally delighted when the settlement led to the state considering providing gender affirming surgery to inmates who are recommended for it. Similar is true of other stories like this as well. In general she's been a strong ally to the LGBTQ+ community, especially the T, she's responsible for making "trans panic" a non viable defense for the murder and assault of trans people in the state of California, helped toss a bathroom bill, created an act to hold law enforcement responsible for harassment and negligence toward trans individuals, and was a key player in altering title IX to include protections against discrimination for Gender Identity. Any attempts to paint her as having mixed or bad policy toward trans people is actively an attempt to dissuade you from voting for her, and should be analyzed incredibly critically.
Shut the fuck up already. Vote.
There are 8 years of new voters since Trump took the White House in 2016. That is the generation that will change the world.
Find them. Inspire them. Tell them their vote matters and is important.
I know this makes the anti-voting fandom big mad but this is only happening because Murphy was re-elected by a thin margin in November 2021, bucking a 40 year trend of Democratic governors losing re-election in NJ, because enough people voted for him
For all of my US followers for whom general public official election day is coming up (Nov. 7th) PLEASE do not become so disillusioned with the current state of higher power politicians that you skip out on voting for local offices; off year and local elections are already critically unemphasized but these are the people who have the most direct power over jails, police, school curriculum, etc. Do not let your grief be weaponized as a distraction from also continuing to fight police brutality, queer and bipoc censorship in schools, bodily autonomy, housing inequality, etc, on the smaller scale battlefields where every vote truly does count