Public schools are wild, what can I say?

Ice cream won’t fix our problems either, but I agree that a more dire comparison is apt. In either case, one option offers immediate and unconditional death and destruction, and the other option offers a little more time before the next crossroads of that sort. It seems intuitive to me that, unless one is suicidal (and on a national scale, that is, necessarily, advocating for the deaths of millions other than yourself, personally), choosing not to immediately drive the bus off a cliff is the unambiguously correct and necessary choice any time your choices are reduced to those two options.

Just be sure to avoid any possibility of being reminded of politics ever again in your life, that way the crushing doubt and guilt don’t have an opportunity to reach you. I recommend a hermitage, but a REAL hermitage, not one of those lame ‘Monastery+1’ places. A pillar in the desert, or a cave near a source of honey and locusts.

You just had 4 years of Biden “reducing harm”. How did that work out?

Has ‘harm reduction’ not been explained to you in simple enough terms yet, or are you just pretending to be incapable of digesting simple concepts?

everything you do has a terrifying nonzero chance of being horrifically consequential.

“Punching left is when you advocate for harm reduction in elections in countries that haven’t fallen to fascism yet.”

What a bizarre notion of leftism you have.

Welcome to the waking nightmare of reality, where you’re a tiny spec and nothing you do can be guaranteed to be consequential; but everything you do has a terrifying nonzero chance of being horrifically consequential.

This is a hilarious and I relate, but it doesn’t actually help us. Or anyone.

I… wasn’t trying to help anyone by saying it? Other than venting for my own benefit?

Unless you go and start a conversation with a Red-hatter this way. Get them riled up and cheering for how you HATE the same people they do, and use it to glean some motivation deeper than “owning the libs.”

Bruh. I lived in a deeply conservative area for most of my life. My social circles were deeply conservative, and I feigned being ‘apolitical’ to avoid having to go nuclear at a time when my living position was precarious.

Thinking that there’s a commonality of dislike there is falling for the extremely thin mask they put on whenever some liberal gives them pushback. It’s not real. They immediately drop the mask when around people they think are similar to them.

The people they hate aren’t ‘the elite’ as you or I would recognize them. The people they hate aren’t ‘politicians’ as you or I would recognize them. They have deeper motivations than ‘owning the libs’, but not more wholesome ones, I assure you. Being a metaphorical bump-on-a-log who isn’t suspected of liberalism lets you hear some gruesome truths about the principles of conservatives.

You still haven’t commented on Mamdani, and that disappoints me.

… fucking what? I’ve commented numerous times on Mamdani??

Libs will tell the craziest stories just to avoid reality.

“Avoiding reality is when you use literary devices that are so complex literal children can parse them.”

I’m sorry that you can’t quite grasp what an analogy is yet. I hope you continue your education at some point.

Fascism and genocide are basically the same thing.

Lord.

It’s almost like the whole scenario and setup is just a dumb analogy about why the people who constantly fail are actually correct.

It’s astounding that an analogy seeking describe the process of voting in a FPTP system in terms so simple a child can understand is still so consistently misunderstood by Politically Serious People.

I guess it would need to be dumbed down a little more to be truly universally digestible.

But have you ever ridden on a bus with three people who want to drive off a cliff and four who don’t care? Because that’s the reality here! \s

Sorry that they didn’t teach what an analogy is in your elementary school.

The choice was fascism at home or fascism abroad

No, the choice was fascism abroad, or fascism at home and abroad.

No one was fucking saved by idiots welcoming Trump into power.

Many more people are going to be killed by that decision, though.

You’re right, no-one is entirely blameless. Harris voters must also accept responsibility for not holding their candidate to a higher standard and allowing genocide support to be an acceptable position for Democratic candidates.

Yes, absolutely. In casting a vote for Harris, I, at minimum, cast a vote that acknowledged support of Israel’s genocide was likely to continue with the administration I empowered’s complicity.

People who want to run from the necessary implications of their choices only fool themselves.

If we are measuring blame, it is not my principles that are at fault, but rather your lack of them.

What.

Your ‘principles’ led you to abhorr Palestinian genocide so much that you…

… increased support for Palestinian genocide?

And you fault me for preferring not to increase support for Palestinian genocide?

“Harm reduction is lib behavior”

Wow.

Keep upvoting tho. Feel good about yourselves. That’s the real win. \s

The projection is astounding.

Amen to that. Though I wouldn’t hold my breath, considering the immense injustice of the universe thus far.

There are so many options to get out of this, with varying degrees of violence and nonviolence, and voting third party is way down the list for efficacy and likelihood.

The only possibility out is to vote third party.

Username checks out.

I remember as a kid, growing up in a conservative, right-wing area, and even as an all-too-political conservative right-wing little shit myself, I still adored heroes of all races in the past, and abhorred cretins of all races, likewise. While the number of mixed-race Asians we learned about was, uh, probably 0, I feel fairly confident in saying that most kids are not going to be thinking about their own race when learning about racists of the past. They’re going to be thinking about what a shitty place the past was and how shitty some people were in the past (and about to be disappointed at what a shitty place the present is).

How we vote in the Primary is how we can get money out of politics.

God, I just want to crush the neoliberals, to hear the lamentations of their political commentators, to see their empty suits driven before me, on ONE fucking primary before I die.

Puberty blockers aren’t OTC, they’re prescribed by doctors. The kid’s not making the judgement so much as they’re bringing up the medical issue to a professional.

I was diagnosed with depression at a fairly young age, just entering into my teens, but I only got in to see a psych to begin with because I was worried enough to self-advocate. Can’t really imagine what it would be like if I was told that I was too young to understand depression and turned out on my metaphorical ass.