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FAQ

Q: why not organize and stop treating the bus as a legitimate entity? why aren’t you working to stop the bus?

A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank. but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive. “harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.

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[–] fahoobamagoo@sh.itjust.works 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I guarantee you that trump isn't going to save the brown people in the middle east. We don't have to compare it to ice cream then. How about voting between killing brown people vs killing brown people, subjugation women, and taking from the working class to give to our oligarchs. Does that help make it clearer?

The point is not voting helps the second result move along

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago

And who are the Democrats and who are the GOP in your analogy? Because both do a fine job of checking off all of those boxes.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

pretty sure biden was president when roe v wade was overturned, so i don't see how giving him power again would help the women you're mentioning. also pretty sure biden has been helping oversee the oppression of the working class from dc for about 50 years, so i am not exactly convinced he's going to do anything about it if he literally can't lose any more elections.

[–] fahoobamagoo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You do realize that trump put 3 Supreme Court justices and flipped the court right?? Do trump supporters just not understand cause and effect?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The depressing thing is that not only Trump supporters but most people in my experience do not have a firm grasp on cause and effect, especially politically and historically