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.
i see a lotta people saying that with not a lotta evidence.
i challenge you to tell that to an LGBT person facing a growing wave of anti transgender bills
perhaps try arguing that to the women and medical professionals who fear legal action for what used to be standard medical procedure resulting from the overturning of Roe v Wade.
tell that to Gazans who are undergoing forced starvation with genocidal intent, a process that one of the presidential candidates has vowed to “finish.”
sure, maybe voting isn’t harm reduction. but it seems capable of reducing at least a little bit of harm so…
harm reduction has a specific meaning. voting for fascist politicians isn’t harm reduction whether they are red or blue.
so don’t vote for fascist politicians then.
genuinely what is your goal for this conversation? that i tell people it’s in their and their loved ones’ best interest to sit this election out?
i for real don’t get the motive of this talking point except to sow complacency, and complacency has given life to fascism pretty darn effectively in recent history.
my goal is that you would stop misinforming people about what harm reduction is.
okay
Have you considered that fascism is a spectrum that starts at colonialism (genocide Joe) and ends at dismantling democracy at home (Trump)? Ask yourself who is served by ignoring this nuance. Hint: it isn’t the working class.
I disagree that the nuance is meaningful, or that ignoring it doesn’t serve the working class