• s@piefed.world
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    1 day ago

    Harm reduction. If forced into a binary choice, I’d rather lose a finger than lose a hand.

    • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Sure, but at some point ya gotta think, “Maybe I should destroy the de-limbing machine,” instead of continuing to put part of your body in there.

      (This isn’t a criticism of you or your beliefs, just a jokey perspective.)

      • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Democrats are organizing for the midterms. Add your voice somewhere it counts. The opinions of volunteers and contributors have much more influence than nihilistic comments on an internet chat board

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          18 hours ago

          Oh the same Democrats that have voted to continue baby killing sanctions, baby killing war, baby killing genocide, baby killing border policies, and baby killing capitalist policies? Those Democrats? The ones that put kids in solitary confinement even though it’s defined as a literal crime against humanity? The Democrats that have voted with Republicans to maintain mass incarceration for the last 50 years? The Democrats who think Nazis and the KKK should have freedom of speech? The Democrats that can do literally nothing to stop the known fascistic threat that they all literally said was coming and the the SCOTUS gave them a ruling to protect the president from doing something about it and they just rolled over and watched it happen?

          Those Democrats? Yeah. News flash. They are one input chute into the delimbing machine. There is one delimbing machine and it has two openings. They both go to the grinder.

          No. Thanks.

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          19 hours ago

          Yes, if only you had a list of everybody who was running, from all parties (or even no party at all!) Then you could research each one, and then indicate the one you liked the best. Maybe by putting a mark next to their name or something.

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            16 hours ago

            That’s not what we’re talking about here. The “de-limbing machine” is the two-party system, and destroying it would mean ending first-past-the-post. An individual voter does not have the power to do that.

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        Some of y’all are taking this analogy too far and missing the point