@NoFlexZone@nev this isn't a game, it's my fucking life as black, puerto rican, a woman, queer and barely working class. it sucks, yes because it's HARM REDUCTION. pick the small battles at the city, county & state level because those do have a bigger impact DAILY. i'd be dying of cancer if i didn't live in nyc. the fascist running against my city council member literally sent mailers implying there were too many of us pesky black/latinos in the East & we needed to go. GTFOH with that nihilism.
I'm not going to crack on harm reduction or the need to kick wingnuts and bigots out of office.
However, we seriously need to get off this merry-go-round where the only two choices we're given for elections are two kinds of right-wing poop sandwiches, and the only slightly less poopy sandwich is coated in rainbow sugar produced through the broken backs of foreign Black laborers for the profit of "woke" millionaires.
When the side that promises us "harm protection" ends up doing only slightly less harm than the side doing the original harming; maybe it's time we went and built new and better political organizations for HARM ELIMINATION and HARM PREVENTION rather than just mere harm protection.
Certainly, we must celebrate and build upon the small victories that give us those cracks of life.
But...just remember that unless we take the global view as well and look outside our own enclaves, we'll be forever putting out our own little brushfires while the forest gets burnt from avoiding the big issues.
A lot of folks who are like "everything or nothing" keep forgetting that the way the right got where THEY are wasn't everything or nothing -- it was slowly chipping away at norms, at expectations, at the resolve of those they opposed.
Folks can claim it's just the lesser of two evils... but pushing those evils to be less and less over time is a worthy goal.
The Overton Window didn't get where it is overnight, and we can't swing it the other way overnight either.
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