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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17869503

I know I'm going against the grain here, I'm obviously no Harris lover, but also I'd prefer to be allowed to continue existing. If that's controversial in leftist spaces then maybe I don't want to spend any more time in leftist spaces.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What sucks is that voting isn’t swearing a blood oath that turns you into a slave of neoliberalism and prevents you from doing direct action: you can do both. Voting isn’t going to save Palestinians (and it’s a bitter pill to swallow, I know), but it’s going to save lots of other vulnerable minorities (who never really asked to be born in the imperial core!), and still provide breathing room for direct action that can help Palestine.

we managed thrive since our government started adopting project 2025 in 1981 and also without democrat support. (democrat support came later after most the blood, sweat, and tears were done and we only accepted them because reagan and bush were worse). we survived and thrived those decades, despite its HUGE downsides; so i see project 2025 as nothing more than propaganda to energize kamala's base who can't remember before 2008.

however this is the most cogent argument i've seen anywhere for supporting this perpetual minority making machine and i think it's only flaw (besides the 2025 propaganda) is its narrow focus on this this election cycle instead of considering the big picture:

democrats have been moving rightwards since the 1980's and, every time they've won, they've entrenched that capitalist affirming step that they believe helped them win the election. this has created a eroding downward trend on protections for things like civil rights and the environment. we've now descended to a point where genocide is back on the menu again like it was 100 years ago and i'm afraid of what else will show up on the menu next time after the democrat's entrench a genocide as a tolerable political tactic.

i suspect that it's a moot point since most of us here have been holding our nose to vote for the lesser evil for the last 45 years and doing so has, nonetheless, painted us into this corner of choice between an democratic active genocider and a republican who only wishes he was.