Anonymous #2 16h

i like obama

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Anonymous #1 15h

Tangential. Because republicans are worse doesn’t absolve them of criticism and it’s not a 1 ratio of good actions cancelling out the bad. They exist simultaneously

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Anonymous george_carlin_ 15h

Not an answer to my question. Where do you think the average trans person would have an easier life, between the locations listed, and why do you think that is?

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Anonymous #1 15h

Tangential. That was my answer to your question. As in I don’t care to answer because it skirts the point of the post

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Anonymous george_carlin_ 15h

I don’t particularly love Democrats either, I find them to be spineless and ineffectual. I think they tail their base by at LEAST a decade, even on social issues, which is the only area they ever care to be meaningfully progressive, because to do so in economic or foreign policy matters would hurt their big money donors. I know all this. I also am from a red state, and can tell you, the gap between the two parties is STILL the size of the fucking Grand Canyon. I hate it too. But that’s how it be

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Anonymous #1 15h

I agree with most those points but that doesn’t really get at the point that people hold up the republicans as a worse evil in order to shut down critiques of the Democratic Party. That’s not how it should work. We are allowed to criticize them regardless of any outside factors.

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Anonymous george_carlin_ 15h

Criticize all you want. I do the same thing. I also cast a blue ballot. Criticizing the Democratic Party and its politicians is good and necessary. When you say that it’s not harm reduction at all, you’re just wrong though. Republican governance objectively does more harm, and that’s that.

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Anonymous #1 13h

It’s not harm reduction to pander to minorities when it’s politically convenient and cast them aside when it’s not; re: the anti-trans ads and rhetoric they’ve been pushing in various states. And what they do is definitely not some universal moral good because whatever harm they “reduce,” it still continues for many groups just as bad or almost as bad. At best it is harm redistribution.

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Anonymous #1 13h

And I take particular offense to white liberals usurping the language of harm reduction, which originally is a public health term relating to needle exchange programs and rehabilitation efforts, when they don’t know or see the lives of homeless people and homeless addicts or work with them. Another two groups the Dems do not help

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Anonymous #1 13h

It’s just “lesser of 2 evils” rebranded for new PR stunts

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Anonymous #1 13h

Also not just re: anti trans ads, re: the entire liberal response to the civil rights movement lmao

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Anonymous #1 13h

Know your domestic and global history not just domestic current events pal

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Anonymous george_carlin_ 13h

Yeah, it is 100% lesser of two evils politics. You got me. Voting is super low-effort and pretty high-consequence assuming you fill out the whole ballot. I didn’t say voting Democrat was Harm Elimination, only reduction. I am aware of that reality.

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