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Interesting, based on what I have ready from you I suspect you and I are in agreement on most everything since you did actually pull the lever for harm reduction even though it made you sick. It made me sick in 2016 and 2020 when I did it. Before 2016 I had proudly never voted for a R or D at the national level.
I intended to vote for Harris soley for harm reduction, but I had to go into the emergency room on election morning and wasn't released in time to vote. So, technically, I didn't vote for a genocider. By your own logic, my hands are clean, and you are the genocider.
Of course, I don't ascribe that logic to any of this. Absolutist, black and white, chimeric ethical or moral frameworks that can't withstand the real world and have ultimately harmful outcomes are a luxury, if not an indulgence. Harm reduction, mutual aid, compassion, that's what is left as real once you strip away all the bullshit.
Democrats: You don't have to agree with 100% of everything a candidate wants to vote for harm reduction! Just pull the lever for our lovely genocide which is the only thing we'll ever be about! No one blames you for voting for harm reduction!
Also genocidal garbage democrats:
It was always about supporting the genocide you fuckers spent decades moving to the right to get. I voted like you genocidal assholes wanted, FOR THE REASONS YOU STATED, and you made it crystal clear that those reasons were bullshit and all you ever wanted was votes for your fucking precious genocide and enthusiastic complicity from the left.
You blame people who voted with you because you can't admit that you CHOSE to support FUCKING GENOCIDE AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE, knowing that it was going to lose you an election to trump. Because the people you're blaming warned you. You heard that, understood it perfectly, and liked the idea of genocide more.
And when you lose again because your crooked party apparatus forces newsom on us even though the left is screaming at you not to do that because you'll lose, you're not going to listen. We're not netanyahu or maga, so you'll never listen.
Yes, well. As I said, I suspect I share almost all the same opinions as you about this, except I don't go around literally lashing out at everyone in earshot as "you fuckers" or "you genociders" before they have even opened their mouth. It's a bit ridiculous and 95% of people are going to immediately believe write you off as a troll.
I will go ahead and type out your response to the above for you to save you some time: You: "What's a bit ridiculous is that you genociders got exactly what you wanted all along...genocide!"
Nope, you go around assuming that anyone who has a problem with genocide must be a nonvoter instead. And you're in abundant company on this thread.
That assumption is convenient for people who would like to silence all opposition to genocide, as it lumps the entire anti-genocide left into one group and blames them for the loss they warned you about.
Any opposition to genocide is preemptively written off, as you did.