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   Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:51:44 JST Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖

   It's definitely plausible to say that voting can be harm reduction when the options provide said harm reduction.

   The 2024 election for the US does not have any harm reduction candidates. Either overt fascism or more of what we see now, respectable fascism (now with Inflation and inclusion at the forefront).

   Fascism has existed and operated in the United States for years but American individuality has made it so hard to see (or easier to ignore, to be able to have a permanent homeless population, prison population and exploit migrants for your Superbowl or Tyson foods is ... well, political education is a thing).

   Biden has less time now to actually get Gen Z and those who want to believe that a voting box can be a means of change but it's consistently only been direct action that's forced political capitulation towards the needs of the people.

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     Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:51:32 JST Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖

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     Know your neighbors. The people who live near you. If not near, build better rapport with the communities you do exist in.

     Figure out who's doing what near you. If you live in too rich/affluent of an area, find the area that your high property value serves as a fulcrum for rent exacerbation and redistribute wealth ($50/mo to a mutual aid group goes a long distance, now imagine if you convinced your block to pitch in with a 60% contribution rate! 80% even).

     There's gonna be a Food not Bombs near you. If not, check out the local labor groups. Churches that house and feed folks. Advocacy centers. The options are there and will do more for people that are hoping for a politician to remember what they said last week.

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     Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:51:34 JST Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖

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     But even then, we can't - I really need this to be understood - rely on the government to protect and serve people when the government today operates to protect the systems that work to abuse people en masse. The fact that no state run government in the United States places the need for shelter over private property and that a case is entertaining the idea of criminalizing homelessness is an on ramp to disappearing people as a state service.

     They might consider hiring an ethical homeless removal service to save the efforts of hiring public workers. And expand that to eviction programs.

     carl marks repeated this.
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     Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:51:39 JST Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖

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     This makes it clear that focus on local elections are critical. In #Florida, local governments can make moves that can be substantial. Efforts towards rent control were won some changes.

     https://www.cltampa.com/news/citing-floridas-new-landlord-law-st-pete-city-council-votes-to-repeal-its-own-tenants-bill-of-rights-16045401

     That was based on the grassroot efforts to bring what people needed and get it into law. But because of the higher government, that fell.

     https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/03/29/gov-desantis-holds-news-conference-in-south-florida/

     It'll be easy for me to say that this was a knee jerk reaction from DeSantis but that's click bait journalism and doesn't ask who did DeSantis see as benefiting from that and how did they influence him - especially when it was in reaction to one county making this change.

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     Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:51:40 JST Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖

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     Voting isn't equitable nor is it completely representative of the potential voting block. Sure, we can throw our pennies in for our thoughts. When you see a garbage truck of quarters dumped in, one has to ask themselves if there isn't yet another path that doesn't rely solely on hope for the change to take hold

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     Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:59:02 JST Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖

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     • Sam Solomon

     @sss I have a longer and more serious answer to this (I think I blogged about it) but these answers do fall into this category for me and it's a core reason why Trump even came to be: faith in a system that optimizes towards fascism won't have the means of protecting us from it.

     The sitting president contributed to a bill that accelerated mass incarceration and the vice president has a reputation for throwing people into jail from the state with the largest women's prison. They have more experience bringing to life what Trump needs teams for. And they've done so, with little to no accountability from folks who've mentioned them to be our harm reduction options.

     I have to ask, who is the harm being reduced for? Because it's not for BIPOC, women, the environment or any of the colonial regions the United States controls. It's mainly business and cishet white men.

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     Sam Solomon (sss@ioc.exchange)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:59:06 JST Sam Solomon

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     @jalcine IMO 2024 is a choice of harm reduction because one of the sides is more plausibly swayed (if not completely then at least partially) by large scale left demonstrations, and one will be way more trigger happy on sending the national guard into universities/etc and making it legal to drive cars through protests at a national level.

     carl marks repeated this.