While Education and Organizing is building the parts for a new engine the rest of the year.

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    harm reduction is when you know a bad thing is going to happen, and you give the people it’s happening to resources to mitigate the harm from it. needle exchanges are the best example: people are going to use drugs. that’s bad enough with the stigma and risks of impurities etc. giving them clean needles eliminates one of the dangers, though.

    voting doesn’t give the effected people any resources to deal with the problems created by our government.

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    harm reduction would be sending medical supplies to gaza. setting up abortion care resources in the states. distributing HRT resources. voting is just that: voting.

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      Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of intentional practices and public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal.

      It is harm reduction.

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        10 months ago

        no, it’s not. harm reduction is the things you do regardless of whether democrats or republicans win.

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          10 months ago

          I don’t want either candidate, they both suck to me. I’d prefer to not have to vote for either of them. I’d prefer to vote my conscience for policy.

          Instead I am voting for the candidate who has not stated he intends to continue removing my wife’s bodily autonomy and push policies that will deliberately harm “the others” as they see them.

          Voting for Biden, despite not wanting to and wishing I had a better option, is harm reduction for those I care about because if I didn’t act I was doing nothing.

          and just to be clear, most people just do nothing

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            Voting for Biden, despite not wanting to and wishing I had a better option, is harm reduction

            no, it’s not.

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            Instead I am voting for the candidate who has not stated he intends to continue removing my wife’s bodily autonomy and push policies that will deliberately harm “the others” as they see them.

            same here. that’s why i’m voting for cornel west (or maybe jill stein).