I voted for the “harm reduction” vote in the 2016 Presidential election. Mar Roxas wasn’t great, but he was better than Duterte. Surprise, surprise, Duterte won. Hundreds of thousands died.
For the 2022 Presidential election, I voted for a principled vote for Leody de Guzman. Surprise, surprise, the Marcos dynasty returns to power.
Then people are treating Biden/Trump round 2 as top priority. Newsflash, if democracy was at stake in the election, then you don’t have democracy. I’ve been watching the Biden administration from afar. Biden, Trump, they’re the same. Same killer police. Same concentration camps at the border. Same prison industrial complex. Same trans genocide. Same abortion bans. No meaningful climate action. And now, a genocide in Gaza. Biden doesn’t care. Voting isn’t harm reduction.
Had trump lost in 2016 we wouldn’t have gotten multiple new conservative Supreme Court justices. But we did and they immediately stripped women’s rights back decades. We’re already seeing tragic outcomes of that. And because they’re lifetime appointments of relatively young zealots, now we get to see what else they can do in the next few critical decades.
Biden also wouldn’t have shut down or defunded multiple regulatory agencies, or sold off federal land to corporations.
Like, I get that things could be a lot better in so many ways, that’s why I’m here. But we don’t have to go out of our way to make them even worse.
Bro I can’t vote in your stupid election. No matter who would have won, Biden, Hillary, orange man, you Americans would plunder my country and fund internal wars anyway.
Yeah I read your post and understood you weren’t from the US. But fair enough.
Then I guess just rest assured that trump did a bunch of bonus harm to Americans and the environment, in addition to our standard wars and coups.
There’s absolutely always room to make things worse. I guess with where I am right now , mentally, I can’t understand not wanting to reduce harm.