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To those in countries where democracy might last another election - harm reduction is not optional (lemmy.world)
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[–] 80 points 1 year ago* (18 children)

The ice cream no longer exists. It hasn’t existed for a long time, and no amount of wishing will bring it back.

I want ice cream, too. But before we can have ice cream again, we need to not die.

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's QUITTER talk! I'm voting for Rocky Road.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    You're right - it's more like one group voting to drive off a cliff and the other voting to just drive really close to the cliff in case we decide to go off on some other vote, but so long as the cliff doesn't win now, we can focus on convincing people ice cream is the better option. We don't, and instead wait 4 more years to complain about the lack of ice cream, but that's a separate problem.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Still better than not voting to not go off the cliff.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The problem is people have voted for ice cream. They have read about people voting for ice cream for years before they were even born.

    Lots of people want ice cream but we are at a point where people KNOW the cliff exists. They DO NOT know the ice cream shop exists because all the times they were PROMISED ice cream the bus just stopped at a sewage treatment plant.

    The voters are not the problem. They have zero reason to trust the bus driver. Because the bus driver refuses to throw the cliff voters off the bus. Bad optics.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The voters are not the problem. They have zero reason to trust the bus driver. Because the bus driver refuses to throw the cliff voters off the bus.

    The voters chose the bus driver.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No they don't.

    Voters are told to pick which driver they want and both drivers don't listen to directions and can't read a map.

    So some voters don't care who's driving the bus or where it's going.

    Because they have no reason to care.

    They tolerate the shitty ride and shitty passengers while looking out the window. Waiting for the ride to end. But it never does.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yes, they do. The voters get a chance to decide who those two drivers are, and 85% of them stay home. Then they got to choose between the driver that wants to drive off the cliff, and the driver who swears they'll go get ice cream. And then 40% of the voters stay home.

    Now the driver's taking us off the cliff, and you're whining that the driver that got the most votes is doing exactly what they said they would.

    They have every reason to care, but they don't anyway. You can't abdicate your power and then complain no one listens to you. We had a chance to have better choices, but no one but retirees reliably show up to primaries.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Jeez more of this b b both sides same stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you think literally saying "they're definitely different, but the difference is smaller than ideal" means "they're the same" then things will never be fixed.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Dude you changed this it from "we want ice cream" to "we want to drive next to the cliff so we can drive off it later". That's not smaller than ideal, you literally changed it both sides the same, just later.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, I changed it to "one side killing us, the other not, but still leaving it on the table" Which is a huge difference, but still a troubling scenario. Not driving off a cliff is orders of magnitude better than driving off a cliff, but still significantly worse than ice cream.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Dude one side wanted to get ice cream and you changed it to "nah, not that. I'm gonna change it to what the other side wants, just later. Change it to the complete opposite". You completely changed it. Changed everything. Smh. That you either don't want to see that or can't see that... I'm out.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Again, I didn't change it to "later" I changed it to "if the cliff drivers win the next vote, it'll be a short drive." Do you really think that's inaccurate? Look at how Trump drove the country into the ground in his first 4 years, and how easy it was to just keep doing it even after we had 4 years of democratic leadership that was meant to get things back on track. I don't call that "ice cream," I call that "sitting by the cliff waiting for the cliff drivers to be in power again." We need leadership that will drive away from the cliff even if it upsets the people and politicians that want to drive off it.

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