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  • artificial insemination isn't rape. it's a veterinary procedure

  • voting doesn't reduce harm. it's not harm reduction.

  • this isn't a pedantic argument. it's about actual harm and actual harm reduction strategies.

  • Voting certainly can be harm reduction.

    no, it can't. that's not what harm reduction means.

  • Voting reduces harm being done.

    objectively, it doesn't. plenty of people voted in 2016. plenty of people voted in 2020. things are getting worse, not better.

  • Don’t be pedantic.

    it's not pedantry to insist that you are misusing this term, and using it to guilt people into doing something which might be against their self-interest.

  • it's not selfish to cast a vote for the person i want to win. everyone does that.

  • been proven statistically irrelevant as a third party (which I truly, truly, as somebody who has actually worked with local third party candidates in their campaigns, hope doesn’t happen) in the general election will you concede that your battle was hard-fought but ultimately lost in greater war effort that is change and make the reasonable harm reduction choice to vote for the objectively better of the two remaining viable candidates

    this whole narrative of viability is a snow-job. a candidate is viable if they win, and no one wins until the election is over.

  • Tell me what steps you’ve taken to personally motivate the Democratic party to run primaries and which candidate you’re choosing to support in the primaries and how exactly you’re providing said support.

    i don't do that.

  • I’m excited to hear the stories of both your hard fought battles, and more importantly since this is paramount to the viability of this as a strategy, the wins and achievements you’ve accomplished

    it's not a strategy. it's a vote.

  • Please tell me the steps you’re taking to legitimatize your chosen candidate

    why should i try to legitimize any candidate?

  • i object to the classification of candidates as "third party".

  • standing on your own ideological purity selfishly

    that's not whats happening

  • i said vote. i will spend like... 2 hours a year participating in electoralism at maximum. unless you count whining on the internet.

  • it’s absolutely harm reduction to keep MAGAts and the GOP out of office for any LGBT+ people

    that's not what harm reduction is.

  • You’re welcome to explain how voting isn’t harm reduction

    harm reduction recognizes that people are going to be effected by some social ill, and helps them to mitigate some of those problems, like giving clean needles to addicts. voting doesn't directly help anyone.

  • Harm reduction includes many, many different actions, of which voting is but one of them.

    no, it's not.

  • Now tell me where, anywhere in that I say that voting is a panacea for all ailments or anywhere discourage any kind of genuine activism outside of voting.

    i never said you did. i said that voting is not harm reduction.