2026-10-24 00:01 UTC
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@OwOarchist@pawb.social 2026-10-24 03:40
If you compromise on somebody’s rights with the justification that you need to protect everybody else, where’s the line you don’t cross? Voting is mere harm reduction. Voting for a candidate doesn’t mean I agree with them or that I’m compromising on anyone’s rights – I’m just ticking the box that will cause the least near-term harm. The real decision whether to compromise or not happens in real life. In the streets, at your work or school, in your home.
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@minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-24 07:33
Yes, there is no good option. Everything is a risk. But everything is also at risk. We can’t trust people will help after? Can one endure a disproportionate amount of sacrifice to fight for the entire progressive movement? This entire situation is not about any specific issue, its about the entire framework of law and governance. All rights. All of it. If someone can’t see anything beyond their own grievances, were they ever a progressive? Or were progressives the only option for trans? Are trans rights somehow more important than brown rights? Or immigrant rights? Women’s? Everybody’s rights? This is not business as usual. This is potentially the end of democracy in America and if someone won’t help because they’re not getting enough attention, they an asshole. That is a level of selfishness that is cruelty, to anyone that was once called an ally. The safest spaces in American for trans are still the progressive side. So not supporting the best available option is wise? There are no good options, so refuse to pick the best one? Insane to me. Massive strategic error. It ends wherever the left is capable of ending it and right now, nobody knows where that is but it isn’t where it is now. You don’t think the left is trying just because they haven’t succeeded? Maybe more participation is what halts the Nazis marching as soon a possible. But disengage instead…that will help you…