• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 days ago

    I’m 100% genuine. Let’s do a role-call on the issues I care about for this person.

    • ending the genocide in Gaza: no opinion ❌
    • trans rights: against ❌
    • climate change: no opinion ❌
    • workers rights: no plan ❌
    • immigration rights: mild reform from trumpism ❌
    • universal healthcare: pro ✅
    • public transit: pro ✅

    Dr King wasn’t advocating for people to elect the centrist either. He supported nonviolent direct action. He supported the Chicano movement and labor movements too, because he knew the answer wasn’t in electoralism.

    You want an answer to your question? I’ve already given it to you. Pressure them to do better. Committing to vote for one side because the other is worse incentivises the ruling class to further entrench themselves and move further right. That’s what decades of “lesser evil” has gotten us. Now is the time to be pressuring them.

    “Not actively worse” is called stagnation, not “actually good”. It fucking sucks. It doesn’t benefit us. Status quo means that trans people are going to die. That is not good, even if things don’t get worse. We are not your volleyball in the game of politics,

    WE ARE PEOPLE