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.

  • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
    56·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
      7·
      9 months ago

      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.