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To those in countries where democracy might last another election - harm reduction is not optional
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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Interesting... but the ice cream is supporting genocide. Some would rather die than vote for that. And I guess it could be argued that at least the people dieing by going over the cliff had a chance to vote. The ones dieing from genocide didn't.
How'd that work out?
For the people who feel that way... I would assume they sleep better at night than most of us. As far as end result, too soon to tell. But the rise of people like the NYC mayoral primary winner indicates that it might be having an impact. Even the Republicans are talking about splitting into two parties. This isn't the way I personally would have chosen to instigate progress, but it might be happening.
Yeah, it might be too soon to tell. On one hand it's good to tell the corporate Dems they can't offer something slightly better than awful, but then empowering the people behind Trump seems so dangerous. People are being harmed, including new people who weren't being harmed before. Will it be worth it? Will it work out at all? Nobody is guiding this, we're just reacting. The right is supposed to be reacting, but they have the power.
I think best case we end up with 4 political parties. But it is really sad if the best way to get there really is all the pain and suffering that is happening now. It's hard to say if all out civil war would be better or worse really.
Humans evolved in a space of competition with other species. That drive results in what we have now with people hatinging others because they are different. Sadly, there is no evolutionary drive to counter that. In fact, society still supports that drive by elevating those who leverage that hate for thier own profit. So I guess our best bet is for AI to take over, or aliens.
Four parties would be quite interesting. I think we'd need to do away with the first past the post voting system and have ranked choice instead.
I want to push back on your second paragraph because I don't think it's quite right. Humans are literally the only species where individuals will cooperate with complete strangers. Pick 5 random people from across the planet, put them in a space together, and they'll cooperate.
But if you limit the resources like food for those 5 people, and 3 speak english, while 2 speak only languages they understand. Those 2 are dead meat. Even if it was like 3 strong guys and 2 petite women, bad things would happen after a little while, and at least 1 of the guys would end up dead. In reality, any 5 people would cooperate temporarily. But sooner or later they would split into factions. Exceptions do occur, but look at any office, school, team or band. Factions end up forming, almost always around competition, percieved or otherwise. It's how humans get ahead. The amount of time a group can survive is mainly dependent on thier ability to exploit another group.