I think that is a really gross thing to say from someone who didn’t pay attention to the ongoing rapes of children in ICE concentration camps. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the militarized presence of ICE kidnapping people as they left their court hearings to be here. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the people attacked by ICE for protecting their neighbors. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the people who got married and had to pick up their partner’s green card because they were arresting them and shipping them all over the country.
To say that it’s a smaller number is insane because it treats immigrants not as people that are still suffering right now (I have neighbors that still can’t fucking go to work because ICE is still here), but as numbers and this one is smaller. That is such a dumb and pathetic argument that it shows you as hopelessly heartless or desperately dumb, and I don’t thing it matters which is worse.
That’s literally what harm reducer less evil people are saying. “Dropping 50 bombs is better than dropping 51 bombs” and “50 concentration camps is better than 51”.
If you agree that reducing it down to just these raw numbers is disgusting, congratulations, you got the point! Lesser evil voting is pretty disgusting. Thank you for playing.
I disagree with the entire framing of harm reduction as a valid reason to vote for the lesser evil in elections. I think it’s absurd and horribly wrong for exactly the reasons you stated. 1.5M is actually less than 3M, but that doesn’t mean it’s harm reduction.
Harm reduction doesn’t always mean harm. It does eventually mean that things that do nothing are better than harm, and things that do more good are better than less good. But right now, harm is being caused no matter how you choose. So if you are forced to pick, you should pick less. Every time.
I think that is a really gross thing to say from someone who didn’t pay attention to the ongoing rapes of children in ICE concentration camps. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the militarized presence of ICE kidnapping people as they left their court hearings to be here. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the people attacked by ICE for protecting their neighbors. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the people who got married and had to pick up their partner’s green card because they were arresting them and shipping them all over the country.
To say that it’s a smaller number is insane
So… all this is just what? Partisanism? You can’t extend this to prison system and police killings? You can’t extend this to the bombing and total destruction of sovereign nations? You can’t extend this to shipping arms to genocidal regimes and protecting them in the UN? It’s only valid harm reduction if you’re voting for Democrats regardless of the active harm they do?
I mean, do you not see the contradiction in your own words here?
There is no contradiction. That 3 million number is bad, but it is still better than the 1.5 million number because of the methods used. Because prisoners didn’t go down under Republicans. The prison system didn’t get better under Republicans. Police killings didn’t get better under Republicans. Like, I know it’s gauche to try to compare hurt, but I do not see any Republicans calling for a rehabilitation system instead of a punitive system, but I do see some Democrats call for it, even if very few.
Like, it’s sort of like telling me to pick between 1000 thefts being committed vs 100 murders, and, like, yeah, obviously I’ll take 1000 thefts over the murders. I don’t want either, but I have two fucking choices.
Which would you pick? Remember, there’s quantitatively less crimes with the murders! Oh, you didn’t pick? That just means someone else gets to pick for you.
Like, it’s sort of like telling me to pick between 1000 thefts being committed vs 100 murders, and, like, yeah, obviously I’ll take 1000 thefts over the murders. I don’t want either, but I have two fucking choices.
It’s nothing like this. You’re literally doing the thing you said shouldn’t be done. You think that because Trump made it visible, it’s worse, and because Obama’s deportations were less visible, they’re better. That’s essentially saying that the deciding factor is whether or not white people are made uncomfortable by it. Literally, you’re saying Obama deporting twice as much people is still LESS BAD than Trump deporting half as many because we all have to see it happening on the streets instead of it happening quietly through the prison-industrial complex.
Trump has concentration camps where children are being raped and disappeared. Like systematically. As part of the deportation process. I do not think that is better. Do you think it is better? I think that is worse. Obama didn’t have fucking goon squads kidnapping and shooting people in the streets, camping out at bus stops and churches. Like, I get that Obama was cruel, but he did not let ICE fuck children and shoot people with impunity. And that is the difference. And you are trying to pretend it is better to have the 1.5 million even if severalfold more of them are raped and murdered as a result. I think that’s worse. Do you not?
I think that is a really gross thing to say from someone who didn’t pay attention to the ongoing rapes of children in ICE concentration camps. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the militarized presence of ICE kidnapping people as they left their court hearings to be here. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the people attacked by ICE for protecting their neighbors. I think that’s a gross thing to say to the people who got married and had to pick up their partner’s green card because they were arresting them and shipping them all over the country.
To say that it’s a smaller number is insane because it treats immigrants not as people that are still suffering right now (I have neighbors that still can’t fucking go to work because ICE is still here), but as numbers and this one is smaller. That is such a dumb and pathetic argument that it shows you as hopelessly heartless or desperately dumb, and I don’t thing it matters which is worse.
That’s literally what harm reducer less evil people are saying. “Dropping 50 bombs is better than dropping 51 bombs” and “50 concentration camps is better than 51”.
If you agree that reducing it down to just these raw numbers is disgusting, congratulations, you got the point! Lesser evil voting is pretty disgusting. Thank you for playing.
You just said 1.5 million apples are better than 3 million oranges.
So, you’re not even right in that vein.
But, like, if they were the same degree wrong, 1.5 million would be better, right? Or do you disagree?
I disagree with the entire framing of harm reduction as a valid reason to vote for the lesser evil in elections. I think it’s absurd and horribly wrong for exactly the reasons you stated. 1.5M is actually less than 3M, but that doesn’t mean it’s harm reduction.
Harm reduction doesn’t always mean harm. It does eventually mean that things that do nothing are better than harm, and things that do more good are better than less good. But right now, harm is being caused no matter how you choose. So if you are forced to pick, you should pick less. Every time.
So… all this is just what? Partisanism? You can’t extend this to prison system and police killings? You can’t extend this to the bombing and total destruction of sovereign nations? You can’t extend this to shipping arms to genocidal regimes and protecting them in the UN? It’s only valid harm reduction if you’re voting for Democrats regardless of the active harm they do?
I mean, do you not see the contradiction in your own words here?
There is no contradiction. That 3 million number is bad, but it is still better than the 1.5 million number because of the methods used. Because prisoners didn’t go down under Republicans. The prison system didn’t get better under Republicans. Police killings didn’t get better under Republicans. Like, I know it’s gauche to try to compare hurt, but I do not see any Republicans calling for a rehabilitation system instead of a punitive system, but I do see some Democrats call for it, even if very few.
Like, it’s sort of like telling me to pick between 1000 thefts being committed vs 100 murders, and, like, yeah, obviously I’ll take 1000 thefts over the murders. I don’t want either, but I have two fucking choices.
Which would you pick? Remember, there’s quantitatively less crimes with the murders! Oh, you didn’t pick? That just means someone else gets to pick for you.
It’s nothing like this. You’re literally doing the thing you said shouldn’t be done. You think that because Trump made it visible, it’s worse, and because Obama’s deportations were less visible, they’re better. That’s essentially saying that the deciding factor is whether or not white people are made uncomfortable by it. Literally, you’re saying Obama deporting twice as much people is still LESS BAD than Trump deporting half as many because we all have to see it happening on the streets instead of it happening quietly through the prison-industrial complex.
I think that’s disgusting, quite frankly.
Trump has concentration camps where children are being raped and disappeared. Like systematically. As part of the deportation process. I do not think that is better. Do you think it is better? I think that is worse. Obama didn’t have fucking goon squads kidnapping and shooting people in the streets, camping out at bus stops and churches. Like, I get that Obama was cruel, but he did not let ICE fuck children and shoot people with impunity. And that is the difference. And you are trying to pretend it is better to have the 1.5 million even if severalfold more of them are raped and murdered as a result. I think that’s worse. Do you not?