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Hello m@tes. I have immigrated from lemm.ee following the imminent closure, (and needed to but ana in front of my name because the one I used on lemm.ee was taken.)

Here is just a small thing I made after skimming the comments of a recent popular post. As it is a small image and I’m getting better with Krita this one only took ~35 minutes. Improvements. Yay!

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    6 days ago

    Yeah, turns out starvation takes a little while. It’s been roughly 3 months since Gaza has been able to receive food aid. Holodomor took ~1 year to kill off 20% of the affected population, which Israel seems hell bent on replicating. If there’s not a grave difference in death statistics by this time next year, I’d be happy to reconsider my position that both sides are very much not the same.

    Y’all are rightfully getting flamed for holding a position that harm reduction doesn’t reduce harm when it absolutely does, and only takes you an hour every four years.

    You’re right that the current state of representation is abysmal, but boycotting voting does absolutely nothing to remedy the situation, and actively harms people domestically and abroad.

    Edit: Just to add about the ideological differences between Biden and Trump, Binden was an ideological pro-Israelite, but he still gave some tiny semblance of a fuck about humanitarianism. Trump does not. He doesn’t have a misguided moral compass, he has none. Whoever lays out the most beneficial deal to him (petty grievances aside) in the moment is what he will take.

    If you can’t see why the latter is infinitely more dangerous in a world run by corporate interests, then I’m not sure what more I can say.

    • NSRXN
      4·
      6 days ago

      harm reduction has a specific meaning, and voting is not harm reduction

      • enkers@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        6 days ago

        Fine, replace it with “reducing harm”. Y’all very well understand what I mean by the term in this context, and if you don’t, I’d be happy to clarify.

        If that’s all that article has to say (which it doesn’t) then it’d simply be clearing up some semantic confusion.

        • NSRXN
          5·
          6 days ago

          voting Harris didn’t reduce any harm, but it did prevent real alternatives from gaining traction.

          • enkers@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            6 days ago

            How does anti-electoralism prevent alternatives from gaining traction? Nobody in this thread has yet advocated for voting 3rd party, if that’s what you’re implying.

            • NSRXN
              3·
              6 days ago

              How does anti-electoralism prevent alternatives from gaining traction?

              I didn’t say it does. you are arguing with a strawman

              • enkers@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                6 days ago

                It’s a question, signifying I have no clue what your actual position is. If you don’t care to elucidate, I’ve got no argument for a non-position.