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Harm reduction is bad?
Obviously, it's not ideal, but one has to act according to the real life conditions... And in 2024, our only two options were "harm reduction," and literal fascism with literal concentration camps.
Fuck you if you didn't choose harm reduction.
...thirty years of choosing harm reduction brought us to this point...
...i held my nose and voted against fascism, but if you want to blame someone, blame the f*cking fascists and blame the thirty years of harm reduction which enabled them: pluralities win, that's how american democracy works...
This is such a dumb take. You can't say "thirty years of harm reduction brought us here" with the implication that if Republicans won every election in the time frame things would somehow be better, unless you're actually just a right wing voter.
I'll say it for the thousandth time: voting in national elections in no way affects your ability to do other activism. If your argument is along the lines of "voting for the worst option will unite the resistance and we'll make real change", well, I hope you realize that that "real change" is bloody revolution with an uncertain result.
Harm reduction and neoliberalism just wont work, end of discussion. Its fucking 2024, if you want to beat republicans you need to elect progressives