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The fate of the abortion pill mifepristone is now before the Supreme Court, after a fifth-circuit appeals panel of three judges ruled against its distribution last summer.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How are people like you still both-sides-ing for upvotes when one of those two parties is filled with literal fascists and Nazis and the other just forgave billions of dollars worth of student debt? Wake the fuck up. Your false equivalence only serves to help the fascists. Unless, of course, that is your goal?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I agree with you, both parties are not the same and we need to make sure the fascists don't win any elections. But the person above you didn't say not to vote, they just said voting isn't enough, which is true. Voting is a form of harm reduction, but it's also the least effective form of civic engagement. If we want to really change this shit, we have to get more involved than just voting every few years.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The problem with what you are saying is making voting sound like it matters less than it does. Voting is all the majority of people can do. Most people have jobs and families to take care of and can’t be political activists. However, they can just take one day out of their year to vote.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

It does matter less than being more involved though. If that's all you can do that's perfectly fine, but if we really want to fix things we need those who can to be more involved, that's all.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

voting is not harm reduction

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Umm, akchually, fascist = fascist, sure, but antifa - anti = fa = facesit = fascsist, so clearly, as proven by my undisproveablely proveable equation, both sides are clearly fascist, frogs are gay. If democrats are stonewalled every step of the way, clearly theyre just not democracying as hard as republicans are fascisting so theyre to blame just as much as the other so, again, both sides = same.

Check.

Mate.

Reality.

[–] PainInTheAES 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if that facesit was intended but please don't fix it if it wasn't lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Totally was :p sorry if thats a disappointment xD