You can imagine a better world than Biden. That sounds like a great idea to me. How can I help?
(I mean, aside from in the meantime not electing the guy who wants to kill the protestors working for a better world among many other things that would make him being president a very bad problem.)
Participate in collective action: protests, unions, strikes, socialist political parties and so on. Tell your friends they are uncool if they like fascism and very dope if they like increasing their bargaining power with solidaric unity.
Also recognize that violence is inherent to any system of government and that disobedience is a tool, like any other, to fight back at what is unjust. It is also important to recognize that the disenfranchised are bearing the weight of the inadequacies of the staus quo and that being in position to be patient is a privilege.
All of these sound like great ideas. Wanting all of them to be able to happen is actually exactly why I’m in favor of making sure Trump doesn’t get elected in November.
protests
This will be easier if Trump does not have a loyal police force that will fire with lethal ammunition on protests
unions, strikes
This will be easier if the people that run the NLRB are pro-labor, instead of the guy who broke the ATC strike back in the Reagan days (which was who Trump installed to run it, who Biden fired on day 1)
socialist political parties
This will be easier if Trump’s military has not seized the voting machines, and we still have elections, and congresspeople who disobey Trump don’t get killed by a mob
Sure, but harm reduction does not need to infringe on critique of the current executive branch. If criticizing Biden is enough to make Trump win, then he has already won. Biden does not need to be more than a union buster for me to detest him, and still he is more crappy than that. I am not saying he is the worst, but I do not hate myself or my comrades enough to aim that low for the role of the most powerful man in the world.
You can imagine a better world than Biden. That sounds like a great idea to me. How can I help?
(I mean, aside from in the meantime not electing the guy who wants to kill the protestors working for a better world among many other things that would make him being president a very bad problem.)
Participate in collective action: protests, unions, strikes, socialist political parties and so on. Tell your friends they are uncool if they like fascism and very dope if they like increasing their bargaining power with solidaric unity.
Also recognize that violence is inherent to any system of government and that disobedience is a tool, like any other, to fight back at what is unjust. It is also important to recognize that the disenfranchised are bearing the weight of the inadequacies of the staus quo and that being in position to be patient is a privilege.
All of these sound like great ideas. Wanting all of them to be able to happen is actually exactly why I’m in favor of making sure Trump doesn’t get elected in November.
This will be easier if Trump does not have a loyal police force that will fire with lethal ammunition on protests
This will be easier if the people that run the NLRB are pro-labor, instead of the guy who broke the ATC strike back in the Reagan days (which was who Trump installed to run it, who Biden fired on day 1)
This will be easier if Trump’s military has not seized the voting machines, and we still have elections, and congresspeople who disobey Trump don’t get killed by a mob
Sure, but harm reduction does not need to infringe on critique of the current executive branch. If criticizing Biden is enough to make Trump win, then he has already won. Biden does not need to be more than a union buster for me to detest him, and still he is more crappy than that. I am not saying he is the worst, but I do not hate myself or my comrades enough to aim that low for the role of the most powerful man in the world.