Memes

Let me talk about my personal life for a bit. Maybe you've never met a worker or maybe you're too concerned about your moral high ground to take a pause and think about everyday people's lives.

My sister called me yesterday crying after Trump's "big beautiful bill" passed the house. She is deathly afraid of how she'll make ends meet without food stamps or the medicaid that pays for my niece to have Healthcare. So now she worries about being able to feed her daughter, a daughter she had no choice in whether or not to have thanks to state laws.

The idea that there is no conceivable difference is bullshit. Should two full time workers struggle so much? Absolutely not. They should be able to afford to live, and food stamps is a band aid solution. But it keeps people fed. Neither party wants to fix the cause, but only one wants to cut food stamps. Only one wants to end school lunch programs, end abortion, disenfranchise women, and we both know I can keep going.

Yes both are evil, and I'll concede Guantanamo Bay. It's sad that I was thinking about the new one in El Salvador and forgot that one. The crimes of this government is astounding.

You're not even wrong about how the working class need socialism they do. Without a doubt. That's unfortunately not coming tomorrow, and we are stuck with a binary choice. Unless of course there's an armed revolution neither of us will be starting so maybe skip the rhetoric or feel free to prove me wrong. When presented with an unsatisfactory binary choice I'll vote for the one that is less likely to cause my family to go hungry.

I agree the system is broken, and our options are limited. We can take up arms against the state, but that may not go so well. The only option that they won't execute us for is picking harm reduction at the ballot box. Not satisfactory but at least my niece gets to eat and my sister can sleep a bit easier. We can of course protest, but that has always seemed ineffective as well. I go, but especially in modern day it seems lack luster. If you have any suggestions feel free to give them. But I will always pick the choice that causes the least amount of harm while trying to figure out the path forward to something better.