There are no ethical choices under first-past-the-post voting. We must instead make a decision that reduces the most harm.

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    This isn’t harm reduction.

    It is harm reduction. Fewer people will be harmed if we elect the candidate that will do the least harm.

    Stop co-opting real leftist terms for this crap.

    I am a social democrat which is a leftist political position. This is a real leftist term. Gatekeeping won’t get rid of this idea. Internalize it.

    edit: To be clear, I’m referring to: There are no ethical choices under FPTP voting. I hope that clears up any confusion.

    The USA has always been fascist and will always be so until it is destroyed.

    There has been a fascist movement in the United States since the 30’s. Hitler and the Nazis copied off of the US’s Jim Crow era laws. But the US as a nation state has never been fascist. If Republicans win this November then the US will become a christo-fascist authoritarian dictatorship for the first time and probably for a long time.

    You people won’t learn till you get all of us killed for the little bit of privilege afforded to you thru this colonist imperial hellhole

    The people who are going to get us all killed are the privileged accelerationists who think they stand to benefit from sacrificing us all to fascism. They think they going to accelerate social change, but there won’t be anyone left to benefit from it.

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      Social Democracy entrenches Capitalism, it’s a Center-Right position.

      Additionally, the US has absolutely been fascist and has committed numerous genocides in its history.

      You would do well to read Leftist theory.

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        You’ve been telling me what to do for a while now. I think reading theory is a good idea. Please read a US history book. I also recommend reading Ur Fascism.

        https://archive.org/details/umberto-eco-ur-fascism/umberto-eco-ur-fascism.lt/page/4/mode/2up

        Social democracy in the US is a center left position in the year 2024. Fascism did not exist before the 20th century. Genocides did. A county doing genocides does not mean they are a fascist country. We did that as a democracy. A flawed democracy, that suppresses majority rule, but as a democracy.

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          Social Democracy is a pro-Capitalist position that continues Imperialism and does not approach Socialism. Fascism is not just genocide, but the US has never been truly democratic.

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            The social democracy I am describing in my arguments would do away with capitalism but not market economies. The fact this doesn’t exist yet or isn’t in the theory you have read about social democracy isn’t relevant. The US has never had true majority rule. Our democracy overrepresents some people and thus underrepresents others. This must be fixed. The US is still fundamentally a democracy despite its flaws. That’s why the fascists want to do away with our democracy, so they can have total power, as just being overrepresented is insufficient for their aims.

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              You’re describing Market Socialism, which is a thing, not Social Democracy, which is another thing.

              How do you want to “fix” US democracy? It’s working as it always has for hundreds of years.