[a character holds a lever connected to rails, on which a train is approaching fast]
A train is approaching fast…
Many people are tied to the tracks…
As a bystander, I can do only one thing in this current moment: flip a lever, which would send the train to another track where it would also kill people, but less of them
[next to another separate railway track, someone is trying to get the first character’s attention]
Hey you, over there, look!
There is a third track here!
It is not connected to the other tracks, but there are zero people tied to it, so if you do not choose to send the train on this third track right now you are an evil genocide enabling liberal
https://thebad.website/comic/third_track
Short term harm reduction is a delay tactic meant to be used to buy you time for actual effective grass roots actions.
Local municipalities, mayors, school boards, state governments and up from there building a movement for house then senate then president.
On its own harm reduction will never fix the problem but it is a very important tool that should absolutely be used in conjunction with real effective action.
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Is it actually used to buy time for effective grass roots actions? Because I don’t know that I’ve ever seen actual progress made for socialism under a Democrat president. It seems to me that socialism gains the most traction under (and in direct response to) republican presidents.
Yup. Centrists always claim that it buys time for action, yet immediately go back to brunch. They also yell at you if you point out how their leadership is tying more people to the tracks, while also dismantiling the third track.