:michael-laugh: my favorite thing the chapo guys would say during 2020 is that Bernie represented the off ramp to the empire. A way for american empire to die gracefully and slowly while allowing its citizens some dignity (potentially i.e. medicare for all). Thats basically all off the table. Every other candidate from then on out is the accelerationist candidate
I don't see the Empire dying in the case Bernie was allowed to win, anymore than it "died" after FDR's New Deal (or the British Empire after it elected Labour). If anything, Bernie was their ticket for maintaining the course in a more measured manner.
Thats more or less how i saw the chapo guys "off ramp" comment. At least thats how i viewed it. I don't think the empire would have died under Bernie, but i think there would have been a switch to managed decline instead of the denialism and overreaching fantasies of the rest of the political class
:michael-laugh: my favorite thing the chapo guys would say during 2020 is that Bernie represented the off ramp to the empire. A way for american empire to die gracefully and slowly while allowing its citizens some dignity (potentially i.e. medicare for all). Thats basically all off the table. Every other candidate from then on out is the accelerationist candidate
I don't see the Empire dying in the case Bernie was allowed to win, anymore than it "died" after FDR's New Deal (or the British Empire after it elected Labour). If anything, Bernie was their ticket for maintaining the course in a more measured manner.
Thats more or less how i saw the chapo guys "off ramp" comment. At least thats how i viewed it. I don't think the empire would have died under Bernie, but i think there would have been a switch to managed decline instead of the denialism and overreaching fantasies of the rest of the political class