IDK, maybe when more people here are getting screwed over, libs will radicalize and get off their asses instead of trying to guilt us for not giving legitimacy unconditionally to their favorite “lesser evil” bourgeois party.

Of course, using their meager leverage to extract concessions from the people supposedly representing them never crosses their minds…

Also imagine having the audacity to call us privileged when you see what’s going on in Gaza as a “single issue” instead of an escalation of violence by the ruling class that can and will go back to us.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    I know accelerationism might not be the best thing, but the way libs talk makes me want Trump to win.

    They created the monster that is the modern GOP by voting for an innefectual "lesser evil" that bends over for the right. They supported a weak, anti-left, genocidal Democrat party that refuses to protect its people from fascism and the results is people are going to vote for the other guy because these Libs keep telling them the only thing that can do to change anything is vote.

    Well if you aren't going to meaningfully fix the problems people face day to day, and tell them they can't overthrow the government, people are to say "well all I can do is vote for the other guy then."

    Liberals will end up with this horrible wet clown as a president and it will be exactly what they fucking deserve.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      Accelerationism is using power or influence to make conditions worse, under the assumption that worse conditions will lead to radical outcomes. We have no power or influence to begin with. What you're describing is schadenfreude.

      Accelerationism itself is basically is a myth made up by liberals. It implies the left has the power to make everyone's life substantially worse on a material basis, but every indication shows whatever meager amount of power the left has at its disposal is spent on the exact opposite - things like mutual aid, labor organizing, literacy, political analysis, etc.

      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        The idea of accelerationism goes back quite a bit more actually. For instance, marx once remarked that he will be voting in favour of free trade because it will speed up the contradictions of capitalism.

        Accerlationism as making conditions worse to induce radicalise is a gibberish ideology, but accelerationism as making use of capitalism's few "progressive" tendencies is standard marxist practice. Dengism can also be viewed as the latter type of accelerationism.

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      It's like the 'punchline' from the shitty Joaquin Phoenix joker movie. "You get what you fucking deserve", except this time it actually is a funny punchline because they claim to not want him but do everything in their power to deserve him

      Gomorran-assed country; I live in Babylon and will live to see her gutted

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        5 months ago

        Democrats will do everything the GOP will do. Half the reason for my frustrations are because, like I said, the Dems did not and will not protect queer and marginalised people.

        I really should have said "almost want Trump to win" though. I was mostly being faceous. Trump winning wouldn't solve anything.