Chapotony Chatano here, internet's busiest hogposter, and it's time for another edition of "Let's Argue", where we're on the internet, we accept your hot takes, unpopular opinions, and tough questions, and we struggle sesh over all of them. Leeeeet's, GO!
Alright, fine. Not sure how unpopular this is but it's been a big change for me. I'm at peace with the idea of Joe Biden as president. I would absolutely vote for him if I lived in a swing state, and I wouldn't even be holding my nose. The left as a whole can go further with Biden than we can with Trump. Centrism will always be preferable to fascism and I think some accelerationists are getting it twisted.
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great idea actually, drinking lead water and dropping my IQ 30 points so that class consciousness will grow more is definitely chill, as well as my city (NYC) continuing to lack funds to build the Gateway Tunnel and seawalls to combat sea level rise which will absolutely fuck over the poorest here if not done with any urgency whatsoever
class consciousness will continue to grow under Biden. he won't stop the decline of the American empire and with him in office shitlibs' terribleness will be on full display. at the very least, he will restore some of the protections the EPA that were dismantled by blonde chud and fund infrastructure and possibly repeal the faircloth amendment.
in all honesty i find the whole "uhhuhuh are you a good leftist if you're voting biden/not voting" discourse fucking brain-dead. you're not being a good leftist by being obsessed with electoral politics, that's for fucking sure
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Compare the material conditions under Obama to whatever conditions will exist past 2020, and compare how beloved Obama was to libs' indifference to Biden.
Accelerationism is only good if you're ready to literally fight when things really go to shit, and the left isn't anywhere near organized or armed enough for that.
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Assuming that's true, which is debatable, it still doesn't make accelerationism good. At least not right now.
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I'm not so sure.
First off it would create tens of millions of refugees, so you would have to deal with them.
Secondly those fascist states would have access to nuclear weapons. So long as they do they will be a threat to everyone, and being fascist and warring there is a much higher likelyhood that they will use them. I wouldn't want latin american countries getting nuked becuase some rump fascist US state failed to coup their governments.
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I could understand this attitude with a Bernie presidency even if we accept his inevitable failure to govern.
But a Biden presidency is not even a consolation prize. It is like the Titanic movie when the ship breaks in half and the rear side drops down to the water level again. For a moment things would look fine, except you know, half your ship is missing, everything is flooded/destroyed, 2/3 of the passengers already died or escaped etc etc... That is pretty apt description of the US currently actually.
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Awful, awful take. He's a fucking rapist and a foreign policy hawk