• mayooooo@beehaw.org
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    9 hours ago

    No sense, but I’d like to see the morons who kept bullshitting that there is any kind of sense in not voting. The dumbest fucking people anywhere

      • knightly the Sneptaur
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        8 hours ago

        Given the results of the election, it seems that the accelerationists might have had the right idea.

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          5 hours ago

          Accelerationists have never been right, their argument is self-defeating.

          The heart of the accelerationist argument is equating red and blue, claiming the blues’ inability to completely undo the damage of the reds is intentional and makes them no better – that the purpose of a system is what it does.

          But by that logic, the purpose of accelerationism is to enable fascist ascent, and that makes them indistinguishable from fascists.

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            7 minutes ago

            If the purpose of a thing is what it does, then accelerationism isn’t for anything. Recognizing that things will inevitably get worse before they can get better accomplishes nothing.

        • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          8 hours ago

          A burning building doesn’t get put out by watching it burn. And the fire can in fact spread to the next building. Things can always get worse because there is no bottom. Things will only get better by making them better.

          The accelerationists got what they wanted. And everyone, including them, are worse off for it. We’ve gone from not utilizing the limited time window, to avert the worst of climate change, to choosing to use that time to pollute as much as possible. We may in fact succeed in reaching 5°C before 2100.

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            1 minute ago

            Things will only get better by making them better.

            And people are lazy and don’t try, so things always get worse until things get bad enough that people get fed up with the things and do something about them.

            For the last four years, people have been acting like they don’t need to get off their asses and fundamentally change their way of life to address climate change because there was a Democrat in office. Now the Democrats aren’t going to save them and they don’t have a choice if they want a habitable planet for their grandkids.

        • natuhhlee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          8 hours ago

          It’s likely because of them that this was the outcome. 81M votes for Biden in 2020 and 10K less this year when it really mattered?