Doing my part

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Accelerationism refers to the idea of intentionally making capitalism the worst version of itself so that people have to revolt. It doesn't work; it makes everything worse without accomplishing the end goal. Generally, the people making these arguments aren't coming right out and saying they're accelerationists, but they get there indirectly.

People won't bring the revolution just because things are bad. You need class consciousness first.

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bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

The Daddy Party comes home drunk from the party and beats you with his belt.

The Mommy Party cries in the corner, telling you there's nothing she can do because you didn't support her enough.

Then I did nothing about it between presidential elections.

People blink in and out of existence between elections. Nobody actually exists when they aren't voting.

Nobody organized with their coworkers to form unions. Nobody carried for relatives that had lost work or gotten sick from the pandemic. Nobody provided care for young children or volunteered to help impoverished neighbors or mucked out homes after devastating hurricanes. Nobody went to school to get advanced degrees in fields necessary for building out green energy or modern transit or dense housing or criminal justice.

Nobody. Did. Anything.

Four years later, I demand the party cater to me, Me, ME.

When you think about it, denouncing genocide is an entirely selfish act.

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No, people against genocide are not bots, and liberals have not ever been the left. You people love genocide until it might affect you, you're not the left.

And just because you were banned from spaces because you were pro genocide, doesn't mean anyone has stopped talking about Palestine.

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Jesus Christ I hope you and yours die in pain, you fucking monster.

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morons that decided not to vote

The only people I see on this board are people who held their noses and voted while complaining nobody else voted but them.

The non-voters aren't on social media telling you they aren't going to vote. They're simply checking out entirely.

The only people who hear you are the ones that did vote for the shitty compromise candidate and are now getting abuse from you because they didn't vote hard enough.

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They’re both wrong

Those NICU babies bombed by the IDF shouldn't have joined Hamas.

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When you think about it, this is really the fault of the Iranians for not submitting quietly to the Shah in 1979.

Everything after that was completely outside anyone's control.

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You had a better chance of stopping or slowing it if you didn’t let the other side take over our entire government

Too many Lemmyites didn't vote hard enough. That's why every single state in the country trended Republican in 2024. You fucking idiots on a 4th rate social media site ruined things for everyone.

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But different politics and a different political system doesn't mean that in the end there's still gonna be some representative in some parliament or mayor's office. Popular movements can shape the political landscape without ever relying on getting "the right people"into elected positions.

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Getting involved in local political action? Mutual aid? Gift economy?

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Kek it is the long term solution

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This is too subtle for most of your audience. You really gotta crank it up to Verhoeven to be understood, and even then…

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I guess you don't listen to Democracy Now. They've been reporting on Palestine every day since the election.

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Okay, so if nobody cared about it, and it didn't affect Harris...why are you talking about it?

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He is right about that, you just censored the people who pointed out the problems.

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not each other. western countries esp the us are the ones provoking and arming them for decades. not just in the middle east either.

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when things get much worse for people, they might have no choice but to try something else

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They are going to try to wreck everything. They will fail.

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Cotation needed