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Biden was never up to the task of fighting fascism, it sucks we blew 2020 on him.
Hopefully 2028 is a fair primary and we're able to sneak a popular and competent candidate past the crypt keepers at the DNC.
I am convinced at this point that the country would have been infinitely better off in the long-term if Biden had lost in 2020.
The clown show incompetence of the OG Trump administration would have continued, Roe would have been overturned on Trump's watch, and people would have been getting seriously dry fucked in the ass with a sand paper condom on by the economy right now.
We would have seen extreme rage at Donald Trump in a way that would have broken the illusion for a lot more of the mentally deficient people in the country, and it probably would have led to him being legitimately tried and convicted.
But like usual the Democrats manage to get it together just enough to eek out a useless victory that somehow manages to fuck shit up even worse later, and teach the institutionalist fucktards the exact wrong lessons. Given the existing timeline we are in now it really makes you wonder if the accelerationists have a point or not...
If they have a point it’s because they manufactured it.
Personally I’m too stubborn to just roll over and give up. That’s what they want. Don’t give them that satisfaction.
Get involved at the local and state levels. Those are our easiest avenues to affect change going forward.
And over the next 4 years hope a halfway decent candidate that puts the people and worker protections at the top of their list of issues to run on and support the hell out of them. Or if you’re eligible, run yourself. I’d happily support an average citizen running for their peers.
I'm not sure I entirely follow where you are going with this. My assumption is that you mean by them supporting the path of least resistance to the potential downfall and assumed reorientation of the economic/political system that the only points they have are a result of self-fulfilling prophecy. In which case, I guess I kind of agree because this is somewhat the same from a conceptual standpoint as the Evangelicals who think that every bad thing that happens is a sign of ushering in the rapture and therefore them getting their duty free pass to heaven. The accelerationists obviously have a more cogent point I would argue since it is based around a materialist philosophy at its core, but I generally agree that it is still misguided none the less...
Yeah, I hear ya. I try to keep that stoic mentality that the mission hasn't changed just because the circumstances have. It is just annoying to always feel like you can so clearly see the issues coming from a million miles away, and yet with all of the advancements we have made society still manages to hit the iceberg anyway.
My personal life has evolved over the last year in a way that this has actually become possible, so I have been intellectualizing on how to actually do this effectively now that the proverbial other shoe has dropped this week. I am heavily considering how I can utilize my voice & my life path in a way that is politically expedient and does some real material good in the world that's for fuck sure.
One can only hope that through the madness it becomes a centralizing force that perhaps effectuates the rising of a new breed of stronger, more voracious, and aggressive leftist candidates who leave behind the PC culture virtue signaling communication strategies in favor of something more akin to Bernie Sanders & Noam Chomsky mixed with Eminem & Immortal Technique. Until the left is willing to shake up the cultural hegemony of institutionalist thinking in favor of some more militant rhetoric we are going to continue getting curb stomped in the information war. It is time to lose the civility, put on the fucking plate carrier, and treat these right wing hack commentators with maximum intellectual disrespect in my view.