• Veneroso@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Look, I want fully automated gay space communism as much as the next guy.

    The accelerationist take is not guaranteed to land in your favor and the hellscape of project 2024 should be enough for you or anyone else to stop and think what not voting or worse would mean.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=op0yk50uMlQ

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      1 year ago

      And Project 2025 is now forever part of the Republican platform, so you’re quite literally saying that we will be forever stuck in desperate psuedo-survival mode, choosing the less evil candidate.

      No, fuck that, people are tired of that. You need to start putting your energy not into aggressively suppressing left but pressuring the Democratic party to do better, they need to know playing chocken with our democracy is not viable.

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        1 year ago

        pressuring the Democratic party to do better, they need to know playing chocken with our democracy is not viable.

        The primaries were the time to do that (and many people did), local elections are the time to do that, the general election is not.

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          It’s working, so yes, the general is just as good a time if not a better to apply pressure.

          The Democratic establishment uses the general as a way to twistthe arms of voters, so if they do it there’s no reason voters can’t do it right back. It sounds like you’ve forgotten that the politicians are suppose to work for you in a democracy, not vice versa.

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            1 year ago

            It sounds like you’ve forgotten that the politicians are suppose to work for you in a democracy, not vice versa.

            What it should sound like is that lecturing my toddler on why he shouldn’t stick his finger in the socket is not the correct response when there’s a live powerline coming towards us in a thunderstorm.

            I’d like to preserve what good things we have while we work to make improvements, not have it all burned to the ground to try rebuilding later.