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'Went nuclear': State Department reportedly 'shocked' as Rubio freezes foreign aid
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You hope to bring about a new party with zero plan candidate or substance and in turn got additional people hurt.
Accelerationists are dreaming of a survivor fantasy where their perceived position or privledge will keep them or their family alive through the downfall, transition, and reconstruction of what's next. Who's to say what's next isn't 10x worse? You can't.
Not caring about buying time is a privileged position, one that for example afghan refugees who had flights to the US this week and beyond sure would like a bit more of. Oh, whoops, the democrats needed to be taught a lesson so I guess it's ok that they are abandoned now.
It's all good and well to talk theory, but in real life harm reduction is actually helping people.
I'm trans in a red state so I'm certainly not in a privileged position. I still voted PSL. Your "harm reduction" wasn't reducing harm for Gaza and I couldn't vote for genocide to save my own ass. It was about being able to live with myself after the election.
Oh and would you look at that, there's aid trucks entering Gaza and the bombing has stopped. I'm feeling pretty okay with my vote.
I'm not an accelerationist, nor do I have any such fantasies. In the face of continued decline, "what's next" is virtually guaranteed to be 10x worse, that's why the decline must be stopped not continued. If I were an accelerationist, I would be more than happy with either candidate, since both ensured continued decline.
Is that so? Would you consider all the Palestinians who didn't vote for her to be "privileged?"
Obviously this is bullshit, it's just weaponizing progressive language to try to get people to fall in line behind a doomed cause rather than looking at solutions that actually have the potential to improve the lives of marginalized people and stop the rise of the far-right. You might as well say, "It's privileged to support striking workers because they're the ones well off enough to go without pay for a period, have you considered that scabs have families to feed?" Nonsense.
I don't think this way because I'm "privileged," but rather the opposite, because I'm pretty fucking close to the top of the fascists' list so it's easier for me to see that they must be stopped rather than allowing minorities to be sacrificed one by one, "First they came for" style, like the Democrats offer.
As discussed above, conditions will only worsen in Palestine.
Not taking the most realistic action to avoid another trump term is by far the greatest harm.
Suggesting the Dems should be torn down in 2023 or 2024, without a meaningful, competitive replacement is garbage.
People can't hold 2 thoughts at once apparently: "A is bad, but B is worse".
Of course a striking worker isn't privledge, they are standing on the line and could easily be retaliated against.
You seem to have lost the plot, if anything, this just supports the point I was making. Palestinian voters refused to vote for Harris despite indications that things would get worse under Trump. Yet your explanation for this behavior is that they must all be "Privileged," an argument you apparently forgot you were making. How can you possibly argue that their position is privileged when your best case scenario for them is indefinitely continuing genocide? It's absurd.
And how exactly is a meaningful, competitive replacement supposed to spring into existence if everyone just falls behind them no matter what in every election until the end of time?
Yeah, that's the point. It's a nonsense claim dressed up in progressive language, just like your nonsense claim that Palestinians voted the way they did because of privilege.