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Also, in b4 fascists start pretending like the Stalinist bootlicker Thalmann hadn't spent the past half-decade backstabbing and burning bridges with the SPD, which had previously been cooperative with the KPD after the establishment of the Weimar Republic.
Correct.
"Voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil."
You have a duty to ensure the least amount of harm is being done.
Saving three people out of ten is better than saving zero out of ten.
Rewatched the divergent series recently, in the last movie there's an exchange between two characters that goes roughly like this:
"If you only had enough to save one, would you choose a sick, dying old man or the young boy?"
"I wouldn't choose"
"Oh good, now they're both dead."
Reading though the comments, I have to say… I’m so glad you have the tolerance to argue with these kids about this. I bow before your seemingly infinite patience.
Accelerationism is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever heard of.
No no no, I'm sure we can build a better government from the ashes of our current resources, which we burnt down while gaining nothing in the process /s
Right, because if there was enough support for your stance that you could ensure it would prevail in the post collapse struggle, then you could almost certainly achieve it with democratic support instead.
I mean it is like wanting the cold war to end with nuclear weapons. No one wins and we all die. Even the preppers who built bunkers back then would not survive for long, and this is assuming they survive the initial blasts.
They should have used a genuine Vault-Tec™ vault!
At this point, I'm all for Plan D
Sounds like Accelerationism. It's stupid, but not fascism.
Stalinists are absolutely fascists. Accelerationism is just the preferred technique.
Collapse theory is fundamentally a privileged take. It is a position that is impossible to accept without either the assumption that you'd survive, or the assumption that the disproportionate harm to the disadvantaged is worth it for your end goals even if you die too.
Either way, you're declaring that your paradise can and should be built over the bodies of the disemprivileged, and are automatically wrong and a horrible person for even being able to think that way.
You are the exact kind of monster that built the colonialist model of Israel, just insisting that your nation built on the bodies of the innocent will be a more moral one somehow.
Excellent take. It is a clear indicator of an individualist mindset.
Wonderful comment. I’ve been thinking similarly for a while. Nice too see it put out there.
Collapse theory is fundamentally a privileged take
It's definitely a white-male-privileged take in the US.
It also just doesn't make sense from a logistics sense -- You want to address the current set of big problems by ... creating more big problems to address with the same/less resources and organizations? Some that are more time sensitive than others?
You want to address the current set of big problems by ... creating more big problems to address.
Right. There's already a shitload of big problems.
Then Thälmann was arrested and shot and killed in a death camp 11 years later...