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Cody | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Idk Hodl, maybe I will transition out of political apathy at some point, but these two aren't doing it for me.  Trump is a Unitard and RFK won't have enough agency to do anything important.  

TBH I think we need to step on the gas not the brakes.  People only wake up when things get really "bad" Kamala would wake a lot of people up😂😂
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HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Kamala accelerationism is a loser opinion for people with no balls.
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Cody | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Maybe, I think it's mostly cope.  But I really do think that the slow boil is more dangerous than the accelerationist approach
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HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Accelerationism is just letting your enemy win and claiming you’re actually winning. It’s full retard stuff bro (said with love) I’ve had these dumbass thoughts too lol 😂
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Cody | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I don't think so, have you heard of insurgency math?  I think that is an effective form of accelerationism.

  There are 20 Taliban Terrorists, we go to Afghanistan and kill 10.  How Terrorists do we have?  40

There is 1% freedom fighters in the US.  They lock the country down for Covid.  Most people show their hands and are sheep, but many wake up.  Now there are 2% 

Now Kamala gets elected and imposes unrealized capital capital gains Now 3% 

People need to be shaken to actually wake up and do something.  

And tbh my vote doesn't count anyway(Wyoming) so I don't really have a dog in this fight.
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HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 If people get woken up by trauma then so be it but I’m certainly not going to root for it. I have children and I’d like to avoid mass chaos whenever possible.
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drgo | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I’m tempted by accelerationism too. But as that necessarily involves bloodshed, I remain grounded in the political process to kill tyranny peacefully. For now. There is always a limit beyond which bloodshed becomes necessity & duty. But we aren’t there yet, imho.
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Cody | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't think accelerationism has to involve bloodshed.  Covid was accelerationism, unrealized capital gains tax is accelerationism imo.
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drgo | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I think the only end game of permitting the march to tyranny is armed revolution. Our country has made this a fairly regular thing. Shots have been fired and lives lost in lawfully fighting federal government overreach.