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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Cost of Doing Business RuleEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Watching everything burn isn’t praxis. Their strategy is to let fascists win, so they aren’t even anti-fascist. It’s self-defeating because it helps no one and gets us further from progressive and socialist goals.

    I argue with a lot of people arguing for accelerationism so there is my comment and post history. Alternatively you could go through the Political Memes, politics, News, and World News communities. Political Memes would probably be the easiest to find relevant posts and comments.

    The search bar is a helpful tool for this. Individual communities can be selected to be searched. Searching on accelerationism is a good place to start. Once you find some users arguing against or for this rhetoric you can review their comment and post history.

    I have been participating in and following along with the political discourse on lemmy. Lots of other people have to. I’m not the only one who has noticed the prevalence of accelerationism rhetoric or the only person arguing against accelertionism.

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Cost of Doing Business RuleEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    He’ll yea let’s call people unwilling to vote for someone who won’t stop the genocide accelerationists!

    People are claiming to be accelerationists, arguing that accelerationism is the answer to fascism, making pro-accelerationism memes. The memes have been in the lemmy.world Political Memes community but the rhetoric can be found in political discussions all over lemmy. I would say it’s commonplace at this point.

    Their one issue was pretending to care about the Palestinians. After recent discussions I’ve had today and yesterday, it seems more obvious than ever that accelerationists don’t care about anything but being the most morally pure person in the room.

    Have you seriously not seen anything related to that? Having the self-evident political discourse on lemmy pointed out to you is really the straw that broke your back on hating the libs?

    it’s an asshole move to call Muslims and immigrants

    Are you kidding? It’s mostly white people as far as I can tell. The Palestinians and Muslims I’ve heard from urged people to vote for Harris. Accelerationism seems to require a privileged mindset so a person can turn a blind eye to the actual plight of minorities.

    edit: It’s Political Memes community not politics community for the memes.

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Cost of Doing Business RuleEnglish
    61·
    7 days ago

    I read your comments and watched the video. This isn’t my first time watching this video.

    I’m trying to call attention to these useless attacks that disregard Palestinians.

    The attacks, your argument refers to, are against accelerationism. Not everyone is going to use that term, but it’s clear based on the statement that is what they are referring to. Gaza was the single issue accelerationists focused on. The accelerationists and this meme are disregarding the Palestinians.

    The commenter’s message and the video’s message are the same. We need to leverage power to help minorities. Arguing against that message is more accelerationism.

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Cost of Doing Business RuleEnglish
    111·
    7 days ago

    Accelerationism is a self-defeating strategy that harms us all. Part of the bare minimum of doing the work between elections is calling out accelerationism’s false promises. It takes little effort, but it’s important to highlight the uselessness of this ideology. If we do not learn from all the failures of this election we will be doomed to repeat them in the future.

    People are arguing against participating in elections to help minorities in this comment section. The video is in no small part about people refusing to leverage power to help minorities. This is not an issue of nuance. The arguments the video is referring to and the arguments in this comment section are a one to one match.

    The meme misrepresents the video, which in facts calls out people for their inaction the same way the commenter in the meme is doing. It is in fact this meme that is attempting, unsuccessfully for another moral victory at the expense of the Palestinians. This meme does nothing to help the Palestinians, it is just seeking moral victory over those who would leverage power for the Palestinians.

    The commenter’s argument and the video’s argument are the same argument. So the meme is arguing against the video’s argument. edit: typos

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Cost of Doing Business RuleEnglish
    492·
    7 days ago

    To the accelerationists the lives of the Palestinian people are the cost of doing business. Dirtying their hands by voting Democrat would inconvenience them by violating their moral compass. Even though Harris pledged to do everything in her power to end the war in Gaza. The magnitude and scope of an indefinite genocide were immaterial to accelerationists. By contributing to Harris’ loss they achieved a moral victory over the progressives and socialists who are also anti-racist, but were willing to leverage power for the benefit of the Palestinian people.

    Read this comment section and what the users arguing against democracy had to say. Then watch the video and see how the video is talking about their arguments and their refusal to leverage power for the benefit of others. Their arguments have to twist the video’s words and hope you don’t watch it.

    In a democracy, voting is how we leverage power in elections. When we show up, we win. The accelerationists weren’t willing to show up for Palestinians, who they professed to care about. They aren’t going to show up for Palestinians, trans people, or anyone for elections in 2026 and 2028. A user argues, in this comment section, against utilizing elections.

    Assuming we continue to have elections, please reject accelerationism. Things do not get better by making them worse. Things only get better by learning from our mistakes and using that knowledge to make things better.

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•somebody check on ruleEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    What your argument is describing isn’t populism in general. Trump’s populism is christian nationalism which seems to be what your argument is referring to. Bernie’s platform in 2016 and 2020 was a populist platform that was intended to forward a progressive agenda.

    https://www.wordnik.com/words/populism

    A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite.

    Why would we discard it later? Populism isn’t inherently radical or reactionary as Bernie and Trump have demonstrated. It provides a narrative to contextualize what the campaign is for to the people. Which Democrats definitely needed in this election. It’s highly unlikely Democrats will make their own populist campaign. We need to hijack the Democratic Party the way Bernie tried to do and Trump did to the Republican Party.

    The strategy is to use the Democratic Party so we don’t have to build our own party from scratch. It’s not because we like or think highly of Democrats. Because of our first-past-the-post voting system we end up in a two-party system. The Democrats are the tool we have to use when the Republicans are fascists that want to kill us.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•somebody check on ruleEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

    Sup. I’m trans too.

    I’ve seen the five comments you wrote. Be a bit easier if we do this in one comment chain yeah? I assume you meant neoliberalism is the left wing of fascism. Anyway, if you talk to people with neoliberal ideas in their head, you’ll find they are perfectly capable of empathy.

    Neoliberalism leads us to fascism because it elevates markets and corporations over people. Which means the rich are free to extract as much wealth from everyone else as they want. Neoliberalism also leads us to fascism because the only change it permits to a system is the people in that system. It’s a lot easier for fascists to convince neoliberals to change the people in society than in it is for socialists or progressives to convince them to redistribute wealth or enact systemic change respectively.

    This isn’t a moral failing of neoliberals. It’s a failure of education. We can teach people to identify flawed neoliberal ideas and rationalize how they got us to where we are now.

    As far as Democrats are concerned criticizing them isn’t the issue. The problem is trying to sink their campaign in the months leading up to the election when they were the only viable option to delay fascism. We need a populist narrative to push a socialist and progressive agenda to really turn the US around. But it takes time to get a campaign like that off the ground. It’s going to be a lot harder to do now.

    The Democrats were always going to run an incumbent this election, it’s standard in US politics. Not a good standard as it turned out, but the incumbent advantage was a political fundamental for decades.

    I would say an important take away from this election is that the Democratic Party is a tool. We can criticize and critique it as much as we want. But we aren’t doing ourselves any favors if we snap our tool over our knee and throw it away because it isn’t perfect.

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•somebody check on ruleEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    In the context of a 2-d, Euclidean geometry, x and y axis political compass putting neoliberals slightly right of center makes sense. In different models a different position could make sense. People don’t need to move through neoliberalism. The issue is that many if not most people in our society have neoliberal ideas in their heads.

    Regan, Bush Sr, Clinton, W, Obama were all some variation on neoliberal. Neoliberal rhetoric laid the ground work for Trump. Biden also being a neoliberal hasn’t moved the needle on this while in office. We can’t wait for someone to do it for us. We have to help people fully internalize neoliberalism as a scam. Then teach them about socialism.

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•somebody check on ruleEnglish
    31·
    11 days ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

    Our first-past-the-post voting system mathematically leaves us with two parties. Bernie tried to hijack the Democratic Party which is what Trump did to the Republican Party. If the Democratic Party’s leadership goes to prison during the next four years there might not be much of a party left to hijack. We might end up having to build our own party with its own populist narrative and then get it to be the one party that competes with the Republican Party, which is the harder of those two options.

    The meta is populism. If the corpse of the Democratic Party has enough juice in it, then it can be used to forward a populist narrative. If it doesn’t we’ll have to make our own from scratch. edit: typos

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•somebody check on ruleEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    I’m talking about Democrat voters or low information Republican voters who somehow aren’t in a right-wing information silo. Trump voters, who have been watching Fox News and similar programs, have been brained washed for decades. They need mandated cult deprogramming at this point with help from specialists.

    What we need to overcome is so widespread and ubiquitous that even people who aren’t particularly politically engaged have the idea in their head. Bring up socialism to people, and they reflexively say ‘socialism doesn’t work’. Maybe they give a passing reference to the Soviet Union. If a person believes their society’s institutions are infallible and that they are at the end of history it’s hard for them to understand we need systemic change and wealth redistribution.

    Neoliberalism needs to be fully internalized as a scam so people can look for other answers to their problems like socialism. The only changes that neoliberals are able to accept are changing the people who are in charge of institutions. It’s why fascists are able to appeal to them where socialists and even progressives struggle. The fascists only have to make the leap from changing the people in our institutions to changing the people in our society, primarily by getting rid of them. edit: typos

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•somebody check on ruleEnglish
    21·
    11 days ago

    All of that is true too. But we can’t control Biden or Harris or DNC consultants. And I doubt they will listen to us. We can choose to make a case to voters and delay fascism for four more years. We can use that time to create a populist campaign.

    It’s going to be a lot harder to do that now. Criticism isn’t the issue. It’s the inability to detach a person’s ego, their self-image, from what needs to be done in the moment. The people we are arguing with cannot seem to do that. It didn’t help them during the election. It’s not helping them now.

    I’m not perfect at this. And there’s a limit to how good at minimize our egos, anyone can be. We can’t get out of our egos, it’s a part of the human condition. But we can focus on being useful over being moral.

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•somebody check on ruleEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    If any neoliberal can’t get on board that neoliberalism is dead, then obviously they are no use to us. But they are an easier pool of people to convince than the fascists who want to kill us. And if the Democratic Party still exists in future elections and there somehow are future elections, both seem unlikely, it’s still worth voting for them because it gives us time to get a populist campaign off the ground assuming there isn’t already one that’s ready to go. edit: typo