Okay so something people are really bad at is framing who has agency and who doesn't, acting like in the present moment we have a choice but that the future consequences of our current choice will be automatic like dominoes falling Election discourse is terrible for this
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And honestly the argument that "four more years of Trump will be better than Biden because if things get bad enough people will realize the system has to change" is self-defeating Why didn't the first four years of Trump do that then
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If you think, as I do, that Biden is a worse candidate than Hillary was, well, that's the result of four years of Trump Four more years of Trump and you'll probably get someone worse than that
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What accelerationist say to me is that they're privileged enough for the outcome of this election not to effect them.
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The quiet part of accelerationism is "They'll have to do *what I want*." It's arguable that the 2018 Blue wave was the people of 2016's future doing something about Trumpism. But they did what *they* chose to.
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*Sometimes* tragedy leads to change for the better, but that doesn't mean we should be pushing for tragedy to happen.
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