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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I really want the people touting accelerationism to get this There is no such thing as things becoming bad enough that the people of the future will "have to" do this or do that The people of the future are no more and no less free-willed than we are
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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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Everything gives us the next thing, this kind of argument is vacuous, that was my whole point Every single leader in history was bad because they're all part of the chain of events that got us to Trump
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