to everyone mad about this: yes chomsky is an old man but anarchists periodically need to be put in their place so people dont start thinking they have rational political views
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Replying to @virgiltexas
Anyway it's a silly argument bc Chomsky should present the choice that actually exists: "Do you want your grandchildren to be 12 feet underwater if GOP wins, or 8 feet underwater if Dems do" is the realistic question
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Replying to @CarlMarkChi @virgiltexas
This is the central question that keeps getting obscured--harm reduction doesn't matter in many cases if the level of harm is above some catastrophic threshold. Dying of cancer at 55 vs 58 isn't a real choice ppl are going to make and it's not something that motivates voting
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Replying to @CarlMarkChi @virgiltexas
Dying of cancer now vs. 3 years from now is the kind of decision that a whole bunch of cancer patients make.
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Even granting all the premises of the argument, accelerationism is saying that you could defeat your cancer with Sheer Power of Will if you were just angry enough, and you're not quite angry enough yet, so if we stop all your chemo you have a chance of being completely cured
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke and
If there really is NO OTHER CHOICE but living to the age of 55 or 58, then OF COURSE you'd pick 58 and OF COURSE that's a very important choice Accelerationism is premised on a third option that they always gesture vaguely but forcefully in the direction of but never produce
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke and
It’s premised on the idea that making others suffer will force them into agreement with you and not respond to the direct causes of their suffering
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Replying to @bradiscranky @jkfecke and
It's literally the Green Lantern thing, it's saying that we could have an actual cure for cancer right now if we "really wanted to" and therefore chemo is bad for cancer patients because it means they are no longer motivated to "demand" one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bradiscranky and
The idea that things might actually be impossible no matter how hard you "demand" them -- that other people *have* demanded them, they've tried as hard as they possibly could, they've left it all on the road, and they *still failed* -- does not exist in their worldview
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bradiscranky and
There's also a fallacious mental leap in there wherein they can only imagine what they want coming to pass if a whole lot of things cease to be the way they are, therefore "burning it all down" will *definitely* produce the outcome they want... except chaos doesn't work that way.
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"Any time I had a problem I didn't know how to solve, I threw a Molotov cocktail And then, sure enough, I had a completely different problem"
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