• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If I was to give this point of the benefit of the doubt (which, to be clear, I don’t) what you’re saying is that tankies are accelerationists. And I get it, to an extent – a comfortable middle class isn’t going to be concerned about the depredations of the right until they start to find themselves in the crosshairs – but the last time fascists got their way in the world, more than 73 million people died. Arguing, in effect, that the aftermath of another world war will be better for the survivors is a… challenging point to defend when it requires you to dismiss the deaths of a significant percentage of the world’s population, especially when those most in danger from a rising right wing are those that a supposed left-winger should most want to protect. Sacrificing religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities on the altar of a better future for religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities doesn’t sit well with me.

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      4 months ago

      Defending a revolution is not accelerationism. I have no idea how you got that from what they said, or generally where this idea of tankies being accelerationists comes from, it seems to be mostly something people make up about us. Accelerationism is stupid and reactionary.

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          4 months ago

          Yes, he is. Not sure what that has to do with the incorrect claim that tankies are accelerationists.

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            4 months ago

            Most tankies on lemmy spend a lot of time arguing for people to do things that lead to Trump bringing much of fascism to America. Not sure if you’d noticed.

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                4 months ago

                Oh, weird. In my feed, they’re always trying to convince left leaning folk not to vote for Biden so that Trump wins.

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                  4 months ago

                  Yes, we do believe in participating in bourgeois elections in the form of our own party, the reasons for which were laid out by Lenin ages ago. It has nothing to do with the modern concept of “accelerationism,” or wanting Trump to win. If I were an accelerationist, I’d be spoiled for choice, conditions will continue to decline under either candidate. Unfortunately, accelerationism doesn’t work, and declining conditions are the reason we got Trump in the first place.

                  In a race between Trump and a person who created the conditions that make people like Trump inevitable, I support neither, instead, I support a position of fixing the conditions that led to Trump’s emergence, which is the only possible strategy of stopping facism in the long run.

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                    The conditions that led to Trump’s rise to power were a deep-seated underlying racism that persists in several American subcultures, coupled with a failure to address wage suppression by allowing the minimum wage to fall behind the cost of living for decades and decades.

                    If I were an accelerationist, I’d be spoiled for choice, conditions will continue to decline under either candidate.

                    You’re still both-sides-ing a clear-cut choice between lawless capitalism and the status quo with fringe improvements. Here I thought you were a left wing person who prefers the poor to suffer less. I was wrong, you’re a classic tankie, I’m afraid, who draws no distinction. You could use your vote to prevent the clear and present danger of a much worse situation in America, but you’ve become convinced that letting Trump win is the nobler, purer action. Save me from “leftist” hard-right enablers!