Greg Abbott is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are encouraging him to do so.
Can we PLEASE, in the Trump / Brexit era, recognize how baseless accelerationism is? Have we not learned the lesson of
“Once these people do this terrible, stupid thing, they will realize how terrible & stupid it is”
-is completely false? And in fact tons of people will double down on the stupid terrible thing? They’ll double down so much that they’ll gladly swallow horse dewormer & bleach, and not get vaccinated, and literally die drowning in their own fluids before admitting that maybe that wasn’t such a good idea?
I live here, in the thick of it, and honestly you could probably just tell most of them succession happened and it worked and everything is fine now and they’d probably believe you, and the crazy part is, they’d never notice because they likely expect nothing to change in their completely unaffected by anything ever in their entitled as hell daily lives
Can we PLEASE, in the Trump / Brexit era, recognize how baseless accelerationism is? Have we not learned the lesson of
“Once these people do this terrible, stupid thing, they will realize how terrible & stupid it is”
-is completely false? And in fact tons of people will double down on the stupid terrible thing? They’ll double down so much that they’ll gladly swallow horse dewormer & bleach, and not get vaccinated, and literally die drowning in their own fluids before admitting that maybe that wasn’t such a good idea?
I live here, in the thick of it, and honestly you could probably just tell most of them succession happened and it worked and everything is fine now and they’d probably believe you, and the crazy part is, they’d never notice because they likely expect nothing to change in their completely unaffected by anything ever in their entitled as hell daily lives
Not on Lemmy, because accelerationism is a core value for fake leftist trolls.