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Or you can do the smart thing and not accept the trap of believing electorlism will get you anywhere and organize to destroy the system.
They'll get around to it on the same timeframe as the "South will rise again" folks.
Pro Tip: Your shit doesn't fly so well outside the dbzer0 and ml communities. Those are your safe spaces and where you will feel most comfortable.
If you really believe in accelerationism, then vote for the fascists. That'll get us to the end quicker. If you can't bring yourself to do it, then maybe there's a reason for that.
Sitting around and not voting is either laziness or cowardice. Don't play dumb and pretend it's anything more than that.
Anti electoralism isn't "accelerationism". Nothing i said even lightly implied that. Hate the newest liberal buzzword.
If you're not accelerating towards the destruction of the system, then how are you destroying it?
That's... not what that word means. Seriously look it up on Wikipedia. The short of it is that accelerationism refers to the idea that actively pushing society towards some kind of failure state faster will result in radical change once the dust clears, making it a good choice if you want to get radical change faster. For example this could be a leftist voting for Trump so fascism comes about, fucks things up and opens up the way for a socialist revolution. For obvious reasons this isn't a very popular idea, but it's also quite clearly not what the parent comment said. There are other ways to do anti-electoralism that don't involve pushing the fascists towards power.
LOL. You dweebs can't organise to vote for a third party. How are you going to organize to destroy the system when the system has military hardware.
This is what I don't get about the 3rd party tribe. Literally no 3rd party is even remotely organized enough to even come close to winning a federal election, much less local elections. I don't know if any amount of physical brain damage could make me dumb enough to vote for a 3rd party presidential candidate. It's just so uniquely pointless.
The thinking is that more votes for a third party will move the policies of the two larger parties further towards the third party.
Sometimes it's suggested in safe democrat seats.
I think US politics is unusual in that the primaries determine what type of candidate is going to set the tone for the party.
As in, the dems are a broad church, that could have a conservative or a progressive leader.