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(this is a sarcastic post meant to highlight the absurdity of some of the “greater good” rhetoric we’ve been hearing, especially around leaving vulnerable populations like disabled people behind in case of revolution, basically accelerationism)

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (39 children)

Fight all you want, by all means, bring those in power further left. But at the ballot box come election day, I don't care if the dem wants to sacrifice puppies on weekends. Guaranteed their Republican opponent has a factory grinding puppies into various consumer products by the millions. And their 3rd party counterpart likely has a greater chance of getting elected to mayor of flavortown than to congress/president (and also still probably kills puppies casually among friends themselves).

Is this system bullshit? Yup. Is it the one we got? Yup. We need to deal within that reality. By all means, let's work to change that system, but for the love of God, let's not shoot ourselves in the foot when our favorite candidate doesn't stand a chance in hell, or the more likely candidate is blatantly flawed (but still better than the alternative)

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tbh I think the Republicans get us closer to revolution than the Democrats do. I think the only way out is to break the system.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Means to an end, maybe. But do the ends justify these means? And what makes you think a leftist utopia is even the ends of all this in the first place?

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's the biggest problem is I can't guarantee the revolution would be leftist or that the emerging system would be better than our current system. We need to build a leadership system now.

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