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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Temporarily yes. Perhaps not in the long run, though. Sometimes you have to go through some pain to cure the disease.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could call it temporary if this was part of a clear plan for a better future. But it isn't.

The Trump victory doesn't lead to anything good. It isn't 'temporary' pain for a long-term fix. It is simply going in the wrong direction, and it won't turn around by with magic or wishful thinking.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No one has anything like a plan to fix things. The point is to break everything hard enough that the staunch status quo idiots with their heads in the sand are forced to look up and start doing something. Failing that we'll have a quick death rather than a long and torturous one.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So your plan is to fuck everything up in order to motivate 'status quo idiots' to do something, so that you don't have to. Is that about right?

It seems to me that instead of trying to make things worse, you could instead try to make things better. But I guess activism is much easier when you don't actually have to do anything yourself.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

To be clear, this isn't my plan. I'm just relaying the reality of the situation to you. This is what is happening and we have to deal with it.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is more putting through people through certain pain for uncertain, perhaps never coming cure.

Hell of a gamble.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Slow death versus a possible quick death with a chance for a cure.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's like facing a canyon and hitting the gas pedal instead of working slowing the car down. But they, who knows, there might be a ramp lol

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's more like facing a cliff and pulling the handbrake to crash the car in the hopes it rolls to a stop before going over the edge instead of bickering about what speed we want to go over the cliff at.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Handbrake would be a drastic action to slow down. In this case accelerationists want to accelerate towards the cliff, hoping there's some good outcome from that, instead of trying to slow down.

Though it's true that that doesn't capture the fact that it's outright making things worse for people, especially minority groups, for really uncertain hope that things will drastically improve.

instead of bickering about what speed we want to go over the cliff at

It seems sensible to try and vote to slow down the speed instead of accelerating lol. With slower speed you have more time to actually stop the car.