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i’m so fucking tired. this thread makes me want to cry.
i just want to do the right thing and feel right about it. https://twitter.com/m_c_yates/status/1293300812001742855
i just want to do the right thing and feel right about it. https://twitter.com/m_c_yates/status/1293300812001742855
i don’t know how much more nihilism i can take. i don’t want accelerationism. but there’s no way i can just turn a blind eye now that i’ve seen all this shit. i can’t pretend like it’s not happening and only worry about my own self-interest.
vote for Biden? congrats, you’re handing power to cop supporters, transphobes, ICE.
don’t vote? congrats, you’ve shown that you’re complacent with fascism.
vote third-party? congrats, you’re shrugging at either consequence for whichever of the two *actually* get elected.
don’t vote? congrats, you’ve shown that you’re complacent with fascism.
vote third-party? congrats, you’re shrugging at either consequence for whichever of the two *actually* get elected.
nobody fucking wins.
and god forbid you try to look at Biden’s policies on his website, try to say “hey, 97% of Americans having healthcare doesn’t seem like a bad first step!”
because oh, of course, how could you be so stupid as to think a politician will enact policies?
and god forbid you try to look at Biden’s policies on his website, try to say “hey, 97% of Americans having healthcare doesn’t seem like a bad first step!”
because oh, of course, how could you be so stupid as to think a politician will enact policies?
“no politician will ever do anything good, and if they say they will, they’re lying. American electorialism is always a failure.
...anyway, woohoo, Ilhan Omar won the election! ...what? i mean yeah, she’s a politician, why do you ask”
...anyway, woohoo, Ilhan Omar won the election! ...what? i mean yeah, she’s a politician, why do you ask”
why celebrate progressive wins? what about your self-fulfilling prophecies that nothing good can ever come out of the system? what happened to the good ol’ doompilled accelerationist hammer-and-sickle-handles i’ve come to know and love?!
i’m not sick of advocacy. i’m not sick of bumps in the road, of understanding just how long change might take and how i may not even live to see it.
i’m sick of the inescapable defeat. i’m sick of the fucking snark. the irony.
i’m sick of the inescapable defeat. i’m sick of the fucking snark. the irony.
maybe i just need to unfollow every millennial on my timeline. maybe it’s something about them, because i sure as fuck do not see this bitterness in my generation.
i see anger, i see sadness, i see a drive. but i don’t see such a sad, pathetic, reductive admittance of defeat.
i see anger, i see sadness, i see a drive. but i don’t see such a sad, pathetic, reductive admittance of defeat.
i despise having to battle with my empathy and what i personally think is the right thing to do. i fucking hate how impossible it is to argue with doompilled millennials who have been genuinely fucked over.
i think Biden’s plan of insuring 97% of America is good.
i can’t bring myself to debate someone with crippling medical debt on why i’m going to vote for the guy who will leave 10 million people in their position.
i can’t bring myself to debate someone with crippling medical debt on why i’m going to vote for the guy who will leave 10 million people in their position.
i sincerely believe good things can happen under a Biden administration. genuine first steps to real change, not just a return to normalcy.
i’m not ready to call it quits in 2024, but fuck, i think we can get on a good path by then, and keep going.
i’m not ready to call it quits in 2024, but fuck, i think we can get on a good path by then, and keep going.
i just want to feel good about this. not even perfect. just decent. just even the slightest amount of optimism.
actual accelerationism is not popular outside of twitter and a handful of communist chapters. thinking that even 10% of Americans would accept that mindset is unbelievably fucking delusional.
“the entire country should just fall apart” is a concept that would result in an unfathomable amount of deaths. covid-19 twentyfold. fiftyfold.
imagine if you had a button that would instantly put American in the physical and socio-economic state of the end goal of accelerationism. you would know exactly what those states are and mean.
i sincerely doubt anybody with a single living relative or friend would press it.
i sincerely doubt anybody with a single living relative or friend would press it.
whatever. end of thread. i’m so sick of talking about this. i don’t want to feel guilty about the possibility of ennacting the most left-leaning policy in the history of the united states.
