• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I assure you if Bernie was nominated to run for President tomorrow, a flood of, “What has he done to earn my vote?” posts would start.

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      11 days ago

      Bernie Sanders is the single most popular politician in the USA due to bipartisan support, even if he hasn’t been the most popular primary candidate to democrats.

      I bet the voices of dissent would be Tankie and Anarchist accelerationists who see him making things better as dodging a violent revolution.

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        Anarchism = \ = barberianism

        Anarchism = \ = violence

        Pacifist-anarchism is what i personally subscribe to.

        Absolute do vote, and i am a huge fan of Sanders but also know that voting will not improve things, it will just slow down things getting worse. More time to fix things.

        Slow collapse will still continue till we fully transition to a permanent sustainable society. Transition will or will not happen regardless of any single nations temporary elected officials.

        The game we are playing is much bigger then a few suits performing geopolitics. Emergent complexity hits you like the great filter

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          Accelerationist = Supporters of the downfall of society, people who act to quicken a societal collapse

          You see that word in there now? Does that clear things up?

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            It makes me understand your view better but not sure if the term is accurate in this context or such people are common in reality.

            I know there are trump voters who argued he will destroy the current system which they hate but such is not specific to anarchism.

            Humanity going extinct doesn’t really match the ideals of individual freedom most schools of anarchy are centered around. Unless you consider some form of extreme eco-anarchism where the freedom for nature tops all others.

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              For somebody who doesn’t associate with anarchist accelerationists you’re leaving a lot of defensive replies.

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                Defense of what?

                I believe the only reason people don’t realize they are already anarchists (everything is and always has been and will be) is because they don’t know what anarchism is. Instead people associate it with violence and rebellion. Triggers me to elaborate on it because i truly believe awareness of its reality is the answer to sustainable peace.

                You may have a tiny point in my bias though. I believe stuff must get worse to get people to build something better and some signals of collapse feel like progress. But to turn that into speed running a total destruction of mature moral intellect and refusing to improve things now is plain ridiculous and somewhat of a strawman.

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        They will ask you to waste your vote on 3rd party because genocide and will be surprised the even more genocidal guy wins again because of it.

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          Technically Bernie is the third party, but yeah its going to take cooperation from the DNC to not spoil each others candidates if we run a lot of third party.

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      Just for awareness, 30/50 states have partisan primaries. That means you must be registered as a Democrat to vote in the Democratic primary. It was a contributing factor in Bernie’s 2016 primary loss, and will be the only effective way to replace the corporate centrists with progressives in the 2026 midterms.

      Check your state’s primary type here: https://ballotpedia.org/Primary_election_types_by_state

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        bernie is a centrist.

        the corporate centrists you speak of are right wingers.

        the overton window is really fucked in your country if you call people like biden “centrists”.