It’s Not a 2020 Rerun—It’s Much Worse

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Mona Pereth
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26 Aug 2023, 8:13 pm

Dox47 wrote:

I don't think I've ever felt so consciously accelerationist before,

The term "accelerationist" has several different meanings. (See Wikipedia.) In exactly which meaning are you referring to?

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I just want to get through the burning it all down part and get to rebuilding.

What leads you to believe you'll be one of the people who gets to decide what gets rebuilt and how? It's not like you're one of the leaders of a highly organized militia group, or something.

And, historically, when societies are recovering from being "all burned down," they don't tend to become libertarian. (Here you described yourself as an "idiosyncratic libertarian.")

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26 Aug 2023, 8:58 pm

swrider wrote:

I for one am hoping for a cross-party ticket. A moderate Democrat and a Moderate Republican. We need to pull the parties back towards the center where most Americans truly are.

Like I've been saying for a while - we need not just one new political party, but two.

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26 Aug 2023, 9:04 pm

goldfish21 wrote:

Dox47 wrote:

Mona Pereth wrote:

Rebuilding as what?

Something closer to what the founders intended, particularly with regard to how much government exists and what they're allowed to do.

Somehow I doubt they envisioned governing ~400M people nor any of the complexities of modern society.

True, like in their time they had good intentions and well an independent country was established, even though our independent country sort of stepped over the natives who already lived here. LIke idk about what natives envisioned for this country...but our white asses took it over and so we will never know how their societies would have developed without that occurring.

But yeah also the founders are long dead and in the time period they lived they certainly were not thinking about there being 400 million people community to govern.

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26 Aug 2023, 10:18 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

goldfish21 wrote:

Dox47 wrote:

Mona Pereth wrote:

Rebuilding as what?

Something closer to what the founders intended, particularly with regard to how much government exists and what they're allowed to do.

Somehow I doubt they envisioned governing ~400M people nor any of the complexities of modern society.

Who cares about societies dramatically changing? The tree of liberty must be watered with murder. Let's burn everything down and kill people! We can implement my reasonable ideas after an orgy of violence. I am a very serious person and deserve to not be ridiculed.

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27 Aug 2023, 12:29 am

funeralxempire wrote:

Please tell me you do actually have a different move, don't you? Or should I be feeling bad again?

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27 Aug 2023, 1:33 am

Trump running for Presidentbagain will be entertaining. Biden v Trump 2024.

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28 Aug 2023, 12:44 am

Mona Pereth wrote:

What leads you to believe you'll be one of the people who gets to decide what gets rebuilt and how? It's not like you're one of the leaders of a highly organized militia group, or something.

Addition through subtraction.

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