So if you’re a minority you have no choice but to vote for Biden, no matter what you think of him.
Biden has deported more people than Trump, he’s given the police more funding than Trump, he’s started more wars than Trump, we’ve lost more of our collective rights under him than under Trump, Biden has unironically been the horror that minorities like me expected to see under the first Trump term, instead Trump despite being a nazi, didn’t even top the awfulness of the Bush admin
Honestly I don’t understand how mfs are still talking about harm reduction at this late date, the calculus is very simple and it does not involve holding dems “accountable” or whatever, it’s very simple; under a Trump admin the American left organizes better and has more room to breath, because liberals are forced to concentrate on Trump and have to offer symbolic opposition to the reigning regime, which gives us space to grow
It’s no accident the so-called “New American Left” (which is now DEAD) sprang to life in 2016, until it was obliterated by Bernie’s capitulation to Biden in 2020, and this isn’t an accelerationist position, because under my rubric the dems are the accelerationists, while the empowered left under a Republican admin acts more effectively as a doorstop precisely because the dems can’t sacrifice the kayfabe to fully join the Republicans
One way or another the western “left” is gonna have to take a principled stand against the liberals, before we end up in the means-tested internment camp stage of American history
But to be real it’s all mute anyway, Biden will win, precisely because the real-world suffering of minorities and people in the global south does not matter to Americans who vote. Biden is simply better for capital, and the American left is still dead
Honestly I don’t understand how mfs are still talking about harm reduction at this late date, the calculus is very simple and it does not involve holding dems “accountable” or whatever, it’s very simple; under a Trump admin the American left organizes better and has more room to breath, because liberals are forced to concentrate on Trump and have to offer symbolic opposition to the reigning regime, which gives us space to grow
Yeah. 100%.
And this isn’t also an accelerationist take because being an accelerationist means you want things to actually, materially get worse.
No, I want a situation in which people will shut down the airports to prevent things from getting worse (Muslim ban) instead of one where people stay home assuming things can’t get worse, and Biden can effectively pass a Muslim ban while they’re snoozing…and then go ahead and start genociding Palestinians while a gob of fucking liberals still try to deny it despite what’s right in front of their eyes.
Biden has deported more people than Trump, he’s given the police more funding than Trump, he’s started more wars than Trump, we’ve lost more of our collective rights under him than under Trump, Biden has unironically been the horror that minorities like me expected to see under the first Trump term, instead Trump despite being a nazi, didn’t even top the awfulness of the Bush admin
Honestly I don’t understand how mfs are still talking about harm reduction at this late date, the calculus is very simple and it does not involve holding dems “accountable” or whatever, it’s very simple; under a Trump admin the American left organizes better and has more room to breath, because liberals are forced to concentrate on Trump and have to offer symbolic opposition to the reigning regime, which gives us space to grow
It’s no accident the so-called “New American Left” (which is now DEAD) sprang to life in 2016, until it was obliterated by Bernie’s capitulation to Biden in 2020, and this isn’t an accelerationist position, because under my rubric the dems are the accelerationists, while the empowered left under a Republican admin acts more effectively as a doorstop precisely because the dems can’t sacrifice the kayfabe to fully join the Republicans
One way or another the western “left” is gonna have to take a principled stand against the liberals, before we end up in the means-tested internment camp stage of American history
But to be real it’s all mute anyway, Biden will win, precisely because the real-world suffering of minorities and people in the global south does not matter to Americans who vote. Biden is simply better for capital, and the American left is still dead
Yeah. 100%.
And this isn’t also an accelerationist take because being an accelerationist means you want things to actually, materially get worse.
No, I want a situation in which people will shut down the airports to prevent things from getting worse (Muslim ban) instead of one where people stay home assuming things can’t get worse, and Biden can effectively pass a Muslim ban while they’re snoozing…and then go ahead and start genociding Palestinians while a gob of fucking liberals still try to deny it despite what’s right in front of their eyes.