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Why do Democrat supporters keep forgetting atrocities committed by their leaders? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Whenever I talk to any Democrat supporters, they by-default cheer their Presidents and then I've to remind them of their leader's illegal wars and war crimes. They condemn those acts and they go back to their cheerleading role - Why do they keep forgetting atrocities committed by their leaders? Why do they accept war criminals as their leader?

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[โ€“] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Emotions aside, is their assessment of events incorrect? Harris is a more sane war hawk, recognizing that doesn't make you an accelerationist.

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  • [โ€“] -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    An accelerationist is picking someone who will collapse the empire due to incompetence and destroying American institutions. Between Trump and Harris, I don't see Harris causing a collapse of American institutions like Trump.

    Also, in regards to Iran, Trump has been far more antagonistic than Biden and Democrats in general were. The Biden administration at least needed a false flag attack to support Israel and a lot of the opposition came from Democrats. Trump got rid of Obama's multilateral nuclear treaty and has participated in Israeli attacks where Israel was the aggressor.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I think for many Accelerationism is speaking towards the capital transformations of society,
    not the decline of empire. Even so, Trump is the accelerationist choice

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Still applies more to Trump than Biden or Harris, given Trump's open corruption feeding into crony capitalism.

    Like I've said before, it feels like the term is being changed because the argument behind how I'm using it is hard to refuse, so the choice is to try to redefine the word rather than discuss the argument.

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