• Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    13
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Because they figure if the fan the flames they firefighters might come sooner.

    Honeslty that is what drives a considerable amount of the Trump base, they want ‘the end’ to come sooner than later and they know voting in Trump will make it happen. A consider amount of people seriously fantasize about society collapsing because it makes them feel like they are empowered/especial/superior to the ‘sheep’. Like preppers.

    I myself felt this urge during 2016. I was so pissed off at the Democrats I seriously considered voting for Trump as an F you to the democrats for their shitty status quo policy making and their inability to have a charismatic leader who actually gets shit done instead of making excuses like Obama did for 8 years.

    Say what you want about Republicans being evil or whatever, but they get shit done. They get their legislation passed, and their judges appointed.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Which is a weird sentiment because the only natural outcome for the accelerationist views is either a fascist takeover or a popular revolution. We can all imagine how and what happens with the former. With a revolution you have groups of people with at least 2 very different ideas of what the country should be post-revolution. You have the far right Trump supporters who hate government and want a collapse; who will all almost certainly die or as Huffman put it “become slaves”. Then you have the far left who want to reform government to be actually democratic and fair (some of those probably want actual communism as well, which is it’s own schism).

      So unsure how accelerationists who want a revolution figure this out. Even if a popular revolution worked, it would immediately break down into partisan fighting.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        Accelerationists are like Huffman in that they think they’ll personally be fine and able to lead a political revolution from the ashes. They think they’re flameproof.

    • yata@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Say what you want about Republicans being evil or whatever, but they get shit done. They get their legislation passed, and their judges appointed.

      Trump and McConnell had a house supermajority and yet couldn’t even abolish Obamacare. The fact that you believe that they get things done is actually you believing carefully crafted propaganda.