[green, speaking, looking smug]
Okay, hear me out, here’s the plan…
We go full apathy, basically we let capitalism fully spiral out into fascism. Once it’s done, people will rise up and the system will collapse under its own weight. From its ashes, with our help, a better society will rise. This is how we win.

[we now see that green is tied up in front of a bleak wall, along with a group of other people, being aimed at by a firing squad of characters in fascist uniforms]
[green, smiling] OK?
[blue, pissed] Dude…

https://thebad.website/comic/accelerationism

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    There used to be a day when republicans sold out the US they made damn sure it was to an American.

    I get their sentiment behind that statement.

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      So then the reason you don’t think anyone’s whitewashing anything is because you also whitewash them.

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          It certainly sounds like it is.

          Bush did not “actually care about America.” He sent Americans to die in pointless wars so that his rich buddies could get even more rich. He pioneered the surveillance state. He created ICE.

          If you hadn’t forgotten the horrors and weren’t whitewashing him, you’d be as disgusted and repulsed by anyone talking nonsense about how he was “respectable” or “cared about America.”

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            Bush was a horrible war criminal who should be spending the rest of his life in gitmo untouched by light but I’d rather have him as president right now.

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              And you don’t have any problem with people saying that a “horrible war criminal that belongs in gitmo” “actually cared about America?”

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                  So does Trump.

                  If anything, selling out to foreigners would be preferable, because the American bourgeoisie are the direct enemies of the American proletariat. The stronger and richer they get, the more power they have to make my conditions worse, to make me accept lower wages, to endure and subvert strikes and unions. It’s just straight up nationalism to think strengthening the American bourgeoisie somehow benefits regular Americans, like it’s gonna trickle down somehow.

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                    because the American bourgeoisie are the direct enemies of the American proletariat.

                    Cone on we’re having a good conversation here speak English.

                    I don’t read enough theory for that to make sense to me.