cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/36641381
[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…
See for example the German communist party telling people to vote for the NSDAP to accelerate the collapse, just to get killed.
What about robots it is now or never
Some of those accelerationists are just hating the US, see Badempanda as an example.
Yep, nobody in the world’s history has ever fought and won for better conditions. Never happened. We should all just keep voting for Democrats, that’s working.
Nobody’s saying not to fight. They’re saying don’t encourage things to get worse first.
The idea is highly contingent on enough people agreeing. Like any system will disappear in a second if 100% of the people agree that it should. The problem with fascist states is they tend to be dictatorships and use a lot of force which is really efficient in controlling people, which is also why every military is structured that way. You need only like 10% of the population and enough force vs this concept where you need nearly everyone.
And because we have millions of people there’s no way to get enough people to agree to do anything meaningful.
We are doomed and will go extinct.
Perhaps a wiser species will marvel at the thin smear of radioactive material and toxic petrochemicals and mass extinction that marks our passing.
What if the propaganda is looking at human behavior and realizing we’re too stupid to live
I think you’re bordering extremely close to eco fascism and need to do some self reflection on what you actually value. Are you a fascist?
Ecofascism, sometimes spelled eco-fascism,[1] is a term used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascism.[2]
Ecofascism is “environmentalism through genocide”
I don’t advocate for genocide to save the planet. The planet will do that quite nicely on its own. Plus I think humans will screw it up like everything else.
We won’t go extinct, but we will make things way harder for us than they reasonably need to be, which is a shame.
The sun will run out of fuel and grow to be a red giant and vaporize the earth before dying one day. The last star will go dark one day. The last black hole will evaporate one day. Nothing is forever, enjoy the ride while you’re around.
These comics suck and I’ve blocked the original artist. They skip over the main challenges and oversimplify the problems at hand. I agree with their spirit and goal but they offer nothing in the way of constructive opinions. Downvoted.
Good point. Can you recommend some comics that offer constructive opinions instead?
