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What Graham Platner Said When a Trans Mainer Asked: 'Will You Stand Up for Me?'
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I mean, I'm a black American living in Georgia. Acceleration would mean my death, probably faster than most. To me you sound like exactly what you're accusing me of. I'm not specifically defending this politician, but your accusations are wild and you act like you're certain. While I did compare your statement to the like of conspiracy theory, you're also saying I'm Republican, then militant left. While I can have some things I agree with those further left than I, I stand only to have negative repercussions for being accelerationist, and I do truly wish we can survive without collapse. Whether it can actually happen at this point is a point of doubt, but I'm nowhere to to point of wanting a collapse.
I've never owned a gun, never fired one, and am rather hesitant to hurt people, even if they're reprehensible. I honestly don't know how I'd survive collapse. It's a self serving position for me to not want collapse, and I also believe people can change. I don't know if this guy has, but I'd rather not make up role for him to hang himself; if he's a problem he should be judged by not imagined faults, but confirmed ones. You still have the right to not choose him, just be careful that you don't let preconceived opinions dictate how you judge everyone.
I’m going to stop with I’m A black America living in Georgia.
Prove it, goodbye.
No one believes my lived experiences either and "prove it" isn't you're prerogative. They did, but seriously, this is a trash demand.
Oh look another ML. You guys love to swarm
And you really like to lump everyone together so you can stereotype them and blanket dismiss them to avoid and ignore any actual productive engagement.
No, Maeve is an ML. And having a productive engagement is not actually possible with an ML. There is a very scripted playbook
Let me just double check here, by ML are you meaning users from lemmy.ml? Or something else?
Yes, but more about the “Marxist Propaganda Crush The West At Any Cost” type of ML, not necessarily anyone from that domain.