Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.

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    That’s what the Nazis did-- hurt everyone but in the process actually led to their own demise. Maybe I am anchoring myself too much to the analysis of Hanna Arendt but reading her book on the banality of evil,

    The fuck you smoking?

    The Nazis weren’t stopped until the allies stopped them. Until that happened the genocidal campaign kept accelerating. Most of the German citizens either didn’t know, pretended they didn’t know or were actively part of it. Some were part of the resistance.

    Guess what? that’s HAPPENING NOW. you’re living in Nazis America, and you’re being like "yeah, well, uh. Just let them keep on keeping on. What’s a little fucking genocide.

    This kind of accelerationist thinking is exactly how we got here; and I wouldn’t exactly be looking at Hannah Arrendt for wisdom here- she was a Zionist who helped enable the modern era of Israeli genocide of Palestinians by assisting jews flooding British Palestinian mandate (when it was going to be turned over to an Arab/Jewish state… subsequently resulting in the '47-48 war in Mandatory Palestine and subsequent 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

    yeah, she subsequently distanced herself from that official Zionism- weakly advocating for a secular Arab/Israeli state (like what was supposed to be), but you can see the stupidity of thinking fascists will just stop in her own history.

    The question isn’t whether or not fascism is a stable political philosophy- it’s not. it will inevitably collapse. The question is how much pure, unadulterated evil are you willing to accept before you start making it collapse?

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      The Nazis weren’t stopped until the allies stopped them.

      Yeah, why do you think I advocated for an armed resistance? Because if it has to come to violence-- and I say, if–then I am unapologetically accelerationist with respect to this. It’s in human nature to “get out it of your system”. You can’t vote away fascism and they are not going away that easily (it will take a miracle for that to happen). Fascism did not come from a vaccum, it came from the pent up anger and that Pandora’s box has been opened.

      Arendt’s view of Zionism doesn’t matter to this, it’s her research and observation on the undertaking of the Holocaust that would make someone think “yeah, the Nazis wasted so much resources killing people who could have otherwise helped them if the Nazis actually think”. Because that’s what Nazis are, they don’t think. Germany actually was on a brink of another economic collapse but Hitler invaded Poland to use the plunder to stave off that impending collapse. Heck, they did not even have enough resources to actually wage a war and Hitler was shock that the Allies declared war on them. Many Nazi officials after the war admitted that had the French pressed on with their offensive in Saar in 1939, the war could have ended quickly and saved millions. Because Germany actually only had enough resources to last them weeks at the start of the war.

      This kind of accelerationist thinking is exactly how we got here

      No, it’s not. It’s precisely the “moderates” love of money and the elitist dismissal of the socioeconomic anxiety of the working class that led to where we are. The American political establishment had one chance to fix the underlying issue that led to Trump in the first place. And yet, the neoliberals did the exact same errors that led to Trump yet again for the second time.