SwiftOnSecurity
The idea a general upheaval will result in your societal preference is something shared by a whole range of fucking cranks whose motivation is just the blind creation of suffering.
D C Ross@SwiftOnSecurity "Don't worry, once the whole world turns into Mad Max without all the BDSM, things will be a lot better and we'll be the ones in charge."
mjfgates@deeseearr @SwiftOnSecurity Oh, they think we'd give up on the BDSM, do they?
Ben Taylor@SwiftOnSecurity Sometimes I think the American Revolution is one of the worst things that ever happened to the world. History is absolutely loaded down with examples of revolutions that resulted in incredibly repressive, violent and/or chaotic regimes. But the famous one is the one that resulted in the world's (current) most powerful state.
So people think "Hey, it worked for them, we'll have a bit of that!" without realising that the odds are very much not in their favour on things turning out well.
Matt Palmer@VoxDei @SwiftOnSecurity "those who don't learn history" and all that...
Jarrod Frates@VoxDei @SwiftOnSecurity I think if the American Revolution hadn't happened, one of two things would have happened:
1) A Canada-style slow separation from the UK by the mid-1800s. We would have a parliamentary monarchy and be part of the Commonwealth Nations.
2) An attempt at independence by the southern colonies when the UK banned slavery and eventually enforced that in North America. This would be put down by Redcoats and armies from the northern colonies. The northern colonies would later drift away, followed eventually by the southern colonies, who might be troublesome but eventually more trouble than they're worth and just spun off to deal with the world themselves, sort of like South Africa (quite likely with the apartheid, too).
Jeff ♨️ Darcy@SwiftOnSecurity In general, the only certain beneficiaries of a revolution are the ones who make the guns and dig the graves. Everyone else is just spinning the wheel, which offers far more (mostly bad) outcomes than the one they prefer *or* the one they'd overturn.
tentacular@SwiftOnSecurity Big "don't make me tap the sign" energy here
Charlie Hazzard@SwiftOnSecurity says one blind to extant suffering
Jerry 🦙💝🦙@SwiftOnSecurity is a changing rate of accelerationism called “jerkism”?
Bartek Ogryczak@SwiftOnSecurity
OOF. "Alliance for Peace and Freedom" takes the podium as most incongruous political party name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Peace_and_Freedom
