A Compass for the Politics of Collapse
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that's not claiming the collapse for themselves: it's using it in conflict with other political and social forces
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#4The language of this article is biased and portrays viewpoints using various leftist tropes such as use of "deniers", "right wing", "alt-right". The article is little more than summary of fictional portrayals of future society. Absolute drivel.
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#5The language of this article is biased and portrays viewpoints using various leftist tropes such as use of "deniers", "right wing", "alt-right". The article is little more than summary of fictional portrayals of future society. Absolute drivel.
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Your partisan lens is showing here, rather blatantly, along with a heavily US-centric tilt.
Do you think the spike in crime is driven by the pandemic? A GLOBAL pandemic? Do you think there is a spike in crime in other nations as well? Or do you think that maybe, just maybe, a radical political movement casting all law enforcement officers as bigoted predators may have more to do with it?
I vote Democratic, have my whole life, so I can bash the GOP all day long, but acting as if the incredibly massive, and corporate sponsored "Defund the Police" movement hasn't had an impact on crime is simply irrational and not supported by data. The spike in crime in US cities has not been universal, and the data clearly shows the cities which cut police budgets and predictably lost officers were the worst hit.
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Your partisan lens is showing here, rather blatantly, along with a heavily US-centric tilt. Do you think the spike in crime is driven by the pandemic? A GLOBAL pandemic? Do you think there is a spike in crime in other nations as well? Or do you think that maybe, just maybe, a radical political movement casting all law enforcement officers as bigoted predators may have more to do with it? I vote Democratic, have my wh…
What spike in crime? All data I've seen has shown marked, consistent decreases in crime. Could you link the data you refer to?
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#8The language of this article is biased and portrays viewpoints using various leftist tropes such as use of "deniers", "right wing", "alt-right". The article is little more than summary of fictional portrayals of future society. Absolute drivel.
I noticed this as well, and as I said in another comment, I've voted Democratic my entire life.
The "Reformist" category, if following the same logic as the "Right Wing Accelerationist" category, should have identified this group as being "Left Wing Reformist", because literally every single group listed as an example is a radical leftist/collectivist political movement.
I'm a center-left liberal, so my own biases (and dislike of radical leftists who have hijacked my political party) are likely influencing my judgement of this.
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that's not claiming the collapse for themselves: it's using it in conflict with other political and social forces
> using it in conflict
Yes they do claim it for that purpose. Look at the rhetoric around the preppers, the bitcoin scammers, the gold buyers, and all those zerohedge types: The collapse is coming, we are going to use it to take control.
Re: A Compass for the Politics of Collapse
#10If you find the collapse of human civilisation interesting, you might enjoy:
It Could Happen Here - podcast by Robert Evans exploring a US decaying in to warring states and dissolving https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-307...
Dark Mountain, a twice-yearly collection of short stories and poetry on themes of collapse and ecocide. https://dark-mountain.net/