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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Accelerationism is a morally bankrupt philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It’s not malicious compliance when you’re helping the bad guys achieve their goal of destroying the federal government.

That’s being a willing accomplice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Considering how many of the orders are being written by AI, there is probably a lot of maneuvering room to comply with the written letter while completely ignoring the spirit.

The definition of sex, for example. Every single passport reads "F" from now on. Very malicious. Very compliant. Very much ignoring the spirit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

There’s a ton of possibilities for malicious compliance so long as you still work for the federal government. But not if you quit!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Leaving en masse would destroy the federal government quickly. Staying and continuing to work for this administration will destroy the federal government ~~slowly~~ less quickly.

It's just a matter of whether you want to be complicit in opposition to fascism or complicit in cooperation with fascism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Leaving the system means no one is in the system to report on what is going on in the system. Accelerationism won’t end how those people think it will. It’s just 100 years of Nazis until the world collapses in on itself and humanity is endangered or extinct.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're right, we should do whatever we can to make sure it's as many more years as possible of Nazis until the world collapses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your comment is pro-Nazi. Is this a typo?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought the /s was implied.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Implied sarcasm rarely works online because the audience doesn’t know you well enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s hard to tell nowadays! I thought I would ask before calling you a Nazi. ❤️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In an earlier comment that you replied to, I said

It's just a matter of whether you want to be complicit in opposition to fascism or complicit in cooperation with fascism.

That should be clear enough.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I know, but too much time with those ML in 2024 going back and forth has made me distrust everyone. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Im all for malicious compliance, when it makes sense.

Our company tried to cut our house keeping services, and told us we needed to empty trash cans ourself. You bet your sweet ass i made sure everyone charged their engineering charges to "house keeping" for those few minutes. We got house keeping back in about 2 months

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Not entirely. If you drag it out, they get to have everything they want while crushing all people below them in a slow steamroller death. If you completely crash the system, everyone is on more or less equal footing for the first time in this country's history.