Trump sought major changes at the intel agencies in his first term; former officials say he could be more radical in a second.

Former top officials from Donald Trump’s administration are warning he is likely to use a second term to overhaul the nation’s spy agencies in a way that could lead to an unprecedented level of politicization of intelligence.

  • frezik
    13·
    4 months ago

    Assuming he goes the extreme route, the US will either rise up and competely reform the government or we had no hope of that ever happening in the first place.

    So, accelerationism. Which does not work.

    • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
      37·
      4 months ago

      Would you mind linking a video or article you would recommend on why accelerationism is a bad thing? I can look it up, but if you have any recommendations, it would make it a lot faster.

      • frezik
        6·
        4 months ago

        https://richardcoyne.com/2017/05/14/whats-wrong-with-accelerationism/

        Some of the left wing parties of Weimar Germany thought that letting Hitler have power would inevitably collapse the system. It’d get so bad that the people would have to spark the revolution.

        Obviously, it didn’t work out that way. The Nazis left Germany in ruins, and what came out of the ashes was a split country. The western half became as neoliberal capitalist as the rest of western Europe (though with more of the sharp edges filled off compared to the United States today), and the eastern half fell under the USSR’s own unique form of fascism.

        To be clear: fascism is ultimately self defeating. How it fails has a range of possibilities, but it doesn’t end in a clear path towards a great communist utopia.

        • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
          26·
          4 months ago

          Ah, read the article and a few others. I would say that my current views are close to Left-Wing Accelerationism. To my understanding, the issue with Accelerationism is the gamble it would be taking on the majority views of USA occupants? I.E. if the majority is right leaning we will most likely end up worse off for a while, while if the majority is left leaning, we will be in a much better place than we started. With the potential price being thousands of lives. Which is why the Left is pushing for Biden votes, so that risk is removed and we at least keep the status quo. Right?