So am I to understand your view is that "Irish ethno-nationalists deserve no support because they're still progressives"?
Edit: Since you didn't bite... Assuming that's an accurate summary of your perspective, I'm having difficulty perceiving what your endgame is. How do you win when you'd rather take a loss than settle for the achievable partial victory?
Conceptually I understand why some people are all-or-nothing purists, but only when that rhetoric is backed by accelerationist action. If you will only accept total success, your only path to that lies on the other side of total collapse, because you'll never accept a world where you compromise with your opponents.
If you read enough history you see that real life rarely produces situations where a system totally and utterly collapses and is successfully replaced by something better. The few times it has happened almost always involve a dictator.
I suppose. In fact I wasn't intending to come off in any particular way. Those are my honest feelings. It looked as if you wanted to know why anyone would be against based nationalists standing up for their country - over a silly ideological purity test - so I wanted to give you a third perspective. I have no power so like your question it was purely hypothetical. Since you've read it, I'll delete the comment.
So am I to understand your view is that "Irish ethno-nationalists deserve no support because they're still progressives"?
Edit: Since you didn't bite... Assuming that's an accurate summary of your perspective, I'm having difficulty perceiving what your endgame is. How do you win when you'd rather take a loss than settle for the achievable partial victory?
Conceptually I understand why some people are all-or-nothing purists, but only when that rhetoric is backed by accelerationist action. If you will only accept total success, your only path to that lies on the other side of total collapse, because you'll never accept a world where you compromise with your opponents.
If you read enough history you see that real life rarely produces situations where a system totally and utterly collapses and is successfully replaced by something better. The few times it has happened almost always involve a dictator.
Yeah A, I know you think that way, and I believe I've told you before that I don't understand why you aren't shooting already.
I mean, I know why you aren't (because you know how it'd end). But the result is you don't come off as principled, you just come off as edgy.
I suppose. In fact I wasn't intending to come off in any particular way. Those are my honest feelings. It looked as if you wanted to know why anyone would be against based nationalists standing up for their country - over a silly ideological purity test - so I wanted to give you a third perspective. I have no power so like your question it was purely hypothetical. Since you've read it, I'll delete the comment.