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I'm at the point where I just want America to burn (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by willxkuzunoha@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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I know accelerationism is wrong, but honestly, I feel like Americans deserve a taste of fascism and imperial misrule. The Democrats are way too competent in their evil—cold, calculated, and insidious. At least with Trump and the Republicans, the evil is blatant, in your face, and easier to hate. I want Trump to gut NATO from within. I want him to tariff the U.S. into the ground. I want him to drive the usbeconomy straight off a cliff. I’m at the point where I want this whole rotten system to collapse under its own internal contradictions. The world would be better off without the U.S. pulling the strings everywhere.

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[–] cimbazarov@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean alot of the people who will suffer are not the ones who have committed the evil of the empire.

But what sucks is you are still kind of right. There is no path I see to a revolution where the material conditions are comfy for the masses. Revolutions happen when the oppressed can longer stand their oppression. I don't know what the theory behind accelerationism is any further than material conditions getting rapidly worse creating a revolution. The system under the democrats was what seemed like a boiling frog situation. We were going to destroy human civilization while exploiting the rest of the world with a moral guise. And because of how the system individuates and pushes us towards consumption to alleviate our alienation, I never thought it could result in any meaningful revolution. Ironically it's the fascists that changed this slow decline, but by replacing it with a faster one.

I do think accelerationism, or maybe just a small taste of accelerationism, is what gets us to build an actual socialist future.