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Unfortunately, it's not a message that everyone wants to get behind just yet. There are still countless neoliberals and the like who make up the bulk of the population, and they're just apathetic and nihilistic on some level because they've never known community and security and don't want things to change.
The only way people are going to start aligning together is when they start feeling the discomfort, so to this end, I have done a 180-pivot in my own agendas and desires for the future and now I'm an accelerationist, I cheer every time Trump signs some heartless piece of burning shit bill or order, because I know the faster he breaks the system, the faster the countless dumbfounded dipshits will get off their ass and start to try to make things better.
The game the republicans have been playing is to stretch out the actions so that people forget. We have a population with a memory span no greater than 5 years or so, this is why people seemed to forget the chaos of Trump's first term and shrugged and voted for him again. (Among many other reasons.) What we want more than anything right now is for people to NOT forget this pain, we want the hardships to start stacking on top of each other so people don't get a breather, only then will enough people be ready to turn to a new story to explain their pain.
sorry, but no, this is a really bad idea.
you are now becoming a trump supporter as your way of fighting trump
if accelerationism worked, it would have worked before now, things have been dramatically getting worse for decades
accelerationism is one of the ways they trick us into supporting their goals. don't fall for it.
we need solidarity and we need to take bold action collectively. ignore neoliberals, go throw molotov cocktails at parked cop cars. it's a lot more effective than accelerationism.
No because you're advocating for disorganized chaos that will give justification to the authoritarians to crack down on dissenting voices and it will make opposition look the part of terrorists. This hasn't worked before, it won't work in the future, it's just petty, juvenile emotional backlash without a fucking shred of actual brainwork towards the future.
When you want to change the political direction of a nation, your options are armed uprisings or larger, gradual social movements. If we had an armed uprising right now, who the bloody fuck do you think is going to win? We don't have the military, we don't have law enforcement. Are you daft? Seriously are you eating pure lead paste? Encouraging people to firebomb law enforcement just randomly?
MEANWHILE, there are literally hundreds of millions of American working schlubs just WAITING for direction, they just need a good narrative to blame their discomfort on, then you get their hearts and minds, then you get the working class, then you have the police, then you have the military, so if it comes to armed uprisings, you will actually have a chance of success like what happens when dictators are successfully overthrown. Seriously, I urge you to read about how this goes down in other countries before just swallowing the first cathartic idea someone throws you on the internet.
We're not at "revolution" yet, not even close, but we CAN get there if we get enough Americans to realize where they're headed. They don't even want to look at this right now, so we have to make them look.
edit: we don't even have the MEDIA