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People can suffer oppression nearly infinitely (see: North Korea). What gives people the strength to rebel is being put in a position where victory seems possible. Accelerationism is even less than a survivor fantasy - it's a delusion that feeds the powers that be. Entrenched powers are almost never overthrown by the people at their most oppressive, because systems are often at their most oppressive when they feel most powerful. Entrenched powers are almost always overthrown by the people when the system weakens and offers compromise, because that's when people believe they can make demands of the bastards and best them if they refuse.
Add in that literally no historical evidence appears to exist to suggest that accelerationism has ever had efficacy.
Its adherents are just doing their best to make other people suffer with a pie-in-the-sky hope that being class-traitors and offering up vulnerable groups as blood sacrifice will result, not just in a workers' revolution but one that achieves their personal utopia, instead of getting coopted by theocracy or totalitarian dictatorships, as has frequently happened in history.