Not by choice, but by circumstance
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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However it won't stop me from getting the popcorn and seeing how this turns out, as we have no control over this anyway
Yeah, we are now. Gotta play the hand you're dealt
I think it doesn't matter if we're accelerationists or not because shits going to accelerate whether we like it or not.
I'm an asymptotal decelerationist. Things will continue to get worse forever, but the pace of the worsening will get slower and slower
We are not accelerationists, because we don't actually do anything to accelerate contradictions.
Maybe revolutionary defeatist. There's a new cold war and I want the US to lose this one.
And where did that bring you? Back to me.
I never lost faith 
I've felt like one for a while but didn't want to talk about it because of all the people who are suffering and dying, but I also need to come clean and say that I do feel vindicated lately. Does this translate into feeling good about myself? No. I just...keep thinking about that line from pitfalls of liberalism: That in many cases, to avoid conflict is to prolong suffering.
We recognize that things are accelerating, and therefore it presents opportunities for revolutionary organizing. But those are not a sure thing, and the road will be very rough and many people will be hurt.
"Revolutionary pessimists" is probably where a chunk of us USAians are currently sitting.
To be accelerationist, you must think that this will lead to better conditions for the working class here after the acceleration. I'm cheating for the death of the largest empire and largest obstacle to world peace in the world.
Accelerationism as a philosophy is generally pretty bad. Accelerationism is a tool, you must have the ability to seize the moment of acceleration to make change, most accelerationists on the left do not have a real answer for this, they merely believe that once everything is broken they can say "Told you so" and people will listen to them. It's childish.
Right wing accelerationists on the other hand have Peter Theil.