How "accelerationism" supposedly works:
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Terrorist attack
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The government uses the attack as an excuse to take away rights and freedoms
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The populace freaks out over losing freedoms and overthrows the government
How "accelerationism" actually works:
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Terrorist attack
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The government uses the attack as an excuse to take away rights and freedoms
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That's it. Nothing else happens.
I'm willing to bet that a year from now, the political climate in Australia and New Zealand will not be markedly different from today. There will be no "escalation", no further conflict, and no real change in the lives of people, except for the loss of free speech and gun rights in the wake of the recent attack. The attack and subsequent removal of rights will not prompt any mass awakening or popular revolt.
History shows us this is what happens every time. You can look back at many similar attacks that were later used to justify the removal of freedoms, and there was no mass revolt afterwards, and those freedoms were ultimately never restored.
I'm happy to debate this. However, time is all I need to prove me right. If "accelerationism" is correct, then New Zealand, Australia, and likely much of the West would be considerably more violent and conflicted by the end of this year, possibly even engaged in some kind of civil war. If I'm correct, then they will be basically the same except with less freedom for the average person. At the end of this year we'll see who is right.
Civil war and "accelerationism" are pipe dreams. No one can tell you when these will ever happen, although they tell you they'll happen "soon". This is because they're illusions with no basis in reality. They're fantasies somebody came up with because dreaming of an epic societal collapse is less work than raising a family or building a community.
"Accelerationism" is a path to losing freedom, nothing more. It is a path to failure.
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alalzia ago
It works from the leftist perspective : ECB & Obama , bailouts , poverty , wars , confiscations of property and savings = a huge non neoliberal socialist block in EU even in the US .
I am not well versed in the nationalist perspective so i can only suppose that immigration . loss of basic rights and general degeneracy can create distance between the authorities and the citizenry . The Facebook shooter only dropped a spark to make this reality spread faster and if you look at the bans, the prohibitions , the political theater and the arrests he actually made it happen.
The bad news are that socialists and nationalists are canceling each other out allowing the same elites to perpetuate their rule over everyone. Both parties should know that there are no allies among the political cast , each and every politician , each and every politician's handler is out to get us all. There must be a solution to that and getting stuck in "communism bad" & "capitalism wrong" is a very bad indicator of what our future will be like .
Delacourt ago
The point I am making in this post is that there is no "fire". It's an illusion. The new gun control and censorship laws will persist, but there will be no mass unrest or uprising against them. All the shooter will have accomplished is a permanent reduction in freedom.
As I said, wait a year and see what happens. I will be proven right. "Accelerationism" in this sense simply does not work.