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Like what, spit it out. What other thing? Hmmm? HMMMM?
I'm guessing you can't. If its what I think you are suggesting, why should I serve accelerationists? Why should I help them? I fucking hate them. They're literally working to engineer this result. They wanted this result. FUCK THEM. I hope the leopards eat their faces.
Lol.
Friend. I spend all of my time organizing and working with my community. The only way out is through. And the only way through is building strong communities.
You should adjust your attitude. There are many good people doing good work on the ground.
I used to do the same. I guess technically that's part of why I have the job I have. I applied because it seemed socially meaningful.
The people around me all think I'm a sweetheart and I'm just fucking dead inside.
You know, I met 2 people at a bar I frequent who literally told me they were lefty accelerationists. That they try and purposefully push people to revolutionary potential, even if it means making things worse first. They were happy Trump won. To be honest I was really shocked to meet any in person. I thought they were all online mentally ill ML's. They're long time regulars at the bar, and friends to each other. I had seen them a number of times over the past year but this recent interaction was the first time I talked to them for any real length of time.
Ones a mechanic and a unlikable music snob. The other is squatting and seemed like the sort of person who was barely literate by choice, and was mostly just repeating what his friend believed.
I felt like, after they told me that, I had to steady myself. I was quite drunk and it took some will to not start getting openly aggravated. I just calmly told them bits of my own perspective and experience. It made them at least uncomfortable I think because they became very quiet.
I've not had a chance to talk to them again yet, just momentary "hey man"s and waves. I will eventually though. I have so many questions. I don't know that I'll like the answers.
Maybe I'll end up dead in a gutter because I got caught up in a stupid bar fight and got stabbed or some shit. lol
Don't engage if you think it could turn violent.
If you would like to talk, I will not talk here but you can dm me. I'm not an accelerationist, no one really is.