I don’t have words.
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Trump is only the accelerationist candidate if you assume that he is personally more competent than the deepstate ghouls Kamala was going to let pick her cabinet. He isn't, and by clearly being the final decision on who will run his administration, he is almost certainly going to further hurt US foreign policy goals while inspiring actual resistance to the shitty domestic policies the establishment Democrats had no interest in fighting.
Also, there's a very good chance that in 3 years time Trump's own cognitive decline will become as obvious as Biden's.
All candidates are accelerationist candidates. There are no brakes on the grift train and the figurative pedal is already welded to the figurative metal, all that was up in the air was who gets rich stuffing their pockets while pretending to drive it.
I think I’m misreading your comment because to me the two halves of it are contradictory. Handing the keys to the American empire at home and abroad to a bunch of incompetent ideologues IS an accelerant imo.
I was thinking of accelerationism in the sense of a purposeful worsening of conditions to spur marginalized communities into action. Things were going to get worse under either party, but it's much worse when the western liberals are also putting their weight on the scale alongside the Democratic establishment.
Trump is going to have to fight protests and uprisings to enact his domestic agenda, but the Democrats would have enacted nearly the same set of policies while blaming it on obscure senate rules or another one of their rotating villains.
Then I guess I'm not so much for the acceleration of conditions as for the dumbification of conditions we're seeing
That's what I'm thinking as the silver lining too. No way he's going to be able to kick off anything major in the world and he's probably going to burn all our bridges with fascist ghoul states like Ukraine because he's a petty queen and Zelensky will say he's fat or some dumb shit.
The bad part is all us marginalized folks are in for a world of hurt when Elon and his dogecoin department defund the few remaining social services left and target trans people.
Pretty much, this has been my take as well (that Trump is if anything the opposite of an accelerationist by and large, and impotent due to just how much of an Ugly American™ he is)