This is great! Can’t wait for him to no be able to do anything due to gridlock from the NYC democratic party machine and have to capitulate constantly, and then the massive Centrist Lib media apparatus will blame every problem plaguing NYC (even if the problems predated his mayoralship) which will give the Dem establishment more ammunition to blame all their woes on the progressive wing of the party and sell disenfranchised urban poor voters on establishment Dems.
Really a big fucking win for us. Letting the city sink under and establishment Dem was totally not the smarter fucking move.
Also if anyone calls me a doomer for this take I’ll be recording your usernames and asking you how you feel about this post in a year from now.
also, who’s to say that NYC will “sink” even in the next term of an establishment ghoul, and even if it does/conditions worsen to the point of no return, why would a compliant corporate media tell the general populace that it was happening?
if the media is going to pump doom propaganda to blame the social democrat, they were going to pump brunch normalcy propaganda or simply memoryhole everything to prop up the italian sexpest. as a nobody australian i may not be super informed on the day to day of NYC life, but i struggle to believe that NYC was going to reach a tipping point of institutional collapse within 2 years.
the only way that allowing the establishment dem to win was a “smarter move” is actively contributing to “sinking” the city - aka you were ready to wage a concerted bombing campaign against state assets and police forces the day he was sworn in. i have a feeling op is not exactly putting their foot down on the accelerator in this sense
edit: idk i know this probably sounded unhinged, but “nothing ever happens” posting just shits me, and a subset of that seems to be this idea of “strategic accelerationism” that always just so happens to absolve its proponents of any workload or responsibility (as per the other reply). acceleration only happens if the forces applied affect the rate of change of velocity physically - so fuck it, if you believe this shit works socially, it must work on the same principles. similarly, if you believe in this, then surely the inverse applies and force applied in a positive direction will ‘decelerate’ societal harm and should eventually result in acceleration in an intended direction.
yes, electorialism in many senses does fuck all, but it at least applies some force in the intended direction as little as it may be. “strategically doing nothing” does fuck all other than allowing the existing forces applied to continue applying the existing acceleration, and why would these existing institutions applying concerted societal force allow themselves to look bad? they’re gonna blame us anyway. I’m lazy as shit and even I see this. just fucking do something.
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I admit i know nothing of any theoretical analysis of accelerationism and am just rambling. feel free to call me a dumbass for misapplying concepts, but i stand by my statement that “strategically doing nothing” is still doing nothing and will never amount to any tangible positive change. If tangible positive change does somehow come about, you will receive no credit for it and deserve to be admonished for being a lazy fuck.
Humility is a great virtue, but you’re correct, I think. OP isn’t even really accelerationism because it doesn’t even take the agency to do acceleration (so that’s two garbage ideologies that it’s even worse than) but yeah, accelerationism in a scenario where capitalists are winning just means them winning more or the fascists taking over in case of collapse (which you are right, is not at all imminent). It’s a nonsense ideology equivalent to cheering on the rapture.