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What bluemaga podcast was it that had some guy appropriate the word "accelerationist"? I see you guys misuse it all the time now.
An accelerationist is not "someone who wants things to be bad." It is a marxist tendency that believes because capitalists need to accumulate capital in order for contradictions to appear - which is necessary for the proletariat to become sufficiently alienated in order to rise up - then it is in the interest of the marxist to make this happen as quickly as possible, so as to bring about conditions fertile for socialism as quickly as possible.
An accelerationist will therefore vote for and support the most competent capitalist, because they will most efficiently accumulate capital. The accelerationist position is pretty commonly understood to be one that supports the democrats, since they are more competent managers of empire.
If youre going to throw concepts around, then learn what they are.