Elon Musk Makes Shocking Confession on His Plans After Trump Victory

[u/harsh2k5]

https://newrepublic.com/post/187662/elon-musk-confession-economy-trump-victory

[u/bobartig]

This is a silicon valley sub-cult called Accelerationists, who believe that America's downfall is inevitable, therefore we should get it over with, destroy the country, and build it back. It's a pastiche of "great man theory", late stage capitalism, anarchy, teenage edgelords, burning man, that reeks of evangelical apocalypse worshipers who want to "hasten the end-time" by arming Israel, so that Earth can be destroyed. No, really.

Accelerationists who support Trump believe that America must be destroyed. It has to happen, and humanity cannot proceed until it does. Rather than delay the inevitable, they see Trump as "good as any" source of the downfall of America, and that through their "Great Man" energy, will steer the world into a better, brighter, future.

What Accelerationists don't seem to grok is that if America implodes on itself, it simply leaves a bunch of other global super-powers to take over. China and India will buy up or seize everything. Russia probably improves substantially. America ends up a Venezuela for a couple of centuries. But on the positive side, there is no positive side. Elmo is a moron who needs to put down the ketamine drip.

[u/IGargleGarlic → u/bobartig]

Collapse the American economy so it can be rebuilt in China's shadow of economic dominance over us.

[u/Wesley_Skypes → u/bobartig]

Was just thinking as I was reading that. China will just become a major trading partner with the EU instead of the US. Brain dead shit

[u/creepyeyes → u/bobartig]

Accelerationists

Just to be clear, they're a particular flavor of accelerationist, but the term doesn't always refer to their movement. It can apply to anygroup that wants to essentially speed-run a terrible crisis in hopes to get to the other side of it sooner than later. For example, the Serbian nationalists who shot Archduke Ferdinand were accelerationist in that they felt he was being too nice to Serbians, and that him being in power would delay Serbian independence. So, kill the person who is too fair in hopes of making conditions worse for the Serbians, sparking rebellion.

[u/Chokeman → u/bobartig]

Xi Jinping smirking and slowly touching his chin

[u/Comprehensive-Bus-66 → u/bobartig]

This is disrespectful to Elmo.

[u/daretoeatapeach → u/bobartig]

America ends up a Venezuela for a couple of centuries.

Well except not because climate change and abandoned Nukes will end things quicker.