Notices by John (johnzajac@dice.camp), page 2

That you're 35, or 45, or even 55 - ages that have almost the same level of (very low) risk to develop many of conditions we think of as "diseases of the elderly" - will be irrelevant.

You'll need a reason, and "getting older" over 8 or 10 years will be right there waiting for you.

I know for a fact that doctors are *already* telling people in their late 30s that their rheumatoid arthritis, new-onset T1 diabetes, cognitive deficits, and MCAS/alcohol intolerance are just "aging"

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Their *late 30s*

I don't know how to tell you this but your late 30s are practically indistinguishable from your late 20s in terms of physical capability and health - aside from the fact that you have had 10 more years with which to harm yourself.

What I'm trying to get at in this thread is that

1) Actual Long COVID is incredibly common, difficult to define, and already being waved away by doctors et al.

2) Actual Long COVID looks like aging or just bad luck, only more and faster

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3) you will never be able to convince someone they've got Actual Long COVID, rather than just "bad luck" or "aging" or what-have-you, until there's a test for it, bc it means they did it to themselves, and it's much more serious than they thought

Which is why a *test for Long COVID* should be all of our priority right now: research into treatment and good vaccines will be hamstrung until the billions of people who suffer from Actual Long COVID *know* they're suffering from it

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Like all things that creep into existence, there are lots of ads now targeting people who "just can't seem to do stuff" and "have trouble thinking" and "just don't have energy!" all with promises to reduce the "stress", "tension", "nutrient imbalances", etc that are "causing" these problems.

But they're all COVID. Literally all of them.

I know, I know: stress causes these, too, and we're in a stressful time! It's very wild out there.

But it's COVID, and here's how I know:

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@dalias @foolishowl

Yeah, because they're nihilists

As I said, I lack verbiage to describe the strategy, and latched onto acclerationism as something that on the surface - and colloquially within conversations I've had on here and elsewhere - reflects the idea that sometimes you have to push entrenched systems of power forward more quickly than they can adapt in order to topple them, and the math on doing that re: resultant suffering strongly supports the strategy, not incrementalism.

@dalias @foolishowl

I also think it's instructive that this started out as a "hard disagree" and ended up being a legitimate misunderstanding created by neofascist/liberal manipulation of language.

@dalias @foolishowl

Yes! And the New Deal came out of...the threat of violent revolution by a People beset with horrific and inhumane condition by someone who 1) was an avowed capitalist and 2) was smart enough to see that his class had gone too far.

@foolishowl @dalias

On the flip side, FDR implemented the New Deal in part to prevent a communist revolution from taking place because of the Great Depression.

As I mention elsewhere,

1) ideological Accelerationism - the nihilist kind that has "sacrifice people to the God of change and make the rains come" vibes - wasn't what I was trying to discuss

and 2) the strategy I was discussing isn't a blanket solution to despotism; but it may be the *only* solution to neofascism.

@dalias

Ah, maybe the issue here is my use of the word "acceleration-ISM", which I will concede describes an ideology, not a strategy. As an ideology, Accelerationism is simply nihilism dressed up in fancy political clothes.

I'm suffering from a lack of education and a lack of verbiage to disambiguate an extremely effective strategy from a destructive ideology, and tbh I think that's on purpose; folding a good idea into a bad idea to taint and hide it is a *classic* Liberal/neofascist gambit.

@dalias

Sure; but like you aren't talking about Democrats, I don't mention organizing, mutual aid, mutual defense, anarchist principles, decentralization, community resilience and food production, etc. which are all essential parts of *dealing with a collapsing civilization*, and which most people do not engage in because the neofascists built a very effective and isolating caste system *for that very purpose*.

@dalias

I also fail to see what the alternative would be, considering the durability and effectiveness of the "ratchet/paralyze" tactic in keeping the nation on track to a democracy-coded neofascist oligarchy.

"Accelerationism" isn't the solution to every problem; but I'd like us to consider that it might be the solution to the problem presented by neofascism, which was specifically designed to use and corrupt ideas like "harm reduction" and "equality" to entrench evil and forestall action.

@dalias

I gotta say that your take sort of ignores the fact that Democrats seem really curious about killing vulnerable people, incarcerating and enslaving Black people, forcibly detransitioning trans people, cutting basic life necessities, denying people healthcare, and empowering elites to hoard life-saving medications.

Accelerating that simply forces the vast paralyzed and self-congratulating white middle class to see what their chosen politicians have been doing on the sly for decades.

@dalias

Colloquially, "accelerationism" has been used in my lifetime to mean empowering the militant/ratcheting wing of the neofascist political class over an extended period of time, rather than allow "less evil" pols to hold the line while they regroup, so corrupt but entrenched institutions unravel to the point where they have to be demo'd and replaced.

If there's an academic definition I don't know it 🤷♂️

@dalias

BTW, nowhere do I say we should "let" people do evil, whether they're MAGA or Democrats.

Accelerationism is having a banner couple of years, tbh

Like, imagine if we'd done this shit in, say, the early 2000s? Liberals and centrists had kept running for office and losing because decent, moral people were willing to sacrifice a few years of progress in order to save the planet and stop encroaching despotism.

Imagine all the people who wouldn't have suffered in 2008 and 2009, when Obama funneled money to banks and rich people instead of saving folks houses and businesses.

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Imagine the *literal tens of millions* of people who would probably be alive today if we'd drawn and quartered the for-profit healthcare industry 20 years ago after figuratively massacring the liberal caucus in Congress.

Imagine the advances Black people and the anti-carceral movement would have made if leftists and progressives had joined forces to crush the neofascists.

Imagine that and more, had we only pushed the system to breaking 20 years earlier, when it was far less precarious.

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Imagine legalizing marijuana Federally, liberalizing drug laws, cutting the NatSec State, and regulating social media.

Imagine breaking up monopolies before they had more money than most countries.

Imagine high speed rail, Elon Musk as the upper-class South African failson he is, Jeff Bezos as CEO of Amazon Seattle, not Amazon the Global Behemoth.

Imagine that all you had to do to get that is let GWB do...what he did anyway, but with bigger majorities.

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Accelerationism only stops making sense if you buy into the idea that history is over and change takes generations. If you're an impossiblist, of *course* you don't want to break the system; because replacing a broken system with a new, better one is...impossible.

It wasn't for every other generation of mankind, but for us? Nope. Nada. Can't be done. Sorry that's just *~*reality*~*.

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I'm telling you: this motherfucker knows that USians are literally done with the ruling class. And he knows what they muse about doing out loud in the privacy of their own homes. And he wakes up screaming every night thinking about it.

Do I think it's gonna get there - a literal eating of the rich? No. I don't.

But I do think the rage and violence of USians has risen to the point where, when the economy tanks like a motherfucker in June-July, there will be some blood and fire.

/fin

I expect that his closest allies are going to slowly trickle away as well, naively thinking that if they live in "non-extradition" countries run by paleofascists we won't be able to get them.

Well, the joke's on them: the very "rules-based world order" they seem to be relying on to avoid winning stupid prizes for their stupid games is *the world order they just ritualistically burned to the ground*.

Thiel is merely the first. The rest will follow.

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