Please do. I'm not a fan of accellerationist mentality. It's functionally identical to surrender, and we won't get to control the direction of the slide

I'd rather live in a Pinochet dictatorship than give the left a chance at American Stalin.

I want to control that slide if it comes to it. I'd rather not slide at all

It's just a meme. I'm sure before long the next popular topic is post apocalyptic platforms or space civilization candidates

To be perfectly honest I think things are going to shit either way. The difference is that I want to use whatever remaining time to preserve/fix/prepare the "good shit"

I would advocate instead that people allow the portions of the overall social/political structure that are beyond repair to fall apart, and prepare a good alternative before they do

In culture war terms, that would basically mean giving ground where there can be no solid victory, and focusing on areas where a win will actually mean something. I just think that will ultimately not stop some level of collapse

One example: fuck twitter. Use other platforms. People are leaving Facebook. They'll eventually leave twitter if they don't fix their service. Light that fire under their asses or topple the site through mass exodus

Set up better systems focused around communication instead of groupthink.

The problem is the entire financial system ultimately is working against alternatives. Setting up alternative platforms is a fine idea, until you run into the question of how can you sustain such a thing

It depends on the form you want your alternatives to take. Minds currently dabbles in crypto, and there's a lot of discord/slack-likes with decentralized hosting. Forums have also been a consistent *thing*

Crypto is highly niche, and forums are liable to be shut down via hosting providers

Ultimately Twitter's ability to exclude, and the severity of that punishment, is determined paradoxically by how many people they have left. The more they exert their power, the less power they have

They're only liable if you're insistent on using other people's infrastructure and cannot trust those people

Otherwise it's purely a matter of having the resources to deal with bandwidth and electricity costs

Everyone on the internet is vulnerable at some point or another

Everyone on the internet is vulnerable at the point of access, when it comes to overall usage. Beyond that, it depends on how many corners you're cutting

I do think we need to "solve" the payment processor issue though

There must be some method for having an alternative transfer of resources

Meatspace works but it's not all that practical

Its not just payment processor issues.

we need to solve the credit card issue.

if a simple thing like a piece of plastic can be revoked from you at any time but it is litterally impossible to operate without it, some measure of 'fuck you' laws need to be in place about that relationship.

if the bank doesn't like what you do with your money you can say 'fuck you' and do it anyway.

none of this "you choose to use visa" its not physically possible to live all cash these days.

even the government is requiring cards these days.

New one's out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nhXQS5UUGQ

Crowder Change My Mind

it's not a little ironic that cash used to be more of a hassle than plastic. now it's almost reversed. credit cards are becoming more of a hassle than cash with their clunky verification: chip readers, 3 digit cvv code, PIN # etc.

cash is quicker when you're in line at the store and it can't be revoked electronically

Yeah I've been meaning to move towards paying with cash for most things. I don't like the amount of data collection that credit cards are doing. Definitely a lot of ethics concerns with having companies be able to track spending habits at the resolution they can

it's annoying you find a new channel that's kind of interesting but as you go through videos you start to hear the leftist buzzwords slip in "Islamaphobia", "misogyny" and just ragging on gamergate out of nowhere...sigh

cash has never been a "hassle"

you just hand them the specified amount and leave

i'm that one guy who always has correct change

does that make a hero

I think so

Well, the best option is just to tell yourself the max you're gonna spend, then take that out of your wallet, and hand the max to the cashier / self checkout (mega gay)

let the cashier do the fucking around

for me the issue is less about time, but more about the capacity of carrying cash. I never have the correct scale of cash. If I have a huge purchase to make I only have a 20, If I have a tiny purchase to make i only have a 100.

the thing with accelerationism is that the right is so _not ready_ for 'rebuilding from the ashes' that it's absolutely shooting yourself in the foot to try to speed it all up.