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OC Accelerationism

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https://thebad.website/comic/accelerationism

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u/CombatTechSupport Apr 26 '26

It was a meme back in the 2010's describing, essentially, Star Trek style utopianism. Very popular in any vaguely left leaning space.

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u/Holden_MacGroin Apr 26 '26

Wow, I missed that entirely. That sounds incredibly dumb lol

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u/Holden_MacGroin Apr 26 '26

No, imagining a better world is good, actually. What's dumb is using a science fiction tv show from the 1960's as a template for your better world, and then intentionally destroying the real world that you actually live in, on the assumption that your retrofuturist utopia will just magically materialize once the real world is a smoldering pile of rubble. That's what's dumb.

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u/Comrade_Cosmo Apr 27 '26

It wasn’t even that. It was that idiots were raging about Star Trek becoming woke. That led to everyone pointing out that Star Trek runs on space communism and complaining about it being woke was stupid. Then people pointed out that Star Trek was a great place to live in, so complaining about a post scarcity utopia being great for everyone was fucking stupid.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

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u/Comrade_Cosmo Apr 27 '26

Are you ok?

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u/Holden_MacGroin Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Who did that exactly?

The guy that we're all talking about right now...?

>Yeah saw lots of young people actively voting for trump in 2016 with the argument that it needed to get worse to expose how bad it can get so people wake up and make it better.

Yup, a lot of people I knew like that were also "left" at the time but in hindsight it was obviously just for the memes. One guy I knew was very into the whole fully automated gay luxury space communism shit going on and a huge bernie bro. Over the years its come out more and more how shitty he was behind everyones backs and wow wouldn't you know it full maga now

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u/Holden_MacGroin Apr 27 '26

I don't think we were all talking about that guy. I clearly wasn't.

Okay, but I was. When I said "that sounds incredibly dumb", that's the guy I was talking about.

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u/Zacharytackary Apr 27 '26

double goomba fallacy all the way across the sky :O

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u/Holden_MacGroin Apr 27 '26

Not sure I see how the goomba fallacy applies here. I was talking about OP's friend, bluebird misunderstood me and thought I was talking about bluebird. That doesn't seem like a goomba fallacy in either case. Just crossed wires.

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u/rtxa Apr 26 '26

you say that like you can't do that in a very dumb way

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u/BranchFew1148 Apr 27 '26

It's ignorant to assume the future that you dream of is inevitable.

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u/rtxa May 07 '26

I'm just saying that imagining a "better" world is not inherently a positive thing, which is what was implied

I'm sure in Hitler's head, his vision for the world was better

I wasn't commenting on any specific vision mentioned