Since this is at the top of active, take notes on how the alt-right radicalizes casuals. We could stand to learn a thing or two on how they reached casual right-wingers to help us with radicalizing liberals. :P

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      4 years ago

      alright as fucked climate change is it can literally always get worse. The 22nd century will be the century of apocalypse if socialist forces do nothing. It's the difference of +5 degrees of warming compared to +8 degrees. Climate change isn't going kill us, it's going to be the famines, disaster response, and eachother. All of those can be mitigated with a socialist society and restoration can eventually get underway. Or the left loses and humanity gets to experience a slow death in the era of barbarism. I know what future I'd fight for.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
        1·
        4 years ago

        This is important. While we need to understand the severity of climate change, we also shouldn't pretend like actual human extinction is even a possibility in the worst case scenario.

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
      1·
      4 years ago

      If you do nothing, nothing comes. But the project isnt one of instantaneous implementation, it’s about momentum. Even if socialism doesnt come in our life time, the steps you take today help tomorrow. I can promise to work for a better world and thats the most i can ask of you and myself. But to cede to doomerism is to let them win, and never let them win anymore.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You can still help improve people's lives. Even if you've given up on the idea that we can achieve socialism, that doesn't mean you can't help people to minimize the suffering caused by capitalism.

      • TransComrade69 [she/her,ze/hir]
        2·
        4 years ago

        I see this stinky take entirely too often. Say what you want, but the internet can revolutionize the way the left organizes, spreads resourceful information, and supports each other. The right used the internet as a tool to radicalize normies and forward their own causes and it's high time we take a page from their book. Sometimes posting is activism if that's all you can do. I was radicalized by trans memes and stumbling into this community only a year and a half ago. Now I'm shooting to get people involved in the mutual aid community here that has already raised $930, on top of the other $5,000-ish raised on the Discord. Sure that may not be a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, but every cent that goes to improving the material conditions of others is objectively good.

        You do what you can to support our cause.

        • PartyMonster [they/them,any]
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          4 years ago

          It's why I'm here. This shit could straight up change the goddamn world if it plays out right.

          Or it could just be the internet's dive bar

          Or it could be both:kropotkin-shining:

          • TransComrade69 [she/her,ze/hir]
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            4 years ago

            We have to stop scolding leftists for being terminally online and start romanticizing the creation of mutual aid networks and the radicalization of normies with the internet as a tool to accomplish those things.