Besides posting on chapo, what is something you may do often or occasionally that you think/know is pretty lib?
I use to have a hard time saying no to cashiers who'd ask me to round up my total to donate to some terrible organization the store owned or partnered with. Not only are most non-profits complete shit, but doing it this way the store is the one doing the write off too, kinda a double whammy. I stopped doing this for the most part, but occasionally my mouth speaks before I think and I say "sure."
The other thing is buying girl scout cookies sometimes. I just assume this org is bad, i've never really looked into it, but if they are even remotely like the boy scouts, they are for sure bad.
And the last one is probably shopping at the salvation army, which has a horrible track record, has donated to anti-LGBTQA+ orgs, has a horrible labor track record and more. But like, I almost never buy brand new clothes and random household items anymore because it's both so much less expensive this way and the textile industry is one of the worst polluters out there plus they also have horrible labor practices. But in my mind at least, buying second hand is much better to reuse stuff instead of contributing more to those industries.
what do you got?
i mean yes. if humans live long enough to see things improve into the next centuries, you and i will be seen as monsters, or at best hostages of a system we are too cowardly to change
for sure, we should always be striving to not live in a capitalist society
I don't think this is true. We don't see 19C workers as monsters because they were unable to destroy capitalism. We're all victims and hopefully one day can call ourselves survivors of capitalism. Even arriving at the point of radicalisation that recognises the necessity of change and holding on to that insight in the face of our individual weakness and collective alienation is something that is valuable and requires a reasonable deal of inner strength
I probably was too binary that way but I always feel cognitive dissonance whenever I buy things I don't need or consume pretty much anything, but of course there isn't much of a choice. I think we all feel this way, like we're not doing enough. I know some people on this site really do their best to avoid supporting the worst offenders of capitalism, and then there are people like me whose only distinction from the lumpenprolateriat is knowing that my money will be used to keep people oppressed.