Endure.
Ayn Rand was right all along.
Ya lost me right there.
Leftists should stop trying to change the world, and use those new skills, knowledge and strengths (after trying to wake Liberals up) to survive the accelerating US collapse. Be selfish. Make moves.
Submitted 6 days ago by g2JsYdr9oVj@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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fl1p@piefed.zip 6 days ago
Botanicals@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Mutual Aid and building community is the best outcome for the future we are facing.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
survive by abandoning what defines you, and becoming what you hate.
Aka
Your enemy was right, join them to survive
Uhh… I don’t think this is going to do gangbusters here. I’m hoping that we’re seeing terminal lucidity of fascism; I’m not gonna hold my breath for it, but I’m also not going to abandon my principles out of fear.
zbyte64@awful.systems 6 days ago
I agree people are selfish but I disagree on where that leads us. Acting as a collective is the best way to be selfish. Billionaires have their collectives: corporations; and if you don’t do the same then you are not even selfish, you are just cattle.
fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
people don’t just “wake up”. a movement is built, one conversation, one comrade at a time; it doesn’t just magically happen in the minds of the people. i don’t think you’re necessarily badly intentioned, but you aren’t even giving any compelling stories from your “firsthand experience over the past two decades”. your post amounts to “society is FUBAR’d because trust me bro,” and frankly, none of us have any reason to trust you, brand new account will no posts
you also don’t really talk like someone who has twenty years of organizing experience. there are methodologies to this, one can be trained in these ways if one really wants to be
also, how exactly do you expect to survive the MAGApocalypse without community? who do you expect to turn to in times of crisis if not the people around you? or are you just going to isolate yourself from society and go off the grid? do you think people make it through these sorts of crises alone?
if you are tired of society being built on a foundation of fear, you can begin your journey to building collective power and hope with this page and this site, it’s an excellent resource: labornotes.org/…/22AnOrganizingConversation_0.pdf
finally, reminder that ayn rand ended her life benefiting from the same systems she had decried: social security and medicare
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
All leftists (i.e., Democrats) should be learning to do sick skateboard tricks because after the collapse it will be the only mode of transport and being able to do sick tricks will come in handy and we’ll finally have a leg up on MAGA
DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 days ago
What is money’s worth when Capitalism (aka USA) collapses?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 6 days ago
What do you think the ‘collapse’ will look like?
There’s a whole lot of nuclear and conventional weapons out there.
The Soviet Empire went down in the calmest way possible, and there were genocidal wars all over the former SSRs.
The idea that the 0.01% don’t have plans is place is naïve.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 days ago
bruh… I deleted my comment because I misread your opening statement. leave me alone.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 6 days ago
No, we should all start fighting the class war and literally target Thiel and Andreesan to start before they take our society away from us. Because they wont stop once they crumble the US, they’ll only move on to the next corpse.
g2JsYdr9oVj@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Funny stuff. So many presumptions of ownership and access.
But you’re touching on the original observation and point that motivated this post. This society is already gone. To protest, fight and (even occasionally) win battles is a hallucination.
As a Leftist I have made the truly difficult choice to step away from trying to help others, to helping myself. Because there is only one opportunity to true victory, and that is a systemic, system-wide renaissance of “awakened” individuals. And most people on my side seem to be objectively horrified by these thoughts.
Good luck. Anarchist friend.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 6 days ago
The only way out is together. Don’t fool yourself. Good luck to you, too.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
That’s a capitalist mindset, not leftist.