Sorry but these days whenever I hear someone say shit like "we just have to fight for it, pessimism is the weapon of the enemy" I roll my eyes and imagine that this is the exact kind of person who showed up for BLM thinking they just had to walk outside for a few weeks and the government would hand them their demands in a plate.
The global left has had no major victories in the past 15 years; all people can point to is that a handful of countries have functional and popular governing left-wing parties, as if that hasn't been true at every point in postwar history. It's not change, let alone progress. The most that has been accomplished is a few e-celebs and politicians have become rich by peddling feelgood leftslop to impressionable young people desperate for hope.
Saying that we're powerless/helpless/etc is just making excuses. Can we overcome these obstacles to achieve our goals or not? If it's the former then excusing your failures is just a distraction, if it's the latter let's just cut the crap and become doomers.
Our current crop of supposed leaders, whether real ones or just "thought leaders", couldn't organize us out of a housefire. It's time to wake up and demand seriousness, from ourselves and others. As far as I'm concerned every facile midwit Twitter take about capitalism, every aimless "call for action", every vaguely socialist-coded work of fiction, every refusal to engage with actual constraints and solutions, it's all just the work of a useless subculture meant to comfort and pacify people who identify with "left-wing beliefs" but not actually achieve anything. If our "optimism" exists only within this culture it is useless if not outright harmful. And if we completely lose our ability to distinguish between this illusion and the real work we might as well be dead.
6 posts omitted.>>716951millions of people and nothing nada zilch to show for it
>>716945>Meanwhile you accuse me of achieving nothing but I've at least specified the problems and called on us to reject the orgs >and called on us to reject the orgs and people and ideas that keep absorbing time and attention and resources from all of us despite actually doing nothing,So nothing then? How is your post not just absorbing more time and doing nothing?
> while all I took from you was at most two minutes of your time. Yeah, but you think you're the first person to do so? I'm not going to say you've done any damage with your post "demoralizing" or "blackpilling" but until you come up with altertnative, your idea is completely half-baked and really doesn't do anything more than nothing.
>If you want a clear actionable suggestion from me here is one: the next time some org invites you to a protest for some vague ideal, investigate it, see if it's actually being led by committed mature people and not liberal careerists or histrionic terminally online Chapo listeners, see if it actually has a list of goals and a rational strategy that the protest fits into, and if it doesn't then don't go. I've saved you an afternoon and fare money AND we can all stop contributing to the legitimacy of these useless parasites.I went to some of those No Kings protests just because my friend invited me. I just stood in around in a large crowd outside of our State Capitol building. I couldn't even see the stage or really hear them most of the time. I never been to any protests before that but I'm a millenoid. I guess I kinda "marched" in a BLM protest before like back in 2014 during the first BLM wave, and that was just because me and my dad were out eating at a restaurant and we saw one of these marches going by by chance because some mentally ill failson Black dude got killed by a taser after his parents called the cops on him in a domestic dispute I think like a few weeks previous in my city.
>Yes, it's "doing nothing", but anyone who doesn't recognize that doing nothing is preferrable to doing something stupid is stuck in the exact hopeless, idealistic, irrational cult mentality that I described in my original post.<It's true because it is!N
Post too long. Click here to view the full text. >>716980>Black dude got killed by a taser after his parents called the cops on him in a domestic dispute Looked it up. Apparently he was living with his girlfriend and apparently he was the one who called the cops on himself.
shh the left is sleeping. we'll wake up later