• BironyPoisoned [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    241·
    6 days ago

    Copious amounts of chemical filters in order to avoid processing reality.

    Or just disconnect from the false internal narrative that things were ever going to be okay. History is one big story of shitty things happening to good people. If you get rid of the just-world fallacy and accept that this part of humanity just crops up sometimes, you’ll probably be happier.

    Yeah the world is collapsing, it does that every 50 years or so.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    One thing I do is I make daily donations to a little food pantry. Even for a little while I can escape my thoughts of Hellworld. Sometimes I leave an inexpensive but nice non-food item. Today it was this…

  • d_cagno [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    201·
    6 days ago

    Organize. Get involved in your community. The state isn’t going to save us, but nothing gives me hope like seeing people turn out to help each other.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      161·
      6 days ago

      Organize.

      It’s really unhelpful to just say “organize”. The next sentence is a little more helpful but doesn’t really elaborate on the idea of organizing.

      • PowerLurker [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        it’s hard to be super specific because so much is contextual from area to area, but for people in the US on this site i think seeing if you have an active PSL or DSA branch in your area and feeling out the work there is a good plan A (EDIT: oh and i think FRSO has a large presence in the midwest).

        if you’re in a union or you rent in a building with a tenants union, feel out getting more involved in that too/instead. if your coworkers or neighbors seem disgruntled and you don’t have either of those things, feel out the possibility of unionizing or forming a tenants union.

        but again, these are just common go-tos/“bread and butter” examples of what it means to organize, there are just too many variables to get hyper specific without knowing more about an individual user’s situation. i agree that the sentiment without any follow up can be frustrating, though - and agree that snarky quips as responses are especially unhelpful.

  • gayspacemarxist [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    I’m trying to build a socialist movement with my friends at the PSL and trying to rally the people to get involved with community efforts to protect our neighbors from ICE and make sure they’re fed in the meantime if they’re short on work.

      • DoctimusLimeEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Never give up hope friends. It’s dark, I know, but all across the world resistance is making progress.

        I really like the show Andor, I think it has very strong themes about these exact topics. Take care and be strong! Hope does last 💪

      • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        I don’t know the views of miz but authority structures like the state can be viewed as a form of dictatorship, using laws and police with a monopoly on violence to enforce their authority. Right now most states work in favor of the rich elite bourgousie, communists and anarchists both aim to create a classless society but communists believe in wielding a form of “dictatorship of the proletariat” where the state structure is used to seize factories and productive forces and further the betterment of the working class/proletariat rather than completely abolish all forms of state immediately, as far as I understand.

      • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        no, it is why I support AES

        “authoritarian” is the worst libertarian meme of all time. The important difference between governments is who they work for— all states are class dictatorships, either ownership class or working class. Putting them on an “authority” scale implies that all governments are somehow separate from the people, and in the same degree.

        —licensed_che_shirt

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

    Training and developing connections that are not regulated by the state is a good thing, but ultimately, there is a main quest (building up holdings and allies/membership to the point where a mass defection from the capitalist economy becomes possible) and then there are side quests. The side quests must not derail the main quest, but they’re fine if they support it.

    I’ll play a tiny bit of defense but most of my time and resources are going to go into offense, or preparing the mass defection.

  • DoctimusLimeEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    All across the internet, every day for the past 3-4 years, I’m making articulate and reasonable arguments as to how and why we working masses need to eat the rich asap.

    I’m playing the long game.

    If my actions can have even the slightest effect on pushing the working class across the planet to revolt against the billionaires, then I will die a happy man. Organised militant resistance is the only way.

    We outnumber them at least 100 to 1 and they know it, they’re terrified of it. And the recent revolutions, mostly led by the youth, in Nepal, Madagascar, Bulgaria etc give me hope. I don’t know if the people will really win in those countries, but the fact that they throw off their oppressors gives me hope and inspiration.

    Every worker deserves to understand our common class interests and the constant and increasing class warfare we’re all subjected to. No more left and right thinking, only the billionaires and their lapdog politicians vs the rest of us.

    Spreading this message is my life’s work 💪 eat the rich asap obvsly 🔥