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it sucks. this all just sucks. it sucks that things are the way they are, and it sucks that people have to be mad about things, and it sucks when people are being hurt by the sluggish nature of progress, and it sucks that there have been so many people dead and buried before i found the internal motivation needed to start saying 'enough is enough' only to get involved with the most glacially-paced fucking method of dealing with problems known to humankind.

i want to be a superhero. but superheroes aren't fucking real, and saying so shouldn't make me feel so fucking sad.


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in reply to @hootOS's post:

makes me feel like im just aiding and abetting the status quo's continued existence rather than actually demanding change

That fucking dilemma. Is so, so stupid. It and the related perceived necessity to have a single unified political identity that is somehow supposed to encompass both ideals and actions. Are the root of all the stupid leftist infighting and division.

Me personally, I'm not a diehard anything. My political manifest is: in terms of organized government, support the largest popular/center-left party/coalition; outside of that, just support all the movement in the good direction, work on creation and maintenance of non-capitalist, non-commercial connections and structures; do not waste too much time on philosophical bullshit.

Also the US meaning of "liberal" is destroying y'all's goddamn brains.

the only advice we can offer is that we definitely would suggest working on killing the "ivory tower marxist" in your head that says that the only options are binary. there is no rule that says the only options are "immediate revolution now" or "incrementalism" because like...a big part about being a leftist means that you're probably not rich enough to drop all options that aren't arming & building up a revolution, and unfortunately, you do need to eat and drink and sleep somewhere safe & healthy in order to live. the sorts of people who profit off of treating it like a binary are, well, people who are either trying to sell you doom & gloom or people who are trying to turn "accomplishing political change" into something impossible due to the prerequisite purity of all involved.

in reply to @hootOS's post:

what you're saying makes total sense, and it does suck that things are this way, and acknowledging that things are this way doesn't make you a lib.

for another, perhaps even bleaker lens on the problem: our actual enemies – not our imperfect allies, but the people who literally want us dead – are working within the system, on these decades-long timescales, and gaining a ton of power that way, and even using that power to make it easier for them to overturn parts of the system in their favor. if we concede that battleground to the fash because we've decided it's insufficiently radical, they'll get their revolution long before we get ours.

being pragmatic and strategic in your approach to making the world a better place, while also holding onto your ideals as things worth caring about and working towards, makes you a better leftist, not a worse one. I'm glad you're out here doing the work you're doing <3

fuck okay thank god someone else sees it the way i do because i was starting to go kind of insane about it. like shit, i hate that im contributing to the same sluggish ass system that has put and continues to put me in increasingly difficult circumstances, but fuck if i take it lying down screaming from the gutters. and like, shit, you're right; even our enemies don't like the system, but that's why they infiltrate it and destroy it into their own image from the inside - because it's effective. it works. and it takes fucking decades to do it, but they get it done.

fuck. thanks for the sanity check.

What frustrates me is that Cohost's site styling is very friendly towards user stylesheets, and there are a number of people who have built user stylesheets that implement dark mode, but apparently "solving your own problems" is too much for people.

The fact that user stylesheets don't work on iOS is an accessibility problem, but not with Cohost! It's a use case that CSS was explicitly designed for! Complain to Apple! They've broken one of the key pieces of browser accessibility functionality!