California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is striking back at Trump after the president backed a call for the governor's arrest after LA erupted in anti-ICE protests.
Can someone explain to me these little self-flagellation parties (edit: meaning the replies below, not the root level comment I’m replying to) that seem to appear with every other dystopian headline in this community?
I mean like this mopey circlejerk right here, with Americans unironically declaring “no one is doing anything!” when literally every day brings more news from the hundreds of large active US protests which lately have been maturing as the fash behaves predictably. Even if that weren’t the case, isn’t the obvious solution to “be the change” or are we not doing basic grassroots work anymore?
This shit is really persistent on lemmy, like some kind of self-affirming narrative to excuse inaction, or maybe doomerist/accelerationist propaganda, or some other internet koolaid I’m too offline to understand.
But I want to know how to get the disillusioned circlejerkers plugged into local efforts. The boots on the ground reality of the work being done, not to mention all the preparation leading up to this phase, seems like it’s right in front of them yet they can’t/won’t see it. We really need all the help we can get.
And on a personal level, it’s getting hard to watch them on here whining that no one is doing anything, high-fiving each other for admitting they’re also not doing anything, and other one-downsman-ship type behaviors, because a bunch of people have been busting ass out here for a while and like, if you don’t want to or can’t help, fine. But then you don’t get to complain on the internet that we’re not doing enough.
You two are saying the same thing. The little people are putting in all the resistance work right now, and we’re calling on leadership to join us. They haven’t yet, so we will keep applying pressure. It’s not defeatist at all, you seem to be projecting your own emotions there.
Yes I wasn’t referring to the comment I replied to, but rather all the replies below it. I can see how that might be confusing so I’ll clarify the comment.
Regardless, you’ve probably seen better examples of what I’m talking about, and if you have any ideas, I’m all ears.
Can someone explain to me these little self-flagellation parties (edit: meaning the replies below, not the root level comment I’m replying to) that seem to appear with every other dystopian headline in this community?
I mean like this mopey circlejerk right here, with Americans unironically declaring “no one is doing anything!” when literally every day brings more news from the hundreds of large active US protests which lately have been maturing as the fash behaves predictably. Even if that weren’t the case, isn’t the obvious solution to “be the change” or are we not doing basic grassroots work anymore?
This shit is really persistent on lemmy, like some kind of self-affirming narrative to excuse inaction, or maybe doomerist/accelerationist propaganda, or some other internet koolaid I’m too offline to understand.
But I want to know how to get the disillusioned circlejerkers plugged into local efforts. The boots on the ground reality of the work being done, not to mention all the preparation leading up to this phase, seems like it’s right in front of them yet they can’t/won’t see it. We really need all the help we can get.
And on a personal level, it’s getting hard to watch them on here whining that no one is doing anything, high-fiving each other for admitting they’re also not doing anything, and other one-downsman-ship type behaviors, because a bunch of people have been busting ass out here for a while and like, if you don’t want to or can’t help, fine. But then you don’t get to complain on the internet that we’re not doing enough.
You two are saying the same thing. The little people are putting in all the resistance work right now, and we’re calling on leadership to join us. They haven’t yet, so we will keep applying pressure. It’s not defeatist at all, you seem to be projecting your own emotions there.
Yes I wasn’t referring to the comment I replied to, but rather all the replies below it. I can see how that might be confusing so I’ll clarify the comment.
Regardless, you’ve probably seen better examples of what I’m talking about, and if you have any ideas, I’m all ears.