Zoboomafoo @ Zoboomafoo @lemmy.world

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You're not optimistic about the next election after seeing the last one?

German

Lame?

I just spent 2 hours trying and failing to get a Hello, World! in Eclipse, I'm not brave enough for Linux

But that's changing for the better?

Beet Juice? Do they remove the color or will everything be stained purple forever?

Nobody writes news articles about random people receiving gag orders

You need capitalism to collapse completely for this.

Proof?

I use a VPN because otherwise Warner Bros tells Comcast to send me threatening letters

Me. Joe Biden broken into my house and ate all my ice cream

Is "Try to make the world a better place" really so high a bar?

Those are all great goals, I just think that the idea that everything needs to be torn down before it can be rebuilt is self defeating.

So instead do nothing and circlejerk how miserable you are?

And at no point did I advocate for doing something trivial. I said pick one thing that's important to you and put your effort into that. Do you think poor people deserve homes? Volunteer your time on weekends to build them through organizations like Habitat for Humanity. Do you think that's just a bandaid over a societal wound? Find a group of like-minded people and try to fix that deeper wound.

My recommendation is to pick one problem and focus on it. Don't feel like you need to fix everything in the world, just make a small part of the world better. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, clean up litter, canvas for a ballot measure you care about. Doing nothing while agonizing over how much is to be done helps nobody.

No thank you, I don't subscribe to revolutionary ideologies that want to tear down the system then figure out what to build on the ashes

You're right, either Indonesia fixes every square meter of deforestation at once or they're actually not helping the environment.

How convenient

See, that's what I mean. You treat The Revolution as an inevitability, then twist yourself into knots to justify why it hasn't happened yet.

Me:

In my opinion, Marx wrote his conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion.

You:

I can't fathom the arrogance of people who say "Marx just didn't think of x, y or z"

Please, enlighten me how I said that

Why shouldn't I? I stand by my original point and you've done nothing to rebut it