8/n I think we’re heading into a climate crisis of appalling proportions for which we are conceptually unready. We can prevent it in the present but seem unwilling. If you’re in politics, these things are yours to solve. Getting shouted at in ALL CAPS is frankly a minor challenge. /ends
I’m of the mind that much of this [out here] is happening bc we cannot face the climate crisis. Even those of us with heads in sand know it’s coming, we know the summers are longer hotter etc., and yeah the longer we put off facing it the more of [this] we will get and the harder it’ll be to act
For our politicians to take route our media has taken—normalizing, lamely suggesting that people facing Medicaid cuts, loss of housing support, to “save $” by stocking up on pasta when it’s on sale—is extremely frightening, making us all feel unmoored, so of course people are going to lash out !
Thank you for this.
As someone active in local politics for years I can understand a bit of their frustration, bc you never see those who yell at you online doing ANY real work on the streets or in groups. They never help organizing and they never have time to even come to protests.
I mean do you really know the people you interact with online in real life? How do you know they aren’t active in their own communities? What evidence do you have? I think a lot of people just tell themselves the people who annoy them aren’t doing anything real, cause easier on the ‘ol ego.
Experience. It ist a certain type you come across in Real Life too, either in work meetings or in volunteering, political or other, who has no original ideas, but can't stop talking, usually starting with 'as XY already said...' Ask any woman. But as soon as you would need them on the street. (2
2) or for organizing food for the crew or, beware, drive someone, they unfortunately can't, or they don't see a value in the action.
Okay so you don’t actually have evidence that every given person who annoys you online isn’t doing anything real, you’re just projecting your own anecdotal experience onto the whole of humanity. Don’t assume things about people you don’t know :)
No, of course not. And I didn't say that, I only explained that I understand a bit of frustration. Just don't tell me what I lived during 47 years of work and 40 years of political volunteering for the Social Democrats.To be frank I don't see the American Left on the streets.
The actual American left has been on the streets all over the world continually protesting your country’s perpetration of genocide for the last two years. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong places for “the left”
*the actual American left, and the international left
Do we talk abt what happens in South Sudan or abt the Rohingya? And even if "the American Left" were! on the streets, where are they now? Now, when it's dangerous they stay home? The last protests I went to were pro Ukraine, by the way.
I’m in Canada and I have been closely following events, there have been protests small and large going on in the U.S. since Trump entered office and began his DOGE coup. I really don’t think you are paying any attention at all to what’s going on around you.
Also I’m not sure what Ukraine has to do with anything I said? I support Ukraine’s resistance to imperialist Russia. As does any trustworthy leftist. Liberals/centrists may not find yourselves a part of leftist movements because your support for neoliberalism forms the ultimate basis of fascism.
There’s a lot of answers to that. To some extent it’s just a sampling error. Sometimes people do other work - 3rd sector stuff, say. And sometimes, yeah, opinions are the extent of their engagement. Our systems aren’t very responsive and people get frustrated.