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wolf-skins · 3 months ago

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i will say one of the other things that has been irritating me a bit of late is this idea that leftists and leftist movements boil down to ~The Revolution~ and that it's an argument to be taken seriously despite the fact that no real activist movements, no genuine momentum is being built on that. that's online shit. stop treating it with the same weight of the demands of actual activists and protesters as a way to dismiss any and all leftist lines of thinking.

hoping for a magical Revolution™ is not real activism, nor is it a real position of on the ground movements at all. it's unserious. if you truly pin your hopes on that, you're not helping anyone at all nor dealing with reality. and everyone knows it is primarily an online thing except for liberals who either are also too online, or are being bad faith and want to make arguments against it so as to avoid the more reasonable and actionable demands that said leftist movements actually do make.

it's getting old, real quick.

#waking up to a thread from a lawyer activist i respect on most takes except her too liberal ones #where she's responding to this concept way too seriously......... you know very well it's not a serious thing #you know very well what the goals of many real movements actually are bc u've talked to them #and you're friends with people in them like i'm tired of libs doing this c'mon now #and then everyone else treating this like it's a real thing and her retweeting people sayin This Is The Problem With Leftists girl please😭#obvs it's something i've been seeing a lot and hearing from some friends like. the revolutions is great for memes and jokes. the revolution #is not a thing that will happen. there is not a magical revolution that will solve the issues of the world or any one country #revolutions happen and it's bloody and it's sometimes necessary but it's not a solution that solves everything #and if anyone takes that idea and thinks that it's their only option they're most likely just young and online

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