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A man stood and spoke for over 24 hours straight and so many are dismissing it as nothing more than "performative"
This is what it looks like to fight. It's not perfect, it's not easy, it's not even clear if it will do anything. But it's something. It's someone standing up and forcing people to listen to the voices of the unheard.
That's what it looks like to fight. It's an ideological war for the soul and future of the nation - did you really think it would be simple, or easy? That we would have natural heroes and great victories?
Fight in whatever way you can. Yell from whatever rooftop you can find, including the senate floor. Kick and scream, even if it feels pointless. But don't stand around doing nothing but questioning the contributions of others. We need solidarity.
public speaking is literally the single most important thing in politics, look at the recent wyoming vote over trans issues.
Two really talented public speakers made actual headway and progress on the issue.
Unfortunately lefties on the internet suffer from brain damage and will never accept anything other than lenin coming back from the dead to rule america, or whatever.
Good Trouble:
https://lemmy.world/post/27697732
I wonder how many people complaining about it being performative refused to vote against the guy who promised to level Gaza so they could feel good about "not being complicit".
I think it's important that we start filling the fediverse and the world with more productive discussion. It feels like every single post and thread around here is completely hijacked by the "centrist/leftist/third party voters" conversation.
The first comments you see on every news article aren't even about the article, it's unrelated complaints against the presumed opinions of other people who may or may not have voted, some of whom may have been bots or internationals or children.
It's wildly counterproductive. We need to move forward and really push for solidarity and meaningful solutions. We can't stop fascism by fighting each other.
literally this.
Doesn't help that every thread engaging in politics is flooded with "great but this doesn't solve problem XYZ posting" We need to take what we can get, and move forward. Sitting on our asses clearly isn't doing anything.
Protest voters did not meaningfully impact the election
I voted for Kamala and I think this is performative.
But performance is incredibly compelling to the psychotic apes who rule this planet so maybe it will help.
I'm not hopeful.