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  • Also, something I'd like to add (it may seem contrary to what I said before, but it stems from the same line of thinking).

    Everyone changes the world, for better or worse.

    It doesn't have to be a revolution or anything, you can change the world in so many ways.

    The most important thing is to be an upstanding, good person. You can change the world through community, you can help your friends out, when they are in trouble. You can help your friends through just having a good time with them. You can reflect on life with the people you love, try to offer them new perspectives. You can help random strangers. You can make inspiring art.

    You can raise confident, smart children, that may change the world themselves one day, either as a parent or a caregiver or teacher.

    Fundamentally, Facism is about hate and left wing ideas are about love. So we can win by just increasing empathy in the world.

    For me, I believe that free software can liberate us, and also I just love to code and be a nerd. So I contribute to free software projects online, I helped my mom and a friend of mine install Linux. I helped my scouts move to Nextcloud and Jitsi.

    Change is about exploring new ways to use any skills you have to make small impact, which will maybe eventually bear bigger fruit than you might have thought. And if not, then you just made your life, or maybe the life of people you love a bit better, and that's also great.

    Of course, it's also great to go to demonstrations, join political orgs etc. I just found for me, that I don't have that kind of energy in me, so I focus on other things. That might also change someday.

    Changing the world is mostly about your attitude on life.

  • I feel like, that's exactly what I said.

    And that changes nothing, because we either try to change the world or give up.

    And the world as it currently is is not acceptable to me, so I try to change it.

  • You can still be part of the change.

    And also that is a gross overgeneralisation, it's not like schools were full of revolutionaries a decade ago, and today I definitely feel like more people are ready to do something, especially since Trump took office.

    Just look at the success of Mamdani or the no Kings protests.

  • Jacob Geller made a video about something that's quite analogous, how we deal with the knowledge, that the world is going to end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9N7Awpk9lE

    I highly recommend it, Jacob Geller is an excellent storyteller.

  • You can definitely change the world, have you ever heard of history? It's full of revolutions, the french revolution, the civil rights movement, the workers rights movement / unions. How do you think, we achieved this relatively good living standard in the last 50 years?

    Shure, changing the world will be hard as fuck and it could be years until you see any positive change from your behaviour, maybe your actions will only bear fruit after you died.

    But the only thing we can / we have to do is try.

    And attitudes like yours are exactly what fascists are counting on.

    If you don't want to do anything and just stick your head into the sand, I can't stop you, I guess, but stop pretending you didn't have a choice.

  • You bought a PC? In this economy?

  • I actually love going to the theater, I go there all the time. That's also because I have a subscription that allows me to go there as often as I want for a fixed monthly subscription.

    I mostly go to smaller cinemas to watch indie films, that don't run in bigger theaters. The last movie I've seen was two days ago "Love me tender" which was really beautiful but also really sad. Before that, I watched "The chronlogy of water", which was also really well made and interesting but hella traumatic. Before that, I've watched Marty Surpreme, one day after it came out. I really liked the intensity of that one, it really reminded me of "uncut gems".

    I think what I like about the cinema is that it's such a distinct "experience". It forces me to go outside, into the city, go to the cinema and watch the movie the whole way through, when I watch a movie at home, I often watch it in multiple sessions, which can ruin the experience. And on the way back, I have plenty of time to reflect about the movie.

    I think I get the whole anxiety thing though. Until about a year ago, I only got to the theater with other people, because I thought it looked weird going there alone. The problem with that was, that I couldn't go there nearly as much as I wanted, because I don't know any other "cinephiles". That's why at some point I just tried going alone, which felt weird at first, but now is just normal to me.

  • Something fresh would probably be even worse because they would generate half of it with AI

  • I agree, but the other guy is not marxist. Marx defined communism as a classless stateless society.

    A more accurate term would have been lenninist or tankie

  • I swear, if I were an elite trying to conserve my power by making leftist ideas look bad, I could not think of a more effective tactic than introducing tankies

  • This is literally me. A friend of mine recently mentioned that they thought about installing Linux and I was instantly like "Please let me come over and install Linux with you" ;)

  • I think, even think tanks are just a symptom. This is just capitalism working as intended.

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  • Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.

    The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.

  • That's so nice to hear! Welcome to the land of the great Tux

  • Why not dualboot?

  • "War is peace"

  • OK, I am sorry, but I am pretty sure, your use of objectively is wrong here!

    What empirical evidence are you basing this claim on?

  • What is corporate about Debian?

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    WTF, a banana is a berry!!?

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    Thanks, I hate it

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    The sun is rising

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    I wrote a blog post on selfhostesd software to be more organized

    blog.strawberrycloud.org /2026/02/19/getting-my-life-together-using-open-source/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Do you have any recommendations for podcasts, that are as well produced and "deep" as video essays?

  • movies @piefed.social

    I recently got into collecting dvds / bluerays

  • Movies @lemmy.world

    I recently got into collecting dvds / bluerays

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Ice slipping on ice

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    What are some (legal) torrents I can seed that help a good cause?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    Should we create a new banner for this community?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    OK, not to be runde or anything, but why is your banner AI generated