When I first came to Lemmy I thought that people here share my opinion and some sort of movement will form.
After some time I realized that people on here are to busy feeling smug that they don't buy the "wrong kind of juice anymore and tell other people that genocide is wrong. They are to busy with performance than with organizing.
Then I saw the discussion culture on here with has nothing to do with having a conversation but with angrily trowing strawmans around. All around disillusioned with the whole affair.
You know how rarebit is on here that someone asks "what makes you think that?". So I give up, to much infighting for any meaningful momentum to build up.
So what's the alternative? In my opinion the systems we have eat themselves. They are not sustainable and need to change. But why do things change? Because it's necessary to change. Why is it necessary to change? Pressure.
So the thought ist that the people I agree with on a "what the world should look like in the end"-level will never organize in a fashion that will build enough pressure to change the systems.
But thats fine. The systems bending under their own weight so all we have to do to build pressure is to participate.
I don't believe that we can change direction, but I believe we can arrive at the point at which the system is under so much pressure that it has to change, faster.
But thats not the only reason. It's a complex topic and as other complex topics there are many things intervowen.
So I join them because it will destroy it faster and my life is better for the time I do it.
Plus I'm disillusioned with the left and the "moral uber alles". You play against people that cheat and in this game we play with lives. So playing by the "rules" because you(not you personal, the general you) feel better doing so still kills people. I think it is a irresponsible way of acting and unmasked the underlying reason that it is not about arriving in a better world but to feel good.
The right plays to win and will do whatever it takes, so they will always win against people who don't.
So I join them not because I believe in their cause, I join them because I believe self destruction is the only valid way out of this.