What can invidual do to contribute?

An individual can have a meaningful impact by focusing on consistent, strategic actions that plant progressive seeds in their community, shift narratives, and build long-term power:

1. Shift Mindsets (The Battle of Ideas)

• Talk to people outside your bubble.

  • Most political change happens through personal relationships. Have calm, empathetic conversations with coworkers, family, or neighbors—focus on shared values (e.g., "Everyone deserves healthcare" vs. "Medicare for All").
  • Use the "deep canvassing" method: Ask questions, listen, and share personal stories (studies show this changes minds better than facts).

• Combat disinformation passively.

  • Share positive progressive content (e.g., worker victories, policy successes) rather than endlessly debunking right-wing lies (which spreads them further).
  • Use humor/memes (e.g., "Dark Brandon," "Unionize Your Starbucks")—emotion beats logic in viral messaging.

• Be a "bridge" for normies.

  • Avoid jargon ("abolish ICE," "ACAB")—reframe issues in accessible terms (e.g., "Accountable policing" or "Fair immigration rules").

2. Build Institutional Power

• Join or support an existing group.

  • Local: Unions, tenant unions, mutual aid networks, DSA chapters, progressive religious groups.
  • National: Swing Left, Indivisible, MoveOn (for electoral work); ACLU, SPLC (for legal/civil rights).
  • Key: Consistency matters more than bursts of activism. Attend meetings, volunteer skills (writing, design, organizing).

• Disrupt right-wing networks.

  • Support/watchdog groups (e.g., Bellingcat, Accountable Tech) that expose extremism.
  • Pressure platforms to deplatform hate (e.g., mass-reporting violent content).

• Run for something—or help someone who does.

  • School boards, city councils, and state legislatures are where the right gained power. Groups like Run for Something train progressives to win locally.

3. Daily Actions (Small but Scalable)

• Voter work:

  • Register voters (especially young people) at concerts, fairs, or campuses.
  • Volunteer as a poll worker (critical to combat right-wing "election fraud" narratives).

• Money as a weapon:

  • Donate to progressive candidates in swing districts (even $5 helps).
  • Boycott/support businesses aligned with your values (e.g., unionized stores).

• Skill-sharing:

  • Offer your professional skills (coding, graphic design, legal help) to grassroots groups.

4. Psychological Warfare (Against the Right)

• Deny them attention.

  • Stop quote-tweeting Tucker Carlson or Ben Shapiro—it feeds their algorithm. Mock or ignore instead.
  • Starve their propaganda: Share alternatives (e.g., left-wing podcasts, Substacks).

• Flip their tactics:

  • Use their nostalgia against them (e.g., "Real patriots tax the rich like FDR").
  • Co-opt their symbols (e.g., "Make America Kind Again").

5. Protect Your Mental Health

• Avoid burnout. The right thrives on outrage exhaustion. Limit doomscrolling; focus on actionable wins.
• Celebrate small victories. Every union formed, every voter registered weakens the far right’s grip.

Most Important Rule:

Be the "water" (persistent, adaptable, everywhere), not the "rock" (rigid, easily avoided).
The right wins by being relentless; the left must out-persist them.

Optimism comes easier when you have all the real estate you will ever need. I imagine if you are struggling it would be hard to find some kind of solace

A duty is more fitting word. We ought to protect things that are rare and precious. If everyone simply runs away before aggressor then everything is lost for certain. An orc won’t stop just because you go on your knees and hope they will have mercy. They are not people, they are orcs.

I won’t judge those that won’t be there if the time comes because I understand them perfectly. However, if we all run there will be no one to stop the enemy from destroying our remarkable, precious Europe.
If we just give it up without a fight then we would betray everything we believe in.

This isn’t just about land and borders. It is fight for European values against the darkness of Russia. A struggle so our idea of the just, equal and diverse society prevails. We must protect this idea at all costs.

Anyone who is enjoying the accepting queer community and tolerance of Europe should consider to be there if the time comes. This is what we will fight for and die for if needed.

Not because some politician tells us to do it but because there is no other place in the world where people truly can be themselves with dignity and without fear. There is nowhere to run, this is the first and maybe the last place where you can be truly free.

We are not truly united, not yet. The shadow from the east seeks to divide us and corrupt us. Only together we can face it. So sharpen your weapons and train your body because before long we will have to defend our way of life.

The Enemy is already trying to damage our morale. He wants to leave us divided, indecisive, feeble. If we show to be united and determined we will end this war before it comes to our door

Why buy games when Star Wars Galaxies Restoration exists and you can be a bounty hunter droid engineer or a heckin politician?

I am trying to not be online at all unless it’s some kind of niche old hobby forum full of aspie Christian girls like lotro mmo forums or some craft community

At some point in life social media outrage culture gets incredibly, unbearably tiring. I would sooner die than post on xitter. I’d sooner commit sepuku with a blunt kitchen knife than genuinely engage in politics again anywhere.

I even stopped trolling because that was just an intermediary step to free yourself out of that cesspit.

Every second on strange lemmy/reddit communities and you become more and more incompatible with irl society and that’s not the path I want to go

It was an opinion specifically selected from fresh produce and ingredients made with passion and dedication.
I have served it to Star Citizen players and they started to behave very unfriendly towards me. I had to run for my dear life.

When I tried to come back I was met with hammers and pitchforks so I decided to take my cuisine elsewhere.

Unfortunately not everybody likes my cooking but… I have found plenty of enjoyers of my food on the web.

Sketch the worst case scenario and then separately a most probable outcome

Estrogen is anti psychotic and has various benefits for the brain. Schizophrenia manifests mainly after menopause in women and during peak testosterone age in men

How do you even want to have a communism without the Marx theoretised over abundance and infinite supply of goods? I don’t think we are going to have that any time soon last I checked.

All the attempts so far were so called socialism intermediary step because there is no prophesied infinite abundance just yet and someone would have to regulate who gets what that poses all sorts of problems and abuse risks

Hence we don’t have some kind of god who regulates who gets what extensively and we let the market do this and see it as the most just system currently possible

It’s possible that one day technology enables us to naturally progress to communism. Fusion power, infinite energy is a good bet but even then there will still be limited goods such as land. I personally certainly dream of a Star Trek society why not but it isn’t something imminent.

So far we are stuck with distribution of goods as a competition and we should try to make it as fair and just of a sport as possible but the exact rules of the game will remain a point of contention between American libertarianism and European welfare states