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Edit: It's funny how many people are interpreting this as about unity or working together. I interpreted it as about dreaming big and working long term to make the dream dream happen.

I mean, look at abortion. I was born only a few years before Roe v Wade. For most of my lifetime, people were saying Roe v Wade was settled law. I remember people saying it was impossible to make abortion illegal, that there was no reason to worry about it, that the politicians fighting to make abortion illegal and the protesters in front of clinics were just the dying embers of a dead branch of conservatism, and so on and so forth. The conventional wisdom for decades was that the Supreme Court precedent set by Roe v Wade was unassailable and conservatives should just give up and fight the culture war on other battlegrounds.

But you know what conservatives did? They didn't discourage each other. They didn't tell each other it was a useless fight. They didn't tell each other it was a waste of time. They fought for literal generations. They knew the only way to make abortion illegal again was to make the Supreme Court overturn their own precedent. So they fought for fifty fucking years to take over the Supreme Court.

Only a handful of the first anti-abortion crusaders lived to see their victory. Generations of people fought against abortion, lived and died, with victory seeming as far away as ever. But in the end they didn't give up. They sacrificed. They voted. They donated. They protested. They beat their heads against a brick wall until the brick wall broke. And they fucking won.

Compare that commitment to the people hanging out on this instance who think not eating beef on Fridays for the sake of the environment is too much work.

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A policy banning something is infinitely easier to implement than a policy creating something.

Banning abortion without exception is one line. Ensuring everyone has access to affordable healthcare requires changing how entire industries function. Banning puberty blockers without exception is one line. Switching energy generation to be entirely sustainable requires changing how entire industries function.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Let's ban copyright.

Let's ban cars.

Let's ban opening fossil fuel mines.

Let's ban misgendering.

Let's ban money.

Let's ban police.

Let's ban slavery.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Half of those are stupid, so you're proving OC's point. Or was that the intention? Sarcasm is difficult online.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

No, those are all extremely reasonable policy positions for an anarchist to have, and we are currently on slrpnk.net

[–] jtmetcalfe@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 7 months ago

It helps that they are supported by a majority of those in power or with wealth or influence

[–] Juno 6 points 7 months ago

They regularly lose elections. That it's, they're not winning. They're certainly not always winning

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago
[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago

Yep lets lift each other up and focus on how to do that. Its not helping when we talk down on our friends, comrades and allies when they share their dreams.