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   Emil Jacobs - Collectifission (collectifission@greennuclear.online)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 01:41:34 JST Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

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   I'm reminded of a discussion I had like 20 years ago along very similar lines with a leftist:

   Me: I think we should help people switch to Linux, starting with ourselves and our org."
   Them: "Oh, nonsense, after the revolution we'll just open source Windows".

   This mentality between doing something *now* versus preparing for a *future* revolution, as a sort of atheist rapture moment that fixes everything, is something I've always found particularly unhelpful within leftwing circles. It leads to too much inaction and debate on the 'correct' course, while in my view anyway, it is mostly the people not wanting to invest in doing something *now* that are the real obstacles to helping any movement at all.

   Sorry, had to get this off my chest for once.

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     Emil Jacobs - Collectifission (collectifission@greennuclear.online)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 01:41:35 JST Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

     Leftists on Twitter be like: "we need to collectivize Instagram!"

     My brother in Marx, this is why we do open source software. Download the Pixelfed app already and be happy.

     Anthk repeated this.