From reading comments of 70s/80s music videos made by the people who worked behind the scenes on them recounting their memories of the process, along with translating foreign social media and seeing how similar shitposters are across the world

It's difficult sometimes, but what keeps me going on a bad day is the belief that people and society can still be better.

By following one's material interests

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

It's really more the remnants of my faith in humanity from before fifteen years of posting atrophied it and pure obligation