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The rise of doomers, preppers, and antinatalists on the Left reveals something deeper than the hollow posture of rebellion: a collapse of belief in tomorrow. A Left that chants “No future” isn’t just demoralized — it’s unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.

Tldr: How do you inspire people to work for a better tomorrow if you don't believe tomorrow can be better? Trump and the American right have a vision of a future America that they claim will be great and glorious. The American left - and the global left - have lost sight of the future entirely. Instead of promising a bright future, they merely seek to endure the crises of the present - and some on the left have given up even that.

The article speaks to the desperate need for hope - for a clear, compelling, leftist vision of the future to serve as a guiding light for left-wing activists and politicians.

And hey, what political slash environmental slash aesthetic movement focused on a hopeful future just got its instance back up?

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[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

I think we shouldn't use up every atom on Earth to churn out more humans.

Good thing no one said to do this. I don't appreciate bad faith reframing of my argument.

[-] perestroika@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

It was meant to be humorous framing, given the impossibility of making humans from magma or the iron core. :)

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

From my perspective it is a disingenuous, bad faith framing of my position meant to exaggerate it and mock it as if it was absurd.

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