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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?

(Welcome back, everybody!)

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[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

Just because you don't have hope doesn't mean that you won't try to make some measure of difference. You can still play the hand you've been dealt, and making the outcome slightly less bad is still something to put effort into.

[-] aaron@infosec.pub 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Hopeless: Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible.

There is more than one definition of most words - particularly on a personal level, which is where many disputes come from, particularly online, where some people apparently can't see that you are making a passing, light-hearted comment.

Then again, maybe the clue is in the name and I should just block.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Then again, maybe the clue is in the name and I should just block.

If that's how you want to be, then I'll do you a favor and solve your dilemma for you.

Bye!

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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