Louder, for the people in the back: I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse. - ThreadSky

evacide.bsky.social • 93 days ago

Louder, for the people in the back:

I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.

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porthos84.bsky.social•93 days ago

You got to talk to your brother more, he'll give you a heads up.

insipidtwaddle.bsky.social•93 days ago

And also so that, when people ask you in 25 years whether you did a damned thing, you don't have to avoid eye contact.

Fighting for fighting sake is enough, and there will be wins even if they're sporadic at best. It's a rebuilding season.

evacide.bsky.social•93 days ago

If there is one thing my experience has taught me, it is that years later, the people who did not fight will look me right in the eye and regurgitate a version of history in which they were totally in the fight all along without a twinge of shame.

insipidtwaddle.bsky.social•93 days ago

No question. But as a primarily shame-based organism at the best of times, I don't think that'd work out well for me, and hopefully there are plenty of others in the same boat.

typingloudly.zip•93 days ago

it's amazing how many people just want to be on the winning team with the cool people vs those who want to actually take the slings and arrows

heavy-grasshopper.bsky.social•93 days ago

Exactly. In fact, I was 1000% sure I would lose my election no matter what I said or did. But the people left behind by the conservatives in my region deserved a voice, deserved to know they were welcome and cared for by at least some of the community, even if the rest were hateful.

crespo.at•92 days ago

Amen

robinsloth.bsky.social•93 days ago

This! The fight is crucial regardless of the final outcome. And no outcome *is* final, it instead sets up different (or the same) fights for justice.

(I've been thinking about this a lot over the last week - short🧵 below)

jolyonansuz.bsky.social•93 days ago

I stand up for the things I believe in and I’ve been flogged for it. I still stand up because it’s just what you do.

optimum405.bsky.social•92 days ago

betwixtduality.bsky.social•92 days ago

I fight because it's a win to show up in spite of the systems designed to exhaust us.

I fight so I can sit with myself in the quiet moments, so I can sleep soundly at night knowing that I'm trying. Staying engaged with the movement keeps me in the loop with the wins. There's change in the water

rimibchatterjee.bsky.social•24 days ago

Along with all the microplastics, sadly. But we’ll filter em out.

primarch-thoth.bsky.social•92 days ago

This

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