FunkyStuff [he/him]

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Cake day: June 9th, 2021

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  • There’s that old story where an old man is walking down the beach after a storm. The storm has washed up thousands of starfish who are stranded now. The man sees a little girl throwing starfish back in to the ocean. He says “Why are you bothering, you can’t save all of them.” and without looking up the girl says “I can save this one” and hucks another starfish in to the surf. The man thinks about that for a second and then joins the girl in hurling starfish.

    This is beautiful comrade. I seriously can’t get the thought of a liberal telling me this story then asking me to vote for Kamala L3Harris out of my head though.

    To the point though, you’re completely right. I think a huge weakness that the left has is simply not being visible and not having much to show people in terms of what our ideals actually mean when put into practice. In an ideal world without propaganda, we would point to China, Cuba, Burkina Fasso, etc and say that the advances those countries made to advance the position of their poor rural working classes was only possible under socialism. In America, this kind of mutual aid is probably the most realistic implementation of really existing socialist principles for the next couple of decades.