Canada

Some things that helped me:

• online isn't reality
• getting organized with a few people and volunteers helps a lot. It doesn't need to be protests or direct action, something simple like mutual aid, food drives, meeting people can really flip the switch
• focusing on the good that does exist, because it's there, whether it's something small amongst friends or little victories here and there.

My therapist also says 2 things - 1) if it's too big of a problem, break it down to manageable things. 2) if it's too big that you can't do anything about, then it's better to focus your attention on things you can change.

Also, the world was always shit, and waaayyy worse. We're just blasted by how bad it is 24/7.

I hear ya. Lookit - step one, log off. Step two, get a good book or a project of some kind that doesn’t need any internet.

Step three: a very good beverage. I recommend a good root beer, but anything you like will work.

Finally, enjoy the beverage. It’s good. Good exists all over, it’s just not in feeds. Simple joys, y’know. Take ‘em. They’re everywhere.

I feel your pain, know Capitalism cannot last forever and it is coming to a tipping point. Why are you posting this on Lemmy and not something like facebook, reddit, or glob forbid X? You are taking a stand by not using those services. I am in the process of writing a letter to my MLA (like an MPP, MNA, or MHA I am in Saskatchewan so it is MLA), because last night my power was having difficulties staying on for a good hour SaskPower’s webpage just said it was down nothing more. Because my power was out my searXNG was not working so I was forced to use Google to search what others where saying. SaskPower has an X account that I guess they post notices to so I am going to firmly suggest they stop using the Nazi app and transition to Mastodon.

I realize I am in a unique position being in a province that is trying to hold on to its crown corps, so my MLA may have some power to push the power company off of X and try and introduce people to mastodon, this is true but maybe you can take up something like that. When something happens take a stand push for change.

Sasktel recently sent all their customers in my condo complex a letter via registered mail saying our service was going to be cut off because the condo board and/or property manager was not letting them in. I knew this line was a flat out lie, as soon as I found out I called my property manager to confirm it was a lie then I called Sasktel to ask customer support about it and they had no idea that this letter ever went out, there where no notes on the file nothing. A few days later when I was able to pick up my letter I scanned it and wrote a complaint to the CCTS, from my understanding the CCTS would file the complaint with Sasktel and than I would get notified within 20 days about what was going to happen then I would decide if I were going to do anything about it. Sasktel got back to the the CCTS a few days later saying this issue has been resolved we are installing the fibre soon so their dsl lines will not be cut citing some things as to how the CCTS had no authority to do anything. Whoever at the CCTS must not have been to happy with that response because I got no choice as to if I was going further with the complaint it was going to happen. I would have moved forward with this complaint even if the CCTS had asked me because I do not want to be pushed around, but that is not the point. Sasktel went from we are cutting your internet to we will not be cutting your internet in less than a week, they went from we do not know when you are getting fibre to you are getting fibre sometime between June 1 to 5th, in a matter of 2 weeks.

I am not saying pat me on the head and say good girl, what I am saying is there are things I do to push back, to keep my sanity. Maybe you can find something you want and push for it, do not let anyone say no keep pushing!

With my mortgage I do not have lots of extra money, so when Tim Cook started praising Trump all I could do was not use Apple services anymore I am stuck with my iphone and ipad, but luckily I was already getting into the hobby of homelabbing but again little money so I was using raspberry pi’s. The number of pi’s I have and the services I run on them has increased because of the boycott the US movement starting. If you want to start sticking it to the big capitalists may I suggest you start with one raspberry pi and install pihole and block a lot of ads and trackers! If you want to do that you could use a pi zero 2, if you want to go a little further you could get a pi 5 with 8gb ram and run searXNG and stick it to the big search engines. You could get by with less ram for just searXNG and pihole but once you get started you will want to push for more. I went from a couple pi’s to a few more pi’s, with goals for more. I am using these to push big tech out of my home providing less money to those who already have to much, I am but a small potato but the more people do it the more money the big rich do not get. Maybe you could do that? If you use Windows or MacOS, maybe look into switching to a Linux distro that appeals to you most of the things you can do from the paid for OS’s you can do from the open source OS’s. Take a stand with what you are using, and how you are using it.

I've recently been thinking more about ways humanity can survive even as this dumb house of cards that capitalism has built collapses. Small communities with the ability to produce their own food through means that they understand well and can control will persist as the collapse happens. The ability to make their own tools, practice the sort of farming that respects the limits of the land instead of pimping it up with ammonia, minimizing external dependencies that rely on fragile systems that define those of suicidal capitalism — those that prioritize short term monetary gains over long term resiliency — and instead find ways to create tools, techniques, and systems that endure, from the ability to make your own rake to till the soil to creating machineries that one can fix themselves. A community that understands their own stack of cards is one that owns it and thus control their own destiny, instead of sourcing their cards from sources that rely on long, fragile supply chains typically seen from companies that bank on the economies of scale to price themselves lower to subvert their competitors.

And it turns out there already are such movements; they just don't neccessarily stand right in your face and market to you about it because not only is it still rather fragmented, it's highly decentralized. Eco-villages, the Slow Food movement (RIP to their founder, who passed away just 3 days ago), Transition Towns, Hackerspace / Makerspace + the Open Source movement + Right to Repair, etc. They may not all be thinking that they're building against collapse of the capitalistic system, but they'll quite likely survive for longer. It doesn't mean that it'll be easy, that there won't be a lot of suffering going around; there will be plenty, and there will likely be more violence (more wars, crimes, people finding desperate ways to gain food and resources from others), but resilience for those that are more prepared is the point.

When we know that the existing system that supports the world we live in is cracking and is showing no will of fixing itself, it's important to remember thay we can still take matter into our own hands and help ourselves and those around us. We don't have to give up on those we love and love us. And, this is cheesy to say, but tragedy is not the end; it's the beginning of hope. At least that's what I tell myself.

Hoping this would help give you some light in these dark times. Cheers.

8 months ago, I told myself I'd never comment on the Fediverse again, but I feel the need to after reading your post. Your recent post and comment history is honestly concerning.

Taking a break from arguing about politics online has been amazing for my own mental health. I highly recommend ignoring all social media and news sites for a little while. At least give it a try before doing the whole violent revolution thing!

Rise. Get organized. Yell it from the rooftops.

If I weren't so fucked physically, I'd be out there screaming this in intersections.

I feel much the same way, and I can only offer my own rather fatalistic take on it. Maybe it helps.

Yes, the world is on fire, and yes most of our leaders are owned by billionaires who are speed running fascism, but you aren't. You (and I, and many others) see this for what it is, so we all have to make a choice: stand up or lie down.

You can lie down of course, most do. Some out of apathy, some fear, many ignorance. It's a simple, but short and painful life. You can also stand up, but it's a brutal and thankless job. Progress is measured in centimetres and in my experience it takes at least a dozen people working together to move the needle even a little bit: a social justice defended here, a bike lane installed there. It's slow and gruelling work but it's the only way that needle moves without resorting to violence.

Join a local action group. I've joined the Green Party here in the UK, but when I loved in Canada I was with either them the NDP. Small parties have the advantage of not being corporately controlled, but as a result they need a lot of volunteers.

It doesn't have to be strictly political either. Lots of groups are single-issue activists and they can be very effective. Years ago I worked with the Toronto Public Space Committee, and those were some of the best years of my life

It's hard work, but the victories, however small will be shared with like-minded people. You'll be ridiculed by family and despised by many others, and you probably won't win... but "we don't fight fascists because we will win. We fight fascists because they are fascists."

The way I see it, if the world is going to hell, I don't want to look back on my role in it and wonder why I didn't at least try to push back. So I do crazy things, like run for seats on city council. I lost by just over 100 votes in my ward a few weeks ago, but I also helped get six other Greens into council and that's not nothing.

"If nothing you do matters, then all that matters is what you do".

Capitalism and fascism had taken a hold on the world’s nations the likes of which we have never seen in the history of humankind.

Oh buddy, you do not have it half as bad as many historical working class people.

Just looking at the middle ages, you had the vast majority of the population as Serfs or Peasants, who didn't own their own land, and were taxed so heavily that many starved to death to fund wars. You weren't allowed to even leave most of the time, so there was no chance at a better life.

Not saying the world doesn't currently have problems, it does, but it could be FAR FAR worse than it currently is.

Then get off the internet and do something about it.