Part of why I struggle to post on the Fediverse is because I was posting against TESCREAL many years ago, and got atttacked for it, but now, those same people are anti-TESCREAL, and getting cheered for their wisdom. Like, I know it will sound incredible to folk here today, but this place used to be very supportive of "effective altruism," and I recall bad arguments with folk who argued that effective altruism, not decolonization, was the tool for solving our shared future. Weirdly those folk now are just, anti-TESCREAL, in the way their TESCREAL was anti-capitalism, and they aren't pro-decolonization: the change comes from which thing they stand *against*, not what they stand *for*. And trying to talk to folk who, by and large, are against whatever their social media is against the loudest, from that social media, is... exhausting.