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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most people have little to no power to affect the major historical events unfolding around them. Unless you're a legislator or a billionaire, what's happening in the US is beyond your power to change. BUT, you can be a decent person in your own little corner of the world, and that's what you should focus on.

You hear thousands of stories of normal people in Germany and elsewhere in Europe who just did small things: tossing food over a ghetto wall, dyeing a fleeing refugee's hair blonde to pass as German, or slipping papers to another contact whose name they didn't know, etc. etc. etc. Their names didn't survive because they couldn't safely use them or the decisions they made were in the moment, but their stories survive because they helped people make it through the Holocaust and the war.

Echoing some other people's sentiments: It's okay to just be existing. It's okay to just be doing good, little things too.

Just don't become a collaborator.

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