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Or just pretend to comply
I disagree. Pretending to comply is just as good to them as compliance. They don’t actually care about someone getting an abortion, but they do care about the message it sends to the masses. By saying no and leaving them with no option but to use physical force we are showing the cracks in that agenda/message. Those cracks will grow and encourage others to stand up and say no. Once that happens the entire foundation of it falls apart because people aren’t afraid anymore. Sure a few of us will be beaten, killed, jailed, even publicly executed. But as OP said they can’t stop us all.
The movie Schindler’s List is about how Schindler pretended to comply
But if you make a martyr of yourself, they’ll just remove you from that position. If you make a show of “rounding up illegals” or “reporting all the DEI initiatives”, they’ll leave you in place while actually accomplishing nothing:
True but we’re not just talking about one martyr. It would be dozens if not hundreds. Much more difficult to keep a lid on it.
I guess it depends on the individual and what they want out of life? If the goal is to just survive then pretending to go along is probably for the best. I suppose when talking about revolution anything that slows down the machine is beneficial
I think keeping positions of power would be essential for resistance.
Absolutely! Unfortunately they’re will be sacrifices and some of those sacrifices might be leaders in the resistance group. That will sometimes hurt the cause and other times it could benefit the cause.
I’ve heard of three other words that all start with a D
14 words defeated by 3 words.
Not only that: They rely on people pre-emptively obeying them before even being threatened. Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They’re also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision. They wouldn’t have been out on the street, whatever happened, and they would have had a chance to do something noble instead of just optimizing for the money function like a malfunctioning AI superintelligence.
One of the critical factors in fascists taking power is “obeying in advance.” Because, yes, they can’t be everywhere. Fuck that. I fully support this message.
Edit: Typo
Well, you don’t become a billionaire by doing the morally right thing, so it would have been a miracle.
Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They’re also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision
You say that as if they’re complying reluctantly instead of enthusiastically.
All the billionaire plutocrats are fucking GLEEFUL at what’s happening. Every. Single. Fucking. One. is the enemy of the People.
They don’t seem at all reluctant, no. Why are you saying they’re gleeful, though? How do you know?
Because this makes them money. Either indirectly, through kickbacks, or through stripping of regulatory powers.
Not really. Big company incomes, along with pretty much any other economic metric you want to choose, very consistently do better under liberal government in the US. It is one of very few actual consistent and simple truths about economics and politics in the world. And Trump is infinitely worse than an average Republican. He’s likely to crash the entire economy, or worse.
Oh, I don’t disagree, but they definitely seem to be in a “rip the copper outta the walls and run” pattern of behavior right now. Quick Buck / pump’n’dump / whatever rather than a functioning economy.
Plus, when economies crash, rich people can just buy everything for pennies and sit on it.
“On Tyranny” covers that in the first chapter.
2 hour audiobook.
Step it up one. Get strapped and train. It’s hard and expensive, I know, and it’s not for everyone. But fascists will not take no for an answer unless they are faced with violence.
Please understand, violence is the only language they speak. As long as they think libs are wilting flowers they will treat us as such.
One little CEO gets capped, everyone’s talking. And yes, you might die. Freedom is not free.
Shootout to Palmetto State Armory. Great, cheap ARs.
One mistake trump made was allowing an armed proletariat.
He can only fuck over his base for so long before they start to get angry, and a lot have already noticed…
The 2 guys that tried were actually his own supporters. When he starts actually effecting things and pissing them off, it’s going to get ugly.
Yuuuup, hopefully for him
LOL, made the mod mad. Well, we all know how to read [removed by mod], since mod was kind enough to draw attention to the post.
Apparently talking about self-defense is “Advocating violence.” I guess if you’re a total pansy?
Yo mod. Blacks, women and LGBT folks have been the largest gun purchasing demographic for years now. Got anything to say about that?
So, the maga crowd was right all this time? Uncanny
Hey bud, in scrolling through your previous posts it seems like you’re having a hard time being accepted. Perhaps pause before posting, take a step back from the keyboard, and consider putting yourself in other’s shoes. You might find more in common with us if you try it.
Nah, Shardik here is a trump cultist with endstage brainrot.
Well aware. Just giving them an out.
I think the point is to refuse fascism, not embrace it.
Depending on the context, acquiescing and then not following orders can be quite effective as well, especially if you’re in a position of direct contact.
E.g., your supervisor instructs you to do something like take down the company DEI site? Say no, get fired… Or say yes, and just don’t do it. You forgot, it’s a cached version, etc. Eventually you have to take it down and then a month later when the site updates it’s back. Someone must’ve left it in the update package.
Be creative, be active. Anyone who wants to gaslight the world is owed nothing but deception and disrespect.
Not a meme
that’s just your opinion, man.
This is the time for Americans to really start acting like old fashioned stereotypical Americans.
No kings. We the people. My freedoms. The constitution. Etc.
The moment we roll over they will steam roll us all.
Back when the US was fighting against fascists in europe, CIA wrote this Simple Sabotage manual, which has some similar ideas
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
It’s a pretty interesting read, as a historical document.
AoC says strap up
A good example of this is the Rosenstraße Protest. Nazi Germany was unable to deal with popular pushback at height of Hitler’s totalitarian power at the literal center of repression.
That’s the same line I use when I park my car in the handicap space.
They cannot be everywhere, but they’re certainly trying with ever-increasing surveillance and AI to go through all that data.
Good thing Democrats voted for that every step of the way, despite people telling them what this was going to lead to.
I take one issue with this, just one.
“They can’t be everywhere”
See, that may have held up in the 1930s and 40s, but we live in the country with the most robust surveillance apparatus on the globe. And almost every one of us carries around a fun little brick full of privacy violations with us, everywhere we go, absorbing everything we do and say and buy, and packages it neatly into a form ad agencies and the government can use how they like. And one of those little bricks we call smartphones, why, not only do we carry them around willingly, they’re almost a necessity to get anything done in the modern era. We have surveillance that the Gestapo would’ve had wet dreams about. And, more, all of the largest tech corporations and their techbro CEOs – Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc. – are only too happy to kiss the ring and give them unfettered access. To say nothing of the countless other devices spying on you – Ring doorbells selling your data to police departments comes to mind.
I’m not saying it’s necessarily hopeless. But there will be no Anne Franks hiding in the attic if it comes to that point. They can, in fact, be everywhere, and if the hammer falls it’s going to fall hard and fast, there will be no long continuous search for undesirables across the countryside.
Maybe it’s better phrased as “There’s not enough of them to get all of us”
Oh they will. You underestimate the average person’s need to comply with the law. If the law says “deliver all the undesirables to the government” then most people will do just that.
Not most people. Most people would do nothing, preferring to not get involved. I think most people know why it’s a bad idea to turn in people in their community like that, but it doesn’t take most people to cause an atrocity. It takes a very few doing very bad things with no resistance. It takes most people to provide that resistance and stop atrocities. I have no idea how much resistance most people will provide today but these are uncertain times.
I can’t even fight back in self-defense because I’m not white and typically the other person is.
The system is stacked against me and the only possible approach is secret vigilante justice.
