So I get on Piefed, bc there apparently the tankie problem is more addressed, and 50% of what I see is tons of posts calling for violent solutions to the fascist craze going on in the US right now, but not a single person anywhere calling out that these posts are largely 2 accounts and both have, by now, been on this very community documented as left masquerading apologists for the other (hostile) foreign camp. Somehow, all conversation on the fediverse, and Im sure everywhere else on the social media I dont consume, is dominated by, how much more can we take until we [REDACTED]?
I'm not here to shit on people lashing, nor am I even here to debate the morality of violent solutions to violent times. I'm here to say one thing and one thing only,
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FOUGHT WITH GUNS.
WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE!
Even here on the fediverse, threadiverse, or whatever fucking thing yall decide to call it next, where you think you are so far away an immune from it, the oligarchs are still programming your thoughts. Despite decent education having indirectly taught it for years that it is easier to mobilize MASS amounts of people nonviolently, and that teaching much more directly that the size of a strike needed to bring down a country is really not all that great, we're all here jerking off to violent self-righteous fantasies in which we, the super martyr, emerge either victorious through trials and blazes, or perish in the noble cause and are carried high above the shoulders of the screaming masses, cozied up in their most precious memories.
Fuck that.
Be real.
The rich even control all platforms of communication. Call your friends and stop working. That's what actually works.
Your demands should be: the immediate dissolution of this entire farce of an administration, and the immediate undoing of all laws enacted during their reign of terror.
Or fight against the surveillance state sponsored by Palanturd, complete with militarized drones.
Either way no rats.
Agreed with most everything you said, but I'll point out a silver lining on the doomerism:
Germany exists today, is unified, and is by most sane accounts a free and democratic country with strict anti-fascism laws.
It took 50 years of turmoil - war, genocide, calamity, separation, and untold suffering, and even today is not perfect - but it exists. If the fate of America is to be that of Germany's, then eventually it will improve. I don't expect to see the terminus of that arc, in 50 years I will likely be dead, but I do expect it to exist and for it to be better than I see it now.
True. And London is still around, and Istanbul, after their empires fell. But there's enormous suffering in the meantime, as you said, and the empires usually don't come back once their day is over.
I'm not trying to be pure doomerism. Things will continue regardless. Part of it is just trying to come to grips with the reality and what's coming, to figure out what I could even do, where is the solution or the survival to maybe be found.
I feel you, friend