Ok so Trump has been elected president. I honestly don’t care whether it is the fault of the people that are constantly bickering online or the DNC platform.
To me all that matters is what are you going to do next.
Trump has outlined a plan, Agenda 47, and is probably in cahoots with the people that made Project 2025. They have spelled out every horrible thing they are going to do.
How are you individually planning to help stop/curtail these efforts?
Sabotaging oil rigs, stopping the destruction of abortion clinics, DIY medicine, guerilla gardening, etc.
The actions don’t have to be big, but we are currently in the position that the people who lived under Hitler went through can we please not take this sitting down.
I put together a little list that I think will be helpful for others, because little about what I do personally is going to change.
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Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to the Workers to protect themselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there’s an org you like more near you and join it, the point is that organizing is the best thing any leftist can do.
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Read theory. A good primer is Blackshirts and Reds. It will help contextualize what fascism is, what causes it, and how to stop it. I can offer a good introductory reading list for Marxism if you’d like, but this is a good starting point.
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Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground.
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Be more industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well. Theory guides practice, which sharpens theory to be reapplied to better practice.
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Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. The Democrats will not save us, we must save each other.
They’re libertarian business men who want little kingdoms of their own, they’re willing to play on fascism to get it, but they’re not going to be gunning people down in the streets. Especially not now interest rates are being cut by the fed, and the COVID recovery is ready to boost the economy again.
Part of why Trump won was people calling them fascist garbage and stupid. All the people Trump makes feel good about America took offense to that.
Trump bought into their offense by saying “I’m with you, I’m on your side, I’ll even drive the garbage truck. Hahaha”
… and the left’s only response was to double down with “you look stupid and crazy for not automatically agreeing with us, with no discussion or appeal from us”.
That same cycle of “you’re a stupid crazy fascist”
“no we’re playing to make ourseves feel happy and edgy, and unpopitician like”…
“Well that’s stupid and shouldn’t be popular”
Went on for 8 years. That emotional interaction was on repeat.The majority didn’t give them an off ramp or even try to appeal to them, or reason with them.
Studying fascism so you can call them fascist idiots better isn’t going to change the emotions at play, if anything it’s going to amplify them.
No, you have to make America’s history of exploitation and greed, of racism and corruption, of international business cartels, seem good and like winning. Because that’s how he makes them feel: like it’s fun and good and winning to be an American.
They’re saying they don’t want serious politics as usual. You’re saying “if I just call them fascist idiots better they’re agree with me that they’re fascist idiots!”
That’s not a discussion that’s going to resolve any different or better by perfecting your very serious and sad and angry condemnation of them.
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I’m starting with guerilla gardening and the rest will never be posted about
That and live. I’m sure just living will annoy some people.
I’ve been considering the opposite. Life has only been getting worse and with this there future is guaranteed to be much worse.
I have my cat to worry about though, so I’m stuck here until she goes.
Gonna move out of the country as soon. As realistically possible.
Reminder to never post anything on social media, ESPECIALLY on federated social media where federating deletions is a courtesy, that you wouldn’t be comfortable explaining in front of a hostile judge.
Yeah, I hope that no one that answers this gives full detailed plans I just want to know that I am not alone in feeling that we need to change our behaviour and hopefully prompt others to start thinking about what they are going to do. Things are fundamentally different now.
Hopefully TOR + ProtonVPN is good enough.
I mean my alternative is to shut up and live like I’m in China. Fuck that. I’ll just have to pray none of the nodes are compromised and ProtonVPN isn’t betraying me. I’m feeling a bit suicidal anyways. Fuck trump, Fuck fasicm
They can’t arrest us all.
Edit: Oh forgot to mention that they also have to obtain the Exit Node IP from my Anarchist Instance Owner first before they try to trace the connection.
Counterpoint: knowingly taking risks is valid and sometimes even necessary.
It is, but you don’t have to hand them the evidence yourself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is only one solution.
Nice try, feds
Edit: this is not the best place for this very important discussion. Get on Matrix/Signal/XMPP, and get involved locally. This is a ‘no phones meeting’ kind of topic
Agreed. No one needs to answer this thread. Actually don’t upvote either. Just think and share with others.
First and foremost: at this juncture, I would implore everyone to keep OPSEC firmly in mind, and to take preemptive precautions.
Use a phone with Graphene OS, and use encrypted communication (preferably XMPP, but Signal at the very least. No technology is best)
with that said,
Mutual aid will be more important than ever, join and build up your local groups if you’re able, it will pay off in dividends in the coming years.
- Search your local area + ‘mutual aid’.
- Help your local food not bombs.
- Create a worker owned cooperative with your friends if possible, or join an existing one.
- Help spread the meshtastic network to build up communication resilience in your community.
- Plant trees in your community to help reduce the heat island effect for the coming heatwaves.
- Create or join a community garden near you to bolster food availability and foster connections with those around you.
- engage in guerrilla urbanism, make your community safer to walk or bike
- encourage your coworkers to unionize under the IWW, contact them for help on how to unionize your workplace.
- vote in your local elections to try and have a state or city government that is less hostile to the above actions, but continue to build decentralized power independently of them regardless. Do not make the mistake of handing off the responsibility to make things better to them, it’s up to YOU, and your community, and hopefully other nearby communities doing the same, but that is all.
- consider having the means to defend yourself and the skills needed to do so effectively. But do not neglect medical equipment or its use either.
We have tremendous collective power if we just use it, and hopefully this outcome will result in us coming together and building that world in the shell of the old. Collective solidarity is our only solution left.
I am with this person… also deny clown capitalist profit at ever turn.
manage your consumption, pirate media where appropriate
less travel, less food out, more time with friends and family.
For my friends in America who did not want this or deserve this.
The ones who supported this can reap the karma that they gave sewn.
Bracing for impact in Canada.
It is the same thing that it always has been… the rich living their best lives while the rest tare playing daddy’s wage slave.
Well and like… all women were just confirmed to be second class citizens.
If we accept the premise that God doesn’t condone abortion care even in instances where women miscarry or the baby dies then surely dick pills aren’t natural either.
It seems to be that the popular vote in America is saying that women are whores who can die and everything men do gets a pass including sexual assault and cheating on their wives.
why fight a class war when we can fight a culture war 🤡
anyway, if democrats actually believed what they shilled, they could have codified the right to abortion at some point point between row v wade and nepo babies overturning it.
They did not and DNC campaigned heavily on this point and still lost… At some point these regime whores need to step up their game IMHO.
Not trying to fight you but I think people should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Abortion isn’t a culture war it’s literally my life at risk as a woman.
The campaign was just not explicit enough and America is ill educated by design on the topic of reproduction.
And I’ve come to the realization that most people don’t want to grapple with horrific things until it happens to them and it’s too late. See the pandemic - all the people who were boasting on fb about not protecting themselves and not getting the vaccine until their families were posting about those same people being dead.
While abortion is rather unique women first issue, it does impact society as a whole.
But if we are going to order them by priority, i think issue of class covers 80-90% of population, some of them obviously in denial about that fact.
Most of us have to wage cuck for daddy and we can’t even build solidarity around that. How are does anyone expect to build consensus around abortion which was made needlessly polarized in US and clowns larp it. So now it is essentially “divisive” politics category.
As side note, I am amazed how abortion gets all this attention but something basic like maternity leave won’t get support ON EITHER SIDE… hmmm
As a European, I will try and boycott usa companies as much as possible (very difficult) especially megacompanies like amazom, apple, google and M$. USA is too preponderant in our life, better choose European alternatives
