If it was just for me, then why would I suggest training, arming AND organizing?
Safety in numbers is a common delusion.
If it's not for you, why the fuck did you bring it up as part of "Well, they won't take ME without a fight!" macho posturing?
They aren’t herding me anywhere, without a fight.
That’s why we arm ourselves, and train, and organize.
That's you, right there.
They aren’t herding me anywhere, without a fight.
Spoken like a true warrior. /s
That’s why we arm ourselves, and train, and organize.
The reason why actual revolutionaries arm and train and organize is for the prospect of action striking back against the institutions of power. Not because it'll save any individual one of them. Fuck, being more likely to die is one of the first things revolutionaries against oppressive governments have to get through their heads. And heroic shootouts with the military for all the world to see are not how things usually go. You get black-fucking-bagged on your way back from the grocery store.
And it’s been getting worse for everyone since like… 1976 on so?
Jesus fucking Christ.
Like did you forget the preventable AIDS epidemic pushed by Reagan? The 1993 Crime Bill that tossed thousands or Black folk into prison? Crack cocaine introduced to our communities by the US government? Mass arrests of people protesting for racial justice? Gitmo? 1985 MOVE bombing? Indigenous Boarding Schools?
I don't even know what to say to this. Even a cursory knowledge of US history would show that, gruesome as that is, that's not even close to the worst it's been; that's not even the worst it's been in the second half of the 20th century alone. That you wrap things up with indigenous boarding schools, which had their death knell as a large-scale institution in the 70s and 80s, only heightens how bizarre this is.
So, did you just get scared on January 20th?
I got more terrified on January 20th (or rather, on November 6th), and anyone who didn't isn't paying attention.
Things are going to get worse for all of us. Oppression will intensify. Hard fought victories will evaporate. And genocide is very much on the menu for these fascist fucks. So I'll thank you to not cretinize over how it can't possibly get any worse than it was. It can. It will. And anyone who's been alive long enough to vote should know that it can very much be worse than it was for minorities in 20-fucking-24.
Buckle up. We're in for a ride, whether you realize that or not. Me, I'm going over suicide plans I thought I long had the license to cast aside; only now instead of mental illness driving me to consider them, it's "What to do if things go well and truly south considering the government we have in power and my position relative to it?"
Im hardly “celebrating it”… I’m acknowledging that it actually happens here.
Oh, you're 'acknowledging' it by downplaying developing events, cool. Like talking about how the SPD wasn't stopping the rampant antisemitism in Weimar Germany, so the oncoming Nazi genocide doesn't fucking matter. "It was always a genocide, now it's just more naked!" you'll cry, as they herd us into the literal fucking gas chambers.
Bruh, I ribbed that line from a grpup of indigenous friends lol
Cool, I applaud your whiteness in doing so. That's what we're here for, right? Performative leftism and suburban middle class white guilt, where you prove you're 'one of the good whites' by denigrating the lives of nonwhites who aren't special enough to catch your attention at any given moment?
If you're done celebrating the genocide of minorities in the US, because they're white minorities, and thus not 'real' people, like LGBT folk and the disabled, or too white to matter, like mixed-race folk, I guess we can wrap this conversation up.
You’re upset now, only because now white people are possibly in danger. We get to feel a taste of what non-white people experience daily in the US.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Do you know what 'domestic' means?
Casting a vote for anyone in the last election wasn’t going to halt any genocide.
Fucking what.
You looking at the same Trump administration I'm looking at? Because the next four years have genocide on the domestic agenda.
Or is your argument that Harris would be 'just as bad'?
I dunno man, most modern cars are either slightly cool blocks or at least dogshit in a utilitarian way. Hatchbacks excepted.
It's such a dogshit looking block. Not even a cool looking block.
"The Dems don't care about the poor. Therefore, there's no difference between the Dems and the guy promising genocide in openly fascist terms."
As if the democrats care about the poors lmao.
Clearly you and your conception of the Democrats have something in common, then.
Jesus fucking Christ.
You want to cosplay the resistance, read up on how things actually went under the Nazi regime.
If you and your friends aren't just LARPing in the same fucking way that "COME AND TAKE THEM" right-wing chuds do when they stroke their barrels over the prospect of fighting off a tyrannical government? That's great. But if so, all of you should understand that you aren't gambling that you'll win your individual fight with the fascists - you're gambling, first of all, that there will be a fight. And if you're smart, you're hoping that there won't be one - because irregular forces have the greatest success when there isn't a direct confrontation.
The chances are pretty fucking slim that you're going to be manning the trenches on a frontline between Good and Evil. The chances are pretty fucking slim that any safehouse you have is going to last more than ten minutes once discovered by government drones. Most days, in actual asymmetric warfare, your primary concern is the government not noticing you. Because if they do notice you, that's fucking it. And the fewer scruples the oppressive government has, the less chance you'll have to fight back. If they notice you, the institution with disproportionate resources and full-time goons to sic on you, they're going to choose where, when, and how the confrontation goes down, and "Politely, in the daytime, clearly marked coming down the street while you're on guard duty at the safe house" is not fucking likely to be the result.
If they notice you, the chances of there being a fight is slim. If they notice you, chances are you'll be in line for the camps with the rest of us, and no amount of crowing about how they'd never take YOU without a fight will mean a goddamn fig, and nor will any number of your plans about how you and your buddies will heroically defend your community. So stow the macho bullshit.