What? Why do you think that observing that no one is coming to save us = not caring about the outcome or not doing anything to affect it? Btw, since you’re so against apathy I’m pretty curious 1. What steps you’re taking to prevent the spread of fascist policy and ideology and 2. What do you recommend to the average US citizen who feels overwhelmed and helpless to stop the hostile takeover to both make change and feel empowered?
Lol what? No. You are either deeply misunderstanding what I’m saying or trolling.
More like a bail fund
Is this a joke? Where is the precedent for interceding in fascist regimes simply to stop fascism? If anyone from the outside steps in in any way it’s not going to be to save us, and it’s more likely IMO to be from someone with interests in acquiring US holdings, I.e. not because of the spread of fascism. I would be very surprised if I was wrong about this.
No I’m seriously wondering if they thought some of this would help them somehow. I honestly don’t see how nobody would’ve noticed
Wait THIS WAS A SIGNAL CHAT!!! Fuck
It is concerning but I don’t think it is a process that can be reversed.
So which are you? Can you not be saved, it’s too late and can’t be reversed, or you’re just immune to the conditioning in the first place? ;)
It certainly can be reversed my friend, we’re doing it right now. Thank you for the kind words and feel free to reach out anytime for any reason (assuming good faith discussion)
Oh shit you got me good
Thats fucked, I’m gonna look for that story. I’ve been seeing lots of stuff (even locally in a relatively progressive state) about trans folks’ documents being confiscated and/or destroyed when they try to leave or get a new or updated passport or sometimes other docs iirc. Please don’t come here, to anyone thinking about it. Period. Unless you’re planning to stay a while and help us out, I don’t recommend it but we will be needing all the help we can get :(
Nah his opps fucked up his backup.
Man this hits home. I’m so sad that I feel like I get treated like a crazy person for actually talking intentionally I.e. for talking about things that are important to me and what I think is important to who I’m talking to, for choosing my words intentionally and not playing games and picking up or putting out coded implications in my speech, and not wasting time having lengthy conversations to nobodies benefits or worse, that are just causing harm. Setting boundaries has been an important part of surviving while staying as consistent with my values and beliefs as possible, but it gets so lonely and difficult and exhausting, I’m constantly on. If you look through my comment history you’ll see what I mean, I’m frequently leaving long replies requesting to connect with folks who seem to share interests or sometimes just I’m just making what I feel is an important point, and it seems like hardly anyone engages what I’m saying in good faith and actually hears me, and nobody at all actually reaches out
Jesus this is all there is for gender/sex/race/immigrant/etc discrimination, if you can even say it’s about that
The link about “travel and your identity” idr what it says exactly but it isn’t anything specific to US and certainly not much help in the current scenario
telling me how to organize
tone policing
should
“What you’ve shown me is a fragile ego and an inability to take criticism”
🤭
Edited to add: if you honestly see that from my words and behavior here, what you’ve shown me is a lack of empathy and I have no more words for you.
Don’t worry about me friend, I’m looking after my community and my loved ones and myself, but you are right that authoritarianism is the real threat, and the best way to counter that is community organizing, which is what I spend my time doing. Not saying that because I feel the need to tout my accomplishments, I feel I have a very healthy self image. But you do seem confused about where to direct your efforts so just so you know, that’s what I recommend.
I’m very happy actually :) thank you for your concern.
That’s basically how I’ve always pictured it, like in my mental physics playground or whatever, the many, many particles may not be dense when you take a small sample (like a cubic foot of air or something) but through miles of atmosphere it adds up and the light has lots to bounce around and off of before it gets to you. Do I basically have that right? That comment someone added makes me think im understanding it right but maybe not explaining my understanding quite right, but maybe you get what I’m trying to say.
Holy fuck that’s grim. I didn’t pick up what you meant at first my bad but I get it now. You’re saying if this is their tactic for the birds, and “let 'er rip” is policy for covid for humans then it’s going to be somewhere between “many if not most folks have multiple nontraumatic brain injuries now and autoimmune conditions that are [as I understand it] equivalent to developing AIDS in much shorter time and more” and “we will forcibly cull the herd to protect the future of the project”.
I can’t read this because fuck nyt, but wtf @
I didn’t like the rebuttals in my link above. One of them says that the best thing for you/chickens is “to have a central authority decide to cull you minimizing for a balance of cost and your pain, instead of giving you the chance/choice of either surviving, or far more likely, suffering before death.” I would choose the 2nd option, but can only do so under central authority that has already decided what it prefers.
Like what? Who is saying this to the person that is “you” in this scenario? Wtf? Absolute fucking non starter. I’m not choosing shit, fuck that we’re not doing that.
We only didn’t know because this type of authoritarianism requires an ignorant, sedentary, and fearful populace and so we’re not taught the crucial skills it would take to resist as we waste away and treat each other and ourselves like shit, because what we are taught is a zero-sum, individualistic, hierarchical way of life that teaches us the system is perfect and we’re not doing it right if we don’t get the results we want, and fools us into perpetuating harm in a self sustaining, cyclical manner. It’s very sad but all the more reason to try something new. It seeps into everything, it’s quite literally a death cult.
Okay? I stand by my saying you’re wrong.
Still waiting on the response to the other one btw