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Just 10 years ago the US was still seen as being progressive and racism was slowly becoming a thing of the past... and not even in 10 years all the major civil rights achievements of rhe past 70 years are being thrown out so fast it is making my head spin.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any small act of retaliation will be blown out of proportion on Fox News.

Any act at all with be turned into reactionary fodder.

You're looking right at a huge symptom of the problem but not seeing how deep the crisis is.

Electoralism cannot save us from fascism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m not saying it wasn’t a setup by people on his side, but the “assassination attempt” made this person a hero. Like I said, unless you’re gonna go all the way, everything else is fuel for the fire, and it can grow slowly leaving time to put it out, or it can blow up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That is a hell of a conflation, between vocal opposition to fascism and a fucking assassination attempt.

No, I don't think anyone here is advocating suicide by amateur assassin cosplay. Even just dispassionately calling this as it is will be held up as 'dangerous' - it's not at all about the optics.

If all you're doing is just waiting for your next opportunity to cast a ballot, you've already lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Go do stuff. Just don’t be dumb. That’s all I’m saying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Just don't do anything that'll raise attention to your opposition to fascism, tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Absolutely do that. Just don’t try to hurt people in an effort to change them. That doesn’t work unless your goal is also fascism.