What I took from it is they're LARPing as fascists doing fashy things, but they're not operating under the same level of competence that more successful fascist regimes do. It's about a bunch of overweight pigs that can't even pass a physical, putting on a German helmet and bossing people around, while being too fucking stupid to be capable of believing in anything let alone even know what they're doing.
I wish i could, but if I do, I’ll never see my children again
What about when you're in a situation where you have to report other anti-MAGA to protect yourself from MAGA? Would you rat out strangers you don't know to protect yourself and your kids?
The "but my children" excuse does not make you an ally, it makes you a liability and untrustworthy. What if they decide to deport you? You'll definitely never see your children again. What about other peoples children? Just because they're not yours, they don't matter to you? Children, aka the future, depends on you going out and fighting, not hiding behind your kids because "my kids are more important than your kids." That mindset of fear and capitulation to fascists is exactly what creates fascism, so stop using your kids as a shield from responsibility. You decided to bring your kids into this situation, not us.
There are other ways to help on the frontline that don't involve picking up a gun and getting shot. On the back end as well, people are needed. You have a unique set of skills, stop giving them to the people that bribe you with money and start using it towards your childrens future.
Really puts the £36 TRILLION that's sitting liquid in offshore tax havens into perspective. $23.7 billion isn't even 1% of that.
That's how Americans exercise their 2nd amendment outside of their schools.
Let's say I am a worthless keyboard warrior living in America and not going out to protest as if my future depended on it, what difference would that make? Still an accurate description of Americans, if you're an American on lemmy complaining about people showing a mirror to you then do something about it.
Ok then, what if the person dropping the 2000lb bomb on Musk was Israeli?
I used to go to protests, from USA to Australia to NZ and UK... I'm not going to another protest until we start occupying gated communities. I'm sick of standing around looking pathetic occupying some sidewalk and politely leaving when told to by police. And to think that's the best the so-called "leftists" can do, then I remember to back when things were bad - how the police and FBI would raid groups, murder them, drop bombs on them, and assassinate their leadership - and realize that leftism was defeated long ago. I want to keep it peaceful, and start picketing in places that matter like outside mansions and gated communities. Just stand outside the homes of billionaires to tell them we know where they live, we out number them, I think would be enough to shake things up a bit because they're cowards too. However, in my heartest of hearts, I believe anything short of an armed overthrow of one dozen billionaires will never be enough. Fuck tinkering and pushing the needle slightly. Loud and armed leftist groups are needed now more than ever and there's zero of them to be found.
And what are we gonna do about it?
I am, they're fascists, whatever colour shirt they're wearing. And hard disagree that our modern problems can't be described by old ones, what an ahistorical take.
"No violence is justifiable" - People who protect Nazis
Human nature is bursting at the seams, creating mental health epidemics across the world due to our slavish obsession with working ourselves to death over some arbitrary playground rule called "money." I've been thinking a lot about the "Butcher, Baker, Barber" allegory for capitalism, and I still don't understand why the butcher can't just get their haircut, the baker get their meat, and the barber get their bread when they need it. What is the reason for abstracting human interactions into worthless pieces of paper or coin (or digit on a spreadsheet) unless it's for the sake of despiritualizing humanity all together, passing the buck to future generations, and hoarding wealth over others?