Not necessarily from the 2000’s (but also including it), music really helps me. I’m sure it’s a bit of AuDHD of me, but I love to do listen to it at night and in the dark. It really allows me to sort of melt away from the rest of the world for a little while.
Even just reading the word ‘yawn’ makes me feel the need to yawn. I gotta imagine that’s because my brain is visualizing someone yawning when I read the word.
Not shocking. It’s right out of the authoritarian playbook.
They don’t want people to know what’s going on, both in the US and internationally. It makes it so those in still in their bubbles stay there, and the fascists in charge also don’t want to give opponents and resistance groups fuel, as the article outlines.
People outside of the country think that nothing is happening to resist fascism because they’re reliant on the media to tell them that things are happening. Why would a fascist government allow the media or citizens to report on that? It’s the whole reason the major outlets are controlled and owned by the Epstein class.
Hey, wait a minute. I never got my semiconductors. Did I get scammed? Maybe I needed to send Biden pics of me in my thigh highs to get my rebate?
The problem, again, is how spread out the US is. The cities are very far from each other compared to Europe. The federated system also adds roadblocks. Some states are doing better than others, thanks to the state governments. Some states are doing much, much worse.
Unfortunately, the US is unlike any country, and not in a good way. Flashpoints here are totally different, if that hasn’t been obvious yet. The lower class is in survival mode, an intentional strategy by the Trump administration to keep the poor people distracted. They’re walking a fine line, if they go too far and people really start to struggle, it’s over. If they don’t go far enough, then people will have time to organize.
I totally agree on the mass strike, so long as a strike fund or food support network is also in place, so people can actually be willing to attend. I think that’s actually the best way to approach this, and I’ve discussed it with some of my neighbors in the past.
An armed resistance, unless something changes with the military (doubtful), is futile. It’s kind of difficult to use small arms against a reaper drone at 50,000 ft. We have the most funded military in the world, and the fascists in charge wouldn’t hesitate to use it in this scenario. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t prepare for armed conflict, but I’m betting that it would be a relatively quick one.
In Western Washington, the protests have not stopped. There are daily protests at the ICE facility in Tacoma. There are constantly people on overpasses waving Palestinian flags. There are people marching in Seattle nearly every weekend, protesting selling weapons to Israel.
This is happening not just in Seattle, but in all major cities. People in Texas got slapped with terrorism charges under the premise of “antifa operatives”. People in New Jersey are being arrested every day at the ICE facility there. People have organized against ICE locally, giving out free whistles to blow when ICE is spotted. Portland has also been in constant protest mode, so much so that the feds felt the need to shoot tear gas on elementary school property.
The media is generally owned by the billionaires, who intentionally hide grassroots campaigns here. Just because it’s not reported on, does not mean it’s not happening.
Similarly, I don’t see protests happening in the UK being reported on very much here. Likely by design. It gives the appearance of nothing happening. This is the problem of relying on media to tell you what’s happening in a fascist takeover. The reporters are gagged, forced to drop stories, and getting layed off.
Unlike the UK, we’re further along in our fascist take over. The government has no sense of what “stepping down” or “impeachment” means anymore. They don’t care.
While valid, a critical mass is required for any effective action. That’s going to take time in a country as large and spread out as the US. I do believe it will happen, the ball has been rolling. People have already been shot and imprisoned for resisting. Some states are fighting back as well. It’s just a matter of time until a flashpoint happens and a critical mass is reached. If I had to guess, the midterms are going to be part of that.
What actions do you suggest?
Then those people shouldn’t expect immediate results.
That is exactly my point. People outside of the US are expecting it to be easy and want immediate results. It won’t be easy nor will it be immediate.
I don’t disagree. But people generally don’t want bombs dropped on their heads and will avoid it until it becomes the final option. Until that time comes, small groups will be shot or imprisoned. Just like what happened in Texas last week. Just like what happened with BLM. There are countless examples of people rising against, only to be stomped because the fed arrives. Trump would love any excuse to fuck over the midterms, and would be happy to kill some left leaning opposition if given the chance.
Further, the US is very spread out. The cities and urban areas are relatively easy to get together. It’s everywhere else that needs the ability to join the crowd. It’s not like Europe where it’s fairly easy to travel around, unfortunately.
If you want my thoughts on what we should do, it’s to actually hurt what they care about most: their wallets. A general, nationwide strike would work well. However, to make it so people don’t just starve to death, we need to set up a strike fund or food network. With that, the strike could last long enough to affect their bottom lines, and people would actually be willing to participate, knowing that their family won’t starve to do it.
Do they? They’re getting bad right now, and yet, I’ve not seen much reacting.
Do you see the problem here? If you’re not in it, you cannot possibly know for sure what the average person is doing. Not when our media is owned by the same fascist billionaires.
Americans may have guns, but we also have the highest funded military. The military is controlled by the very fascist we need to fight against. Plus, Trump is counting on violence before the midterms so he can stomp out all opposition domestically. Is that something you’d want, the opposition dead so he truly has full control?
And when CBP, the national guard, and police show up and shoot everyone when Trump declares martial law (you know, exactly what Trump wants before the midterms)? What then? I’m taking notes.
Ah yes, laughing at the lower class dying will surely teach the billionaires and millionaires a valuable lesson.
You do realize that’s what you’re doing, right? Laughing at the poor dying, the same thing that the polluting billionaires and millionaires in the US are doing?
Let me really spell it out for you: the polluters of the US (and world) are not the ones without A/C, and they’re not the ones that will suffer from lack of food due to drought. No, they will just come to your country once they’ve extracted the resources in the US, and laugh at you dying. Just like they’re doing to the lower class in the US.
Some of them have already moved. Hope you’re ready, and not just laughing at people dying.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not getting worse in the UK as well. I haven’t seen much action on the UK’s part either, but unlike most people leaving comments like the one I replied to, I’m willing to admit that I don’t live there to see what people are doing on a daily basis.
Similar things could be said about the UK.
You got any money for those of us that can’t afford it and are trapped in one of the most capitialist hellholes?
What happens when fascism knocks in the new country? Fascism is rising globally.
Western Washington is one of the bluest areas in the country. Western Washington certainly didn’t vote for this.
About? Imagine my surprise when I logged into my WM portal to see if they picked up, and boom, full HD video of them dumping my trash into their truck, my property in full view.
Yeah. I fucking hated every minute I lived there. The only positive is the outdoors, but that too is slowly being polluted and dismantled. Stay strong, I believe that you’ll get out of there at some point if that’s what you desire.
You can use stars, but I still don’t trust that metric alone, personally. I also check the recent issues and make sure that normal users are reporting bugs, and also that the closed issues aren’t trying to mask vulnerabilities or malicious findings from other users.