AnarchoNinaWrites
Went to be outrageously pissed, woke up sad. Can't say it's an improvement.
Someone asked me a question that made my brain scream so for clarity:
I'm not telling you to go out and physically fight cops and nazis; I'm telling you to SHUT IT ALL DOWN - the fighting cops and nazis part will come naturally from there.
I refuse to believe your memories are short enough to forget 6 months of campus occupations and nation wide protests from 2020. Don't "march" - SHUT IT DOWN ffs.
AnarchoNinaWrites
They ain't gonna snap their fingers and suddenly the Gestapo is at your door. This machine requires a LOT of moving parts and a lot of compliance from the populace. You go after the machinery of capitalism and state; and no, it's NOT going to be safe, and YES it's going to cost you something, and YES they are gonna send goods - both with and without badges.
But this idea that nobody knows what to do is nonsense; we've done this in recent memory. Stop playing pretend with me.
AnarchoNinaWrites
Brey, if millions of people are in the streets, shutting down the machinery of capitalism and the function of state, occupying the centers of power and more specifically making it impossible for these jackasses to make money, you can grind this machine to a halt in less than six weeks.
But they will come for you. And they will deploy violence. And the microscopic American left is not gonna have enough people to do it FOR YOU by themselves.
You CAN stop this, but you need to risk something.
AnarchoNinaWrites
What the fuck do you folks think we mean by "become ungovernable?" They don't have enough cops to put a gun to EVERYONE'S head; but it takes everyone. Millions and millions of people, or they will isolate and eliminate any sort of resistance.
You give them nothing; you shut down traffic, corporate business, the police, the prison system, the government, military operations, weapons manufacturing, the offices of fascist politicians, EVERYTHING. You grind the machine to a halt with your bodies.
AnarchoNinaWrites
And again, don't tell me "that's hard" or "I'm scared" or "they'll arrest me" because that's a given. We are past the point where you can solve any of these problems without risk and pain. Either it's worth it to you, or learn how to goose step now and maybe carve yourself out a place in this fascist order because it's one or the other. Some of us however cannot join the nazis; so we'll fight, alone, and lose because the machine is NOT giving all of us the choice.
AnarchoNinaWrites
Been watching liberals make jokes about Star Trek and the Bell Riots for weeks - why do you think they wrote that into DS9? Why was it called the Bell RIOTS and not "the Bell Voter Turnout Campaign?"
You know exactly what to do, the problem is not KNOWING, it's that you want and easier way. There isn't one. Shut it down, or live with the consequences of how the machine YOUR OWN LEADERS helped build, works. Because the nazis absolutely intend to use it.
AnarchoNinaWrites
There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop a genocide; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop banks boiling our kids like soup; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop weapons manufacturing; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to oppose police militarization and Cop Cities; join them. There are people risking violence to oppose fascist organization; JOIN THEM
AnarchoNinaWrites
"Well I was gonna do something about the fascist order but nobody wrote me a pamphlet describing how to do crimes step by step in a fascist police state without any personal risk to myself, so I really think this is the left's fault..."
- many libs right now.
AnarchoNinaWrites
I'll tell you what, don't plan to do any crimes at all, ok? Just get millions of people into the streets and start blocking traffic/commerce, and the fascist police state will show you that simply opposing it makes you a criminal. If what you're scared about is "breaking the law" - don't; just trying to exercise your "legal rights" as normal and after they beat you in the streets you'll learn what we've been telling you all along - you think you're free because you never tried to rattle the cage
AnarchoNinaWrites
Like ffs, even just writing this thread has the potential to land me in prison; you want it to be one way, but it's the other. And folks seriously got nerve to tell me in a fascist police state that I need to write out instructions for how they can do crimes? Are you fucking daft or do you think I am?
You mutherfuckers are pretending and disempowering yourself because you're looking for an excuse NOT TO ACT; not because you don't know how to shut it down. And I'm an idiot for taking the bait
Ika Makimaki
@AnarchoNinaWrites you're spot on.
You may already know it, but back in the 40s the US Army circulated a Simple Sabotage Field Manual which is quite an interesting historical artifact with absolutely no possible relevance or application to modern times.
Just wanted to mention it for historical purposes.
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
AnarchoNinaWrites
You hit em where it hurts; no freedom? Then no money. And I don't mean boycotts; I mean you shut down their ability to make money and run a fascist police state.
I can't TELL you more than that, because at some point the equation becomes "is it really worth ending up in a hole and surrendering my ability to act to tell obtuse ppl what they already know?"
So there's your hint - they do this shit so they billionaires that pay for it can make bank; shut down that, and the rest will come to you
AnarchoNinaWrites
There's a reason fascist rioters get slap on the wrist prison sentences, but every nation in the Pig Empire will use anti-terrorism laws to punish folks who prevent the conduct of capitalism and fossil fuel extraction.
There is no machine, without profit. Throwing yourselves at the hard points of the fascist police state is a hard road; the profit centers and the machinery of capitalism are the soft underbelly of this whole murder machine
That's all I can tell you. You can figure the rest out
AnarchoNinaWrites
And I assure you, if you do that, you will get your war in the streets against fascism - because they're not going to sit back and let you turn off the money spigot. So there's no point in planning how to make that part happen, because they'll make it happen for you, once you go after their ability to make bank by doing fascism.
AnarchoNinaWrites
@sashin Lol, thanks, I put it in the wrong replies. Fixing it now.
Sashin
@AnarchoNinaWrites When I follow this link it takes me to a post earlier in this thread
AnarchoNinaWrites
@sashin Turns out I actually did thread it properly. Just couldn't see the previous posts momentarily for some reason.
AnarchoNinaWrites
I dunno what else to tell you and I'm getting extremely tired and stretched thin.
It's gonna have to be liberals, it's gonna have to be "respectable people," folks like me literally can't do it for you because this machine is already built to isolate and repress us through violence. That's not gonna move the needle. The people the fascists are planning to eliminate fighting back isn't gonna change much.
You need to make them start clubbing soccer moms and "respectable people." Millions of em.
Luka Rubinjoni
@pezmico @AnarchoNinaWrites Yes, just let me fetch that from CIA's site through my plain ole' ISP while surfing the fediverse under my true legal name...
AnarchoNinaWrites
@rubinjoni @pezmico touche.
AnarchoNinaWrites
They're coming for, in no particular order:
Migrants, Muslims, trans and other queer people, people with disabilities, the unhoused, climate activists, anti-police/carceral state activists (particularly Black activists operating in this space), anarchists, anti-genocide protestors, teachers, librarians and reproductive rights activists.
They won't stop there of course, fascism NEEDS enemies that must be purged to function; but broadly speaking those are the places they will start.
AnarchoNinaWrites
So, it does not good telling any of the people on the list I just gave you to "do something!"
Because they're locked in to this fight already; they're gonna "do something" or they're going to get crushed and in many cases perished.
It's absolutely on the REST OF YOU to expand the scope of resistance, and make them come after folks who aren't ON THE LIST of people they've ALREADY created the permission structures to eliminate. How? Read the rest of this thread.
Benaresh
There is this book : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline
Where one of the main questions is when we start to fight back in a way thats effective.
Because the voting and endless protest even making laws and not acting on them (looking at you Germany) are doing very little to prevent the return of The 'Thermal Maximum 2.0 The Reckoning'
Which was also my favourite part of the Democrats recent gaslighting: praising their climate bill that was less worth than the paper it was printed on.
Masto.poetry
@AnarchoNinaWrites
if we do this thing, resistors will be killed and others will be beaten and others will be locked up, maybe for the rest of their lives. if we all resist, we can overcome them, but not without great personal risk, people need to understand this.
pretending otherwise will lead to failure. is it worth dying for? is it worth suffering for? if not, dont play at it. playtime is over.
AnarchoNinaWrites
@Mastopoet I'm a trans anarchist; they are already going to kill me. I dunno what your situation is, but it is already about "dying for it" whether I choose that or not.
AnarchoNinaWrites
I mean from my perspective, I didn't see what the point in repeating exactly what I'd said back to me was. I already answered his question - I emphatically do NOT believe white Americans with privilege are going to risk anything, let alone their lives, to stop the fascists from eliminating folks like me or any of the other groups the fascists are targeting.
So I didn't see his comment as privileged; more irritating mansplaining my words back to me while ignoring my conclusion.
schtschur 🍉 2 by 2 and back again
I'm just assessing based on what you gave me, man.
Masto.poetry
@rad @AnarchoNinaWrites
of course you nkow nothing about me and my situation, so keep judging.
schtschur 🍉 2 by 2 and back again
because you clearly don't understand how dire the situation is for the most vulnerable among us, that's why.
not everyone has the option to just run or ignore stuff or whatever.
Masto.poetry
so rato, you planning on dying for the cause? ok, good luck with that. not sure why you are so upset with what i said. hope your day gets better.
schtschur 🍉 2 by 2 and back again
That's... a pretty fucking shitty thing to say, knowing who you're talking to. And I'm pretty certain you do.
Besides, there's not much things worth dying for, but fighting for freedom against the oppressor is definitely one of the few that are. Nobody does that just for fun. There's no flight, only fight. You either go down swinging or surrender.
AnarchoNinaWrites
Which btw? Happens a lot; and no I don't really appreciate it.
AnarchoNinaWrites
@rad I mean, the comment made me irritated too; just for entirely different reasons.
Tired of (almost invariably men) showing up in my comments to pretend they're teaching me something when I didn't ask, and just reading the goddamn thread makes it clear I already know and indeed have gone beyond that point in my analysis.
schtschur 🍉 2 by 2 and back again
Well, maybe I'm just angry and easily irritable. Sorry, @Mastopoet
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