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Person who showed up uninvited in mentions to defend less overt fascists and then announced they're unfollowing me: "why would Nina make an enemy of me? I'm just a smol bean..."

*furious wanking motion here*

Again, capitalism, which both parties support to the point that they will throw you in a hole and lose the key if you try to stop them, IS killing YOU and yours. The migrants they want to hunt down, ARE your neighbors. The marginalized ppl they unleash racist murpderpig violence on, ARE *your* community. The bipartisan fascism, genocide, and violence are ALREADY affecting YOU.

But also, you gotta be some kind of monster to just flat out say "it matters when it's ME" anyway. You ain't no leftist

My friend; any "we" that requires me to accept that genocidal heinous coward ass selfish bullshit is a "we" I don't want to be a part of.

I mean usually they lie and say I'm bein uncharitable or don't know their motivations; but this muppet literally typed it out:

"Yes, bombing brown folks is heinous--bith of them do this--but blue team didn't actively seek my death."

And yet they're in my replies saying I'm picking a fight with a "fellow leftist" after THEY showed up to argue that neolibs ain't fascists even when they run on literal fascist policies?

Kay, I lied, one more "bat the muppet" moment:

that dude literally typed "I'm worried about me, my community, and our futures. Yes, bombing brown folks is heinous--bith of them do this--but blue team didn't actively seek my death. Red team does."

They are who I told you they were. "It's only fascism when it targets ME personally."

I mean this person is wrong, "Blue Team" absolutely will harm you to protect capital and is doing so. But the crass "yeah but now it's ME" shit speaks volumes.

I legit dunno why folks don't get that it is what it says it is on the tin. Online dictionaries are free, you can absolutely google what anarcho-syndicalist means and figure out where I stand on almost everything that matters in life.

Why some of y'all get super shocked that I'm not here for rich people, fascists and their maggot collaborators, liberalism, "kinder, gentler" capitalism, whiteness, bigotry, nativism, police states, the carceral complex, propaganda, Post Malone or the Netflix limited series The Bear, will never make any sense to me.

@Benaresh

20 years?? Try by the '26 midterms.

Memo, Copmalabots:

Democrats already have their own well paid propagandists and consultants to sell their bull[bleep] to the public.

If you aren't getting paid and are doing this for free, that makes you either (1) a potential mark for a cult; (2) an actual cult member; or (3) smarter than a box of ballast from an abandoned railroad line.

Some of y'all out here really should just get a consulting job with the Party; if you're going to slosh around bullshit and apologia for rich maggots who led you to ruin, you should at least try to get paid for it instead of doing amateur messaging for dogshit politicians in my replies.

So, I don't want to antagonize libs any more than necessary today; I been giving you hell since election day and that's enough.

But also, I legit read the replies to a Pro-Publica post about Biden approving old-growth forest cutting despite promising to stop that, and multiple people seriously said "this is not the time to criticize Biden."

Brey, you JUST lost the election. He's not running for anything again. If now is NOT the time then you're saying the time don't exist. And, no? Fuck you?

Dear lady I just blocked who tried to delete her post:

No, you didn't lose because people criticized Biden for awful shit he did. You lost because your fucking candidate ran to the right of George W. Bush and picked supporting a genocide, humping cops, and hunting down migrants over winning the election.

You are wrong, delusional, and I am not at all fucking beholden to your parasocial bullshit. If Dems ain't wanna be criticized, they could stop doing monstrous winger shit. Pinhead.

"The non-fascist party". LOLz

You took all the actual non-fascist parties to court to block them from running.

You browbeat and harassed and intimidated Indy Leftists to not vote for those "non-fascist" parties and vote only for your only slightly less fascist party.

And yet, you still LOST to that fascist party attempting to become more fascist.

And now, you want to blame us for not voting for Fascist Not-So-Lite while they're going even more fascist??

Buzzer AND Hook. Bye. LOL

When I say that demos don't really do anything other than diverting energy, that there's no point in begging for the goodwill of our rulers (and threats that are never followed up is just the macho way of begging), the retort I get most often is that demos help radicalise people, build connection, show solidarity. Even if the demands are never listened to, it feels good to do *something*, to have agency.

Does it, though?? They're kinda terrible at that too though??? I don't see people energised by demos, I see them push themselves to go joylessly to the marches, "como quem dá-se ao carrasco", with the attitude of a religious penitence, a moral duty, inevitably leading to the well-known extreme rates of burnout. Connection is a joke, people cop-jacket everyone and only ever trust their little cliques, every potential recruit is kept at arm's length, it's borderline impossible for an immigrant to find at a demo people to go back home together let alone the level of opening and interdependence that comradeship would require.

Displays of solidarity I think is the least bad one, sometimes it can be helpful to see support for you on the headlines, particularly for heavily persecuted causes like Palestine or sex work, or invisibilised ones like Kurdistan or anarchists in Ukraine. But even then, is this really the best way to show solidarity? How many demos even make it to a headline, and is the effort worth those few seconds of feeling seen?

I suppose there's a point in taking a stance *locally* for global causes, e.g. when you march for Palestine you can see the relief on the face of every single non-German person you pass by, because this massive genocide whitewashing doesn't hurt just the targets of genocide, it vicariously hurt all of us watching it. (Though what we have to deal with, German cops and unconvincing gaslighting, is peanuts compared to, you know. Literal fucking ethnic cleansing. But it's not *nothing*, to be the witness to it, to live in the belly of the beast).

But once again, is that the best way to reach out to marginalised ppl around you, to march with slogans and worried faces? What if you, dunno, sit by the station with a guitar and play happy resistance songs? Proposition all the libraries and cultural spaces you can find until you find one willing to host poem readings from Palestinian writers? Make friends with refugee families and learn some Arabic while offering a sympathetic ear? Offer your professional skills for fundraising efforts? Start a fundraising effort? Set up a little infostand challenging media narratives, armed with facts, zines, a smile and a lot of diplomacy? Bring those supportive banners to the legal hearings of criminalised immigrants rather than distant protests? Go visit cultural centres, get to know people, then act as a bridge between scenes (e.g. talk with both queer Palestinians and traditional queer orgs to invite the one to speak at the other)? Bake vegan+halal cookies and bring to the Palästina-tresen? Spot a person wearing a kufiyyah or watermelon pin and, look I know this is my most extreme and controversial proposal by German standards, but: fucking open up to a stranger, tell them "I stand with you"?

If the goal is to show solidarity, or to build a revolutionary personality, or to make bonds, then I challenge you to this exercise: If you stay home rather than going to the demo, what else could you do to advance those goals? If 5 or 30 or 100 people drop out from the demo and spend the same amount of time and energy on another activity--what kind of other activities can you imagine? Do you think they'd be more or less effective than calling the cops to inform them that on such and such day 1000 ppl are going to walk around holding signs?

@mirahimage @whatanerd You should see my speeches some time :>

(My model was the fiery, passionate way that Mexicans and Spaniards talk politics, seeing those after being exposed to the Germans was like finding water and then realising you were parched)

On the #blackblogs situation, some alternatives:

- Hey, noblogs seems to have registrations open now! I thought they were closed?

- network23.org also offers free anonymous wordpress for activism. ToS forbid doxing and not much else. I'm wary of the wording on "nationalism"; it's a coin toss if supporting resistance against invading colonisers counts as "nationalism" (for too many anarchists Gaza/Israel or Ukraine/Russia are "both sides are wrong because I don't support nations/nationalists".)

- There are paid hosts taking crypto in Switzerland and the like, but then of course the ToS forbids actual politics. One could hope that it's there as a legal shield and they probably won't take your site down when you say "shoot nazis" or "we should sabotage coal mines" because of incitation to terrorism, but you'd be liable to be taken down at any point, plus you lose money every month that could go into more tangible forms of struggle.

With the first 2 also being wordpress I could easily export/import my blog, assuming blackblogs comes back long enough for the first part.

@yassie_j

What I find even more hilarious is that some of the loudest boosters for Copmala (even going as far as to prop up a "White Men for Harris" instance) just so happen to be the very ones in the Fedi wannabe HOA attempting to cover their asses with "White trans women are anti-Black because they don't defer to our feefees....errrrrrrrrrrrrr, our superior logic about 'antiBlackness'!!!"

Using race as a cover for trans hate AND class arrogance.

@yassie_j

And it's obvious by their harsh reaction to us underprivileged folk calling them out on their hypocrisy and the usual fierce reaction to the results that their supposed care about marginalized folk is clearly performative, and conditional on acquiescence and silence and deference to whatever conservative Democrat is "speaking".

@yassie_j

The grand irony is that while these fools thought that they were actually doing something good to get noticed by their SlayKween Copmala, in fact she and her advisors couldn't care less about the Fediverse or Mastodon, since she had more than enough social media apps (liberal Xchitter, Spoutible, Threads, Bluesky) that she and her media hordes could exploit.

@yassie_j the crowning achievement would maybe be an official campaign account here, sure, but honestly

a line mention in a news article would have been enough. it was purely “senpai noticed me!”