Notices by Import Antifascist (lerxst@az.social)

@inthehands when I despair and get into a “fuck everything” mode is when I’m most vulnerable to bad ideas. I’ve learned to look past the surface feeling when I get that way and see what’s really driving that despair.

BTW this was not a magical transformation that I decided to do one day. This was the result of years of therapy and practice.

@AnarchoNinaWrites people are so desperate for leadership because they can't think for themselves anymore. They need their gurus to tell them what to do. I cannot overturn the global capitalist order myself. Your best shot at least helping is finding a small part of the job you might be good at and just fucking do it. If you've got a couple like-minded friends you've known a good while, maybe work with them. keep it offline if possible.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I wouldn't dream of inviting you to any secure messaging platform of any kind, no matter how much I think you're great and I'm right there agreeing with you. A) You're literally thousands of miles away from me B) resistance needs to be local, cellular, and mostly autonomous, and C) I don't know you personally.

To anyone else who might be in some Signal chat with more than about 6 people, or ANY you don't personally know. Get the fuck out NOW. You're already being watched.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @focusedontheberry I think it could be filibustered but that would require the Democrats to discover their spines and we can see how that’s going.

@rysiek I just want to thank you for this whole thread if for no other reason you surfaced a bunch of accounts I could safely block!

@LinuxAndYarn @whknott @mekkaokereke Heaven forfend anyone have to live or even deal with someone with even a little bit extra melanin in their epidermis. 🙄

I don't know why this is hitting me harder than usual. It's yet another example of how ubiquitous racism is. Fucker's been dead for a hundred years and we still have to live with his bullshit.

@whknott @mekkaokereke Holy shit! Is that why? I live in Arizona, so I'm not too familiar with the area, but I was driving through there 10 years ago with a freakin' RV and it's impossible to get around anywhere there in one of those.

I should've known. Motherfuckers. I knew a LOT of transit and highways are the way they are because racism, but I still learn more.

@thepoliticalcat @sjvn maybe I'm just a little self-loathing, but I kind of liked VMS.

@mekkaokereke I'm convinced at this point that "rugged individualism = liberty" as sold no better than in the United States is a deliberate strategy to keep people isolated so they can't unite or work together. Sad to say that I fell for it myself for far too long. I'm trying to learn better!

@ApostateEnglishman @AnarchoNinaWrites and Homer wasn’t exactly subtle about that being a curse.

@smach @mekkaokereke We have three school board seats up in my town and five people running for it. There's three of them that are one each a Rep, Ind, and Dem that are what I call the "Sane Squad" who still believe in public schools. The other two are MAGA whackadoodles. I hope the three win. Incidentally the only Republican I voted for, but only technically, since they're ostensibly non-partisan positions.

@mekkaokereke White guy here. Can confirm this is true. In Arizona they've moved up to state legislature and even in a couple cases the US leg.

@blogdiva it’s some shit that he was just handed control over .io by IANA.

The tv domain is marginally better, because Tuvalu at least sees some of that money, but their country is in danger of ceasing to exist due to climate change, but ICANN doesn’t give a shit. If the ISO removes their 3166 code, they will follow suit.

“So sorry you lost your whole country to the insatiable demands of capitalism. Here, let’s strip your people of their last remaining valuable asset.” 😡

@mcc Oh wow. It's been a long time since I thought of myself as even an avid amateur game developer (I just do music at the avid amateur level now). Glad to see SDL is still around and working towards a v3 these many years later! SDL made so much stuff a breeze to do.

@AnarchoNinaWrites This made me sick to my stomach.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I wonder how much people realized that nobody would give MLK the time of day if Malcolm X and the Black Panthers were not also out there...Nonviolence can work against people who experience shame but fascists are incapable of that feeling. Hitler put a bullet in his own head regretting nothing he did.

@AnarchoNinaWrites he should've downed a third and never awakened again.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I'd like to think it would be infinitesimally better, but it seems the Republican Party has the algorithm for finding even worse people than the ones that came before them heavily optimized, so I'm skeptical of my first impulse.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @kitoconnell I generally don't like this meme but it seems apropos: 👏 THERE 👏 IS 👏 NO 👏 UNITY 👏 WITH 👏FASCISTS.