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Cake day: December 13th, 2024
  • girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•On mainEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Hmmm are there? massive? I mean I know we all use that word lightly but “massive” they are not

    34,000 people for Sanders in Denver. Tell me with a straight face that this is a small number of people. “But relatively speaking-” hush. Big number is big.

    …but yeah, pretty small compared to the number of people at, say, the Women’s March in 2017. I guess a lot of people learned a thing or two about what peaceful demonstrations can meaningfully accomplish against a police state. Still, nothing to sneeze at.

    Yes, Americans love rallies… that is not a protest

    Absolutely valid point here. The thing is, both Sanders and AOC have built their entire political careers on grassroots organizing, which is happening quietly alongside all the big speeches. Cory Doctorow has a good overview of this.

    Sure, I’d much prefer to see spontaneous uprisings, but we’ve been in this hell for nearly a decade at this point. People are fucking burnt out. If AOC/Sanders is what it takes to bring in fresh blood, then so be it.

    have been asking for evidence of these protests myself for the last few weeks and I have not seen anything more than a couple dozen people by the doors of a Gov building… not even big enough for Police to be around

    Consider that sharing footage of a protest can put attendees in danger. Lots of emboldened brownshirt types would love to rat you out to the cops or your boss. Lemmy users are probably aware of this, which might be why you the only pics you see are from corporate media - those are already out there and a little traffic on Lemmy won’t make it much worse. See my original point about corporate media not covering the protests.

    On that note: the people who showed up in 2017 and 2020 probably learnt this too. Maybe they’re now taking part in less visible/public actions that would be too dangerous to share indiscriminately? Who knows.

  • girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•The US right is coming for disabled peopleEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Fair enough. You can probably tell that I mostly wrote that reply to work through my own despair and apathy.

    I’m just personally done with Orwellian imagery. As a faraway threat, the fear it inspires used to motivate me. Now it’s no longer a faraway threat - it’s right here. Now, after learning about ever-worsening mass surveillance, after seeing popular movements crushed, after years of burnout and despair, I find it only makes me want to curl up and die.

    In general, I see a lot of people react this way to what’s happening right now. So I try to share what little hope and strength I can muster. Maybe it’ll help someone.

  • girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•On mainEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There are massive protests all over the US. AOC/Bernie drawing huge crowds. Republicans chanting “tax the rich”.

    Corporate media won’t give it the coverage it deserves, and mainstream social media will bury it with their algorithms. Because they’re all owned by the billionaires bowing to Trump.

    They want you to feel like nobody’s doing anything. Remember that.

  • girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•The US right is coming for disabled peopleEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I don’t think we’re so far gone that we must lose hope.

    First: maybe you’re right, and this is the end of everything we’ve ever held dear, the end of all hope forever. But if that’s true, then everything is futile, which gets you nowhere. Plus, nobody can predict the future, so however compelling this idea is, it’s still ultimately a theory. What’s the point of believing a theory that only makes you feel like shit?

    Remember that despair only serves the enemy. Moreover, despair is a coping mechanism, an escape - if it’s all hopeless, you don’t have to fight back, so you don’t have to face the possibility of loss and defeat. Whatever happens to you, is this how you want to live?

    Lemmy sure loves doomerism, but I’m going to post the facts that currently give me hope anyway:

    The Nazis stayed popular because they actually fixed Germany’s economy, at least in the short term. Trump and his cabal of idiots have conclusively shown that they are neither capable of nor interested in this.

    They are already massively unpopular. Even in the kinds of business circles that supported Hitler then and would support him today - the fucking Wall Street Journal is criticizing Trump. Bezos’ mouthpiece. Also, y’know, there’s massive rallies and grassroots organizing. Republicans chanting “tax the rich” at their representatives.

    We’ve seen stronger, worse governments fall. Argentina’s military junta waged a Dirty War for nearly a decade, using horrific mass torture to totally destroy their political opponents. They succeeded in wiping out all opposition. They even had majority support in the beginning (neither the Nazis nor Trump did). But the junta fell anyway - because they utterly destroyed their economy. Trump probably won’t take a decade to do that.

    In summary: hold on to hope, and fight back. You get to choose what that looks like for you. For me, it looks like: stopping my current doomscrolling, doing some chores so I can feel less shitty about how little I’ve done today, then doing some tonglen to deal with my own fear and grief and despair. It won’t end fascism, but maybe it’ll help me become functional enough to organize and build one day.

    Good luck, and I hope that if I’m ever strong enough to join those who resist, I’ll meet you among them.