You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

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Reminder that the USA has a nationwide strike at State Capital Buildings TODAY.

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I am definitely one of those "to arms" types because I think talking is over. That's all the oligarchs want, more talk. When a forum for discussion is introduced the controlling powers study it for monetization and misinformation purposes. When they figure out how to manipulate the fediverse and platforms like Bluesky it'll be over.

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As someone who is outside the US, the best I can do is share important information with people inside the US.

I would be very surprised if any of our US-Allied governments call out Trump. I would be overjoyed, but surprised.

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Well at least the article validated some of my feelings and gave me a sense identification of the problems I have been sensing around me with the flaccid liberal rebellion.
Hey wait a sec! Dammit!

Most concrete action I can think of is some posts I remember seeing about coat-hanger do it yourself frontal lobotomies. I've seen plenty of very low IQ Americans with economic status as bad or worse than mine somehow perfectly happy with all the fascist shit that is going down. This seems like an opportunity to join in their bliss.

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That was a joke. And besides, only certain distributions count anyways. Keep an eye out for our Slackware brothers, they need our help and support in these times.

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I’m afraid you can’t vote or protest your way out of fascism. Only way out is to shoot.

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How about joining the Fediverse?

And ad blocking.

Seriously. Participation in Google/Meta/Tiktok/Whatever and their manipulative algorithms is what makes all this go around. Break their ad revenue, and you break their manipulation.

It’s easy. It’s free. And it would draw devs into developing/hosting more.

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Yeah I got the joke, that's why I laughed. Sorry if it came off as snarky. Text doesn't do a good job of relating humor or laughter sometimes.

In regards to Slackware...

Mattermost is a great substitute for self hosting comms. So is Element over Matrix or just the signal app.

https://mattermost.com/download/

https://element.io/matrix-benefits

https://signal.org/download/

For those interested, if you’re organizing use E2E comms and if you’re researching use Tor Browser. Better yet use a Tails USB on a coffee shop wifi.

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-use-signal

https://www.torproject.org/download/

https://tails.net/doc/first_steps/index.en.html

And don’t communicate over email, even encrypted email.

For a place to start looking for aid and assistance. If there’s a fridge or book or tool share that’s not there, notify them please so they can update the site.

https://mutualaidhub.org

If you’re looking for a place to help, look up Food Not Bombs plus whatever city is closest to you.

http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/volunteer.php

I understand it’s an http site. Don’t sign up for anything that doesn’t pass your vibe check.

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Amazing take, no notes. I've done my due diligence, I've voted, I've canvassed for campaigns, I've donated to the right people.

I will NOT be debating with fascists or agitators while my friends and family members get their taken away for being trans or the wrong shade of brown. Someone in a more privileged position than me can.

I used that time to get my carry license instead.

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Something like 80% of all theft at this point is unpaid wages.

You have to understand that a system that calls corporations people is inherently violent. Profit is unpaid labor, so the existence of a tax code that not only allows -but celebrates and defends- billionaires is class warfare. If you steal $1000 from a store, the police show up. If the store steals $1000 from your paycheck the police tell you to get a lawyer with a $5k retainer. The store's existence isn't hampered by the $1,000 while most families would be ruined without out.

However, the only instance of the crime the system cares about is the one against the corporation.

Corporations are the only people that don't have to worry about eating.
Corporations are the only people that don't have hands for handcuffs.
Corporations are the only people the law cares about.

Corporations own the media.
Corporations own the red ones.
Corporations own the blue ones.
Corporations own the food.
Corporations are eager to own everything the DNC will meet the RNC half way in privatizing.

We are here because infinite money now equates to infinite speech. We as individuals have to speech because we have ever less money. Unions are being crippled now and soon protesting itself will become a crime against the state.

It will be a crime to speak out. It will be a crime to be different. It will be a crime to work too slow or think too much.

When every notion of freedom becomes a crime, crime becomes our only freedom.

Ready Player 2 mother fuckers.

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Yes we're missing two things

Anonymous ID / Reputation system to tell it's a human
Community-run moderation. So some chronically online sadsack can't ban you from a significant portion of lemmy for life because you disagreed with them.

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Doesn't really work once spaces are established. Most of reddits problems aren't the admins, it's the volunteer subreddit mods which function just the same as lemmy.

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I know I have some strong biases that lean towards peace, and I'm confused sometimes why a comment of mine in the fediverse gathers double digit upvotes steadily only to plummet to the negatives overnight. I get old reddit botnet vibes on some topics.

That’s probably time zones. I’m in Europe, and I’ve noticed that if I post something that’s not in line with standard American thinking, I’ll wake up to a bunch of downvotes. The same could be true for Oceania/Asia or Europe/africa, depending on where you are.

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I can't upvote this strongly enough. Social media is doing everything in the establishment's favor - especially ingraining the habit of glancing at a news item and making an instant value judgement with minimal thought before scrolling along to the next item. It's not just the endless scrolling and venting vs taking real action, it's the encouragement of superficial thinking, which is solid gold for con men like Trump who depend on people jumping to stupid conclusions. People who get all their knowledge from memes are easier to fool than people who take time to think.

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Vast numbers of people feeling disempowered ... sounds like the Trump crowd when he appeared and proclaimed himself their savior. Liberals are in for the same treatment from someone with a different sales pitch. Some people think that's who Kamala Harris was, I truly believed in her, but maybe that was the whole plan and it's already like professional wrestling - you win this match, I'll win the next one, and we both take home the money. I dunno.

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I agree.

"Planet's burning up, another genocide, fascism on the rise... ugh... where are the funny memes."

Apathy is the greatest tool of the oppressor.

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You're talking about it.

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Sounds like a complicit media attempting to absolve itself.

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A third term implies the constitution is still in place and don't see them passing an amendment without doing something ridiculous like creating a bunch of extra states.

Far easier to just never end the second term. Claim a national emergency and suspend elections/the constitution.

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It’s super helpful to identify the issue.

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them