in the short term, not much aside from… create local community and support structure, zero pre-compliance, non-compliance at every turn, malicious compliance if under threat, aggitate at every opportunity to elicit the same from our representatives / leaders and replace them as needed. if you are able, lead yourself. tar anyone that trolls with or tries to make fascist symbols normal - if we cant touch musk then do it to his sycophants. dont let the Nazi clerics cleric. record by any means available everything you can names, titles and actions. there may come a a day of reckoning for these people.
none of this is a real plan, and all of this may be fruitless in the near term, but could be important for cohesion in the now and for future, less polite resistance. I think the likelihood of mass violence is upon us. buy a firearm and learn how to use it (for self defence, of course - amirite?). we perhaps have one more opportunity to even pretend to prop up a political resistance. I guess organize around, and focus on that politically. everything else is protecting yourself, your family and the vulnerable.
medium term and specific to the musks of the world, break the unholy alliance between govt. and subsidized for-profit private industry. it has always been nothing more than a one way transfer of wealth from the many to the few. how you do that in the US with the current, materialized political system, I dont know. we are so far off the edge of the cliff right now, I cant even see ground. I can say that the current looting of the US cadaver will hasten the actualization of some sort of replacement - cant steal whats all been stolen already.
in my talks with the slightly less rabid trumpers (read: able to form coherent, non-screamy mouth sounds), their attitude has been “burn it to the ground so that we can remake it in our image” - this has been said to me more than once. how do you fight that? logic seems useless against short term nihilism and a scorched earth ambition. monolithic organisms are usually easier to infect - citizens united massively deepened the infection in both parties and the GOP has been further subsumed in the most bloodlessly violent corporate takeover possible.
I expect the system will almost certainly collapse because enough people want it to. who, if anyone, will be left to pick up the pieces? find like minded folks, whatever that means to you, and reach out to establish as many group alliances as you can.
I apologize if I have answered your question poorly. my mind hurts. my being hurts. I am sure that, like me, almost everyone here has loved ones that are immediate candidates for the first trains… and I am at the “do the opposite of what the fascists say” stage… and thats all I have right now.
Well, yes. It’s pretty obvious how bad that is for society.
But the problem is that he does have that much money. And that much power that is derived from it.
So what practical things can we do about it?
in the short term, not much aside from… create local community and support structure, zero pre-compliance, non-compliance at every turn, malicious compliance if under threat, aggitate at every opportunity to elicit the same from our representatives / leaders and replace them as needed. if you are able, lead yourself. tar anyone that trolls with or tries to make fascist symbols normal - if we cant touch musk then do it to his sycophants. dont let the Nazi clerics cleric. record by any means available everything you can names, titles and actions. there may come a a day of reckoning for these people.
none of this is a real plan, and all of this may be fruitless in the near term, but could be important for cohesion in the now and for future, less polite resistance. I think the likelihood of mass violence is upon us. buy a firearm and learn how to use it (for self defence, of course - amirite?). we perhaps have one more opportunity to even pretend to prop up a political resistance. I guess organize around, and focus on that politically. everything else is protecting yourself, your family and the vulnerable.
medium term and specific to the musks of the world, break the unholy alliance between govt. and subsidized for-profit private industry. it has always been nothing more than a one way transfer of wealth from the many to the few. how you do that in the US with the current, materialized political system, I dont know. we are so far off the edge of the cliff right now, I cant even see ground. I can say that the current looting of the US cadaver will hasten the actualization of some sort of replacement - cant steal whats all been stolen already.
in my talks with the slightly less rabid trumpers (read: able to form coherent, non-screamy mouth sounds), their attitude has been “burn it to the ground so that we can remake it in our image” - this has been said to me more than once. how do you fight that? logic seems useless against short term nihilism and a scorched earth ambition. monolithic organisms are usually easier to infect - citizens united massively deepened the infection in both parties and the GOP has been further subsumed in the most bloodlessly violent corporate takeover possible.
I expect the system will almost certainly collapse because enough people want it to. who, if anyone, will be left to pick up the pieces? find like minded folks, whatever that means to you, and reach out to establish as many group alliances as you can.
I apologize if I have answered your question poorly. my mind hurts. my being hurts. I am sure that, like me, almost everyone here has loved ones that are immediate candidates for the first trains… and I am at the “do the opposite of what the fascists say” stage… and thats all I have right now.