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I'm drinking on a Tuesday because I've hit an existential limit.

Just a few days after invading one country, the warpigs are high on their own supply and planning their next targets. And their legion of sycophants, the same people who were like "I voted for Trump because he's gonna put America First and get us out of all these foreign wars," is cheering them on like the bag of brainless hypocrites they are.

What do we do? How do we stop this? What does meaningful resistance look like? Because it's time we get it together, it really is. We aren't quite becoming a fascist state, because believe it or not, fascism involves funding social programs -- it's one reason why it's attractive. But we are certainly imperial, aggressive, and authoritarian, and I have no idea what to do about it. We have spent so many years being convinced that we are helpless, and gods helped me, I learned it. I learned the fucking helplessness!

Do you want actual answers?

AYRT

Yes! Yes, I want an actual answer that isn't, "grab your shotgun and throw yourself at Capitol police."

The anon below posted everything I would have suggested. I’ll add that you should go to any town halls your Congressional Representatives and Senators hold and ask the hard questions.

Man, the Congresspeople and Senators responsible for this shit stopped holding town halls so they don't have to hear hard questions. You might as well suggest people write a letter to Trump politely asking him to stop being a giant asshole.

I suppose that’s true. I’m in a purple state and my reps do hold town halls, which I really appreciate.

Seems like you already know The Answer, that it is revolution time, but you don't like The Answer because that involves Real Risk.

Everybody wants to be the beneficiary of someone else's revolutionary actions, nobody wants to be the revolutionaries martyring themselves to bring it about.

You gonna do it, anon?

It's easy to slag others. Put up or shut up. Prove you're not a hypocrite.

Reach out to your local Indivisible group: https://indivisible.org/

Other places of interest-
50501 - https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
ACLU - https://www.aclu.org/
Working Families Party - https://workingfamilies.org/

But basically, reach out in your local community, to your neighbors, and start putting out fires there. Pay attention to ALL elections, great or small. Even stuff like the School Board. Research your candidates. Maybe volunteer in the campaign of someone who's interested in making the community better for everyone, and not just an elite few. And of course, join protests where you can, boycott where you can (even if it is just a limited boycott). Nothing is a one-and-done here. It takes time. (Those motherfuckers basically played the long game since the 70s. But they don't have our numbers, which is why they're bombarding us with craziness, hoping we'll be too discouraged to continue on.)

If the news is getting too crazy, maybe switch up your sources, or limit your stories for a little bit, or even unplug for a few days. Better to get a break in between than to be so discouraged that you are basically frozen in despair.

Also, there are a lot of things going on that you don't hear about. People are fighting, and every little bit counts, even if it doesn't feel like it. The lower courts are still holding. Unfortunately, Congress is mostly useless outside of the more progressive members of the Democratic Party (establishment dems like Schumer suck), so now is the time to think of which people to primary and to research which folks are better equipped to meet this moment in time.

As for what meaningful resistance looks like... I guess it depends on your definition. I think all of it counts, from campaigning for better candidates to protests to boycotts to contributing to your local food bank as social programs get slashed to keeping your damn sanity and joy and kindness. Sharing info. Keeping the faith. Doing what you love. Holding your family and friends close. Doing what you can for your neighbor. And of course staying informed. They say the price for democracy is eternal vigilance. I think that's a lesson more people are learning these days.

(Err, since your mentioned Trump, I assume you are in the US.)

You can also call your elected officials on specific issues, and encourage folks in your life to do the same-
5 Calls has scripts you can use - https://5calls.org/

I am very sorry to say this, because you mean well, but it's too late for all of that. The small, incremental change that comes from most of these actions is too slow for what's happening now. WWIII will have started before anything here comes to fruition.

We are not at the level of organizing for the next election, here. We are at the level of invading nations and of NATO being dissolved. We are at the level of Europeans saying that we are no different from the Germans of the 1930s, and they're probably right. It's time for true resistance, not more calling elected officials and volunteering in the community.

Nayrt
I think those things are still important, though, and may make your community a haven if things do go completely to hell.

So best not to start, right? Seriously, though, doing those small things do not preclude doing more direct things. Knowing people in your community always needs to be your first step for resistance, not posting sadly about being helpless.

How in the world did you take "best not to start" away from that comment?

Okay, anon, knock on your neighbor's doors, bake them some cookies, that'll stop the Nazis. Yeah, you say "doing those small things doesn't preclude direct things," but none of you know what those "direct things" even are, because if you did, you'd say them! That's the frustration! All any of us know how to do is the same shit that hasn't worked.

This is very strangely doomer. You must be a milliennial or gen z if you think "now" is "too late."

The executive branch is preparing to invade an ally, and Congress has shown over the past year that they're completely unwilling to act as a check against them.

Your comment is akin to saying, "Hitler invading Poland wasn't too late for ordinary Germans to stop him by building community and petitioning elected officials, and only a Zoomer or Millennial would think otherwise."

Zoomers and Millennials weren't born during WW2.

It's still worth fighting the small battles. If you don't want to join, you aren't obligated to, but I wouldn't discourage anyone from helping their community and being engaged with local politics.

Here's what probably actually needs to happen, and what few people are going to be willing to do: massive, sustained protest, not just spending a Saturday afternoon here and there at a fun little local rally, and a general strike. There will be violence, there will be arrests, but historically, it's the only thing that seems to work.

The time is now. I can't stress that enough.

Europeans are the Hitler, no better than the US and Brits. Just look at African and their military bases there.
EU helped USA bomb and invade so many countries in the last 20 years that they have no right to feel good about their countries. Who killed Kadaffi and changed Lybia from the most prosperous country in the region to a hellholl? Not US alone, that's for sure.

Well, I guess that means it's okay for the US to keep invading countries, then. Thanks for solving that!

I'm just saying that europeans have no leg to stand on.

That's why I find any americans' criticism of other countries to be so dumb and annoying. Like, shut up about atomic bombs in other oh so scary countries, idiot, USA is the only one that used nuclear weapons on people. Shut up about oooh so scary China. How many countries were invaded by China? Shut up about bringing democracy to other countries. You bring death and poverty, take oil and other recources instead. Not to forget that USA supports ongoing genocide and never prosecures its soldiers. So the words thanks for your survice that only americans use make me mad. Thanks for operating torture prisons, bombing civilians and raping locals, right? No other country commited as many war crimes as USA since the WW2. With full support from EU. I guess Serbia still remembers NATO's bombing of their cities, but the rest of the Europe ignores reality of today world.

After all that, why, in the goddamn hell, are you frothing over a post saying we need to stop the US from doing more of this shit? Are you against it only insofar as it gives you something to pointlessly rant about?

ayrt
Why would anyone be interested in your reply here lol. You can't even keep this thread straight because my comment basically means that EU is also evil. That's it. No need to grovel before europeans as if they're any better. US and EU are both genocidal bastards.

This is a good reply. Thank you.

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