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No it wont. Because we're gonna light shit on fire until this goes away, ICE melts, and the hostages are released from the internment camps. Right?
Eat the rich
lol. americans don’t do shit
They storm the capital building.
There's plenty of resistance and progressive movements locally and nationally - you just tend not to hear about them unless you're the sort of person who gets involved
My guy, people have been out in the streets ripping people out of the hands of ice
I get its fun to be cynical in the current moment but americans have absolutely been doing shit. I know, because there are folks in my community organizing, and they're doing so in the image of other community organizing efforts across the country
If you're reading this go find a way to get involved IRL. Meet your neighbors. Join food not bombs or a soup kitchen. Get involved in ice watch. Find your local DSA or PSL chapter and see if they're people there and projects that you feel like you can build with. See if you have a local SRA chapter. See if your area has any tool libraries or community gardens you can participate in. Lots of states have a stop cop city, or stop detention centers project, go see if your area has one you can get involved with. People only do shit if people like YOU decide its worth doing
In the land of “stay strapped or get clapped” your idea of resistance is joining a soup kitchen or tool library lol
The SRA I mentioned is the socialist rifle association. I also mentioned ice watch, and stop cop city and stop detention center projects. The point was to suggest a number of things that would include some ways to get involved for a wide variety of people, people gotta start somwhere and folks have different risk tolerances
Kindly, did you think at all before you typed that? Kinda disappointed that 5 people chose to upvote that, what are you talking about?
Just curious, what exactly do you mean by SRA in context of this thread?
I don't necessarily think joining some sort of community/mutual aid organization is a bad thing. Based on research of global protest movements (disclaimer: I am not well versed on this topic outside of my region, albeit there is a lot to cover in our region), generally the highest success rates are for mass scale movements where the regime starts to feel they are losing control. Security services rank and file start to wonder if the leadership are going to bail on them and whether it is worth it to risk their lives fighting their own fellow citizens.
One way to get to that point is a strong network of community organizations that are not subject to the regime political structures (I would include the US Democratic party in this category) or malign business community influence (definitely almost all large US corporations who are part of the oligarchic regime and also giant list of wannabe oligarch types).
The often cited number is 10% of the population engaging in regular protests (with the implication being that a much larger % of the working age population supports the goals of the protest movement). Although from memory, the researchers did say that a single % doesn't really account for a given "situation on the ground", more of a general trend. Which makes a lot of sense.
Violent resistance was cited as having mixed results for a variety of reasons and tended to have much more unpredictable and drawn out dynamics.
From my time living the US, I also didn't find the local polemics around gun ownership to be convincing or productive (i.e. irrespective of your position on gun ownership, a reasonable argument can be made that in the US context there are other factors at play with respect to the perceptions around gun ownership).
Then there is the practical consideration. What has the US implementation of gun ownership achieved in terms of specifics?
It's a step that contributes which is better than nothing, though of course this is supplementary and more is needed
It’s an action that accomplishes nothing towards the stated goals but makes the person feel good about themselves.
You are dead right and you’re being downvoted by white liberals who can’t bear to entertain the idea that they might be part of the problem.
No one can fight fascism when theyre worried about their immediate tangible needs. No one can fight much of anything when theyre worried about their immediate needs.
Its really hard to organize with people if you dont have ways of being connected to them. Its hard to have the needed trust. Its hard to network and know the right folks to have a connection the the right person when you need them. All sorts of community service help attend to these functional needs.
If you can't see value in feeding folks in your community I'm glad you're not part of mine, you sound like a POS.
Feed people is great, pretending its some kind of 'resistance' is laughable.
Soup kitchens contribute to mutual aid setups, which are vital for subsistence and resistance movements against established institutions.
It is directly something that accomplishes movement towards stated goals.
Let me know when a soup kitchen topples a government institution. Until then all I see is cringe larping as a resistance movement.
Preach.
Sick of watching Americans do performative nonsense and pretend like they’re “fighting.”
Go on; what are you expecting to see?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
My expectation is that Americans will continue getting fucked by their government because the only ones interested in ‘resistance’ will ladle at a soup kitchen about it
My brother in Christ look up the aforementioned SRA. You look like an idiot.
Not even gonna engage with the argument that feeding folks in your community isnt valuable resistance. Thats dumb as fuck.
How dare I not be familiar with every single local acronym you lot have.
Anyway let me know when a soup kitchen or tool library topple anything with your resistance larp
Oops, I used the wrong word. What degree of resistance would you like to see?
Generally you’re correct, but the string of warehouse fires over the past week all across the country has me hopeful that folks are finally hitting the long long long long long overdue breaking point.
I'm at the point where I don't allow myself to get my hopes up for American news anymore.
That being said, the warehouse fires were a pleasant surprise that exceeded my expectations.
I’m similarly inclined from experience but before my favorite sports team won back to back championships they let me down and broke my heart for 30 years. I guess I’m a glutton for disappointment but I want to be hopwful
Fires? Plural?
I only know of the one.
Remember that the media will suppress these incidents.
Yep, literally only saw social media and maybe a single local news outlet reporting on it that day, I actually had to dig a little to figure out whether the story was sensationalized or not
Are there any media outlets resisting? I think you’re right. Hearing of growing resistance does make people less alone in their thinking and; grow action. But they need to hear in the first place.
I’ve seen a bunch of reports, none were live streamed so they haven’t broken through. Some are probably actually accidental but I doubt they all are, additionally the Molotovs thrown at Sam Altman house and a Tesla dealership. I believe I heard something about one at a Raytheon office.
There’s a lot of chaff I haven’t completely sorted through but again im hopeful
Yeah shits breaking down on the edges and will probably only gain more traction as energy bills hit come the summer with the obligatory spike in air conditionet usage. Depending on how things escalate it may very well be possible to see feds being chased out of cities by militia sooner or later.
I fucking hope so 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Sir, this is Lemmy. We came here because we were banned from Reddit. That's about the extent of our action against the system that runs our lives.
Yeah, but if we keep advocating for violent revolution maybe someone else will do it for us so we can have better lives!
For some of us we are too injured and broken to do much more then hope those who are of sound body and able to resist will do so.
Even an injured person can man a radio. Can produce leaflets, can distribute whistles, can send food and supplies.
Start watching resistance stories. Read books like full spectrum resistance.
You are not alone You are not powerless You do not have to feel defeated…that’s what they want.
I hope they bring some vibe coded, 3d-printed anti-air defense missiles with them!
🤣
According to lemmy.world's rules, as written by the Zionists in charge; advocating for any sort of violence would be against the rules. You have to go to those instances to see both proof of action plus advocating of further action.
You mean the shadowy place Mufasa told us to stay away from?
Doing nothing is violence
I agree, the people in charge of your instance, who happen to full-throatedly support the genocide of the palestinian people, do not however agree. That is something for your to wrestle with, and maybe choose a better instance should you wish to both advocate for or participate in acts prohibited to be discussed by lemmy.world's rules.
I'm new and have no idea what an instance is.
Edit: nevermind I googled it. Pretty convoluted
It's not.
You have an account on a server (instance). That server has an administrator. I have an account on a different server, which has a different administrator. We can speak to each other in the middle from these two separate servers, via federation protocols.
The administrator(s) on your server are loud and proud authoritarians and frequently silence any discussion of general resistance, among other topics that they don't like. This is not a personal failure on your part; there's not much way to know about it except to be told or to inspect the mod logs yourself. Now that you've been told, though, you have the opportunity to move to a server that actually respects your right to speak on the internet.
Or you may elect to stay on LW and be banned or censored without warning, and be lightly associated with auth-left idiots for anyone who knows what the LW admins are like. That is a choice that can be made.
If you are going to make a move, I'll warn you that .ml is known for similar. Just about most anywhere else is hosted by sane people, frequently as independent projects, even more frequently as a direct response to LW and ML's dumbfuckery.
Never forget, anyone who doesn't advocate for the exact specific things you advocate for is the enemy, and should be treated as such!
Being honest? Why I came here. And, frankly, I've been here less than a day and I love it more than I did Reddit. (Still figuring this place out, but yeah )
I'm seen! 😊