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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Multiple fronts required. No one action will be the solution.

  • Vote to establish legitimacy.
  • Protest to register dissent.
  • Civic pressure to demonstrate conviction and organization.
  • Fringe 'performative' resistance to sow sone unrest and uncertainty and maybe inspire.
  • Some violence for fear, mostly aimed at inanimates.
  • In the street security details, like minneapolis.

And most importantly, daily microresistance and malicious compliance, sabotage, redirection, and education.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Agree completely. I am just shocked at the amount of people that stop after your first bullet point.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

the overwhelming majority of the country lives paycheck to paycheck or is otherwise one accident away from destitution

keeping people just on that edge of survival but not literally starving acts as great tool for keeping the poors inline, has been the US's bread and butter for many decades now

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thank you for seeing us. We care as much as we can manage. I wish more people had the time to be civically active and educated...

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My take on what is likely necessary to end fascism:

  • Voting - mostly a distraction, but some harm reduction
  • Protesting - useful to build organization and networking
  • Armed passive resistance - most important right now, to demonstrate that the state's monopoly on violence is not absolute
  • Militant groups undertaking targeted sabotage and assassination
  • Building alternatives to the capitalist system
  • Insurrection; uprising; civil war
[–] Monument 5 points 4 weeks ago

The 4 boxes of liberty: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the ammo box (preferably in that order).