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Thank you comrade! Really appreciate the thoughtful response and links.

Remember, it's not illegal to suck at your job, and if you don't say anything critical of the regime, or talk about this kind of thing, you can slow down the economy or even directly slow down the war machine by slowing down whatever it is your employer does. Misplace parts and tools if you maintain equipment. Misfile paperwork and create duplicate files with part of the information each, if you handle data. Make typos that introduce confusion ("miximum" is a personal favourite of mine). Abuse protocol to slow things down over minor issues. Don't do anything monumentally stupid or obviously on purpose, but make little mistakes and accidents anyone could make while tired, distracted, or just half assing a shitty job, a few times a day, or be a moderately annoying and believably frustrated and anxious stickler for protocol. Remember, what's more likely to the people who view low level workers as expensive and buggy machinery and not real human beings? That everyone who screws up their important job is a saboteur, or that underpaid idiots are underpaid idiots and governments and corporations get what they pay for and sometimes the guy who makes minimum wage and gets zero training is going to fuck up?

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Staying safe when you are a target is a form of resistance. It's not your tome to stick your neck out. It's one of the necks we're fighting to keep safe. Risk is domeone else's job rn

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Amorphous and useless

Making atmospheric changes always seem that way until one day when the atmosphere has changed. You're terraforming the social environment

No need to put yourself or your efforts down! This is a piece of agitation and education, and its always good to hear a comrade not leaving their politics at the door because its socially problematic or inconvenient. In some of my own relationships I've struggled with towing the revolutionary line (its a work in progress as always), but I do always try to push back on liberal and fascist narratives + educate and agitate when folks I know bring them up. Are you involved in any orgs?

FWIW most of my agitation time is spent with a local org where we use a variety of tactics to attempt to educate, agitate, and organize, and that feels (in a purely vibes based way) much more effective since we can reach a much larger audience and community members we've never met before. We do struggle with organizing actions to try getting folks on the ground and organized not feeling effective at times (or being somewhat liberal in nature, even if the rhetoric is revolutionary), and I would love to hear from other orgs on how they have successfully turned well meaning libs into thoughtful communists consistently.

I know someone who... 2016 she was an utterly worthless centrist. 2020 my estimation of her rose to "out of her depth liberal trying not to be completely useless". Honestly, I was shocked when she was able to call Trump a fascist and mean it in the last few years. The bar was in fucking hell with her. Now? I've got her calling ICE the Gestapo and she usually says "the only good fascist is a dead fascist" before I have to say it. I don't think she'd join a Bolshevik Party, but I think she'd have gone to that February anti war protest, y'know? And I don't think she'd have fought for the Whites either, FWIW. She's always called politicians "lying liars who lie", but she says it a lot more in recent years. Not just about the US ones, either!

I don't think I've done a lot to radicalize her, I mostly just listen while she calls a spade a spade and encourage her to call the fascists every insulting name she can come up with and sometimes make a pretty obvious comparison of my own to the Nazis, I think what's brought her from "I don't do politics" to "Fuck the fascists" is just... watching it all unfold so close to us in a country that used to be respected. (Also, she got a job in the school system after I'd already been pretty sure of my political read of her, and so she has a lot stronger Opinions on education policy now, which bleeds into every area of political and economic policy because she's way better at this Political Economy stuff than most disinterested centrists. She says she doesn't do politics, but get her started on education policymaking or budgeting and listen to her go.) Talking to her is when I feel the strongest flashes of "Is how I feel now, how European communists all felt in the 30s every morning when the newspaper arrived?" Because she really isn't like me. She's not a leftist of any description. She's just a mama bear who opposes anyone who hurts kids. She hates the fascists because they're hurting kids and breaking up families. And as soon as the stories of serious harm to children stop coming, she'll stop caring. She follows the individual stories, not the broad problem itself. And she comes to me to scream about individual atrocities in the news, not the general worsening of the atmosphere.

But I still feel proud of myself for letting this happen and encouraging it and giving her someone she can say those things to and get enthusiastic agreement and more nasty names for the Gestapo, not pushback on whether fascism is inherently wrong, like she gets from her husband and son.

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Certainly in agreement with that, and hopefully many users of the bear site and other adjacent instances are involved with, or getting involved with, their local orgs. It's also crystal clear that USAmerican leftists do not currently know how to pull the masses towards the direction of liberation. I guess I'm personally looking for tactics and strats that folks on the ground are using and how they are working or aren't working so people outside of those hyper local contexts can re-apply effective tools in their own cities.

This. It's the point to get a rifle or get out (I did the latter). You can't put it off till you won't be able to.

Can't really tell what the intended tone of this is. Kinda reads like you're calling me a lib for using the word "involved." If this is meant as a joke, all good, I appreciate that we are all dealing with shit atm.

If this is meant as actual critique I would urge you to be more direct, as your post stands now this reads like a reddit comment or a very liberal critique from a disingenuous socdem.

The answer is obvious: Vote.

Yep. Get involved locally. Start creating stronger communities.

Get a PSA dagger 9mm. Get a 556 AR 15 from PSA. Upper and lower combo is about 350, just priced them out.

Whatever you get, have it take Glock and AR 15 mags.

I promise you I know what I'm talking about.

Hasan is usually pretty good on these things

Woke.net (not a joke lol) Looks like they are done for the day but check back tomorrow

For PSL, just apply to the party: pslweb.org/join. Someone will reach out.

I ain't putting my life on the line to save this Satanic country. Besides, the way I see it the imperial core must collapse under its own contradictions if the rest of humanity has any hope of tackling the climate crisis. Hard to save the biosphere when the frothing Nazi on the other side of the world has a gun to everybody's head.

Thank you for your service.