I’ll pick whatever words I want. Fuck off.
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theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 days agothe fat fuck
plz try to criticize our fascist leaders without body-shaming. it’s not a good look on you.
nobody did a fucking thing, so this is a bridge too far now or what ?
I mean, nobody in this community was happy about the Trumpcoin or any of the other previous self-promotion attempts, either. What were we supposed to do?
imrighthere@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Actually protest with direct action. Whining online and walking around with a sign once a month doesn’t do shit against a fascist.
Organize. Disrupt. Disobey.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 days ago
What makes you think that that is the only way to protest? And what makes you think we aren’t already doing that to our maximum ability? You are making a lot of assumptions about Americans (assuming you are Canadian from your choice of server). We all have careers to maintain, families and friends to support, homes to clean, debts to repay, meals to cook, laundry to fold, mental illnesses to manage, etc etc. We can’t just drop all that to go follow around ICE cars 24/7 and rotate in and out of jail, life doesn’t work like that. I’m not going to sit here and pretend i am doing the most that I can do, but there’s a reason I haven’t been maximally-engaged. Fighting fascism is exhausting, but so is daily life. The billionaires have successfully arranged our daily lives to ensure that simply existing in this hellhole is already exhausting without even adding in regular protesting.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Your grandparents stormed the beaches at Normandy and you’re whining and making excuses about why you’re letting your country slide into fascism.
Is this what you’re going to tell your grandkids when they ask why you didn’t stop it?
“Home of the brave”. Maybe long ago.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 days ago
More assumptions about me and mine. The history is not so simple. My grandparents stormed beaches because that was what the president told them to do, and because the country itself was literally under attack by an outside enemy. It wasn’t a noble personal sacrifice in the same way - soldiers risked their lives and went through hell, but they also did so with a guarantee that they would get something in return if we won the war. I’m not going to get paid to protest, and I will be demonized by my employer and the federal government. And I don’t know my great grandparents’ exact views on racial politics, but I would estimate those same soldiers took no issue with the whites-only bathrooms they used on a daily basis before and after the war.
It’s very easy to tell people to do more when you have no similar obligation to act.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Oh, so what you actually want is for us to dash our bodies upon the stones and get shot to death by cops, is it? What a completely reasonable ask! One that I’m sure you won’t be doing yourself, of course. That’s our job.
I’m not your footsoldier. I’m not throwing myself into a fire just because you’re unsatisfied with the action being taken. I have a life to live, and I’m barely managing that as it is. Your criticism is less than worthless.
Your advice wouldn’t fix America. It’d just get us all killed.
Doublenut@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
They were paid to do that
Thevenin@beehaw.org 4 days ago
The situation on the ground is rarely reflected accurately on the internet. We are organizing. We are disrupting. Do you think the black-baggings in L.A. just dropped off by accident? That’s been a combined front of legal and quasi-legal activity. When we’re up to something good, you probably won’t hear about it. The news doesn’t like those stories, and we don’t exactly advertise.
We’re also marching. The news covers that because it’s uncontroversial.