Symptoms of the faux illness include ‘Trump-induced general hysteria’ where a person struggles to distinguish between ‘legitimate policy’ and ‘psychic pathology’
“Abusive goading”? We don’t need to talk about the actual act of offing CEOs(and I ain’t no snitch, mind). I specifically asked you about how you want normal people to make the transition to revolutionaries and if you don’t know then just say you’re pissed and, frankly, that’s ok because we should all be pissed right now. Hell, I’d be ok with you acknowledging that people are right to be afraid of the risk. And I’d still like to know what you’re doing and I imagine there is something non-violent, right? Like, how many protests do you go to and are you willing to skip work to go to them?
I’ll even say it for you that I’d love to see more Luigi events happening but I also understand that that’s a lot to ask of someone and if I’m not willing to do it myself then I have no moral ground to stand on to be making demands. We can both agree that it makes sense why you wouldn’t want to respond to that particular sentence but you need to understand it.
Ok. Buy a gun, join a local SRA chapter, join the local PSL chapter, learn to grow some food, form up a community with your neighbors, get a mask that’s effective against tear gas, read What Is To Be Done?/Guerrilla Warfare/This Nonviolence Stuff’ll Get You Killed, pack a go-bag, etc.
Big on the community forming part. I’m pretty good at treating where I live as a community but I’m lucky that others have made it easy here and we still have a lot of work to do in so many places in the world to make it happen more consistently. This is step one, the buying a gun thing is later once average Joe actually feels invested.
Stuff like helping people who get stuck in the snow and being the “weirdo” who waves to your neighbours is a good start, but I really wish there was a better way that did some of the legwork and got even those who wouldn’t normally look for it to see it and be a part. We can ask people to fight over and over but if they don’t even know who the person beside them is they will feel too alone to risk their lives like that(I mean, it’s the whole basis for why unions are a good thing, right?). North America, in so many places, is just a bunch of individual houses where people go to sleep and ignore the world after needing to go elsewhere for work.
I’ll give organized religion one thing and that’s making people actually mingle and exist with their neighbours but even that was essentially done under a form of duress(go to church or go to hell) so I’m not sure how we can get folks to actually show up for community events reliably. Fuck, in too many places here in Canada you can’t even get people to do better than less than a 50% voter turnout for major elections.
Anyway, thank you for responding with actionable things.
Discussing details would get the comment deleted, and possibly my account banned. I think you know this, hence the abusive goading.
Asking people to risk their lives for each other is not the same as expecting the less privileged to die for you.
“Abusive goading”? We don’t need to talk about the actual act of offing CEOs(and I ain’t no snitch, mind). I specifically asked you about how you want normal people to make the transition to revolutionaries and if you don’t know then just say you’re pissed and, frankly, that’s ok because we should all be pissed right now. Hell, I’d be ok with you acknowledging that people are right to be afraid of the risk. And I’d still like to know what you’re doing and I imagine there is something non-violent, right? Like, how many protests do you go to and are you willing to skip work to go to them?
I’ll even say it for you that I’d love to see more Luigi events happening but I also understand that that’s a lot to ask of someone and if I’m not willing to do it myself then I have no moral ground to stand on to be making demands. We can both agree that it makes sense why you wouldn’t want to respond to that particular sentence but you need to understand it.
Ok. Buy a gun, join a local SRA chapter, join the local PSL chapter, learn to grow some food, form up a community with your neighbors, get a mask that’s effective against tear gas, read What Is To Be Done?/Guerrilla Warfare/This Nonviolence Stuff’ll Get You Killed, pack a go-bag, etc.
Big on the community forming part. I’m pretty good at treating where I live as a community but I’m lucky that others have made it easy here and we still have a lot of work to do in so many places in the world to make it happen more consistently. This is step one, the buying a gun thing is later once average Joe actually feels invested.
Stuff like helping people who get stuck in the snow and being the “weirdo” who waves to your neighbours is a good start, but I really wish there was a better way that did some of the legwork and got even those who wouldn’t normally look for it to see it and be a part. We can ask people to fight over and over but if they don’t even know who the person beside them is they will feel too alone to risk their lives like that(I mean, it’s the whole basis for why unions are a good thing, right?). North America, in so many places, is just a bunch of individual houses where people go to sleep and ignore the world after needing to go elsewhere for work.
I’ll give organized religion one thing and that’s making people actually mingle and exist with their neighbours but even that was essentially done under a form of duress(go to church or go to hell) so I’m not sure how we can get folks to actually show up for community events reliably. Fuck, in too many places here in Canada you can’t even get people to do better than less than a 50% voter turnout for major elections.
Anyway, thank you for responding with actionable things.