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[–] [email protected] 162 points 6 months ago (4 children)

wow. kudos for being the "now that it's too late to have an impact, i'm going to do the thing i should have done many months ago" president

[–] [email protected] 114 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Long range missiles can have a lot of impact in a short time.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago (1 children)

all the more reason this (among other things) should have happened many months ago

[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but now is better than never.

God knows Trump wouldn’t authorize it.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

you're right. i'm just salty because we live in a fascist dictatorship now

we're basically russia. could biden have even done anything? i don't even know

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As long as we draw breath it ain’t over.

Get out there and organize.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

how do you organize with people who refuse to consider anything other than "maybe it won't be that bad" or worse?

if you have a network of people who you trust and are actually willing to take some kind of action beyond "oh well i guess this is life now," then i'm officially jealous

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, a network of likeminded people won’t just find you. It’s something you’ve gotta seek out.

Look for local non-profits and political groups that advocate for the positions you care about and get involved.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

also there's a difference between an imperfect coalition and a compromised coalition. you may not be religious, but the organizations closest to you might be religious. it's far better to talk with open minded elca lutherans than close minded patriot front goons about what to do next. understand that there are many kinds of fascist and many kinds of anti-fascist. even the deepest red counties have people who who voted for harris because they have seen firsthand the dangers of christofascism. project 2025 is deeply unpopular and a disturbing number of people still don't realize that voting for trump and against project 2025 was not and is not an available ballot option.

here's the thing: this will never be over. not until the entire world over is free. every rise of authoritarianism has given us stories of heroes who resisted. you can hear their echos all throughout religious stories, songs, and secular media. they all tell us the same things: as long as we make art to pass down to the children, no authoritarian can ever rule forever, not even the ur-farscist, the political strongman who crops up every 80 years to lie to us about how he will free us.

right now, start telling the word truths about itself in places the right wing doesn't know how to reach. writing by hand in a journal, creating poetry, singing songs, writing in the streets with chalk. these are all things you can do while you're still looking for someone to organize with that help pass on the truth of the world to future people.

also, look for marginalized people in your community. they have been living with this terror all along. they know:

  1. what to do
  2. what you can do that will help
  3. the kinds of things people new to this do that they think is help that actually isn't

in other words: they are veterans of this 10k year long war. they have inherited stories you have never heard, and they still have hope even as things get worse for them.

i believe in you, and i believe in the power of everlasting peace, one where there's room for everyone at the table and everyone gets a plate before anyone gets seconds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also people can't afford to miss a day of work and their employers are just waiting to fire them in support of their false God.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

employers were never anyone's "friend," but now that there are no protections for anyone, everyone would do well to go ahead and consider them enemy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Imagine being so completely neutered as a proletariat that your idea of emergency grassroots organizing is geared towards expanding nato

patriotic socialism is literally nazism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Have you seen what Russia does to people who organize? You get vanned lol

I'm half expecting that to become reality in America

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Just organize with some 2nd Amendment on standby.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Oh no, one missile went astray and hit Mar-a-Lago. OH NO WE"RE SO SORRY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Plus who knows, 😜, maybe I don't have to work tomorrow!

I mean, if I was mangled into 30753 pieces mixed in with the neighbors dog and Misses Jane's tits on someone's windshield which is also in 1000 pieces and on fire tomorrow, then I don't have to go work.

But all good 👍 if we can possibly get sadam putin in a bag and toss him into the ocean with honors. Or just in to a bag. Tomorrow or this coming week would be a good time for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

What the fuck does this mean

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Especially when they can be equipped with nuclear warheads and your enemy needs to decide what to do about that before they hit their targets

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

At the start of the invasion Russia was claiming they finally had hypersonic nuclear missles. Meaning they could get nukes past defense systems. That is the reason the US was hesitant to let things escalate.

Since then we’ve found out that Russias hypersonic missles had some misfires and still didn’t have the ability to steer at hypersonic speeds if I remember right.

That plus the fact that Trump is months away from helping Russia changes the strategy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sounds like your average president