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_r3dh07_ wrote

TLDR: I too would like to know what I can do.

I don't know everything seems so pointless.

If we protest politicians don't care, we get maced, doxxed, and other shit.

If we bash the fash, we can look forward to jail time, injury, death while the news-cycle portrays it as proof of an unreasonable violent left.

When I talk with my neighbors they either have their own shit going on or believe things like voting centrist will somehow curb the right's suicidal march into fascism.

Personally I have been making preparations to get the fuck out of dodge if shit hits the fan. Even this plan is not certain but what else is there?

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youknowhom OP wrote

But where would we even go. Europe? With Poland and Hungary giving into fascism the rest of Europe may yet fall. China? Maybe if they'll let me in. Canada may also be giving into the deathmarch. The world just seems bleak and I want to fight however I can.

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_r3dh07_ wrote

It really depends on the situation, what credentials you have, and what languages you speak. Now is the time to think about it though if you need an escape plan.

I would go to the closest non-fascist country, with a reasonable chance of staying stable for about 5 years. After that, well I have no clue! It is too far in a hypothetical to give a reasonable response.

As far as fighting, everyone has a skill, think about what you are good at and how you can help:

Artist? Draw posters and spread them around town. Writer? Write stories and allegories about anarchism, like desert or something abstract like an allegory. Programmer? Look at decentralized technology like IPFS and see if you can make raddle permanently available on it.

The question is not so much what you can do, but what are you willing to lose for it.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

Education-to-action related things which are geared towards building collective capacities is pretty much my standard approach. (depends where you are, since different actions are differently dangerous)

Things like putting together flyers with basic concepts, information and contacts and handing them out.

Offering (free) classes/workshops around specific topics, offering them to schools/businessess/universities. Using those classes as the ground for getting people to engage further and do actions.

Putting together study-action groups. Learn with people to have collective theoretical growth, while doing basic fun illegal stuff together like graffiti or whatever to have collective growth in trust, and then see where it takes you.

Build a network of resisting people within whatever thing you're forced to do daily to survive.

Open an infoshop so there are dedicated places for people to meet.

If you have money but you're always busy working, find ways to get the money to people who get things done, and find meaningful ways to have joy together with those people.

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EmeraldShark wrote (edited )

Take a bottle of YSHIELD and bury it next to the area you don't like.
Range: 30m radius

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asg101 wrote

With fascists generally intent on accelerating global warming and environmental collapse, they seem to be a self-correcting problem. Unfortunately they will take the rest of humanity and all of our fellow inhabitants of this planet with them into the autoclave.

Eventually evolution will start anew, you gotta think long-term.

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pripper wrote

Won't that take hundred of millions of years? How does that help us?

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asg101 wrote

Work through the steps of grieving... That will help.

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asg101 wrote (edited )

Over 30 years ago I saw the absolute lack of any significant action on climate change and CO2 emissions was leading to inevitable extinction level global warming feedback loops and got a vasectomy. I doubt that any child born today (outside of children of the elite) will have the chance of a healthy, happy or secure life, and it is cruel and selfish to bring one into existence at this point.

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pripper wrote (edited )

After the Western states scrambled for Africa and saw they would soon rule the world, they turned their focus to those from within their homelands who were organizing in large numbers against capitalism and the state. The different European powers also started to see each other as threats to the spread of their own empires... So it was a great coincidence that they could go to war with one another and along the way, empty the proletariat in their homelands of anarchists and socialists. But then the anarchists kept coming... so the state brought us fascism and capitalism brought us consumer brands. What a great coincidence that while fighting nazis, Coke could be brought to France and all the anarchists and other anti-empire crusaders could be carried away once again.

I am against statism and capitalism because they create fascists and Coke. You have to understand how they feed off each other.

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foggymorn wrote

Withdraw from society, hole up in the woods and don't tell anyone in the area anything about yourself. Bury food, fuel and water. Arm yourself.

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theblackcat wrote

How does that combat fascism?

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foggymorn wrote

Do I really need to spell out the next step once you've made yourself invisible? You can't affect anything until you and any people you trust with your life have the sanctuary to get to before sunrise. Only then can you successfuly fight back.

Be prepared to stay out of sight for up to a year if you get made.

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