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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFound this on Facebook. Yeah, I know. But this is really good.
And sure, the evidence pointing in that direction? Compelling. Chilling, even. But lets not confuse possible with inevitable, and lets certainly not confuse dangerous with invincible. This is not some fucking Marvel movie where the villain has a flawless plan. No, this is a clown car of egomaniacal sycophants with the strategic acumen of a toddler playing Risk while hopped up on Pixy Stix. Theyre busy gutting their own institutions, firing people with triple-digit IQs, and turning the Pentagon into a goddamn golf club for grifters. This is not the Death Star. Its a flaming dumpster strapped to a roller coaster with no brakes.
Lets get one thing straight: Im not saying it wont be chaos. It will be. Hell on Earth with a Wi-Fi connection. But lets not pretend this bloated, crumbling regime has the organizational prowess or ideological unity to maintain a long-term crackdown on 330 million people, many of whom are smart, pissed-off, and crazy enough to throw sand in the gears.
But heres the meat of itIm not here to play Nostradamus in a dive bar. I dont give a damn about predicting what flavor of fascism theyll try to bottle next. What I am here for is to speak directly to those of you who see the bullshit, who smell the sulfur in the air, who feel the psychic tremor of something sick pulsing beneath the surfaceand are asking: What the hell can we do?
Heres my answer: Dont. Fucking. Comply.
You want to know what non-compliance looks like? It looks like whatever the hell you want it to look like. Its not about heroism or martyrdom. Its about being a magnificent, ungovernable pain in the ass. Its about weaponizing inconvenience, absurdity, and joy against a system that demands fear and obedience.
Throw a wrench in the workseverywhere, all the time. Go limp when they try to arrest you. Laugh like a lunatic in the face of their solemn tyranny. Fill their inboxes with existential poetry or pictures of your morning post-coffee porcelain bowl masterpieces. Tape absurd messages in public places: Authoritarianism gives you hemorrhoids. Get petty. Get weird. Flush their toilet paper. Release crickets in inconvenient places. Spoil their scripts, trip their rhythm, yank the narrative from their hands.
Join a general strike. Practice the black cat sabotagecut their supply chains not with violence but with broken protocol and creative disorder. Dont show up. Dont respond. Dont cooperate. Dont validate their authority with your silence. If youre going to get arrested, make it for being a glorious bastard who refuses to play their game. Make a mockery of it.
Because heres the ugly truth they dont want you to hear: authoritarianism only works when the people allow it to work. Its a performance, a bluff, a collective hypnosis. Break the spell. Break the frame. Mock it. Undermine it. Set it on fire (proverbially) with your refusal to kneel.
But heres the thingthis has to be everywhere. Everyone. If you sit back, clutch your pearls, and hope someone else will jump firstyoure part of the problem. This isnt Putins Russia (yet). We dont need a handful of martyrs; we need a flood. A tsunami of nope. A wildfire of fuck you. We need resistance so widespread, so creatively chaotic, so utterly unmanageable, that the regime cracks under the weight of its own overreach.
History is watching. But more importantly, your children are watching. And if you let a pack of psychotic Bible-thumping oligarchs jackboot over your rights while you nervously refresh Twitter and do nothingthen dont be surprised when the future looks back and calls you exactly what you were: a coward.
Choose better. Be bold. Be clever. Be feral.
And above allDO NOT COMPLY.
And let me be crystal clear here: NO violence. None. Not a shred. That gives them the excuse theyre desperately craving to justify tyranny. What we need is coordinated, irritating, clever-as-hell, petty-as-fuck, infuriating noncompliance. Be a stone in their shoe. Be sand in their eyes. Be a bureaucratic migraine. Drive them nutsbut never give them the moral high ground. This is about outsmarting them, not becoming them.
Pic relatedthose at the top are not well oiled dictators with a grand plan. They are selfish buffoons. Potentially dangerous, but in a child with a chainsaw way.
Posted by Oliver Kornetzke https://www.facebook.com/oliverkornetzke
SheltieLover
(76,735 posts)Ty!
MLAA
(19,669 posts)Silent Type
(12,412 posts)dweller
(27,835 posts)K & R
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yellow dahlia
(4,514 posts)Much of the violence and damage was due to instigators. They blame it on "Antifa".
In reality, the Minneapolis police station was burned down by the Boogaloo Boise.
I think future protestors, especially on the 19th, need to be alert. Don't fall for the instigations.
magicarpet
(18,457 posts)...... RESIST !
Response to Ocelot II (Original post)
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kentuck
(115,093 posts)RainCaster
(13,385 posts)That's Easter.
There is still some small part of Christian Nationalism that will hold that day sacred.
niyad
(129,508 posts)ToxMarz
(2,752 posts)But they are all for it if it's done by forced labor camps.
RainCaster
(13,385 posts)TommyT139
(2,146 posts)Easter is when ICE could easily hit church services -- as Trump promised sometime during his first week, changing the rule on attacks on "sensitive" venues. It disrupts whole communities, and knocks out one of the few sanctuaries options that still has moral valence. An ICE raid on churches would prove that nothing can stand up to trumpian.
Hopefully I'm wrong. But when that change to the "sensitive" location rule came out, did you see any of the rabidly conservative Roman Catholics who are Trump's strategists speaking out? No -- because they don't think that the kinds of parishes that are sanctuaries deserve the kinds of protections that their denominations get.
niyad
(129,508 posts)SuzyandPuffpuff
(399 posts)Thanks for sharing
canetoad
(20,203 posts)Even if you found it on facebook.
Joinfortmill
(20,037 posts)DingleBerryNW
(69 posts)Truly a great rant in the face of Facebook. It's like a Mission Statement for The People's Resistance Movement if the dictator dares to enact martial law in our land. Thanks for sharing your find with us, Ocelot.
DFW
(59,729 posts)They are not celebrating the resurrection of Christ.
April 20th is Hitlers birthday.
niyad
(129,508 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,595 posts)"It's a flaming dumpster strapped to a roller coaster with no brakes"
I need to see this headline. Would guarantee my purchase and reading again.
Easterncedar
(5,510 posts)Thanks for posting. This deserves exposure.
the_liberal_grandpa
(264 posts)Blue Owl
(58,154 posts)Someone posted the address on here recently but I forgot it
lindysalsagal
(22,823 posts)Statements against the orange menace. Never let up. Let them know we're informed and defiant.