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They ain't gonna snap their fingers and suddenly the Gestapo is at your door. This machine requires a LOT of moving parts and a lot of compliance from the populace. You go after the machinery of capitalism and state; and no, it's NOT going to be safe, and YES it's going to cost you something, and YES they are gonna send goons - both with and without badges.

But this idea that nobody knows what to do is nonsense; we've done this in recent memory. Stop playing pretend with me.

Brey, if millions of people are in the streets, shutting down the machinery of capitalism and the function of state, occupying the centers of power and more specifically making it impossible for these jackasses to make money, you can grind this machine to a halt in less than six weeks.

But they will come for you. And they will deploy violence. And the microscopic American left is not gonna have enough people to do it FOR YOU by themselves.

You CAN stop this, but you need to risk something.

What the fuck do you folks think we mean by "become ungovernable?" They don't have enough cops to put a gun to EVERYONE'S head; but it takes everyone. Millions and millions of people, or they will isolate and eliminate any sort of resistance.

You give them nothing; you shut down traffic, corporate business, the police, the prison system, the government, military operations, weapons manufacturing, the offices of fascist politicians, EVERYTHING. You grind the machine to a halt with your bodies.

And again, don't tell me "that's hard" or "I'm scared" or "they'll arrest me" because that's a given. We are past the point where you can solve any of these problems without risk and pain. Either it's worth it to you, or learn how to goose step now and maybe carve yourself out a place in this fascist order because it's one or the other. Some of us however cannot join the nazis; so we'll fight, alone, and lose because the machine is NOT giving all of us the choice.

Been watching liberals make jokes about Star Trek and the Bell Riots for weeks - why do you think they wrote that into DS9? Why was it called the Bell RIOTS and not "the Bell Voter Turnout Campaign?"

You know exactly what to do, the problem is not KNOWING, it's that you want an easier way. There isn't one. Shut it down, or live with the consequences of how the machine YOUR OWN LEADERS helped build, works. Because the nazis absolutely intend to use it.

There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop a genocide; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop banks boiling our kids like soup; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop weapons manufacturing; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to oppose police militarization and Cop Cities; join them. There are people risking violence to oppose fascist organization; JOIN THEM

"Well I was gonna do something about the fascist order but nobody wrote me a pamphlet describing how to do crimes step by step in a fascist police state without any personal risk to myself, so I really think this is the left's fault..."

- many libs right now.

I'll tell you what, don't plan to do any crimes at all, ok? Just get millions of people into the streets and start blocking traffic/commerce, and the fascist police state will show you that simply opposing it makes you a criminal. If what you're scared about is "breaking the law" - don't; just try to exercise your "legal rights" as normal and after they beat you in the streets you'll learn what we've been telling you all along - you think you're free because you never tried to rattle the cage

Like ffs, even just writing this thread has the potential to land me in prison; you want it to be one way, but it's the other. And folks seriously got nerve to tell me in a fascist police state that I need to write out instructions for how they can do crimes? Are you fucking daft or do you think I am?

You mutherfuckers are pretending and disempowering yourself because you're looking for an excuse NOT TO ACT; not because you don't know how to shut it down. And I'm an idiot for taking the bait

You hit em where it hurts; no freedom? Then no money. And I don't mean boycotts; I mean you shut down their ability to make money and run a fascist police state.

I can't TELL you more than that, because at some point the equation becomes "is it really worth ending up in a hole and surrendering my ability to act to tell obtuse ppl what they already know?"

So there's your hint - they do this shit so the billionaires that pay for it can make bank; shut down that, and the rest will come to you

There's a reason fascist rioters get slap on the wrist prison sentences, but every nation in the Pig Empire will use anti-terrorism laws to punish folks who prevent the conduct of capitalism and fossil fuel extraction.

There is no machine, without profit. Throwing yourselves at the hard points of the fascist police state is a hard road; the profit centers and the machinery of capitalism are the soft underbelly of this whole murder machine

That's all I can tell you. You can figure the rest out

And I assure you, if you do that, you will get your war in the streets against fascism - because they're not going to sit back and let you turn off the money spigot. So there's no point in planning how to make that part happen, because they'll make it happen for you, once you go after their ability to make bank by doing fascism.

I dunno what else to tell you and I'm getting extremely tired and stretched thin.

It's gonna have to be liberals, it's gonna have to be "respectable people," folks like me literally can't do it for you because this machine is already built to isolate and repress us through violence. That's not gonna move the needle. The people the fascists are planning to eliminate fighting back isn't gonna change much.

You need to make them start clubbing soccer moms and "respectable people." Millions of em.

They're coming for, in no particular order:

Migrants, Muslims, Indigenous ppl, trans and other queer ppl, people with disabilities, the unhoused, climate activists, anti-police/carceral state activists (particularly Black activists operating in this space), anarchists, anti-genocide protestors, teachers, librarians and reproductive rights activists.

They won't stop there of course, fascism NEEDS enemies that must be purged to function; but broadly speaking those are the places they will start

So, it does no good telling any of the people on the list I just gave you to "do something!"

Because they're locked in to this fight already; they're gonna "do something" or they're going to get crushed and in many cases perished.

It's absolutely on the REST OF YOU to expand the scope of resistance, and make them come after folks who aren't ON THE LIST of people they've ALREADY created the permission structures to eliminate. How? Read the rest of this thread.