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You guys should go to the streets in millions! (Or share snappy memes, whatever feels more comfortable)
One of the part of Project 2025 is using the military to crush protests, and it will have dire consequences to the whole world. I'm pretty sure the American christofascists will have a much better time exporting their censorship to other countries than China and Russia does, especially if they can just kick out (or jail, or even assassinate) any content provider not doing their dirty job to all regions.
However, some parts of the military are very progressive (they could just betray Trump, side with the people, etc.), and one could make memes about how one can make Molotov cocktails, how to illegally modify your regular AR-15 into a fully-automatic rifle, or how to turn a high pressure washer into a flamethrower.
America is already exporting it's faschism. In my country (which is now the most hated country in the world) all the right wing strategy is fuled by American billionaires. But here we flight them in the street, our protests are the equivalent of 10 million Americans protesting each day for more than a year
Britain?
Israel
Best I can do is upvote the memes.
That's the crux of social media. Connects like-minded people yet neuters their effectiveness because they think engagement does something in the real world.
Memes are nice, but this would not bring the change
Agreed. I vote and attempt political discourse but it's hard to take action these days.
In the best of cases, it can bring like-minded people together digitally who encourage each other to make connections and organize in the real world.
Just make sure that, in taking to the streets, nobody mistakes you for a Hamas or an Antifa
Yeah, don't be mistaken for antifa. Be antifa!
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Aren't antifa recognized as a terrorist organisation? Not that terrorists are always bad, but it is suspicious.
Anti fascism is a loose category of autonomous political movements who are united only by purpose: to oppose fascist actors within their community. Anti fascist activists can be literally anybody doing anything so long as it's to further the goal of suppressing fascism
That's right wing gaslighting.
That's what I have been told by a friend who is a libertarian. Is what he said wrong?
If your friend calls themselves a libertarian, then my starting assumption would be they are wrong about everything.
It's true that Trump made some kind of declaration as President, but that was pretty much a meaningless gesture. The US actually has no official list of domestic terror organizations, only foreign. In any case, calling antifa a terrorist organization is absurd.
A quick note on libertarianism: I consider myself a libertarian, but what passes for libertarianism in the US is anything but. Libertarianism is a left wing political philosophy, while the US Libertarian party is far right. It would be more accurate to label them as anarcho-capitalist.
That makes more sense.
Neither of us live or are from the USA. So I don't think this is relevant here.
A lot of foolishness is born in the US but doesn't stay here. It might still be relevant.
Well they believe in a social safety net, which US libertarians don't. So I wouldn't necessarily put them in the same bracket. I still think their politics is somewhat foolish, but I think the same thing of many far left people.
I find that foolishness is spread pretty evenly across the political spectrum. I think most people believe what they want to believe and figure the "details" will work themselves out. Anyways, here in the US, the "far left" means things like universal healthcare, which seems a lot saner to me than the alternatives.
The idea of universal healthcare being far left wing would be obscene where I live as it's already a reality here in the UK and in much of Europe. Far left to me is Marxists, Anarchists, and left accelerationists.
There is a surprising variety among even those who call themselves Marxists or anarchists. Some are way more practical than others. Marx was first and foremost a critic of capitalism, and his criticisms were way ahead of their time and right on the money. Anarchism covers a whole lot of ground that I wouldn't consider anarchism myself. The umbrella basis for anarchism is anti-authoritarianism. To me, that makes them less extreme than authoritarian socialists like in the Soviet Union or China. I'd consider myself an anarchist, but only in the margins that realize that government does play a critical role in establishing and defending freedoms.