I love to come here, I love to be among other leftists, but holy shit y'all have to stop posting over the top terrifying titles all the time for your posts. I'm lucky enough that I'm relatively stable in my employment and I can float by on anti anxiety medication and shit.
But when you post things like THE LEFT IS FUCKED and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE on here, you are not helping people. That kind of thing can really fuck up someone's day or night or week, and you can put someone who's already pretty anxious on edge even further. And given that we're all a bunch of left-wing overly smart overly anxious people anyway, I can guarantee that ruins someone's day. And not in a good way, it can send them in a spiral of depression or anxiety, or can make it worse. And DOES make it worse.
Maybe you sincerely feel this way. I get it. I want to be able to support you and I want you to still be able to be heard and speak up. I want you to still post. I want you to post threads. But please think about what your title is first? Think about how it will impact other people? It really can make a huge difference.
Absolutely, yes. I wish would people would specifically be more serious about the divides between capital, the state, and far right. There is absolutely a lot of tension there and if we ever find ourselves in a position to seriously challenge any of them it's crucial to understand those schisms.
I think just generally realising the murder-fascists are pathetically small with no infrastructure and no ability to mobilise numbers is super important. They're actually incapable.
Hitler and Mussolini built their fascists into an organised force over many decades. They were actually mobilised. They had infrastructure to get people to organise. They would actually leave their homes.
That is non-existent among the actual-fascists. They have none of this and the only person that has ever been attempting to achieve that is Richard Spencer.
People need to remember that the internet isn't real life and the people on it don't matter compared to the people mobile in the streets.
Ya. The far right faces the same internet politics problems that we do. Maybe even worse for them in some ways.
Charlottesville took them months and months of organising to achieve and they've never achieved anything remotely close since. They get 50-100 max at anything at all. They usually have groups of 5-20.
They're completely disorganised, sporadic and useless. They have no infrastructure to achieve anything. The left on the other hand mobilises large number consistently, everywhere.
They're annoying and loud online but not really a threat until they have real leadership and organisation. Neither of which are coming soon. Look at the years and years of marching and organising it took to build the european fascists.
They're not going to achieve an anarcho-fascist movement. Individualist disorganised fascism won't cut it. Fascism requires hierarchy and organisation to achieve anything. This is the reason we only see stochastic terrorism from that crowd. It is only when fascists take on a collectivist approach and properly organise that they will actually achieve anything.
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For sure. We'll see where things go with this kid. If he gets away with it then there's going to be an uptick in attacks by people that thing they too will get away with it. If he does not then I'm not so sure. He's made the gamble, others will be looking on to see whether the gamble is good or not.
Even if he gets away with it, others will be considering "will anyone else be able to do this again without getting lit up?". One of the people that tried to disarm him had a handgun and didn't use it. I think it's very unlikely anyone will just attempt a take down so lightly again. The reaction to the next incident will be quite different as everyone is thinking through how wrongly it was handled, armed people on the scene should have brandished and demanded he disarm, if he then tried to brandish back at them he would have been lit up. The reaction was all wrong. This will change with more collective experience. The perpetrators of these acts of violence know this.