Like, sorry for obviously doomer posting. Sorry if this sounds like a fed-post to deter people from protesting/organizing - which I don't mean to do by any means. But like... honestly, how is anything going to change? Materially. Logistically.
We're living in a country and a time where you can literally have your life ruined for simply taking your phone with you to a protest. Sentenced with fines or imprisonment. Or at the very least charged with all that shit, and having your life completely fucked over by it. Idk about the rest of you, but I don't think my job would keep me around if I didn't show up one morning because I was arrested at a protest, much less because of the stigma of "unprofessional behavior" that has. And it took months to get the job in my field I have now, and I'm just barely getting by - and this is as someone privileged to have some help from parents and no dependents.
On a larger scale, how the fuck is any protest or action by anyone gonna change things? Anything that ideally would be influential enough to change things (ie [REDACTED] style things) would probably be prevented the moment anyone even considered it, the feds descending on those involved the moment any email sent or plan spoken aloud. How the hell can anything change in this country short of an all out intervention by China or some sort of a unified South American socialist coalition? How can any movement on the ground in the US change shit at this point from inside the oppressive police state we live in? How is any sort of "organizing" or protesting done right now any more effective than electoralism? I mean, remember 2020? Literally shit all came from that.
I just feel so hopeless and conflicted. Is it really worth it going on on the street to a protest and getting my shit rocked by a cop in the fucking juggernaut's armor with a metal baton and bean bag gun, or run over by a pickup truck chud plowing through an intersection if nothing will change like it didn't with 2020 or Ferguson? Is it wrong to have thoughts in my head worrying about the conflict of wanting to have some sort of successful artistic career VS abandoning any sense of bourgeois societal participation and spending my time and what little money I have solely focused on "revolutionary" organization in a country that will ruin me if I do anything besides silently hold a sign, alone, in a public park between the hours of 9am and 5pm?
How do we/I find hope of winning when we live in a literal country-wide panopticon?
I wish this was a fed post. I wish I was getting paid for this. I wish I didn't feel hopeless. I wish I was one of those evil, ghoulish fuckers toasting champagne rn over their hegemonic control as they repress us more and more each day. Instead this is a cry for help from someone who literally doesn't know what they should be doing or risking as we sink deeper in the shit.
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But those groups will still continue to infight against each other, and those affectations are ones they can afford because politics don't fucking matter to them. They can still afford to pretend that their camp of the saints shit matters because they can get their goods. They'll freak out and there will be violence, I would prefer this not to happen and there is a good possibility I will be on the receiving end of whatever violence happens, but their basic operations are tied to the state and while they'll be used against whatever manifests itself in the coming years, they're still just American libs. They want to speak to the manager just like every other Karen. They'll complain and whine and there will be those of them that will fight, but they'll blink and we will overcome them. Besides, cop gangs already exist in most major cities, and if our success really was dependent on the support of every Elgin, OK in the country over the collective working class, we never had a chance to begin with.
I'm sorry, their moment has come multiple times and they've whiffed it harder than the left ever has. It won't be their last failure.
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The right will be integrated into and organized by the police state when they need them to retire social movements. Learn the history of the rise of the Nazis that’s what they did.
Yeah most of the people in my home town would hoot and holler to shoot them some libs
The country by numbers is in the cities and burbs.
Rural areas are a small percentage of the actual population