We are watching the collapse of the American Empire in fast forward time. The fact that a person like Trump could get elected in the first place and after four years, Joe Biden is the answer. Organize locally and stay in touch with allies around the country. These chuds don't stand a chance if we are committed whole heartedly to mutual aid.
The well has run dry and only we know how to harvest the morning dew from the leaves.
I mean it's kinda cool but living in a collapsing empire is also kinda terrifying
Yes. There is beauty in the horrifying. I am mostly burdened by those who will suffer the most and I will do with what is in my means to prevent it. I mostly suffer from thinking about how unnecessary the fall could have been.
It sounds selfish and dumb but one of my biggest anxieties is an extended lack of electricity. I have tinnitus and have a white noise machine to help sleep and without it I'd go nuts. Not to mention Twitter.
And that's like the least of our problems when this shit starts going.
The only good thing about twitter is how many disparate leftists it's connected. The recently created Black Rose podcast is a perfect example.
Building bridges for leftist unity is good, using the means of private social media to get there is troublesome but guerilla as hell. Can we create an underground railroad online? Is this accessible to families fleeing conflict in South America so they dont have to fall into the arms of Border patrol?
I think we could but it would open up individuals to vulnerability to state spying but at this point I think the only way to combat this would be extreme decentralization which the internet helps to facilitate in general, even on private platforms. Just need enough layers of obfuscation and numbers to make it too costly to effectively monitor or infiltrate.
The empireis running on empty. If it comes down to money we've already lost because the whole point is that money is not a substitute for morality. I'm not trying to be a downer but we are smarter than these people by a thousand miles so why do they have the upper hand? We should have had a plan for this a long time ago and we can't create one now among strangers online.
Build up trust with local comrades and then from there connect semi-anonymously online through mutual aid organizations with the express intent of pooling resources. There's got to be a way. Crypto-fascism is a thing maybe crypto-communism could be as well. We're already pretty good at wrapping everything in a thousand layers of irony.
Also I wasn't meaning trying to compete on economic grounds but exhausting their resources with numbers.
That's my conundrum. I'm working on the road right now so there is no community. I know so many in the same situation. Willing and wanting to change the levers of power but so disconnected from those levers even on a local scale. I have nonviolent ideas that may make way for solutions but I have no outlet.
At least this is a slightly less vulnerable outlet for posting theory. We'll never be totally free of the state but it's safer than twitter or reddit.
It's just lines of buried fiber across the country that allows us to communicate right now. What is the lifespan of that and will the corporations still have the government subsidies to replace them when they deteriorate?
There already is a bit of history for this story of thing. Wobblies liked to use cat metaphors a lot.
