ID: 3 stills from A Bullet for Baldwin (1956)

  1. Alfred Hitchcock says “I’ve just come into possession of a cure for fascism”

  2. He sets some bullets on his desk and says “they come in capsule form. For best results, they must be taken internally.”

  3. He holds up a revolver and says “here is the handy applicator.”

  • Novice_Idiot@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    14·
    11 hours ago

    Wellp, honestly we know whats going to happen now. corpos are gonna get “permission” for anything they ask for. Lets actively deny them. Organise, become engaged in local government and dont be afraid to sabotage and resist. In short, no one wants status quo, lets make shit better.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      All that too. But anyone who think fascism is going away without armed self defence is, at the very least, not paying any attention whatsoever.

        • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Oh ok, cool, so we’re on the same page lol

          E: I guess I’m just too used to libs suggesting boycotting individual companies as a solution to our problems…

          • wia@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Time for people to learn how to make and use molotovs again.

            Everyone worried about paying their bills and not securing their freedom, forgetting peaceful protests didn’t stop fascism the previous times.

            • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              1·
              41 minutes ago

              Everyone worried about paying their bills and not securing their freedom

              This of course is a feature, not a bug.

              It’s why building solidarity and community support is essential - we need to help each other out (to enable people to make and put those molotovs to good use we also need people to help feed, help babysit, help educate, help propagandise, help as a medic, help maintain safe houses and community centres, help support and defend those unable to participate in any of the other activities due to age or disability, and so on and so on) so that we can collectively become more powerful.

              • wia@lemmy.caEnglish
                1·
                5 minutes ago

                We need a good poster/sticker to start pasting everywhere.

                I’m down to educate, and propagandise.

          • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Well I’m not gonna say this won’t demand warmed conflict.

            But I do want to note that I don’t think the only options can be harmed conflict or an ineffective boycott of a multinational conglomerate.

            There has to be other ways. And I’ve actually thought of several, but nothing so simple I could propose it in a single sentence and usually when I get into talking about it the some people get heated up and I’m tired of the same fights over and over. It’s hard to fight alone, but I seriously think the internet would be a more powerful tool in the larger picture than personal firearms. Or at least, I very much hope so.

            But life has had a way of doing exactly the opposite of my wishes.

            So.

            Fuck…

            Gl Americans

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    Are you going to walk the walk or just talk the talk like all of those that supported fascism with their non-voting to score “I’m a leftist, really” cred at the expense of all of the peoples that are now going to have genocide?

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        8·
        10 hours ago

        I surely will and there’s no shame in it or any other expression of sorrow by a man, woman, or enbie. I’m afraid, however, that I have neither the patience, nor ability to give you empathy for those that are currently are and will soon be suffering and dying because of people who care more about their own moral purity than other human beings. If you’re unable to reach that capacity on your own, maybe therapy would be a good option (many professionals offer sliding scales, so if you have a challenge with that, I’d be happy to try to help you find someone in your area that could help).

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    60·
    21 hours ago

    You’re jumping the gun (no pun intended) a bit too far here.

    You have to wait until fascism is literally tearing apart the whole world before you attempt that remedy. In the meantime, we just watch the world slowly burn.

    Thanks America.

    • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      21 hours ago

      “it could never happen here”

      Until it does

      Then all future historians look back and say

      “How sad they couldn’t see the writing on the walls even when it was so plainly obvious. It’s an indictment on that society as a whole that there were no armed revolutionaries fighting against the fascists when they started making moves in the mid to late 2010s.”

      • SkyeStarfallEnglish
        10·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s the thing, this has been obvious for a while now. I’ve been screaming it from the rooftops

        And what answers did I get?

        “Naaaah, that will never happen, stop being so alarmist, it’s going to be fine” or any of the numerous alternatives to this

        …especially the “what do you mean? We live in the best time of history!! Just look at all these stats” which always infuriates me to no end

        Well, what good are those stats now?